Peter Hayes - Why Did the Holocaust Happen?

Peter Hayes, Professor Emeritus of Holocaust Studies at Northwestern University and author of Why? Explaining the Holocaust, discusses crucial questions in Holocaust Studies. From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, at the JCC of Harrison, NY.

[@Vicki1951]

I was born in 1951 and adopted into a Catholic family. I attended a parochial Catholic grade school from 1-8th grades. We were not taught anything about this but did study WW11. I attended a public high school and the Holocaust was only briefly studied. I knew it happened but, unfortunately as I am ashamed to admit, I had concentrated my focus on the United States participation during the war and not what the Jewish population in Europe had gone through. This is the 2nd video lecture I have listened to by the professor and there are 2 more that I intend to listen to and forward on to others who may not know the how, what, when, and why this absolutely horror to humanity could ever happen. It has also inspired me to speak loudly about any horrific tragedy that may be happening now. Thank you for putting this video on KZbin so those that want to know that we all need to do our part to prevent anything even remotely close to this Ever happening again. As I think on this tragedy I sit here shaking my head thinking and am ashamed that No One helped and were too self involved with their own agendas to stop this massacre. God forgive us all because we all share the responsibility of protecting mankind.

[@lizgichora6472]

Dr Peter Hayes ; I'm grateful for you teaching this history, " denial " dulls the pain or outcome. But being unrealistic about the past only enables the inevitable to re-occur. 1 year ago I was browsing, today I'm reviewing given the facts that are going on currently .

[@sandrastone7019]

One of the finest teachers I’ve ever heard. Regards from Sydney, Australia.

[@coypu2005]

Thank you, sir. Outstanding lecture. God bless you.

[@vman9591]

Thank you very much, Professor Hayes.

[@teresabaptista7016]

Brilliant lecture, Professor Hayes. Thank you.

[@teresabaptista7016]

@@MegaDavyk ~~~ I don't know what you think shit is, but denying the Jewish persecution and annihilation of over six million people, feels really bad - you smell like shit, you nazimoron.

[@gabirican4813]

I agree one of the best lectures on the subject.

[@teresabaptista7016]

@Nick Stenson ~~~ Congratulation, you nazimoron, You got one thing right: I am a woman! :)))

[@teresabaptista7016]

@Nick Stenson ~~~Why? lol

[@devilisahomo]

So they didn't get persecuted for killing and drinking children? For spreading lies among societies? Ruining religions? None of those reasons? They were only persecuted because a crazy man got in power? Lol what a joke

[@edwardobrien8930]

Great lecture. I'm about 1/3 of the way through his book and it is excellent and really informative.

[@thomassaehler9038]

He discusses the how more than the why....Bolshevism was roaring through Europe and many Jews were involved in its highest leadership....this tragedy did not appear out of thin air

[@barrydonegan1]

Peter , you've got that unique Irish way of telling a story a real Shanakee I love it.x

[@projectjayme1109]

Incredible. Thank you

[@jeffmiller6954]

Kristrallnacht was in 1938, so expecting students to list it as an important event of 1937 is somewhat unrealistic.

[@frankcalifano7970]

great lecture!

[@jaqatlantic]

A riveting lecture throughout. In my experience, the best oral treatment available on this subject.

[@lizgichora6472]

Thank you very much.

[@pauletaylorjr8458]

what is the name of the Book that he based his college lectures on?

[@theafricangynaecologisttut2627]

Why ?

[@theafricangynaecologisttut2627]

Why ? Explaining the Holocaust

[@philaypeephilippotter6532]

*_Book?_*

[@michaelgadilhe1509]

@@philaypeephilippotter6532 yes book

[@deroconnor4621]

I have listened to so many talks on the Holocaust. For any people it is important to investigate their own stories, however it is rarely put in any wider context. Many groups have faced extreme persecution, Jews faced very similar restrictions by pagan roman emperors to those imposed on them later. There must surely be some common patterns to such exclusion and persecution. Similarly what went wrong in Germany did not appear out of nothing, but came from a much earlier corruption of ideas and Christianity did not appear come into existence fully formed, but had deep roots in Jewish thought and history.

[@randilund2558]

Thank you so so very much for this teaching. Many of my questions are now solved. Greetings from Denmark. 💐💐💐

[@eo31772]

Thank you very much. Very clear and illuminating

[@malcolmtyas8001]

History learned too often becomes history forgotten.

[@paulpaproski8225]

Nazis referred to Pius XI as whining Pope because of his criticism of their persecution.

[@foxibot]

There are other colleges on a quarter system. I went to an engineering college, that was on quarter system, that has other fields but was mainly known as engineering university. I can understand his frustration in covering a heavy historical tragic horrible subject such as this though.

[@foodiefoodie8198]

thank you Professor this is well explained and better understanding

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

if you go to wiki and read on the Father of Nethenyahu; his dad wrote a book that will explain to you where the "racial jew" theory comes from; the Spanish Inquisition would not look at them from a religious point of view. Go to wiki read about his book and the theory and where it comes from; this is not a cultural question; this was a question of loyalty; if you had the "wrong blood" you were a goner... exactly like happened hundreds of years ago

[@SwfanredLotr]

Netanyahu's father was secretary of the terrorist group Irgun, responsible of the murder of Count Bernadotte who had helped rescuing many war prisoners, including jews. I wouldn't take the words of that man for granted.

[@MarcDufresneosorusrex]

@@SwfanredLotr thanks

[@lordharry423]

I saw years later where some lady said that kid survived

[@jsheekey1]

Horrific 💔

[@jimb6781]

Wait and see what happens in the U.S. real soon.

[@cynhwon]

We all need to learn how hatred could grow into something horrendous >

[@paulinetsang6646]

I believe if we, in the USA don't learn the ho'w and why's of these horrible actions (eg during the Holocaust), as a country, we are capable of repeating it. McCarthy-ism and Trump-ism are examples of manifested hatred of people groups. As long as people deny the humanity of their fellow man/woman (Jesus calls them our neighbors) we will be vulnerable to recreating these attrocities.

[@ruthgallagher9584]

I agree with Armenian Rev. V, the seeds of genocide are in the hearts and minds of every individual. We must consider our personal views and actions, always

[@richardgietzen4591]

Hello interesting lecture Just finished reading a book ( Against our better judgement) by (Alison Weir) If what she says is accurate then ***** Please read it and give me your opinion. I found on Amazon

[@jeffsilverberg5848]

Racing against History by Ric Richman

[@hellcat8137]

Timothy Snyder has a very well researched position. I found several errors in this presentation that shows some concerning lack of attention to detail.

[@firstal3799]

Too solemn a tone as if this horrendous period of history should forever be put on a pedestal for perpetuity

[@nakedeye68]

I'd be staggered if the students mentioned Kristallnacht as a major event in 1937 a year before it actually happened. I'm thinking it's a simple oversight, I hope so. I'll get the book soon and hope this error is not repeated in print.

[@paulpaproski8225]

Pius XI wrote encyclical With Increasing Evils, that criticized Nazis.

[@anngarnsey3622]

Paul Paproski whatever he did it was not enough. I am ashamed to have been born a catholic. I am now an agnostic. Part of my decision to jettison my faith was the Catholic response (or lack thereof) to the killing of the Jewish people.

[@luisaymerich9675]

What response would you consider "enough" that would satisfy you?

[@warrenpaine]

I wonder if Professor Peter Francis Hayes has done any study into why and how the Great Hunger (1846-1850) in British ruled Ireland happened? That most notorious example of ethnic cleansing in nineteenth century Europe killed over one million of his Irish kin and drove another million into exile.

[@jezalb2710]

Famine.

[@warrenpaine]

@@jezalb2710 It is historically documented that the British overlords in Ireland were shipping food OUT of Ireland as the Irish people were starving.

[@jezalb2710]

@@warrenpaine I know. Irish have a saying: Blight was God sent. Famine was the creation of Britain.

[@jezalb2710]

@@warrenpaine I lived in Éire myself.

[@warrenpaine]

@@jezalb2710 I wouldn't go so far as to accuse Britain of attempted genocide, but what happened in Ireland (1845-1850) showed why the Americans in 1776 were so adamant about wanting political independence. They didn't want to end up like oppressed Ireland.

[@MM-yi9zn]

It’s a comment on human nature. Especially in Germany. Christianity is rooted in Jesus who was Jewish & only preached to his Jewish tribe.

[@rogergflowers4082]

Hump - Titler

[@cannon0587]

44:50 Maybe because Kristallnacht occurred in 1938, not 1937

[@chanabayla1823]

There was a professor at northwestern University in evanston Illinois that taught a class on the holocaust that it never happened. I don't know his name so wonder if he was that person

[@paulpaproski8225]

Hayes said the Catholic Church was concerned about preserving priests and churches. He failed to point out it was under attack by Nazis in Germany and Fascists in Italy, and Communists in Russia.

[@michaelgadilhe1509]

Catholic church in both Germany and Italy signed concordance with the governments. The church in Russia is the Orthodox church

[@michaelgadilhe1509]

Concordats

[@richardbedford5302]

He sounds exactly like trump and the Republicans.

[@willprioleau4080]

I always thought sending Jews to Madagascar as just nuts.

[@johnwest7463]

problem was when they appointed Hitler Chancellor they just thought he was a pushover they could control him they gave him a foothold and that's all he needed if Hindenburg would have been a younger man Hitler would have never got in there but Hindenburg was just getting old and senile the Great depression was another factor that Hitler got in there if the German economy would have been doing good Hitler would have never made it in there were things as bad as I was in the German economy Hitler still just about not made it in in office and even after he got in office he could have still been stopped when he sent German troops into the Rhineland in March 1936 Great Britain and friends could have easily moved on Hitler and occupied Germany remove Hitler from power never ever underestimate anyone Hans Linton bravely tried to stop Hitler if you could see right through him but hardly nobody wants to hear anything about something they might have to do something about

[@rurururu3744]

Yall remember what hitler say make Germany great again mmmmm sounds familiar...

[@charliekenwright6324]

1938 there was 17 million Jews 1948 there was 17 million Jews,Red Cross consensus Swiss,how did this happen,can you explain

[@rurururu3744]

@charliekenwright6324 so ur saying that this neva happen?

[@charliekenwright6324]

No not at all,but can you explain the numbers,thank you

[@jaqatlantic]

It's my understanding that, by 1938, it was reasonably well known what was happening, and even what was likely to happen, to German Jewry. In my view, the US ought to have taken--that is, allow and even assist to immigrate to the US--every German Jew who wished to do so. Was such a policy ever proposed or seriously considered?

[@jaqatlantic]

Prof. Hayes certainly addresses this question during the Q & A. But didn't ANYBODY in the US make the moral argument for such an immigration policy. I should have thought that even an economic argument could have been made.

[@firstal3799]

Indoctrination, intoxication And should include loosening of inhibition

[@ruthgallagher9584]

Do you think the Jewish Holocaust happened because of the Armenian Holocaust (1.5 of 2 million lost in 1915),which happened 23 years before the first Jewish person died in a concentration camp? Thank you for talking about the financial benefits to the oppressors. And, I appreciate the geographic information referencing the lost of 75 percent of the people by Feb of 43.

[@jeffsilverberg5848]

How nice to know that so many people love Israel and support the Jewish Community.

[@mmmmnnnmjj2676]

No one with a sane mind would love israel lol jews yes israel no😘🥰🤪

[@lisaperlstein9172]

Well, now we know he lunched with Kanye and a skin head.

[@hermannf.1612]

A large part focuses on the HOW. The WHY review in the beginning I think is only scratching the surface. The “Make Germany Great Again” statement is very accurate and tremendously bold in the political environment of 2017. This analogy must be made, to a large extend Trump’s thinking went into that direction. Trump even did not refrain to try toppling democracy at the end, which puts him well in line with the Nazis. In 2017, when this presentation was held, nobody could anticipate that it will be going to be so bad and wrong. Ironically, Trump was very successful in middle east and therefore honored by Israelis. That peace was made with 2 Arab countries under his watch undoubtedly is a big achievement. This is striking me until today and I don’t know whether it was just an opportunistic situation or by chance having this Jewish Kushner in the family. To be honest, I myself never knew what to think about Obama, who ignored Israel and made very dangerous moves with Iran. Remarkable also the angry lady in the Q&A session, making reproaches of Peter Hayes being superficial but who seemed to be quite biased herself, spilling out some weird things about communism. Then to base her aggressive criticism on the introductory statement “sorry I was late” is quite inappropriate.

[@psilvakimo]

"Trump even did not refrain to try toppling democracy at the end, which puts him well in line with the Nazis. In 2017" Ignoramus Bull$hitter. Parroting DNC lies because you have no mind of your own.

[@serpentines6356]

I don't see how Trump is in line with Hitler. Quite the opposite. The Dems want to control my life a lot more than Trump ever wanted to.

[@MichaelPerry-hc8jq]

Germany betrayed by Belfort declaration after ww1 truth hurts

[@Fnelrbnef]

It always comes down to money.

[@melfox6179]

Because some people are very bad.

[@firstal3799]

Europe eventually did carry out earlier Nazi dream of packing Jew into a reservation in a remote part of the globe

[@foucault8964]

Jews kicked ass without much in Warsaw. If they only got the help they promised.

[@casiandsouza7031]

Why are they united against Palestine?

[@53Memati53]

The deal was to make all jews help out in war so they get palestine without the consent of palestinians of course...

[@firstal3799]

The speaker is sort of berating anyone who doesn't beat his bosom and shows a slightly curious disposition as to the established facts on the issue

[@AbuBakar-mt1vn]

Who should be punished for the persecution of the jews

[@PhilipusArabus]

GOD

[@caridadmeltez257]

It is in History, that a certain country in South East Asea, played a very,very important role in the life of Jewish people & their country Israel.. it’s the “ PHILIPPINES” during the Holocaust.. Jewish people where fleeing & don’t know which or where country they are going to hide to be persecuted by Hitler, no one.. but no one in countries in Europe & other countries CLOSE THEIR DOOR TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE.. it was only the Philippines.. Yes the Philippines “Open Door” it was President Quezon of the Philippines who called Pres. Eisenhower of USA to send as many Jewish people to the Philippines, thousands of them so many souls were saved by the Filipino people & until now there is still the Jewish Settlement in Manila, Second, during the “ Creation of the STATE OF ISRAEL” at the United Nations in NY, the voting commence, it was a short of 3 votes again it was the Philippines in the person of ROMULO, the Permanent Representative(Ambassador) voted Yes.. for Israel. That’s why in Tel Aviv you will see there a “Monument of Froenship”dedicated to the Filipino people in gratitude that Philippines stood by side to help the Jewish people. They call the Philippines as “ Philippines a Safe Haven for Refugees” in 1949 thousands of White Russians fled from China to escape communism, the IRO ( International Refuggee Organization) wrote to other countries, but nobody accept White Russians only the Philippines responded with then President Quirino open the door for them to escape Chinese communism, they settled in Tubabao in Guian, Samar & up to present you can still see the settlement there. Again during the Vietnam War, the Philippines accepted Vietnamese refugees also there are still Vietnamese people still living in the settlement up to now & they don’t want to leave the Philippines. Philippines is a poor country they say, Philippines is a 3rd world country they say..& yet this is the only country accepted refugees. I hope that someday this rich countries will have a heart for the refugees people🙏

[@aaronbirook4367]

lol

[@tewfiksaad2884]

Gods will

[@druoleary]

I'm a pro-Israel, pro-Jewish Catholic and a huge JBS fan. However, after seeing yet another selective hindsight, Catholic bashing, half truth rendition of Catholics in the Holocaust AGAIN (this time by Peter Hayes) I am deleting JBS from my favorites list. I've had enough of this. I have never heard a criticism of Lutherans, Calvinists,, Baptists, Eastern Orthodox, Mormons etc. perhaps because they aren't unified under one leader.. My Scottish Catholic grandfather fought the Nazis in North Africa where he was seriously wounded and crippled. The only people he hated more than Nazis were Arab Muslims who aided and abetted the Nazis while feigning to to be with the Allies. Dressed as civilians and smiling in the faces of the British they gave the Nazis any info they had. Good bye.

[@psilvakimo]

Well said! BTW most of the troops who stormed the beaches at Sicily, Anzio and Normandy were white Christian men.

[@bjolie78]

Google Luther and jews, maybe you find some critizism of Lutherans

[@firstal3799]

Idolatrous and dangerous? Wow the level of lack of self awareness and bias.

[@issacnova1527]

right now everybody says atack from rusia is wrong..!!! how come nobody says anything when israel launches misiles against another country..????

[@johnwest7463]

as much money as some of those Rich Jewish businessmen had they could have bought countless weapons forget your differences come together could mean your life if you don't as it this it did

[@eriktronstad8063]

Why .. Because when Paul went to Rome it was to spread the Gospel. When Europe spread it throughout the world, it was all Gods plan. Attention has now been given to Israel and Gods plan for the 2nd Coming of Jesus.

[@apocalypticraids]

There won't be a second coming he dead and dead people don't come back ever not even Jesus

[@edzaslow]

From just a few lines in this otherwise fine lecture, you can see the pro-left wing and Democrat, anti-Trump and anti-Republican bias of our academic professorial class. I would be shocked if there are any conservative voices at all in the History Department of Northwestern University to provide a contrasting prospective.

[@SpaceCadet_12]

Ed in Florida Let me guess, you’re a Trump supporter who’s in denial of the truth? How do u think someone like Hitler came into power? All we need to do is take a look at Trump and his base.

[@edzaslow]

@@SpaceCadet_12 Hi Juan, if you think that Trump is comparable to Hitler and Republicans to Nazis, you are totally ignorant of German History and the Holocaust. But that's your problem, not mine.

[@SpaceCadet_12]

Ed in Florida shut up nazi. we all know Trump’s a white nationalist. You ask any white supremacist out there and they’ll gladly tell you who they support and if u ask them why, their reasonings sound eerily similar to the german nazis and why they wanted the jews out of Europe.

[@josephcatsanchez6590]

NOT TRUE! IF THEY HAD FAITH IN GOD, THEY COULD'VE STOOD AGAINST ANY ARMY. WE SEE THIS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT! They were not right with God, GOD WOULD NEVER TURN HIS BACK ON HIS PEOPLE, but his people have many times

[@projectjayme1109]

This is ludicrous and such an embarrassing stance to take; in my opinion.

[@eyeonart6865]

You are asking the wrong question. Ask instead what did we do that God allowed it, then you might find the answer.

[@jeff19591]

Sad that the speaker took a cheap shot at the US President. How is the speaker's political agenda related to the topic? I also stopped the video after this comment. Sad that we can't receive a history lesson without a cheap shot at President Trump. Interesting that a supposedly intelligent Obama supporter can't see that President Trump is more of a friend to Israel that Obama ever was.

[@richardbedford5302]

Jews have been very

[@richardbedford5302]

I have been

[@richardbedford5302]

The fanatics are Off putting to the res

[@jeffsilverberg5848]

God Bless Israel and President Trump.

[@SpaceCadet_12]

The Nazis oops I mean Trump supporters must hate this guy so much. Lol

[@JukeBoxDestroyer]

the real question is why are 30 different European countries paying 'holocaust reparations' for something that never happened? sounds more like a blackmail extortion racket to me.