Cruel Times. The Holocaust was a terrible and horrific time for all people under the rule of Adolf Hitler. Hitler played a lead role in the Holocaust and the laws, which he passed, were extremely cruel and harsh towards the Jews and minorities. If that was not enough later laws were enacted dictating instructions for the complete extermination of the Jewish race. The Nazis were so unforgiving and cruel in their ways that Jews and Minorities had to find new ways of living without becoming known to the Nazis and the German public.
The process in which the Jews were rounded up concentrated, enslaved and eventually murdered was cruel and disgusting. After a Jewish person had spent a certain amount of time in slave work they were sent to death camps. A factory process of murder was something no one could fathom, being placed in an assembly line manor through a process that, in the end would terminate your life. This was something that the German government decided was best, to be a Jew and know that the government that runs the state you’re in by default or by occupation, has decided you are worthless and needed to be exterminated is not moral. To hate a person or people so much that murdering them in cold blood by the bulk, just seems morally right is genocide.
And they were senselessly murdered just because they were different. Nothing today can compare to the holocaust because it was so massive and unforgettable. But the holocaust has taught us about how people need to treat each other. If people start to treat each other like the Nazis did the Jews there is no stopping another holocaust from happening again. The Nazis were judgmental raciest and disgusting people who hated anyone who was different then them.
Concentration camps held Jews as well as criminals, political prisoners, gypsies, etcetera. Like the ghettos, concentration camps held the Jews and had terrible living conditions. At the camps the first thing the SS would do was take the prisoners clothing, shave their heads, and replace their name with a number (dehumanizing them). Prisoners of the camps were forced to work for the Germans, including putting people inside the gas chambers, removing the remains from the gas chambers and sorting through previously (Jewish) owned clothes that would be sent to German residents. Prisoners who were thought to be “unfit” for work (the weak, the ill, prisoners with a mental condition, etcetera) were brought to the gas chambers.
Dehumanization is morally, socially, and intellectually stripping of a person’s rights as a human being. In the story Night, Wiesel stated, “During the genocide, Babies were thrown up into the air and the machine gunners used them as their targets. We were also made to dig huge graves and after we finished, the Germans would slaughter us into the graves.” This image would be considered a day of an eight year Holocaust and a true dehumanization to the Jewish people. The three main factors that the Germans influence on the Jewish people during the Holocaust was to disdain each other, experience a never forgetting living hell each day, and to lose faith in their God who was their most important being in every aspect of their lives. Fist of
Breeden 1 Rebekah Breeden Professor Ehrhardt HIST 1623-099 11 May 2012 Night Essay Elie Wiesel portrays the degradation of Jewish humanity and culture by describing his experiences during the Holocaust in World War II. Wiesel describes how the SS dehumanized the Jews through cruel treatment for various reasons. From the experiences described by Wiesel, the humanity of he himself and other inmates diminished as they looked out for themselves and not for family. Wiesel’s account shows that the human’s capacity for cruelty and strength is unparalleled. His account also shows that the reason we must remember the Holocaust is so that the mass genocide will not be forgotten, lest we commit the crime of injustice by forgetting who died.
Appalled is one word that can describe my initial reaction towards the cruelty presented in the autobiography Night by Eliezer Wiesel, and the films, “Jakob the Liar” and “The Last Days”. Though I had some previous knowledge about the Holocaust, my eyes were pried open to the horrific and despicable events that human beings did to other human beings. I honestly ask, ‘How could people do that to others?’ People in concentration camps had to aide in the murder of others, often friends or family; people were not given food or water; and people were treated like ‘lab rats’ and were used for sick experiments. Through the two films and the novel, I was educated about the cruelty that some people possess, and how some humans can still find the strength
Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust Adolf Hitler was one of the cruelest rulers this world has ever known. During his reign Hitler caused enormous suffering for the Jews throughout Germany. Many Jewish families were torn apart by the cruelty of the Nazi party. This, one of the most tragic events in the world's history, is known as the Holocaust. During his quest for power, Hitler carried out his anti-sematic beliefs, which had a devatating effect on the Jewish community, and eventually led to the Holocaust.
He brainwashed people to believe that Jews were evil people and they weren’t true Germans. He defined being Jewish by blood and not by religion. Those who had Jewish ancestors were also defined as Jews although they weren’t as religious. The Holocaust was truly an awful, cruel, horrible time in our
It is a powerful force that weakens human relations and I believe that it is a major reason for divisions amongst members of different ethnicities, races, and religious groups in our society. While prejudice certainly leads to problems, in history, very rarely has ethnocentrism led to the mass slaughter of millions of innocent people. The best known and most extreme example that I can think of that ever occurred was during Nazi Germany. During that time, Adolf Hitler decided that he hated Jews, as well as other Non-German groups of people, and had many innocent people slaughtered in concentration camps during the