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by Inducted Kitty on August 26th, 2009
Morally? Those who survived the holocaust probably do feel guilty or responsible on some level. But, like everything else evil or unjust that a government does to its people, the ones enlisted to enforce that action, and help to accomplish that crime, do not even know how their small part in doing so relates in any way to the actual crime. Each person in the chain is only privy to their specific little responsibility and doesn't have or even know the whole plan, or see the big picture, if you will. It is a 'need to know' basis that keeps that person ignorant of the overall result of their actions. They don't see that their little part, seemingly innocent and harmless to them, is just one step in the evil plan.
Much like the mafia, and how it works. Most of the little players at the bottom don't even realize that they are actually working for the mafia.
If those people should be responsible in part for knowing of the death camps then, it would follow that the people today who know about the Fema camps, and what they actually are there for, would have to share some responsibility for what the future is about to unleash on its unsuspecting public, wouldn't it?
Why do some people say that the holocaust did not happen?
by Anonymous on December 21st, 2010
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If you lived in Germany during World War 2, would you help to hide some Jews in your house?
by LibbyBeth on May 31st, 2011
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Tell me everything you know about the Holocaust.
by twomcdonalds on November 15th, 2010
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Did the holocaust happen? i mean to millions upon millions die due to this terrible cause?
by DaggersCove on April 25th, 2011
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do you know anything about the holocaust?if so tell me i want to learn
more about it.
by Sarah_T8573 on January 22nd, 2011
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Very good answer. But as a German I would like to point out.
The units which were running the concentration camps were a special unit only responsible to the department of interior affairs.
In fact it was a bunch of criminals and most of them were before in prison and most of them had failed in their lives.
To the concentration camps no police officer, nor a prosecutor or a judge was admitted. It was a completely own world only responsible to Himmler as the Chief of the police and SS itself.
Even the Gestapo was not admitted to these camps.
So the units called "skull units" were a unit full of former criminals and gangsters who had there a big chance for a carreer they would never had anywhere. They were the scum of the whole nation and they were good enough to do this dirty job.
by Frederik on August 26th, 2009