How Many People Did Adolf Hitler Really Kill?
February 26, 2007
By theindyvoice
If you were to ask that question of 1 million randomly selected people around the world many of them would surely answer “millions.” But that’s not reality is it? Did Hitler actually kill even just 1 person? The reality, as opposed to the fantasy as it exists in most people’s minds, is that Hitler killed no one; not a single, solitary soul. He relied upon and convinced 73,000,000 Germans to participate in the war and they did so without even so much as a gun to their head. They killed willingly and voluntarily.
They rounded up Jews, homosexuals, radicals, leftists, pacifists, the violent opposition, Catholics, liberals, people of color and every other “undesirable” human being that they could find and systematically destroyed them. And the sad irony is that it all could have been prevented had they just had the courage to consider the questioning of the authority that demanded this violence of them. Had their society allowed for and fundamentally welcomed dissension, the killing of 62 million brothers, fathers, sons, sisters, mothers and daughters could have been prevented. If only they had asked perspective changing questions and had the courage to face the answers. If only the history books relayed this as the fundamentally important lesson to be learned from these mistakes, maybe we wouldn’t so readily repeat them.
For more information on how many deaths (casualties) occurred as a result of World War II, click here: Statistics of World War II
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Thats sad how many people were killed
I am so sorry that those people had to suffer and be tortured they way they were. I was born in 1994 to read the history books and to here the things that black slaves and other cultures had to go threw should make people think and be a little more kinder to one other. but’ what’s sad is that till this day people are still mean and cruel to one another. This world would be a better place if we loved one another alot more.
The holocaust is a terrible thing that i have ever heard about. When i read anne frank’s diary my eyes went full of tears. Whenever i read any book, newspaper, etc. about holocaust i become angry. I didnt got the fact that why people thing that their religion is better than others and white color is the best skin color. Well there is no sense in killing people from a specific religion that you hate. If you hate that religion or you even like it you dont have any right to cause any harm to that religion or ethnicity. Thats all i have to say!
ALL accounts I have encountered regarding the Holocaust have listed the number of deaths effected by the Nazi Regime being around 11 million combined. That is slightly under 6 million Jews and slightly over 5 million Polish and others. You ALONE have ‘bumped’ that figure by 51 million!
Actually, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties) there were 72 million total deaths related to World War II. The allies lost 61 million and the axis 11 million.
Did Hitler kill anyone himself during WW 1, or during the 1920s or 30s? Just curious.
Taking a gander at the old Wiki shows that Adolf Hitler was a decorated soldier in World War I and while he fought in a number of battles (as a messenger) there doesn’t seem to be any indication of how many people Hitler killed, if any.
It’s amazing how he could have convinced so many other people to kill so many. Its too bad he didn’t use his powers of persuasion to do some good in the world.
I cant beleive that one man could have done all this,what were all those people under hitlers command thinking,i mean it dont take a rocket scientist to work out what he was doing was wrong and inhuman.
It just goes to show how silly and stupid some people are thay obviously didnt know about the value of human life at all.
It makes me mad to know that after all that has happend in the past we as a race are still none the wiser,didnt we learn from the past ? we continue these selfish acts of violence today in many ways.
I hope for a better tomorrow
Erin,
If you really think what Hitler did was shocking you should look at America right now. America is currently doing the exact same things Hitler did.
Hitler staged a false flag operation by setting fire to one of his buildings…
We did 9/11..
He drew up the Enabling Act…
We have the Patriot Act…
He killed millions of people (most were Christians)…
We’re killing Muslims… (both of which are the two ‘opponents’ of Judaism, purely coincidental I’m sure)
If you want to know the answer to why so many people would mindlessly give in to blind loyalty and butcher innocent people, why not go ask a US soldier right now?
Hitler was merely a ‘beta’ version of the crap that is unfolding right now. And according to some ‘conspiracy theories’ Hitler is still alive, and merely had a loyal body double suicide or executed for his magician-like vanishing act…