They attempted to kill all of the Jewish people. This is called genocide. Genocide is when a certain person or group (Nazis) tries to exterminate an entire race or ethnic group. They wanted to do this because the Nazis thought that the Jews were inferior, and they saw them as a threat to Hitler’s rain of terror. At this time there were 9 million Jews in Europe.
The people accused the Emperor Nero for the devastation claiming he set the fire for his own amusement. In order to deflect these accusations and placate the people, Nero laid blame for the fire on the Christians. The emperor ordered the arrest of a few members of the sect who, under torture, accused others until the entire Christian populace was implicated and became fair game for retribution. As many of the religious sect that could be found were rounded up and put to death in the most horrific manner for the amusement of the citizens of Rome. The ghastly way, in which the victims were put to death aroused sympathy among many Romans, although most felt their execution justified.
In Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Nechama Tec, there are many discriminative, stereotypical and prejudice events that take place throughout the book. The book is actually memoirs written by the author about how during World War II Nazis would raid villages to imprison and/or kill Jews and show what the Jews had to do to survive. The Nazis hated the Jews; they had unfavorable opinions about them, and were taught to treat them unfairly. They stereotyped the Jews as if all of them were bad and deserved to be punished. An event takes a big toll on the main character (Tec); when the Nazis separated her family.
All people are born sinners. Natural men must be reborn to be saved; “…hell is waiting for them…” (Edwards 46). These views are that of Jonathan Edwards in Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Edwards belonged to a religion that was lingering and was close to disappearing due to the growing numbers of Christians, so he used figurative language and imagery in order to scare people back into the Puritan way of life. “Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downward with great weight and pressure toward hell.” (Edwards 47).
Wiesel wrote about how horrible it seemed to lose one’s innocence. He did not realize that he had lost some of his own as well. Like Wiesel, many other victims still feel troubled by the painful memories that follow them. Roman, one of the countless victims of the Nazis, wrote a short yet perceptive poem about her lingering reflections; the powerful calamities caught the reader by surprise. Through Wiesel and Roman’s stories about their loss of innocence and haunting memories, we learned that the cruel and obscene methods used by the Nazis and SS Officers caused the vicious afterthoughts of those who survived the horrifying experiences that no human should endure.
It caused deep psychological effects on everyone. Abandonment, even of friend and family members was common. Many devout believers were losing faith in God. In a letter, penned by Italian poet, Francesco Petrarch of Florence, to a friend in Avignon. He expresses his grief at losing close friends, as well as, resentment for an overly vengeful God, who would punish men not only their crimes, but also the crimes of their fathers.
These Christians thought that they had to do everything in their power to lessen the anger of God and appease Him. These bands of people, known as flagellants, wandered through towns and countryside doing penance (a punishment undergone in token of penitence of sin) in public. They inflicted various kinds of punishments on themselves, sacrificing themselves for others’ sins in imitation of Jesus Christ. Most of society did not approve of them. “The flagellants showed a tendency to kill Jews they encountered, and even killed clergymen who spoke against them.”
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. In the beginning Hitler saw the Jews as he saw everyone else. After contact with them, and extensive research, he began to view them not as Germans, but as their own inferior race. As Hitler wrote his book, Mein Kampf, his criticisms toward
The impact of this mass killer caused disorder to the medieval society because of its unknown origin, the unknown causes and preventions, its deathly symptoms and its breakdown of life. Religion was greatly affected and changed. In 1347, a Tartar army under Kipchak khan Janibeg had been trying to take the Genoese cathedral city and trading ports of Caffa on
It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover. The plague returned at various times, killing more people, until it left Europe in the 19th century. The Black Plague, one of the worst natural disasters in history, revealed Europe’s indication to use the best available knowledge of the times. During the Black Plague, the people tried to find the reason for this punishment, so they turned to the Church, which played a major role in their lives, for answers. The Church could not provide sufficient reasons for why the plague had occurred, which lead to the assumption that God was punishing mankind of their sins.