Genocide…it’s a scary thought and hard to imagine. How such a thing could happen? Not only does it

People argue against Goldhagen’s claim, that the German society was anti-Semitic, by pointing out that after World War II, the Germans no longer hated the Jews and made laws to protect them. Goldhagen rebuts this argument by stating, “Germans, after the war, were castigated by the world for committing the greatest crime in history…The Allies denuded Germany’s institutional structures, replaced the dictatorship with democracy and revamped the education system” (Weinstein 2). So after the war, they realized their fallacies and had to change their views.

Goldhagen presents his argument in a manner indicative of a person on the defensive; who seems hard-pressed at convincing the reader that anti-Semitic sentiments throughout Germany plays a key role in the genocide . The tenor of his presentation is quite rushed, yet this is somewhat understandable because his presentation is also quite authoritative and is filled with a remarkable amount of information that begs further consideration of its readers. Goldhagen challenges what he argues as being the prevailing views of historians concerning who is ultimately responsible for the atrocities that happened to German Jews in Nazi Germany. He sees the

Genocide is one of the worst inventions man has made. More formally known as massacres before the early 1900s(Cooke-welling 69), they have always been very harmful to an ethnicity or religions’ growth. The word itself originates from latin roots. The words “whole” and “burned” in latin morph to make the word “holocaust” A few of the worst ones in history have happened in just the past century. One that is very familiar is The Holocaust. It was the genocide of the Jewish faith during World War II by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party(“The Holocaust”). Hitler believed that the aryan race was germans with specific beliefs and features. Jews did not fall into this category and were thought to be harmful in the process of making a perfect race, so

Consistent with Rossel, Germany has had a past of anti-Semitism, starting in 1542 when the great German Protestant leader Martin Luther wrote a booklet called Against the Jews and Their Lies. Even earlier the Catholic Churches had taught that the Jewish people killed Crist and should therefore be hated (10). Early teachings of anti-Semitism lead to a hating of the Jewish community, but with the German’s calling themselves the “Aryan Race” and the Jewish people calling themselves the “chosen one’s” there was bound to be competition on who was superior.

we begged the white man to leave us alone, saying we could get no more rubber, but the white men and their soldiers said, ‘Go! You are only beasts yourselves; you are nyama (meat).’” This sense of superiority allowed the imperialists to justify to themselves the atrocities that they were committing. Furthermore, the Nazi regime slowly dehumanized these fellow Europeans until they were dehumanized enough so that they could be killed. This effort was done methodically, since it took an entire eight years after Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933 for the Jews to begin being killed in 1941. The length of time this took is interesting since it shows how the average German population did not have anti-semitic views they were willing to act upon until much after Hitler came to power. The Nazi’s were able to change this by incrementally disparaging Jews whether it be through the laws they passed or the math textbooks that were handed out to children. This systematic effort showed how the Nazi’s had to had to change the average German ways of thinking, while the imperialists implicitly believed they were superior immediately after arriving in the Congo.

Imagine if you were watching the news and there was an announcement about a mass genocide taking place right now,somewhere in the world.How would you feel?Well,sadly this is a reality to some people in the world. The word genocide itself is enough to strike fear into the hearts of many. The holocaust and the cultural revolution of Tibet were both large acts of genocide which were both handled differently by the victims and by the world as a whole.Genocide is a horrible crime that has been committed many times throughout history and many cases have been ignored by most of the world.

Throughout the course of humanity, we have experienced terrible transgressions in our society. Although they took place sixty-one years apart, similar horrific events from the Holocaust (1933-1945) and the Rwandan Genocide (1994) occurred. In Night, the Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis believed they were “racially superior” so they killed the Jews because they were deemed “inferior” and needed to be eliminated.

In the book Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning tackles the question of why German citizens engaged in nefarious behavior that led to the deaths of millions of Jewish and other minorities throughout Europe. The question of what drove Germans to commit acts of genocide has been investigated by numerous historians, but unfortunately, no overarching answer for the crimes has yet been decided upon. However, certain theories are more popular than others. Daniel Goldhagen in his book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, has expounded that the nature of the German culture before the Second World War was deeply embedded in anti-Semitic fervor, which in turn, acted as the catalyst for the events that would unfold into the Holocaust. It is at this

German anti-Semitism played the main role in Holocaust and extermination of Jewish population in Europe during World War 2. There are different views on this subject among historians. Some support the fact that German society was anti-Semitic and ordinary

The hatred towards Jews was nothing new in that time. Throughout history Jews have been prosecuted and blamed for many of the world's problems, and Germany was the same. The treaty of Versailles was incredibly harsh on Germany as it extinguished the nations power and reduced its presets on an international scale. The Germany people especially hated the treaty of Versailles and they needed someone to blame, so lo and behold the hatred of Jews began in Germany. The TOV was signed and approved by Jewish politicians so many German peopled blamed Jews for the TOV. During the 1930s, many Jews where doctors, lawyers and bankers which

During the holocaust, the germans saw the jews as a “tainted race”, and saw them inferior to themselves. They also sought to kill off the jewish bloodline completely.

In the past 150 years, tens of millions of men, women and children have lost their lives to ethnic cleansing or genocide. Although the definition is often scrutinized, according to Merriam Webster, "Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group". The most notable event associated with the term is the Holocaust. Stated by Judah Gribets, Edward Greenstein and Regina Stein, "nearly six million Jews fell victim to genocide during the years of the Holocaust". Of This number, one million were children who were unable to take care of themselves. People's hopes and dreams for the future were stripped from them, and many families were ripped apart. Many of these people were tortured or raped

The holocaust was an appalling event everyone was horrified to learn had transpired throughout the Second World War. Only after the camps began to be liberated by the Allied forces was when the truth of the situation was divulged to the public, and the Germans saw the consequence of their ignorance. That was the initial belief, anyway, but as time progressed history and research shows that the majority of ordinary Germans were aware of the evolving horror of Hitler 's Holocaust. Germans were aware that concentration camps were full of Jewish people who were denounced as below humans and treated as such. They knew that the inhumane behavior towards the Jews and other minorities in the camps metamorphosed to something harsher: mass genocide. The acceptance the common German had possessed was caused by deplorable conditions received after World War I, which allowed for the adoption of Adolf Hitler as a leader due to their alacrity to resume life before the war, and the result of Hitler’s propaganda against the Jewish community.

Goldhagen argues that for centuries, nearly every German was possessed of a homicidal animus towards Jews and thus 80 to 90 percent of Germans would have relished in the occasion to eliminate Jews. (Goldhagen dissents from Christopher Browning's estimates that 10-20 percent of the German police battalions refused to kill Jews as 'stretching the evidence ). It is one of Goldhagen's central arguments that the police battalions were prototypical of the murderous German mind-set. Goldhagen's true distinction from Browning is to argue that German anti- Semitism was not only a significant but rather it was the sufficient condition for perpetrating the extermination of the Jews. Goldhagen observes that if it was not for "Hitler's moral authority", the "vast majority of Germans never would have contemplated" the genocide against the Jews. He also argues that by the time Hitler came to power, the model of Jews that was the basis of his anti-Semitism was shared by the vast majority of Germans. To rebuttal his claim I must ask that if anti-Semitism was true to not only the Germans but also the other European countries then why didn't a massive scale

Take a minute and think about the word Genocide. From this word only, many will provide the example of Nazi Germany. From 1934 - 1945, the Nazi Party began a hunt for “cleansing” Germany of the Jews, who were unjustly held responsible for why Germany hit hard times. Furthermore, the Jews were put into camps and interned for what may have been the rest of their lives. In Photo A, prisoners of the highly populated