Hate And Intolerance During The Holocaust: Film Analysis

The Holocaust which was one of many of the controversial events that have happened in the history of our world demonstrated a significant amount of cruelty and dehumanization. Because of such a controversial event, many have suffered through physical and unfortunately psychological upheaval and distress. With previous knowledge and novels’ read on the Holocaust, it came to be known that the event was triggered through obedience and conformity due to the not specifically the Germans’ beliefs of anti-Semitic and propaganda, but more of leader Adolf Hitler. The time of the Holocaust was used to dehumanize which enhanced the understanding of mental health and human psychology. During the Holocaust, many psychological principles affected individuals forever. The principles include groupthink and of course knowing the outcome of the event. Such principles sooner explain the reality of life because it stresses how individuals react due to their past experiences like the Holocaust and most importantly how traumatic events build them as who they are today.  Innocent Jews went through starvation, terrible working conditions, and the elimination of race through torture such as gas chambers. Furthermore, the history of this controversial event is now being used to be alert of the health and wellness of those who have gone through such events that sooner change their behavior and mentality for the better or even worse.

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 Jews on the train wanted to stay out of trouble but Mrs. Schachter was screaming and went mad on the train so they beat and gagged her to stay out of trouble so the Jews worked together to survive then when the Jews arrived at the concentration camp inmate Jews told other Jews to lie about their age to the SS officer. An example on page twenty-six is on the train ride to Auschwitz a woman on the train named Mrs. Schachter was screaming and she was mad and the Jews didn’t want to get in trouble so they beat and gagged her. From this I can infer that the Jews didn’t want to see her get beat or killed by the Nazis and everyone to get into more trouble. This reminds me of a movie in which a group of people were forcefully taken for testing

“...Holocaust literature has attested to...a diversity of effects of traumatic experiences during the Holocaust...” (Aharoni-David and Zeidner 266). Literature relevant to that of the Holocaust has depicted and portrayed problems during the time period.  Through these publications, readers visualize the turmoil of communities during World War II and the suffering that transpired as a result of the war. The justification of these events through writing, proves literature showcases World War II and the Holocaust in a precise manner. The Holocaust is accurately portrayed in literature involving the mistreatment of people, the genocide of religious groups, and the negative effect of these traumatic events.

It even make me wonder what made Nazis only go after the jews. The horror that must have gone through all those victims minds. Just imagine all those Jews screaming of fear, then just imagine all the power the Naizs they must of felt like they had against the Jews. I learned that “ Kristallnacht provided the Nazis government with an opportunity at last to totally remove Jews from German public life.” Then again what did the the Nazis think?, While destroying every Jewish shop, school or business? The Nazis knew that if every Jewish property was destroyed that slowly the public life would slowly start to disappear. More and more Jews would disappear and the Jewish community would fade

The holocaust was against three main groups of people, Jews were the main group, there were also gypsies and the disabled.This topic is important because the Nazis killed innocent people out of hate and intolerance. The Nazis killed Jews, Gypsies, and disabled out of hatred and intolerance. In the book Eva’s story we see this and also in the movie paper clips and in the books Benno and the Night of Broken Glass, and Book thief we see indirect correlations to the holocaust.

At the core of the Holocaust we discover fashionable racism, the present version of individual emotion - that very same issue that

Anti-Semitism is the word given to the prejudice and hate held by many towards people of Jewish background. The cause of Anti-Semitism may be because of religious teachings or political teachings and is now considered a form of racism. Anti-Semitism was highly visible during the Holocaust and was a driving force in Hitler’s plan to eliminate all Jews. The Nazi’s believed that they were a supreme race and also believed that the Jews, whom they saw as destructive and instigators of trouble, would ruin that ideal. An example of Anti-Semitism is Hitler’s heartless treatment of the Jews. He believed Jews had caused most of the severe issues in Germany, like the failing economics and many people believed him. This was because anti-semitism was a pre-existing idea which made it easy for Hitler to form a strong position in people’s mind and also on the political side. He justified his actions by blaming the Jews, while also making it seem like they deserved to be tortured. “...the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.” is a direct quote taken from Hitler’s book, “Mein Kampf”. It gives a clear example of how Hitler viewed the Jews, even going as far to compare them to the devil. Hitler was raised in Austria, in a town where the mayor held strong anti-semitic beliefs. This obviously had a

Germany was an anti-Semitic culture before Hitler came to power and remained anti-Semitic even after the war. Much of the German population actively supported the persecution and murder of Jews, while the rest with few expectations, remained indifferent towards their plight. The Victim or Victimizer discourse has retained such prominence in Germany is a direct result of the Nazis unprecedented brutality and use of modern technology with which they tried to annihilate the Jewish people and the Jewish culture. Confronted with the evidence of the systematic and institutionalized killing of Jews, Germans after the war could not escape the persuasiveness of the victim or victimizer dichotomy, no withstanding the adoption of various strategies of denial and avoidance.

Before the Holocaust and the killing of millions of Jews, many events took place solidifying the hatred towards Jews in Germany. People in Germany did not hate Jews overnight, a long history of universal hate towards Jews took place first. Throughout history the Jewish people have been victims of anti-semitism because they do not fully assimilate, causing them to be outsiders. This historical backing of anti-semitism with the combination of a poor economy, strong German identity and humiliation, causes Germany to have strong anti-semitic sentiments during the 1920s and 1930s.

In contemporary society holocaust literature is considered rudimentary by intellectuals, to continuously remind young scholars about the Third Reich and Nazi crimes against Jews. Deep reflection allows one to understand the desperation driving the nation in their pursuit of worldwide domination. The serious nature associated with Holocaust causes the authors to be weary as not to lower standards by creating a pulp fiction narrative. The authors strive to positively compound the subject’s potential, and gain momentum toward standards in integrity. Therefore, these authors choose not to resort to secularism, deriving inspiration from Jewish culture and religion. For the sake of the reader, the balance lies at maintaining respect for self and ancestors, while also keeping audience interest. These authors burdened themselves with the survival of a people. At the core of antisemitism is the denial of Jewish history, and especially the holocaust. Modern anti-Semitism isn’t based on religion, but on the theory that Jews are an inferior race. These ideas derive from the Enlightenment period (17th-18th century) in Europe. The same ideals that motivated the German-sponsored holocaust of the 20th century.

The first thing that comes to people’s minds when they hear the word Holocaust is Hitler and the Nazi party murdering the one and a half million innocent Jewish people through tortuous and inhuman ways. We all know of what happened, but don’t know why it actually happened. Why did the Nazi party commit all of these murders and crimes? After Germany lost the first world war, their whole economy collapsed and was left vulnerable to any new change. This is when Hitler began his rise as he was elected and promised a new beginning for Germany. Germany was given that new beginning by Hitler, but in reality it was the start of the worst mass killing ever committed. The Jewish were immediately targeted by Hitler and his party, putting the blame on them for the loss of the first World War. The events only escalated as time went on, moving from large concentration camps to death camps. Where and why did this hatred by Hitler and his party start?

As Nelson Mandela once said, “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” Nelson Mandela is a historical figure who fought against discrimination and oppression in South Africa. In this quote, Mandela is saying that one is born without any urge to discriminate or oppress another. Instead, one learns to hate others, but since hate is learned, love can also be learned. Additionally, love will triumph over hate because love comes more instinctually. Throughout history, there are a bountiful amount of horrific events of discrimination and oppression that have occurred. Unfortunately, these events continue to occur today. The Holocaust, which occurred during World War Two, is a prime example of how discrimination led to the deaths of millions of innocent Jews, just because of their religion. However, not just Jewish people were affected in the Holocaust. Other people such as gypsies and homosexuals were also discriminated and persecuted against by the Nazis. Even closer to the present, Martin Luther King fought tirelessly for the rights of the black community through his speech, “I Have a Dream”. The results of his speech were astonishing and a direct retaliation to the discrimination and oppression against black people. Today, as informed citizens and the

It is a universally acknowledged fact that the Holocaust of the 1940s is one of the greatest tragedies in human history. A ruthless tirade by Adolf Hitler, German dictator and leader of the Nazi party, resulted in the death of over eleven million Jewish people and minorities, and its dire consequences affect the entire human race to this very day. Yet although we now collectively look back upon the Holocaust in horror and dismay, people had dramatically different perspectives on the situation at the time it occurred. Take, for example, high-ranking Nazi official Heinrich Himmler, and the juxtaposition of his radical Aryan supremacist views against those of Italian Jew Primo Levi.

The documentary that I viewed is called “A Journey Into the Holocaust.” It makes various points as to the views, beliefs, causes and decisions that were made during World War II. It focuses on genocide, religion and prejudice against Jews. It is important for people to know how strong one’s beliefs, one’s religion and faith can be in how they see the world can be. We might not all believe the same thing, and we are entitled to have our own thoughts and beliefs. But this by all means should not give anyone the right to make everyone believe or instil the same thoughts and beliefs into someone else. According to Payne (2014), leaders of a nation depend on their followers loyalty to the nation, they use this to their advantage since the followers are most likely to believe whatever is being said to them. I choose the main theme of the genocide through the Holocaust,