if you were in Nazi Germany would you..

[bloodline76]

I think if I were single and no family then yes I would try and help... but if I was in my current situation with a wife and two kids then no I wouldnt.

 

[Nodiggidy123]

Dutch resistance sent to gas chambers? Erm, no.

How about you learn some of the facts before chiming in on WW2 history like 95% of our population do.

being shot or going in the gas chambers. makes absolutely no difference to me as the end result is the same. the op asked what would you do. not what would i do if you were in the dutch resistance.

just because i used the gas chamber term and u jump down my throat saying perhaps i should learn the facts.

how about you get down of your pedestal.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

In nazi Germany would you have put you and your familys life in danger to hide/help a person oppressed by them ? tbh i think if it was a stranger i wouldnt have ,and tbh makes me feel a bit bad ,not that i dwell on this scenario ,just seeing a copy of Anne Franks diary at the library made me think
sorry a bit heavy and all that

1) Am I a German living with my German family?
2) Anne Frank lived in Holland didn't she so it would be different and she wasn't German?

 

[Cosimo]

1) Am I a German living with my German family?
2) Anne Frank lived in Holland didn't she so it would be different and she wasn't German?

You could be living in a German colony on Mars, just answer the question.

 

[edscdk]

sure look at africa whole towns have been whiped out by machete wielding thugs because they suported the wrong party leader if that isnt perseuction and genocide what is

this didnt happen 16 years ago either http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide

because genocide only happened in ww2

if only they had oil.... we could have saved them...

they could not make enough machete's and had to import loads of them to get everyone armed....

 

[jas72]

I doubt you would, because the "oppressed" person would have been your enemy.

It's easy to point the finger and say they were in the wrong now, but at the time, if you were there and German, you would have supported your country.

Why?

Would you support England if they started such tactics as persecution or mass deportation. Arms build up and war rhetoric?

 

[Orcish-Horde]

I think if I were single and no family then yes I would try and help... but if I was in my current situation with a wife and two kids then no I wouldnt.

I would be of the same thinking.

 

[Efour]

I would shop them to the SS and carry on goose stepping around my little apartment, only stopping to hail hitler the fuhrer's painting above the mantelpiece

 

[jas72]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

Thanks sanaxe that was a great read...

The quote

"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority" speaks volumes about how the masses can inflict such torture.

 

[Gaidin109]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom?wasRedirected=true

 

[Cosimo]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogrom?wasRedirected=true

So it's a link for a pogrom and what?

 

[Infam0us]

my next question would have do you think as i do that the Treaty of Versailles was the main cause of ww2 being far too harsh on the german people?

That was my A-Level History Question .... Hmmmm

 

[hood1971]

It is easy to say what you would in the safety of your home. When your life and the lives of your family are at stake it is a different matter.

I lived in south africa through the apartheid years, when I was a teenager I started to fully comprehend the evil that was apartheid. Whilst I did go on many protest marches and spent a few days in jail under the detention without trial laws, I will always feel the guilt that I was not vocal enough. One person cannot change the system, but if one person can get two more people to join him, and they do the same - you can make a difference.

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing." - (Edmund Burke)

 

[Earth[Tera].bin]

I'd have kicked Hitler in the goolies.

He only had one goolie, others in the Albert Hall. ( or so the song goes ).

 

[Gaidin109]

So it's a link for a pogrom and what?

To demonstrate that ethnic cleansing and genocide was not limited to the Nazi's in WW2, neither did it end there.

 

[mushroomsoup]

i probably would have gone along with it like most other people.

 

[Frenzy]

I would have been involved in one of the many assasination attempts, but a successful one
I would hide a person but then if i was involved in such things would have stopped contact with my family and changed my identity to protect them.

 

[Ziggy]

As I suffer from serious chronic illness I probably would have been euthanised to purify the race.

 

[craptakular]

my next question would have do you think as i do that the Treaty of Versailles was the main cause of ww2 being far too harsh on the german people?

World war 2 never happened.

It was a continuation of WWI that could be argued lasted until 1990.

 

[edscdk]

I would have been involved in one of the many assasination attempts, but a successful one
I would hide a person but then if i was involved in such things would have stopped contact with my family and changed my identity to protect them.

did hitler not over rule his generals several times and mess things up for the german cause (without knowing it)? once the war was started I doubt killing hitler would have helped.. maybe even would have made the war drag on for longer with better decissions being made..