Is it normal that the holocaust fascinates me?

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I just find everything about the Holocaust so fascinating. Of course, it is absolutely horrible that it ever did happen. However, a part of me thinks that it's good that it did happen -- not because of all the deaths or the insane cruelty that people were put through, but at least, because it happened, it is less likely to happen again. Imagine if the Holocaust hadn't occurred -- it just seems to me too likely that something this horrible may happen on a much grander scale if we didn't have this already horrendous occurrence in history.

The main things that interest me about the Holocaust are the story of Anne Frank and, for some strange reason, Hitler. I've read Anne's diary countless times and Hitler fascinates me to no end. I find that he was such a complex man, like most of us are, and he actually thought he was doing a good thing. There's just so many depths to him and it's hard to explain my fascination. Of course, I know he was probably the most evil man that has ever walked this earth. He's probably the most evil man that ever will walk this earth for that matter. It still seems so fascinating that such a character could exist.

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  • Caryopteris
    11 years ago

    History does repeat itself. History can be quite fascinating unless you are one of its victims. It is strange that nobody close to him realized he needed to be poisoned to protect the world from him. And would that person have been held guilty for taking care of it?

    Hitler was a power-hungry bully who was ashamed of his mother's Jewish heritage. He had some sort of mental illness where he had to be in control. He was disgusting. I've known other people who would become fascinated by serial killers and watch their movies and read their books over and over (Helter Skelter). That must be very satisfying to them that they are so fascinating to people. Gross.

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  • RougeTheBat
    11 years ago

    History repeats itself..

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  • Shackleford96
    11 years ago

    Uprising was a good movie.

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  • bananaface
    11 years ago

    I'd find it hard to not consider it fascinating. It seems like such a surreal situation, and it's interesting to see how far people can go and how people act when faced with certain things.

    One of the reasons I love history so much is because it's so unreal and yet it IS real! That's what makes it brilliant, these things actually happened. Some of it seems so bizarre and so different to how things are here right now, that it seems almost like fiction; the fact that it isn't just makes it even more fascinating. Hitler *is* fascinating, how could he not be? And, no, that doesn't mean we're complimenting him or condoning what he did, if that's what you're worried about.

    I find that I'm always fascinated by times where there's some sort of instability in society, where things are changing and it seems like it could go any way, and the way people act, the way society's morality changes, etc. Pretty much revolutions, actually. I'm finding this really hard to word, because it's something I'm passionate about. Either way, I definitely see the fascination.

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  • Jaspus
    9 years ago

    It's a very interesting subject - especially when you look at the things that we use that the Nazis created or advanced greatly. Rockets, modern film techniques, medical science... Save for the 13 million innocents, they really weren't that bad.

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  • regisphilbin
    9 years ago

    Great post, OP. The Holocaust is certainly intriguing and Hitler was a very interesting man, regardless of how "evil" he was.

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  • violent-failure
    11 years ago

    yeah, the holocast is pretty interesting. being that i am a violent sociopath (at least bottled up in my brain) i am particularly interested in the creepy experiments. i have a friend that could name the best fighters of the war, better than the red barron, that i have never heard of, and how many confirmed and unconfirmed kills they have. war is fascinating. deal with it.

    ps: history repeats itself because the ignorant refuse to learn from other's mistakes.

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  • redoctober
    11 years ago

    I agree with OP.

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  • RachelAlexandraFan
    11 years ago

    I feel the same way.

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  • intellectuallychallengedmaybe
    11 years ago

    omg!!!!!! NOTHING was good about the frickin' holocaust!! NOTHING!!!!!!!

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