The Holocaust : An Abstract

     Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried to eliminate all the people that he thought were inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, because he wanted a pure Aryan State.

When many think of the Holocaust as a solely negative experience, and while it may seem easy to write the event off as a dark time in history that seems remote and unlikely to affect us today, there are some positive results, including the lessons that it brings for current and future humanity. The lessons that the Holocaust brings are applicable to every person in the world. While many of these lessons do focus on the negative aspects of the Holocaust, like what circumstances permit such a vast genocide and how many people can die because of widespread racial hatred, there are also those that focus on how some people, in all parts of Europe and throughout the world, retained their good human nature during the Holocaust. For example, what made some gentiles in Europe during that time willing and able to help Jews. Currently, Yad Vashem has recognized 26,513 rescuers throughout the world (Names), and the actual number of rescuers could likely be close to twice that amount (Baron,1). It is important that we analyze the reasons behind these rescuers’ choices to be upstanders instead of bystanders because we can learn about our own motivations when we face decisions between helping others and protecting ourselves, and possibly those we love, from harm. Fulfilling one’s self-interest was a potential motivation for helping Jews that will only be briefly addressed. This type of rescue potentially benefitted both the Jews and the Gentile rescuers; these Gentiles only helped Jews survive because they found personal gain, likely social or economic, in the action (Baron). However, in the situation that existed while rescuing the Jews, most efforts included the high possibility that both the rescuer and the rescued would end up worse off than they had begun with no potential for personal gain on either side. So those rescuers’ motivations are less easily explainable.

The Holocaust was the Nazi attempt to wipe out the Jewish race (Rossel 12). The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 (Rossel 12). The Holocaust took place in Europe, mainly Germany (“Introduction” par 3). Mainly Jewish and Nazi people were involved in the Holocaust, as well as some Gypsies (“Introduction” par 2, 3). The Holocaust was the persecution of 6 million Jews and millions of others forced to live in ghettos, deported to camps, and systematically annihilated until the Allied forces liberated the remaining survivors.

The Holocaust, one of humanities most horrendous acts and a large topic in the history of World War II. Led by the German National Socialists, the Holocaust was an attack on innocent people for reasons of race, sexuality, nationality, and religion with their main target being the millions of European Jews who they saw as an ‘inferior race’. Hitler and his higher up stripped Jews of everything. He took their money, their homes, their jobs, their nationality, their dignity, and eventually he took their lives. In Peter Longerich’s Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews, Longerich takes an in depth look at Nazi politics and how it eventually led to their Final Solution of the Jewish Question. His research that began in the late 1990s, when he questioned both schools of Holocaust studies, the Intentionalists and the Structuralists. His studies in Europe led to a novel that that outlines the entire history of the Holocaust, the ideas of Judenfrage, and the implementation of Judenpolitik on the Jews of Europe from 1933 to 1945.

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Jews were socially deprived of any privileges and liberties right after Hitler came to power in 1933. As it has been mentioned above in this paper that it was a very planned and systematic action aimed to exterminate the Jews from the Europe first and then from the entire world, it had lots of background attempts and steps to sideline the Jews from the mainstream of European population. First of all, the Jews were deprived of their rights to live a life equal to other groups living in Europe. These steps like not employing Jews in good jobs and other kinds of discrimination were made legal by changes in the legislation. It made the Jews angry and against the system. This anger and rebellion were triggered and multiplied by the mass

Next things next, obviously if there is a cause to an issue or situation, then inevitably there is an effect. Since there are multiple causes, multiple effects can occur as well. For each of the causes given, there is not one specific effect designated for those causes. Each of the causes have multiple effects. Therefore, a list of the possible effects is necessary in order to understand what can occur when those causes are present in reality. One possible effect is that certain groups of people may be ostracized. If an individual does not stand up for his or herself about what he or she believes and follows what the commander orders, then a catastrophe such as the Holocaust could occur. In the Holocaust, millions of Jews were scrutinized by Hitler and Germany and later massacred anonymously with people discovering this years after it had been taking place. People were hurt because of people not recognizing the difference between right and wrong. Saul McLeod, a Psychology Tutor at the University of Manchester, discusses of an individual who did not recognize the wrong in a command given to him. That individual was Adolf Eichmann who was told by a higher authority that his duty in the Holocaust was “planning of the efficient collection, transportation and extermination of those to be killed” (McLeod). Eichmann stated, according to McLeod, that “he had merely obeyed orders, and surely obeying orders could only be a good thing” (McLeod). Eichmann, obviously did not recognize the magnitude of the effect when he thought obeying orders was necessary. He probably wanted to make his leader happy so he followed the command. I guarantee that deep down inside, Eichmann thought that what he was doing was unethical but the satisfaction he received from pleasing his leader just outweighed his conscious. Because Eichmann followed orders, millions were murdered and later Eichmann himself was executed for his role in the Holocaust. Erich Fromm, who once was a psychoanalyst and philosopher, wrote an article entitled “Disobedience as a psychological and moral problem”. In this article he makes a point relative to that of Eichmann and the Holocaust. Fromm argues that “if mankind commits suicide it will be because people will obey

Anti-semitism is the prejudice against jews. Anti- semitism is also associated with race discrimination, race prejudice, race snobbery, hostility towards Jews, and racism. When Hitler came to power in Germany, he made anti-semitism an official government policy. Anti-semitism still exists in many countries today (Levanon).

The Holocaust was a horrific genocide that occured before and throughout World War II. This massacre was led by Adolf Hitler, a German politician who soon became the leader of the Nazi party. This genocide included specifically torturing innocent Jews and whoever got in the Nazis’ way. Unfortunately, this caused about eighteen million deaths overall.

Over the last two and a half millennia, the Jewish people have faced hardship and intolerance from various groups living beside them. A number of historians however believe that of all the atrocities committed against the Jewish people, none parallel the Holocaust. While these historians believe that the Holocaust was a unique occurrence, history rejects this notion of Nazi anti-semitism being an special incident.

There has been news that the Nazi party is falling. We have been hiding David for three years now. This is some of the best news we have had in a long time. When we had heard of what the Jewish Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, our hearts filled with joy knowing that something is finally being done in these prisons and prisoners are escaping. We had told David of what was happening when we fed him dinner, and was the happiest he had been in forever.

Dehumanization is the psychological process of destroying the enemy, making them seem less than human. The Nazis conducted dehumanization to the Jews, while they were imprisoned in the concentration camps. Certain things the Nazis would do is not feed them. “We had spend the day without food” (17). They would also make them cut their hair so that they would all look the same, losing someone's hair is like losing a part of their identity. “Their clippers tore out our hair, shaved every hair on our bodies” (35). Also, the Jews were instructed to stand for hours on end for roll call, where they lined up and they were counted before they went anywhere, and they were not allowed to sit down. “We stood up. We were counted. We sat down.

By the film using pictures and videos from the sequence of events from the Nazi rise to power and the post-war recovery, it showed the reality of the Holocaust to the viewers. It reviewed the dates and _____ that furthered my understanding of how the Holocaust wasn’t _____ and was rather a build over time. Although the movie captured the horror that was the Holocaust it focused mainly on the Jewish suffering rather that incapsulating the deaths of other minorities as a whole. Along with the facts from the presentation before it gave the film a greater depth. This documentary paired with the historian beforehand put the mass genocide into perspective and allowed me to appreciate the following Holocaust testimonies.

Anti-Semitism is the hostility and discriminations against Jews of any culture or nationality and is widely considered to be a form of racism. The term Anti-Semitism was created in 1879 by a German protestor, Wilhelm Marr (Britannica, 2016). The purpose of Anti-Semitism at that time was because to entitle the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in Central Europe (Britannica, 2016). Although, the Anti-Semitism has wide popularity during that era, it is completely inaccurate and threatened many lives of innocent Jews. Therefore, the Anti-Semitic was around Germany even before Hitler came the leader of the ‘National Socialist Party’ and further enhanced this discriminant idea. Mot to mention that Hitler grew up in Austria, a place where Jews were

In the past century or so, there have been many major events that have affected history and our everyday lives. One of these major events is the Holocaust, a tragedy which happened in a time span of over 10 years from 1933 to 1945 in Europe. Also known as the Shoah, it was a genocide caused by the leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, in order to wipe out anyone who did not fit his criteria for his ‘perfect race’. There is a large majority of people who are very anti-semitic and are in denial of these events occurring. People who have poor listening habits are among the skeptics who say there was no Holocaust