Why was the Holocaust so difficult?

Answer 1

it wasn't, if u don't like Jews

that is so mean to say, Jews are people too. It was so bad because it took away the Jews freedoms and made them seem like alien freaks who don't belong. It was a very bad thing

Answer 2

In response to this question, I recommend looking at the US Holocaust Museum site. www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005143 Jews experienced horrific forms of torture I will not explain.

Answer 3

Most find the Holocaust to be so tragic because of the fact that millions were killed solely because of their religion or "race", although non-Jews were killed, including homosexuals, Gypsies, and mentally/physically disabled people.

Answer 4

Every last war has always been the worst.

Though, objectively, World War II was really a huge war. It involved more countries than ever before, spanned a larger area and claimed more deaths.

The roots of this aspect of the Holocaust lie in the first world war, which was the first war to see considerable violence against non-combattants, or regular people, rather than soldiers against soldiers.

In the second world war, that aspect of warfare was taken to new and very much unprecedented heights. Both sides used tactics aimed exclusively at civilian populations, with large bombing campaigns on cities and towns to try and demoralize the population. Which never really seemed to do more than boost the suffering people's morale, and their anger.

The Holocaust is yet another step above that. It is one thing for soldiers engaging soldiers in combat, which is normal warfare, and another for soldiers targeting civilians, which is a crime by any definition. But when an organized apparatus moves into a newly occupied territory and specifically targets a certain group of people, with the clear intent of not only killing all they can find, but simply killing all in existence, that is all but unfathomable.

The Holocaust was the darkest page in human history because of its size, its systematic, bureaucratic and very well documented approach to killing people. They had scores of lists (read about IBM's history to find out about that aspect) detailing names, places of birth, addresses of those they sought to kill. And kill them they did. Of the estimated nine million Jews present in the occupied territories, only three million survived... That in itself warrants the title of 'biggest tragedy in history'.

Though there are others. The rape of Nanking, for example.

Answer 5

It is hard to argue that it was the worst ever, as it was not even the worst to happen to Jews.