WAS THE HOLOCAUST LEGAL IN 1945?

[@mariavitoriaguimaraes5387]

Thanks a lot for this video! I am starting a Law Degree in the UK in September and find your videos very clarifying and interesting because you question what is within well known concepts.

[@elenamakessenseoflaw8628]

Thank you and all the best for law school🤗

[@TheOne-kn3le]

Wow thanks for this. My friend posted that exact quote you showed at the beginning and I was thinking "was the holocaust really legal?"

[@suedakazak9027]

Hi Elena! Such an informative video :)) Which programme did you use to make this video? I really liked animations

[@wunderbarbara]

really interesting video! what software did you use for the design?

[@elenamakessenseoflaw8628]

Thank you! I used Biteable!

[@leslievelagonzalez8108]

But it is a fact that it was completely legal to strip a Jew of his basic rights in Germany under the Reich citizenship law.

[@ashutosh_windsor]

Correct but Jews were not only victim Gypsies , Polish and anyone who is not a Aryan in Third Deutsch Reich was allowed to kill as they were not humans according to Hitler.

[@leticiarodriguez6317]

Interesting, very well explained as always. How is the holocaust taught in german schools?

[@Saoirse_don_Phalaistín]

It is taught in a model way of how countries should address their own ugly pasts, dirty secrets, and shameful histories; by being candid about the facts and the responsibility of it as part of the history. Germans are very, VERY aware and conscious of their past, and that's what has lead the country to become one of the most thriving democracies They do not try to skimp or gloss over the Third Reich or excuse it the way Britain glorifies the british empire and either glosses over, excuses or outright deny their atrocities; ditto with not just the USA, but even their history on the Confederacy, at least in southern states; and same in Japan for their culpability in the inhumanities of world war2.

[@leticiarodriguez6317]

@@Saoirse_don_Phalaistín thanks for the information! I think that we all (in all countries) should learn from our past.

[@Saoirse_don_Phalaistín]

@@leticiarodriguez6317 Most definitely ! It is an onus on the country's governance to ensure that the population is not ignorant on its history as leaving it to the individual can seem unfair; I'm not going to think a British teen my age is bigoted just because they love and have a revere of Oliver Cromwell or Winston Churchill, and hasn't a notion of what they did to Ireland and how they stand in the context of irish (and honestly world) history.

[@ashutosh_windsor]

@@Saoirse_don_Phalaistín not just that Winston Churchill was also responsible for Bengal Famine which killed 8 million people and according to Noble prize winner Rabindranath Tagore who penned India's National anthem "thou art and dispenser of India's destiny" has wrote that people on streets were falling as the leaves fall from tree in autumn because of hunger and some were forced to eat other humans flesh because government in Britain shipped the grains to Europe to feed the soldiers for world war 2 and today nobody says anything for that, but still we supported allies. Churchill was a killer of those 8 million peoples.

[@SemiDurakovic]

I thought that the 3rd Geneva convention existed before ww2

[@elenamakessenseoflaw8628]

Hi! Yes it did but it only covered prisoners of war and from what I read about it, the majority of victims of the Holocaust wouldn’t have fit the definition the convention set out for that!

[@luciasobradolouzao1062]

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