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Pidr1nhu  +  517444 Thu, 22 May 08 07:37 PM
You should be focusing on paving the way for a better world rather than confronting the past and, unfortunately, its tragedies.
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optilang  +  517457 Thu, 22 May 08 08:05 PM
It's important to focus on the past so that we can learn from our mistakes and try to ensure that this kind of atrocity never happens again. 
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Dew 2007  +  528779 Tue, 17 Jun 08 07:50 PM
We shouldn't focus - we should never forget. And the memories should live for ever.
Focusing may sometimes lead to unnecessary confrontation.
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Adrenochrome  +  696064 Thu, 09 Apr 09 07:48 PM
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Through adapting concentration camps into death camps, Hitlers hardcore troops (the SS) murdered 16 million people. The first to be killed were Russian soldiers, for whom the gas chambers used for mass exterminations were originally designed. Along with Russians, many other peoples were killed, most notably Jews (about 35% of the total dead), homosexuals (3%), disabled (4%), Romany Gypsies (5%) and Slavs (20%).

Most German citizens were unaware of what was happening as these camps were in remote parts of Germany and Poland.
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Doll  +  697914 Wed, 15 Apr 09 07:54 PM
Well, I don't know. Maybe they really didn't know what actually happened or they were afraid to oppose to it.
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Adrenochrome  +  697956 Wed, 15 Apr 09 10:18 PM
Fear was not such a factor as you might think. Hitler was democratically elected in Germany, he did not actually steal power. After the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, Germany was blamed for the first World War and punished extremely severely, which the British government opposed. During the 1920s the proud and once strong country was plunged into desperation and starvation. This led to the people being open to extremist ideas.

 

The German people were well aware of the concentration camps (a form of detention invented by the British in Africa), and many supported the idea of taking Jewish property and wealth. Just like Mugabes people in Zimbabwe, who have taken the farms and plantations from the white africans and ran them into the ground, causing widespread starvation.

 

However, it was not until late 1941 that the plans were drawn up to build the gas chambers, and this was first used to exterminate Russians. Jewish people started to be gassed during June 1942. At this time, Germany was heavily involved in the Second World War and the citizens were more concerned about their relatives in the military than in what had happened in the camps. The German media was also under tight government control and simply didn't report any of this, instead printing pro-Hitler propaganda.

RayH  +  698244 Thu, 16 Apr 09 07:18 PM
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“Hitler was democratically elected in Germany,”

You really should check your facts. I didn't bother reading the rest of your post but I shudder to think what else you have wrong.


This is from the Wikipedia article on Hitler: "Finally, the president reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler Chancellor of a coalition government formed by the NSDAP and DNVP."


See the full article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Rise_to_power

If you don't believe Wikipedia there are any number of other sources with the correct history on Hitler's rise to power. Have a look.

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Adrenochrome  +  698261 Thu, 16 Apr 09 08:16 PM
Ray

 

Hitler came to power because the Nazi Party had more seats in government than another party and In January 1933, Hitler became Chancellor (the German President/Prime Minister) when he became leader of the Nazi Party.

 

This is identical to the UK today. Tony Blair was leader when Labour attained more seats in government than any other party. He retired and Gordon Brown is now Prime Minister. There need be no new election to change leader.

 

As for wikipedia - it is frequently misleading and some times ridiculously wrong. Here, however, you have been mislead by European government terminology. Hindenburg was not in control and was reluctant to lose power, but his party were losing confidence in him. He tried to unify the party, frst via Papin and then by Hitler. As wikipedia has stated the President "reluctantly agreed to appoint Hitler". In Germany, it is the duty of the President to anoint the political leader, not his choice and to have refused would have led to another election, or the President being overruled by Reichstag vote. In the UK, the Queen holds the same responsibility and calls the leader of the majority party to Buckingham Palace, where she commands him/her to go away and form a government.

This is often an easy process, where one party has a majority, but just as in the Israeli elections recently, it is not always so. Netanyahu was asked to form a coalition government, although a different party had won more seats. This was because it  was thought he would be able to pull together a coalition better than the opposition.

 

Perhaps you should use better sources, read into the background and read whole articles before commenting.

HolyBrat  +  737854 Tue, 19 May 09 04:00 PM
No.

That is impossible.

The German Constitution manifests a democratic system. The declaration of a prohibition for a certain group of people to reproduce is illegal, even if it's the Hitler Family, which, by the way has no decendants. Everyone got killed or killed themselves knowing that life after that would not be possible.

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