Holocaust Why was there a Holocaust, how did it affect people and why is it important that we remember it? Task 1 The Holocaust was an extremely tragic period of time in history between the years of 1933 to 1945. At an approximately 11 million lives were lost because of cruel racial prejudice. The killings took place in Europe during World War two run by the German Nazi party led by Adolf Hitler. The majority of the victims killed were Jews because they were undesirable and not the same race as the German Nazi’s.
He was the one giving out the orders and dehumanizing the Jews. He was abusing the power his people gave him by doing all of these things. He could have put a stop to it just like Zimbardo but he didn’t. Just like in the story it took an outside force to stop all of
Holocaust happened because Hitler and the Nazis were racist. They believed the German people were a 'master race', who were superior to others. They even created a league table of 'races' with the Aryans at the top and with Jews, Gypsies and black people at the bottom. These 'inferior' people were seen as a threat to the purity and strength of the German nation. When the Nazis came to power they persecuted these people, took away their human rights and eventually decided that they should be exterminated.
He believed that Jewish people were inferior to other human begins. Hitler beliefs and ideas caused him to create an army called the Nazi to help carry out his plan. The Nazis followed Adolf’s plan to kill Jewish people by creating concentration camps and gas chambers. The Nazis tortured and starved the Jewish people to their deaths. Out of fear and to avoid death themselves, many German civilians accepted Adolf Hitler leadership or they hid from him and his Nazi army.
However, it challenges our basic conception of human nature to admit that, almost any of us, caught up in those unusual circumstances, could have been a mass murderer. In fact, most people who participated in the Holocaust atrocities were not simple monsters, but ordinary people transformed into perpetrators of evil. Genocide and ethnic cleansing are unforgivable, dreadful deeds that are initiated and directed by some individuals who are evil by nature such as Hitler. Nevertheless, evil leaders do not need evil demons for those deeds, but only compliant workers and willing soldiers. So how good people can become the instruments of evil?
It mentioned that, the Armenian Genocide was the first genocide of the 20th century. Adolf Hitler was a dictator who began conquering most of Europe in World War II. His tactics were brutal and he had vision of a better society, a society he wanted and so he started his own genocidal policies on the Jews, Gypsies, and other social or racial undesirables. Especially the Jewish Holocaust was almost the same as the Armenian Genocide. Although, during Hitler’s region was far worse because not just the Jews but many other non-Jews were killed.
Humiliation, anger, revenge; these were the simple elements that caused the Holocaust. "The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of...Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust Encyclopedia "The Holocaust" A tragic event that targeted and killed approximately six million Jews (men, women, and children) from 1933-1945. Though these events couldn't have just happened on their own. The Holocaust was caused by three main factors; Germany's loss of World War I, the Great Depression, and Antisemitism.
The Holocaust The Holocaust, in simple text, was a terrible event that resulted in the genocide of a proud population, the Jewish community. The Holocaust will forever scare the history of the men. Before Yiddish 399, I did not know a lot about the Holocaust. All I knew was the Jewish community was slightly oppressed in the beginning of the 1930’s to be suffer horrific tormenting well into the 1940’s. Through Yiddish 399, I am now able to discuss personal trials and tribulations of the holocaust, along with being able to discuss of how the Jewish community was oppressed due to the information I learned through the discussions in class, the novels, along with the films and documentaries.
So Auschwitz differed from most of the other camps. 13) The term suggests, that there was a real problem and that other solutions had been tried seriously but had failed. From 1933-1939 the Nazis tried to bully the German Jews into leaving the country. 14) The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 established the following categories: 'Full Jew': Three or more Jewish grandparents 'Mixed race 1st degree': Two Jewish grandparents 'Mixed race 2nd degree': One Jewish grandparent 15) Yes. 16) They considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and who, therefore, were an obstruction to Aryan
It is difficult to point fingers at just those who were considered perpetrators, because the relationship between the general population including onlookers, bystanders, those who unintentionally contributed, and those who lacked interest in getting “involved”, and that of the victims was complex to say the least. Perpetrators, Nazis, Gestapo, SS officers, Einsatzgruppen, and anyone willing to kill by influence of the Third Reich and Hitler’s Regime left Europe with victims, scarred beings that may never be able to recover from the tragedies that took place during World War II. The holocaust was enacted without thoughts of future forgiveness. However that is not to say every man or woman involved in the killings were serial killers, or crazed murderers. The relationship to that of the victims were not easily divided.