Ok.
But the last part is not accurate at all. Millions died because Hitler wanted to conquer Europe not because of what he did to the Jews.
Hitler's views on Judaism were well known in the 30s. On March 22nd, 1933, Dachau was opened. That wasn't a secret. He called for the boycott of Jewish businesses and barred them from public service that same year, all public knowledge. In 1935 racial laws stripping Jews of their status as people are passed. It was in the western news. In July of 36 Sachsenhausen was opened, in 37 is was Buchenwald, and in 1938 an international conference on Jewish immigrants was held with Western powers and Germany. Later that year was the Kristallnacht and it wasn't a secret either.
"In the spring of 1933, next to articles on Roosevelt’s first hundred days, the New Deal legislation, and the repeal of prohibition, Americans could read front-page stories about Jews being kicked out of their jobs and beaten on the streets in Germany. Dozens of American newspapers had correspondents based in Germany who sent back vivid descriptions of what they were witnessing under the new Nazi leadership.
"Americans read these articles, and despite all of their own problems, many grew concerned. Thousands of Americans attended anti-Nazi marches and rallies throughout the United States, protesting early persecutions, the boycott of Jewish stores, and Nazi book burnings. An American movement to boycott German-made goods and the stores that sold them began and lasted for nearly a decade, mainly in large cities on the east coast. And between March and May 1933, tens of thousands of people — from 29 states and Washington, DC — signed petitions calling on the new Roosevelt administration to protest Nazi persecution of the Jews.
"Hitler, who paid close attention to American press coverage, might have gone further, faster, had he not read about the American people’s disapproval. Fewer Jews might have gotten out, and America might have been less prepared to respond militarily."
Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, US Holocaust Museum
It's very likely that many people signed up because of Hitler's treatment of the Jews.
Hell, the allies never even knew about the concentration camps and gas chambers until the after the Germans ran away.
The allies new as early as 1942, long before the Germans ran away, less than a year after Hitler's "Final Solution" started. June 1st was when the first stories were published about it.
So the plight of the Jews was not an issue as to why millions of allies died in WWII. Sorry to disappoint you.
That's pure speculation. I'm sure for the vast majority it was at least a secondary issue even if it wasn't their primary reason for enlisting. Yes, that's speculation as well, but I'm basing that on the fact that the persecution of the Jewish people in the 30s was in the news and had sparked protest and outrage, on Hitler's "Final Solution" being widely reported in the news mere months after America joined the war and less than a year after it had started, and on the fact that over 1.5 million Jews were in the allied militaries fighting the Nazis. While your speculation is based on incorrectly thinking no one knew the Jews were in concentration camps or knew there was gas chambers.
The world didn't care then,
Let's me be very clear here. I've spoken before about how widespread antisemitism was and how extensive Western eugenics programs were before and during the war. I'm not trying to claim there was no Jewish discrimination outside the axis powers or that antisemitism wasn't a problem everywhere. It was. What I am saying is that many people cared. Millions definitely cared. They may have not been a majority, but many people still cared.
More should have cared. They should have done more. But between the great depression, the droughts, and the fear of ending up in another great war, even the Jews and the progressives who frowned on antisemitism didn't do enough. That won't happen again, which is why you see so many western powers sending aid to both Israel and Palestine. Israel, the Israeli people, and the Jewish people are not alone. They will not be abandoned. But nor will and should people stand by while 9,000+ civilians are getting killed by the Jewish war machine.
which was why the guy wore the yellow star to the UN. He was reminding the UN of a not so ancient history of anti-Semitism and how it could easily be repeated.
Even the chairman of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel criticised them for wearing the yellow stars. "This act disgraces the victims of the Holocaust as well as the state of Israel. The yellow star symbolises the helplessness of the Jewish people and their being at the mercy of others. We now have an independent state and a strong army. We are the masters of our own fate. Today we will fasten to our lapel a blue and white flag, not a yellow star."
And lest you accuse him of not understanding the severity of the Oct 7th attacks or being a Hamas apologist as some have tried, he had this to say about them:
"The slaughter of Jews by Hamas on October 7th was genocidal in its intents and immeasurably brutal in its form."
The scope of the killing and death in Palestine is so disproportionate that there is no way it can be considered a Holocaust. Hamas would love to kill all the Israelis, but Israel is too strong for that. And if Israel could get international support by not being an oppressive state engaged in illegal settlement and occupation, perhaps Hamas would be getting weaker and weaker instead of stronger and stronger.
foreignpolicy.com
en.wikipedia.org
