Sociology Of The Holocaust Essay

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Jessie December 12, 2010 Mon/Wed Sociology Sociology Of The Holocaust The Holocaust is one of the worst things that has ever happened on Earth. The sociological factors of Germanys society of that time have a lot to do with what happened through the years of Hitler’s reign. This essay will explain five factors that I believe caused or had something to do with the events that happened, From Hitler’s great ethnocentrism to his authoritarian way of leading the country. The great differences between the Jewish culture and Hitler’s idea of one forced the Jewish to become a counterculture. Hitler forced the people of Germany into changing their norms and values, allowing for it to happen. To prevent anything like this from happening again we…show more content…
The Jewish culture was taken out of the society by taking them to concentration camp where they would be murdered. People knew about these camps all around the world, yet nobody stepped up tp do anything about it. Until the allied forces were successful in defeating Germany the concentration camps kept killing. I believe other cultures were practicing typical ethnocentrism as well. Most of the world were Christian and looked down on the Jews. People did not realize the effect of what happened to the world’s Jewish culture until the Americans freed the remaining ones. Till then nobody gave it much thought and did nothing about it. Today a thing like another Holocaust could not happen. The difference between the world Hitler ruled in and today’s world is we care about the world’s equality. If Something such as a mass killing of one culture was to happen, somebody would step in no matter what there culture is. Ethnocentrism may still exist but not as strong, not in ways where one culture wants to kill another. Countries around the world would not allow for people to put a whole culture into a total institution again. Organizations such as the United Nations would not allow for
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