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Why was it possible for holocaust to happen Jamie McCarthy answers: Hello, I am one of the volunteers who answers questions for The Holocaust History Project. Let me try to address each of your questions. The first is the hardest. It is nearly impossible to understand, even today, that such a thing could happen at all in a country considered to be the height of civilization and culture. Many people did foresee the brutalization of Germany's Jews, but it is safe to say that, in the mid-1930s, few people imagined that events would ever be as horrible as they ended up ten years later. Some thought that Hitler's antisemitism, which he did nothing to hide (quite the opposite), was little more than talk. Some did not imagine that Hitler's quest for Lebensraum (living space) would lead to the attempted conquest of Europe, thus endangering Jews and many others outside of Germany. And some, although in retrospect it is easy to see all the warning signs, just did not want to consider that the Nazis would set in motion such brutal and inhumane measures.
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