Holocaust

• In a concentration camp you are generally just held there, somewhat like a prison, possibly doing hard labor for an indefinite amount of time and the name says it all for the extermination camp. It's merely a holding place where, although you may do labor as well, your ultimate destiny is execution. It's sad, but true.

• Most people think of the Nazis as having formed the first concentration/extermination camps. While they did in fact exterminate over 6.5 million Jews and over another 6.5 million non Jews they cannot begin to compare to the extermination attempts of 'the church' in the middle or dark ages. The church via the crusades put over 52 million people to death. All one had to do if one wanted someone eliminated was accuse them of some sort of witchcraft. It was not up to the accuser in most cases to prove it, it was up to the accused to disprove it. Unfortunately the only methods allowed to disprove it usually ended up the accused person's death. The first recorded group to use the 'camp' method of control and extermination was and is the US Government. In the early 1700s the US Government herded all the Cherokee tribe that they could find together and forced them to march almost 1400 miles from the eastern seaboard to what was later called the Oklahoma Territory. Almost 75% of them died en route. It came to be known as the trail of tears. The reason it is called the trail of tears is not because the Cherokee people wept at the loss of their family members. It was called this because people along the route when they saw the conditions that the Cherokee were forced to endure, and saw them carrying their dead on their backs to their new home in order to properly bury them wept at the sight. Military officers offered wagons for this use, but the Cherokee did not accept. Later and even today most native Americans reside in what is called -reservations-. All this was actually a means to the end of exterminating them. They were given blankets that were known to have disease bearing fleas in order to carry out this extermination process. Other concentration camps was used by the British on the 'Boers' or Afrikaners of South Africa, as they are known today. Boer war 1899 - 1902. Oh yes, let us not forget the 'concentration' camps (resettlement camps) that most of the US CITIZEN Japanese were forced to relocate to during WWII. To this day most of them have not received even a pathetic apology for this, much less adequate remuneration for the lost future value of the property and businesses that were stolen from them and given to someone else. One might ask how does this sort of thing come about. The best explanation comes with the question 'Why did GOD allow HIS people the Jews to be treated this way by the Nazis?' Many have said that this was GOD'S punishment for the Jews killing JESUS. The fact is it was the Romans that that physically put HIM to death, but it was our sin which caused HIS death. Actually it was because over ONE BILLION people whom lived on the face of the earth prior to and during WWII sat back in apathy and allowed not only a tyrant and his henchmen to run amok throughout Europe during the late 1920s, all of the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s, they also chose to ignore the millions of dispatches coming out of Europe about what the Nazis were doing. Know what? The same thing is going on today in the Sudan and much of South Africa. I cannot help but wonder if the USA is now paying the price of what it has put native Americans and others through in the name of liberty. What I do know is that GOD has blessed the USA with abundant freedom. I also know that when GOD gives an abundant blessing HE does so with the intent that the blessing be shared. If it is not shared it is very likely that the abundant part will be gone before long. If it is hoarded you can be assured that both the blessing and the abundance will disappear. Our US military whom are doing what they are able to share the blessing with others need to be supported and not disregarded simply because a bunch of do gooders don't like the politics that are necessary to accomplish this. AND what I have come to know is that when GOD'S people do not take the blessing to the poor, HE will bring the poor to the blessing. Could the reason for this be what is now called -illegal immigrants- after all no one seems to know what to do about that situation. If this is HIS doing, guess what, there will be no man whom can find the resolution.

• The Indians did reach Canada and were met by the Mounted Police. As the above poster said, people had tears in their eyes when they saw these proud people carrying their dead and were half-starved. The journey was hard for all. A great proud people were dwindling before every one's eyes. The Canadian Government had no problem giving land to the Indians and allowing them to stay, but the American Government kicked up such a fuss that they were forced back into the U.S. The Indians were forced onto reservations (a type of concentration camp) as the U.S. Government had promised to provide them with food and clothing, but many times the Indians did not receive this. In the Nazi extermination camps many different nationalities were held by the Nazis; some were exterminated in the cars of the trains; others did labor and then groups would be exterminated when they thought they were going to have a shower and cyanide was used to murder them. As sad as these stories are you can beat, torture, chase-down any proud group of people, but you can NEVER kill the spirit. All of us should learn from such stories of concentration camps or any form of human abuse and know that they still exist in other countries today. What about the forgotten country ... AFRICA! The Congo is brutal and people are dying so fast there are more dead than the living.

Answer in the form of another question:

Why is any individual or group persecuted or discriminated against?

Answer

After World War 1, Germany was not allowed to trade freely with other European nations because of their actions during the war. As a result, Germany felt the affects of the great depression even more harshly than did the rest of the world. Hitler believed and convinced those around him that the reason for their financial problems was rooted in the fact that a good number of businesses in Germany were owned and operated by Jews. Hitler alleged that if the nation could target the Jews and get rid of them, the finances of Germany could improve. He also claimed that there was only one way to overcome the sanctions that had been the result of World War 1, and that was to overthrow the nations that were imposing the sanctions.

Hitler succeeded in gaining quite a following among the Germans and part of his plan was to arrest and destroy all Jews and to take their property. Millions of Jewish men, women and children were gassed, shot or starved to death in his unsuccessful attempt to kill off an entire race of people.

Actually it was because Hitler and his Nazis were jealous of the success many Jews have in life because of their disciplined and hard working approach to life.

It would be a big mistake to regard antisemitism as a specifially German 'thing'. In fact, in the early 1930s Zionists were much more worried about the situation in Romania, Hungary and Poland. Germany was mistakenly regarded as a relatively safe country for Jews.

Ignorance

Because the Christians were conditioned to believe that the Jews killed Jesus. If the Jews had killed Jesus, it wouldn't have been by nailing him. That has no basis in the Torah.

Jews were killed by Hitler because he thought that the Aryan race was the best. To the Nazi way of "thinking," the Jews were at the bottom.

because they believed in something different then hitler

Because Adolf Hitler believed that Germans, being inherently superior human beings, ...

Historians have listed six explanations as to why some people hate the Jews:

1) Economic: Some people hate Jews because "they possess too much wealth and power."

2) Chosen People: Some hate the Jews because Jews claim that they are the chosen people (Exodus ch.19 and other passages).

3) Scapegoat: Jews seem to be a convenient group to single out and blame for the troubles of society.

4) Deicide: Some hate the Jews "because they killed Jesus."

5) Outsiders: Some hate the Jews "because they are different than us." (Xenophobia.)

6) Racial Theory: Some hate the Jews "because they are an inferior race."

As we examine the explanations, we must ask: Are they causes for anti-Semitism or excuses for it? The difference being, that if one takes away the cause, then anti-Semitism should no longer exist. If one can show a contradiction to the explanation, it demonstrates that the "cause" is not a reason, it is just an excuse.

Let's look at some of the contradictions:

Economic -- The Jews of 17th- 19th century Poland and Russia were dirt poor and had no influence, and yet they were hated.

Chosen People -- a) In the late 19th century, most Jews of Germany denied "Chosenness;" and they assimilated. Yet the holocaust started there.

b) Christians and Moslems also profess to being the "Chosen people," but the world and the anti-Semites tolerate them.

Scapegoat -- Any group must already be hated to be an effective scapegoat. The Scapegoat theory does not cause anti-Semitism. Rather, anti-Semitism is what makes the Jews a convenient target. Hitler's ranting and ravings would not be taken seriously if he said, "It's the bicycle riders and the midgets who are destroying our society."

Deicide -- a) the Christian Bible says the Romans killed Jesus, with Jews mentioned as accomplices. (The claims that Jews directly killed Jesus came several hundred years later). Why are the alleged accomplices persecuted, but there hasn't been an anti-Roman movement through history?

b) Jesus himself said, "Forgive them [i.e., the Jews], for they know not what they do." And the Second Vatican Council in 1963 officially exonerated the Jews as the killers of Jesus. Neither of these events lessened anti-Semitism.

Outsiders -- With the Enlightenment in the late 18th century, many Jews rushed to assimilate. Anti-Semitism should have stopped. Instead, for example, the Nazis proclaimed in essence: We hate you, not because you're different, but because you're trying to become like us! We cannot allow you to "infect" the Aryan race with your "inferior genes."

Racial Theory -- The overriding problem with this theory is that it is self-contradictory: Jews are not a race. Anyone can become a Jew - and members of every race, creed and color in the world have done so at one time or another.

Yes. There are extensive testimonies and witness evidence of abuse of women by guards in concentration camps, as any internet search will reveal.

In addition to the Nazi concentration camps, there are many other accounts of concentration camp guards abusing inmates, including men and children, even in more recent times. For example, the link in Related links below spotlights the outrageous treatment of prisoners in such a camp in 1991/92.

With no intention to devalue the Nazi-Jewish Holocaust, there have been many milions more deaths in the modern/continuous holocaust which has been going on at one location or another around the world, since the end of WWII!

The Green Police was another name for the Gestapo during and before WWII. They were Nazi secret police that were in charge of internal security, together with the SS they caught and imprisoned Jews and other unwanted people.

The modern Green Police are an environmental task force comprised of collaborative law enforcement groups assembled to crack down on emissions in large USmetropolitan cities.

It is assembled as the active arm of political debates amongst policy holders in the fight against climate change. Also, it is seen by agencies as some of the first real world action in the United States since the discussion in Copenhagen.

In the UK, the Green Police, based in Warrington, Cheshire, have the authority to call on the Environmental Agency's national network of hundreds of pollution inspectors, many of whom will soon be trained in CO2 monitoring. The Green Police will also be able to demand energy bills from utilities without having to inform the companies that they are being monitored. If that's not enough, the green police will also publish an annual league table ranking companies by their performance in cutting emissions. The intent is to "shame" companies into better energy efficiency.

In the United States, CAP & Tradelegislation would mandate that "Green Police"/Government Agencies would have the right to Inspect your home. They would do the inspection every year at random and will not only charge you for the inspection, but fine you if you exceed a "carbon footprint". Should you decide not to pay them, or not have the funds, they will declare it "Unlawful" to reside in your own home. The reasoning behind this is not to protect the environment, but make the World Bank & International Monetary Fund & Rothschilds very wealthy.

This Energy Policy Act is part of Cap & Trade Legislation.

Verbatim Below:

The Energy Policy and Conservation Act (42 U.S.C. 6304).'(2) Each day of unlawful occupancy shall be considered a separate violation."

Read the Bill For Yourself, Don't listen to media on either side.

Anti-Semitism is a prejudicial hate, and prejudice comes from the term "pre-judge." It is not based in reality. It is based in a "pre-judgment" of people, made usually without any knowledge of that people beyond the repetition of myths, legends, and stereotypes.

If you look throughout history, Jews are not the only victims of other peoples' hate, as the history of African-Americans shows.

Hate does not need a reason to exist. It simply exists, created by those who either believe it (from ignorance) or fuel it (from cynicism) or spread it (from previous hatred).