Was there any type of compromise in the holocaust?

Yes, but not in the way you think.

In 1942, the Nazis held the Wannsee Conference, in which they made plans for the Holocaust. The subtitle of the conference was that they would be debating "The final solution to the Jewish question."

At Wannsee, the various representatives debated methods and strategies for how to bring about the mass slaughter of Jews and other "undesirables". As with most conferences, there was probably a lot of give and take as to how they should do it.

So the Holocaust didn't end with a compromise, but it did begin with one.

In the sense you are speaking of, no. The death camps remained in operation even when the advancing Allied armies were within a few miles. My sister's father-in-law led the detail that liberated one of them. The closest thing to a compromise involved was the decision to allow some of the prisoners to be worked to death rather than being immediately shot or gassed.

The Holocaust has NEVER been settled or solved anywhere on this Earth, nor is it likely to be.

I think you have to be more specific when you use the term "compromise."

There were a few "trade offs" so to speak - and MANY personal acts of heroism - but large scale compromises - no.

If you are more specific, I can help, perhaps. (think Schindler)

If I may add, no doubt to the ire of my colleagues, prior to outright hostilities between different countries and Germany/Austria - trades were made, i.e. money for Jews, political prisoners for Jews, STEEL for Jews, stay out of OUR war for Jews. These were all sanctioned by the Nazi government. Then, of course, after the outbreak of actual war, there were the various diplomats who, risking a firing squad if they were lucky, sold visas, letters of transit, etc. or even did it out of the goodness of their hearts. I mean GERMAN diplomats. There was also an ongoing trade in these documents by nationals of other countries, some for favor, most not, who managed to get Jews to safety at the risk of their lives and the lives of their families, all loved ones and even their hometowns.

The "Party Line" demanded liquidation of the Jews of Europe (and the Gypsies, Romany, Homosexuals, Communists, people with blue hair, et al.).

I tell ya - some folks just can't handle the truth... My feelings are hurt - but I know I'm right.

As noted - The Wannsee Conference was held well into the course of the War. It's specific purpose was to officially determine what they were going to do with all those Jews hanging about. At Wannsee, the Wannsee Protocol was put into effect, which chose extermination of the Jewish Race by whatever means necessary - here is where most of your gas chambers, ovens and the like come in. This is the vehicle Himmler and his henchmen used to try to exterminate a race (or at least take a good shot at it). Yes, I know, others were murdered in the Camps. Wannsee dealt strictly with the Jews.

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am A Holocaust Survivor . I was ghen a teenager. Now I moderate the yahoo ! group Remember_The_Holocaust which you are all welcome to join. It has much information ND MEMVERS , MANY NOT JEWISH , ARE A THINKING GROUP OF PEOPLE FROM ALL 5 Continents. Hitler was appointed Chjancellor next month 75 years ago,. My parents left shortly thereafter Germany to Belgium expecting to return after Hitler was removed in as they thought a couple of years. they left me in care of a childless aunt and uncle. I escaped in time just a few weeks before Kristallnacht. Had i not i would be dead as my aunt and uncle were deported and mirdered. i would have died with them in the extermination camp of Sobibor. They killed cjhildren also over 1million to 1.5 estimated Jewish children. Post subject: Belaya Tserkov

Byelaya Tserkov (Bialacerkiew) is a Ukrainian village, 70 km from Kiev. In August 1941 the Feldkommandant of Byelaya Tserkov requested the intervention of Sonderkommando (SK) 4a to kill its Jewish inhabitants. The extermination orders were received by a unit (`Teilkommando') of SK 4a which was under the command of SS-Obersturmfiihrer August Hafner. The unit consisted of regular members of SK 4a and a platoon from 3rd Company, SS Special Operations Battalion (Waffen-SS) under the command of SS-Oberscharfiihrer Jager. Between 8 and 19 August the Waffen-SS platoon - with the help of the Ukrainian militia - executed several hundred Jewish men and women by firing-squad. Scene of the crime: a rifle-range near the barracks (see witness report).

The children of those murdered were initially locked up in a building on the edge of the village. On the evening of 19 August some of the children were transported in three full lorry-loads to the rifle-range and killed there. Some ninety children were kept back in wretched conditions. The following day, 20 August, the Catholic military chaplain, Ernst Tewes, and his Protestant colleague, Gerhard Wilczek, were having lunch together in the mess. Both were soldiers of officer rank. A distraught noncommissioned officer came and pleaded with Tewes (who was ordained a bishop after the war) to take `remedial action'.

The military chaplains visited the children and informed the divisional chaplain of 295th Infantry Division (ID), who was in the area for a few days. Then the Catholic divisional chaplain, Dr Reuss, (who was ordained bishop in Mainz after the war) and his Protestant colleague Kornmann (presumed dead), together with Tewes and Wilczek, visited the awful scene. In the afternoon divisional chaplains Dr Reuss and Kornmann reported to the Generalstabsoffizier of the division, Lieutenant-Colonel Helmuth Groscurth (killed in action) on their visit. What follows - the actions of the Wehrmacht up to the officially condoned murder of the children on 22 August - can be! found in the passages printed below. more on the group Remember_The-_Holocaust on Yahoo!

They just wanted certain religious and ethnic groups dead.

there was no compromise. Either fight or die.

So they lost the war and a lot of them died.

No. They kept on killing gays, Gypsy's, Communists and Jews until they were defeated in war.