10a. One thing that motivates people to hate is anger. Hitler’s followers bought into the idea that all Jews are evil because they wanted someone to blame for their financial problems. At the Museum of Tolerance, I learned that before Hitler rose to power Germany was in a recession. Many people lost money, jobs and even their homes. This made the people of Germany very mad. From this anger, Nazi followers arose, and their irrational ideas began to infect the minds of the German citizens. Soon Hitler and his crazy ideas were elected Prime Minister. This anger made many people in Germany lose sight of their beliefs and made them think irrationally. Throughout the Holocaust anger and hate was a driving force for the Nazi party.
One thing that motivates people to develop tolerance is learning about events like the Holocaust. If you learn about events like the Holocaust, you will want to become tolerant because you will never want something like that to
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The most important lesson I learned from the sites we visited from our Tolerance Trip was that you need to stand up for what you believe in. Not many people had the courage to do this during the Holocaust, but if they did, they could have ended Hitler’s rein. The Tolerance Trip strengthened my moral compass, and I have become more aware of what is right and wrong. One exhibit that helped me with this was the exhibit where you decide who is to blame for a drunk driving car crash. In the exhibit, you were given all of the facts about the car accident. After we review all the facts about the crash, we rated the five people from 1-5, one being no blame and five being the most blame. Once we finished the exhibit, I came to the conclusion that all of the people were to blame. I related this activity to the Holocaust. Many people thought that the Nazis were the only ones to blame for the Holocaust, but you can also blame the bystanders during the Holocaust because they didn’t do enough to stop Hitler and protect the
We were all born to survive, not to oppress. But evil is born from the yearning to understand. This yearning to constantly understand has lead humans to always questions, sometimes never finding the answer. This lack of knowledge is quelled by the human belief in God. Believer or not, humanity has always had the need to be checked by a higher power. When a person feels that the higher power has failed them, a brute is born. When a human is left unchecked by a god or a psyche, complete madness can overtake them. Thus the creation of hatred. Hitler felt like the world had failed him and the Nazi people; he felt cheated. The world had turned its back on Hitler, and he would never forgive it again. To release all of his anger, Hitler needed a scapegoat: the Jews. How could the Jews become rich and prosper while Hitler and his fellow Germans starved? These questions probably raced through his head, and his hatred burned stronger and stronger, creating a brute of a man who would infect a desperate people with his radical
World War II was a devastating war where millions of soldiers and civilians died. Adolf Hitler played a huge part in World War II and was one of the major reasons the war happened. Hitler started to take over countries like Austria with little or no resistance. When he later tried to invade Poland, Britain declared war. Even though there was very little fighting at the time Britain declared war. Hitler’s ideas and goals for Germany were what initially caused World War II and later led to the holocaust. His need for more space for Germany led him to start taking over countries and initially started the war with Britain and he wanted a superior Aryan race which is the reason for the Holocaust. Hitler stated the three reasons for starting this war in his Journal Mein Kampf. His goals were to get rid of the Treaty of Versailles, make a Greater Germany, and he wanted more living space for his people.
insane to torture the human race that way. Others praise him for attempting to exterminate
At the end of WWI in 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins. There were very few jobs, and bitterness began to take over the country. According to the text, “Hitler, a rising politician, offered Germany a scapegoat: Jewish people. Hitler said that Jewish people were to blame for Germany’s problems. He believed that Jews did not deserve to live.” (7) This was the birth of Antisemitism--prejudice against Jewish people. Europe’s Jewish people have always been persecuted due to their “different customs and beliefs that many viewed with suspicion.”(7) Hitler simply reignited the flames, and a violent hatred was born.
Although both documents express similar ideologies, the documents were written due to different conditions. Hitler’s ideas expressed in “Mein Kampf” evolved from his hatred of Jews and enmity of the German parliament; on the other hand, “Kokutai No Hongi” ideas resulted from the oligarchy’s need to maintain their status and Japanese assimilation of European and American cultures. Hitler provided inspiration and hope to most Germans that were dissatisfied with the government and the aftermath of World War I. The “Cardinal Principles of the National Entity of Japan” pandered to their Samurai heritage and their discontent with West as a result of the Great Depression. The ideas in both documents would persuade any westerner, specifically American and British, to the same extend as it did with Germans and Japanese, to tirelessly support war.
It may sound pathetic, but hate nourishes hate. Hitler hated Jews and as a charismatic negative leader taught the whole nation to hate them. Jews saw how Nazis attack children, women and elderly, torture them, rape, and kill, and their anger fueled turning into burning hate. Jewish people started to extrapolate the emotions they experience towards Nazis to all Germans. “I began to hate them,” states Elie
To begin, the young of today must learn from these responses to interpret how awful discrimination can develop. For example, action and inaction during the Holocaust makes it vital for today’s generation to ask ourselves about the lessons that were learned from consequence. In addition, the Jewish resistance groups such as the Armee Juive took action against the Nazis during the 1940s, however that was not enough to create major positive impacts because there happened to be more Nazis with greater weaponry and technology. Grasping action significantly is preferable than taking no action because the people who did not take action mainly accepted the fate given by the Nazis, meaning death and razed or being sent to a concentration camp. A primary reason the Armee Juive fought the Germans is due to the fact that all Jews were affected by the
To assess the popularity of the Nazis one must first establish the meaning of popularity and in what ways it can be assessed. Popularity in this instance is support and conformity to the Nazi regime. This essay will span from Hitler and the party’s early days in the Burgerbraukeller in Munich up to the death of the regime in 1945. The evidence used will span from Hitler’s own words in ‘Mein Kampf’ to the masses of propaganda left behind upon the regimes collapse. The biggest historiographical debate in my opinion on this subject is ‘resistenz’ argued by Martin Broszat and ‘Loyal reluctance’ argued mainly by Robert Gellately and Ian Kershaw. During this essay both sides will be evaluated with the idea of popularity at the forefront and how each argument adds or detracts from my argument that the Nazis were mainly a popular regime.
I think one reason somebody chooses to hate is reed. When Hitler killed the Jews it was because of greed. Greed can drive people insane. One example of greed in the holocaust is telling the Jews to pack some clothes and bring it but then they just take them away. Another example is when Hitler almost cleared out the whole race of Jews and kills them because of greed.
Although I already knew of man’s inhumanity to man, the tour of the Museum of Tolerance opened my eyes in a new sense. All the questions I had come up with were answered, and I learned of many other incidents were the human race made mistakes. I learned that the Jews were the only group singled out for total organized annihilation by the Nazis. Every single Jew was to be killed according to the Nazis' plan. Nazi soldiers raided the Jews homes and and took them to camps where they were forced to work or be gassed. The whole family was taken, but only those capable of working long and hard were spared. The explanation of the Nazis' hatred of the Jew rests on their distorted world view that all of history was a racial struggle. They considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and who were a threat to Aryan dominance. They believed that all of history was a fight between races which should end in the triumph of the superior Aryan race. In their eyes, the Jews' racial origin made them criminals
The primary source “German Economic Goals and the Jewish question (August 1936)” by Adolf Hitler describes antisemitism was central to Hitler’s political vision and strategy. The Reichstag passed laws such as making the Jewish people liable for all damage inflicted by individual specimens of this community of criminals upon the German economy, and thus upon the German people. Hitler figured if he destroyed the Jewish people that the world he envisioned would be born. Therefore, he staged the holocaust to eliminate the Jews from German culture. The factors that contributed towards the Nazi hatred of the Jews includes the ideas of ‘Positive Christianity’ supported by Nazi Movement. Additionally, racial and political factors were significant in their relations to anti-Semitism during World War I, which singled out the Jews as a threat to the established order of society in German. These factors made the Jews a target for persecution and ultimate destruction by the Nazis.
When Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, he had a belief that race was the sole matter that defined the culture of a civilization. He influenced the country of Germany to change the ideological values that they previously abided by. This change marked the beginning of a new era, which led to the most pure ideological genocide that can be remembered to this day since there was no pragmatic motivation throughout the time period the Holocaust took place. It is a dark mark in the history of western civilization, and many countries could have helped aid the Jews in their effort to resist, but none more than the United States of America. Though not the primary reason for the longevity of the Holocaust, the U.S. does bear some culpability for the persecution and eventual mass killings of the six million Jews in Europe because of a growth of anti-Semitism that interfered with the ability to offer aid at a time when they were capable to, thus becoming labeled as an international bystander.
The students who have educated themselves about the Holocaust understand that the Nazis were terrible and desecrated basic human rights and liberties. This allows there to be outcomes of becoming a better citizen with the interpretation that they serve humanity for the better. When learning about tragic topics like the Holocaust, they can make preconceptions between history and
The dominant political figure of German history in the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler, was born in a lower middle class family in the provincial Austrian town of Braunau am Inn on 20 April 1889. In 1907 Hitler applied to enter the Vienna Academy of Art but his application was rejected. After the death of his mother Klara, Hitler decided to move to Vienna. He drifted from job to job, often selling sketches or painting scenes of Old Vienna and it was a period that he himself later called the most miserable period of his life. Many of Hitler’s views of the world were shaped by his experiences on the streets of Vienna and it is probable that his violent anti-Semitism dates from this time.
On April 20, 1889, a demon was brought into this world. His name was Adolf Hitler. He was born in the family quarters of the Pommer Inn in Braunau, a small city on the Austrian border. The child was unhealthy and his mother, Klara, worried that young Adolf would not survive. Klara provided much love and attention to her baby, which Adolf would later take advantage of to get what he wanted (Smith 50). Despite his self-centeredness, Adolf held a deep bond with his mother which united them throughout his childhood. On the other hand, Alois, Adolf’s father, failed to play an important role in Adolf’s development. Alois spent the majority of his time away from the customs station with his friends