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Stangl Holocaust Analysis

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The Nazis wartime perception of the Holocaust was due to a gradual build up during the preceding years. As World War Two drew closer the Nazis treatment of the Jews became increasingly harsh. The Nazis believed in a racial hierarchy and that what they considered to be ethnic Germans were pure and at the top; Jews were at the bottom and subhuman. They did not begin with the notion of killing all the Jews, but rather gradually reached that point after time and circumstance. During wartime however their view evolved to killing all the Jews as the ‘final solution to the Jewish question’. They Created ghettos concentration camps, labor camps, and death camps to separate, exploit and murder Jews. The death camps were the Nazis main mode of operation in the carrying out of mass murders. The Nazis were very paranoid of the Jews and in their eyes they were doing the right thing and believed in the irradiation of the Jews; and they saw the death camps as the most efficient way to do so. Franz Stangl began his life as an average person he worked hard and did the right thing. He started as a weaver and was very …show more content…

He knew what was happening was wrong and each time he had an opportunity to say no or to turn away he did not for what he says was out of protection of his own life and his families lives. He further rationalizes and denies personal wrongdoing by saying, It was always a matter of survival - always survival. I had to do what I had to do, while I continued my efforts to get out, was to limit my own activities to what I – in my own conscience – could answer for… At police training school they taught us that the definition of a crime must meet four requirements; There has to be a “subject”, and “object”, an “action” and “intent”. If any of these four element were missing, then we are not dealing with a punishable

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