Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some conspiracy theorists believe that the deliberate extermination of 6 million Jews in the Nazi concentration camps is simply a conspiracy intended to discredit Hitler. They do not deny that Jews were interned in prison camps during World War II but argue that the number of deaths was greatly exaggerated. They say that the pictures of emaciated people and bodies stacked like cord wood were actually of Poles and Germans who died of typhus rather than being the victims of mistreatment. They maintain that gas chambers were just a rumor. To buy into this revisionist view one would need to discount the mountain of pictorial and first-hand witness evidence available, but that’s never stood in the way
Hitler While others don’t believe holocaust existed, Hitler proves that holocaust did exist. Adolf Hitler a leader too many, targeted Jews for religious believes and their part in society. His main goal was to eliminate Jews. He had designed areas for the Jewish so they would keep out of his path. These ideas show how the holocaust did exist.
In the Nazi camps such as Auswich there was an environment of public opinion that encouraged racism and hate crimes. These conditions allowed further steps of dehumanization to be put on the Jews which permitted the guards to commit violent and racist acts. This was shown in Maus regard the way Mandelbaum was killed “On the walk to work, a guard grabbed his cap away. So what could he do? He ran to pick it up.
The British blockade kept all trades away from the Germans, including food (Ghost Liners 124).Yet, when the Germans retaliate, the Americans hate them for it. The Germans received blame for a crime that followed the rules of war blockades. America shames the Germans for killing civilians warned of the possible danger. Finally, the Lusitania allowed for the British to win in a win-win situation that their government
But yes, they participate, and it was solely just because they could and it gave the Jews less. For example, in the picture depicting the scene about Vladek’s friends making a deal with a Nazi soldier to escape, you see later on that he shoots them when they act on the plan. So even though they participated, they were none at all neither fair nor
Racism, hatred, and abuse were all brought upon someone who did not believe in the same religion as Hitler. New Historicism is clearly present in The Book Thief as an eye opener to the life of a victim during these times and to show all aspects of Germany during the rule of Hitler. It is amazing how one can obey their leader so extendedly that they will kill even the
The people that Shelton killed are considered combatants because they support they governmental system and work with it. Based on Just War Theory, the proportionality of killing these people is that their deaths are outweighed by the justice that will bring to the judicial system. Shelton believes the system to be corrupt, focusing instead on conviction rates rather than making sure the right person is placed behind bars. By killing these people Shelton can put a new mindset into the “system” because those affected by the killings will want the right man punished rather since they now know how it feels to be wronged. All the killings made by Shelton were to people who were directly showed how flawed the system was.
The Danger of the Ordinary In Ordinary Men, the author Christopher Browning asserts that the members of the Nazi Police Battalion 101 were ordinary men prior to becoming the ruthless killers that fueled the violent extermination of the Jews. This assertion is frightening because if true, people like us, which believe such actions to be only possible by abnormal men, are made no different than the Nazis and repeats of such horrific events are made less unfathomable. The closest way to test such hypothetical assertions is through social experimentation, in which volunteers go through experiments that emulate the respective situations being recreated. Through the analysis of two psychological studies, Stanley Milgram’s experiment in 1961 and
Dulffer argue that holocaust was above all due to Hitler, “but to recognize that this is not to free from blame the hundreds thousands of others who were involved in carrying out the Holocaust”Dulffer. Goldhagen says that "hitlers ideal was broadly shared by germany”goldhagen. The bureaucracy was involved and had massive collaborations with the SS, the civil service, army, and the business corporations. This depressed Jews of their rights and property, isolated them, and killed them. The army was also
He explains that the death penalty is just an act of torture and is too horrible to be used by our civilized society, stating that it is “torture until death” (220). He goes on to argue that the death penalty is unjust in its practice because it is applied in arbitrary and also in discriminatory ways. Quoting, “Remain grants that the death penalty is a just punishment for some murderers, but he thinks that justice does not require the death penalty for murderers” (221). He goes on to say that life imprisonment can be an alternative decision that stratifies the requirements of the justice