People Are Cruel For Power During The Holocaust

The Holocaust was a bloodbath that was instigated by jealousy and lies. In 1921, 7 years after WWI the germans had just taken the tool in losing the war. They were the low class bottom feeders. While the Germans were fighting the Jews in Germans seized the opportunity to take control. The Jews worked themselves and eventually found themselves sitting comfortably at the top of the order in Germany. When the Germans came home they realized that they were now longer the superior. Adolf Hitler saw this and took advantage of the Germans vulnerability .He said a speech that resembles to that of one that was given 826 years before. He told the Nazi’s that they would once again be in power, and that they once again would be the ones who were respected.

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.

Throughout the duration of the Holocaust numerous tragedies transpired. Among these tragedies was dehumanization, the process by which Nazis gradually reduced the humanity of the Jewish population. In Night, a memoir by Elie Wiesel, Elie depicts the dehumanization he experienced and the devastating effect it had on his life while on the transports to Auschwitz, again in the concentration camps, then finally and perhaps worst of all, on his father’s death bed.

Another example of how power corrupts is seen through Josef Mengele a Nazi physician who became so influenced by power that he no longer had concern for how he affected other people. In the beginning, Mengele was simply an ordinary physician who "...had

In chapter seventeen, titled ... Cruelty and Kindness, ... Better to be... Loved [or] Feared, the author writes that being too kind or extremely cruel is bad. When people have no fear in their ruler, they will not be united under his rule and his position in power is weak. However, he must show kindness in the form of not harming one's people and their property. He must show that he is in control, but not as much as to instill

The Holocaust, a morbid atrocity that made people question humanity, was the cause of millions of deaths. One of those victims of this brutality was Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis along with her family. Although she was merely ordinary, Anne Frank kept a diary which became a significant, historical artifact in the modern world as it details her account of concealing her identity from the outside world. Her story, told in an innocent perspective, allows individuals to reflect the dreadful events of the Holocaust and acknowledge how far we have come since then. Even though she died along with millions of other victims from the Holocaust, her spirit still exists thanks to her articulately written words in her diary which is now considered one of the most famous works of literature. Anne Frank’s legacy still lives on today because her story provides a primary source of a dark period in history, insightful contemplation of humanity, and motivation for people to stand up against unjustified persecution.

The Holocaust was a time period in which Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Nazi Germany. He prosecuted many Jews because he believed they were the reason World War 1 started, causing the death of 100,000 German soldiers. Because of this, he made sure nearly every Jew was put into concentration camps or killed. Adolf Hitler was a man who wanted everything his way, and because of this he killed innocent people. The Holocaust was an unfair period for the Jews. The Jews were killed because of who they were, and the citizens didn’t try to do anything to help them

Abraham Lincoln once stated, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." The quote from the 16th president of the United States can be interpreted that power will display someone's true character by seeing what that person will do with that power that they have been given. People will follow orders blindly just to feel powerful or superior than others, they will do unthinkable things to people just to have the feeling of power. For example, Hitler wanted to have a superior race, so the Nazi soldiers were seen as the superior race; therefore, the soldiers felt superior

For the past 300 years, the world’s society has displayed lots of unbelievable human cruelty. For example, slavery in the 18th and 19th century, African Americans were forced into harsh work labor because of their skin color. Then in the 20th century, a determined dictator, Adolf Hitler, murdered and tortured eleven million lives. This horrifying event was called the Holocaust, it occurred in 1933 but ended in 1945. Adolf Hitler was angered about the result of World War 1, so he blamed Jewish people, the disabled, and other groups. During the holocaust, the eleven million lives were forced into harsh work labors or was put into gas chambers and was killed instantly. People described the Holocaust as inhumane act, and the people that survived it, could really say it was a scarring memory.

Political reasons can make humans cruel. Political juggernauts, such as Hitler changed the way a race thought about another ethnic group. The influence Hitler had on people was enormous during the world war 2 period. Elie Wiesel describes it best. In the novel “night” chapter 5, an inmate says “I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else”.

The Holocaust revealed the extreme evil in human nature on both a grand and small scale. Hitler, a strong supporter of antisemitism, had an agenda to create a dominant Aryan race and would stop at nothing to diminish the Jewish population. This meant forcing innocent Jewish people into death and labor camps, where conditions were brutal and treatment was atrociously inhumane. Overtime, this grand scale oppression sparked anger and violence within the victims. Instead of supporting one another in times of trouble, they began to commit senseless acts of violence towards one another in response to the cruelty they faced. Survival became their highest value, at any cost. Elie Wiesel witnesses this first hand on many accounts and spends his life striving to educate the world about the horrors of the Holocaust. In his Holocaust memoir, Night, he uses the motifs: night, silence, and flames, to develop the idea that evil is part of human nature.

Hate and intolerance cause many bad things, but the Holocaust takes hate and intolerance to a different level, leading to the destruction of nearly sixty-six percent of the Jews in Europe and about five million other people. Hate and intolerance caused families to be torn apart from each other and it killed. Thoughtless actions driven by hate and intolerance have caused many conflicts that lead to the deaths of many people. And, recently, it has even affected the world around us. Hate and intolerance have changed people and the world around them, led millions of people to their death, made millions of innocent people fight against the hatred, and resulted in the spread of awareness and remembrance for those who were affected.

Cruel in the sense of the dominant figure repressing the weaker figure, and cruel in some of the potential actions that the weaker figure could make because of it. In Night and Maus, the Nazis and Kapos who ran the camps as well as the prisoners who acted in unforgiving ways because of these actions were both cruel. This is relevant to today because whenever a tragedy happens in society, the background of the person who caused it is often examined, and it is sometimes seen that the person had a rough past filled with hatred and abuse. Treatment of people in poor ways can result in bad decisions, seen in Night and

A good example would be the use of torture during the Malayan Emergency. During this particular war, both sides of the war were mostly from the same races, there were Chinese, Malay and Indians in both the Communists and the Anti-Communists. Both sides used torture to extract information or control civilians to their advantage to win the war. Even when Malaysia had gained their independence from the British, the war continued to go on for several more decades until the Communists surrendered. This war was a perfect example of cruelty through differences in ideology and gaining benefits from using cruelty in war. Humans are cruel for many reasons and we will always find an excuse to be cruel. We don’t just use cruelty to gain benefits, we enjoy using it. We watch movies where a lot of people die, we hear news of people suffering from starvation and we ignored it, we hear about extremists murdering people in other countries and we just assume it is somebody else’s problem. Don’t these things mean we support cruelty? Let’s say, I like to poke my friend with a pencil because I like to see him get annoyed. Would you say I like to seeing my friend suffer from being poke with a pen, cruelty? Everyone has the potential to be cruel. It always goes back to how you define what

The Holocaust is one of (If not the worst) the worst times in our world’s history. Regrettably, The Holocaust can relate to many problems in our society today. Multifarious conflicts today are started by the same thing: Race.