Ordinary Germans and Soldiers are also Guilty for the Holocaust

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Over six million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. It is the largest genocide in history. How was such an industrial scale of murder accomplished? People have grappled with this question since the fall of the Nazi regime. When analyzing the Holocaust, one must consider if it was executed by the Nazi regime as a whole, or if individuals actively and freely engaged in it. Anti-Semitism was a popular sentiment that had been growing in Europe since before the rise of the Nazi regime. But individual

German citizens responsible for success of Holocaust Beginning when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in late January of 1933 and concluding with the official end of World War II in May of 1945, the Holocaust was a period when Jews residing in the German Empire and German-occupied territories were persecuted and harshly murdered. The individuals of the Third Reich were not the first to have anti-Semitic prejudices; however, they were the first to take this type of racism and accomplish

is committing the same act. It was also likely that committing these actions were simply easier than standing up to Hitler and the other powerful Nazis. Power and money also have a massive grab on humans

The Holocaust was an atrocious event that took place in the early to mid 1900’s. Six million Jews were brutally and coldly murdered, as were millions of other innocent people, resulting in the largest recorded genocide to date. With the Holocaust being many events leading up to the mass murder of innocent people, there is no official beginning date of the Holocaust. In order to understand this and the Holocaust as a whole, one must understand the causes and events that lead up to this mass genocide

Goldhagen’s argument is that the usual historical explanations of the Holocaust do not add up. The Holocaust was not perpetrated by a small band of Nazis but by “ordinary Germans” in the hundreds of thousands. The abrupt transformation of Germans from bakers, bankers and

Ordinary, innocent individuals tortured for simply being Jewish. Sage Singer’s grandma has blue numbers tattooed on her arm because she is a Jew. Because Sage is Jewish, she feels segregated from the rest of the world. Sage works night shifts creating freshly baked goods for customers to indulge in at Our Daily Bread. Ms. Signer feels at home behind a counter kneading bread dough nightly. She prefers night shifts, so she doesn’t have to socialize with customers. One night Josef Weber starts showing

A lot of people argued that Milgram’s experiment was unethical, but made sense logically. His ”experiment was carried out in the shadow of the Holocaust. The trial of Adolf Eichmann had the world wondering how the Nazis were able to persuade so many ordinary Germans to participate in the murder of innocent people” (Cohen A24). During world war two (WW II), Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazis’ came to power through his dictatorship which ultimately led

It has also been viewed as an alternative that allows scholars to get around the historical discipline altogether. For Michael Frisch, who has reflected on the craft and implication of oral history for two decades, these two visions of more history or no history

their actions played a substantial role in obedience. When in close proximity with the victim less people obeyed authorities commands. Milgram concludes that distance from the victim reduces strain to the aggressor (Milgram 96). This suggests why the Germans used gas chambers to kill; to distance victims from the Nazis, thus minimizing the emotional stress on the aggressors. In both Milgram’s experiments and Nazi executions, distance between victims and the aggressors, allowed the aggressors to feel less