How Did The Holocaust Preventable

The question I have is ‘Was the Holocaust preventable?’. The Holocaust was a mass genocide of many groups of people, including the Roma, Jews, Homosexuals, and any one considered a political enemy to the Nazis, so it begs the question was this preventable? Several million people died in a terrible section of history but it hasn’t been repeated since. Why is that? I don’t think the Holocaust could have been prevented.
I don’t think the Holocaust was preventable. That single event maybe, but not the mass genocide of millions of people. If it hadn’t been the Germans electing Hitler in 1933, it might have been the Americans in 1961, against African-Americans, or homosexuals. It could have been any other collection of people against another group of people. Part of the reason it hasn’t happened again, is due to the fact that we have seen what the after effects are. Humans learn from their mistakes. The Titanic, for example, propelled regulations about sailing, and shipbuilding forward after the tragedy that killed over a thousand people.
Even if we do learn from our mistakes, what’s stopping us from repeating the mistakes of the past? The answer there, I believe lies in education and accessibility to knowledge. In the 1930’s when Hitler was first elected, it was easier for the government to hide knowledge from the people, and manipulate them. Now, …show more content…
Such as the vote in the United States about net neutrality, or facts that could influence a vote like in Australia’s recent vote about same-sex marriage. This would not have been doable in the 1930s, as people didn’t have the same ability to learn about issues. We can’t let people forget either though; “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it,” credited to Sara Shepard, and other similar quotes tell us why forgetting the past is dangerous. As for if we can ever stop something like this from happening again, I think the answer is still