The Holocaust, And After The Horrors Of The Holocaust

According to Daniel Goldhagen, genocides are constantly being underestimated, which causes the never ending realities of the past repeating itself. From high officials to ordinary citizens, people often overlook the pattern and causes of these systematic killings. One of these includes the UN, which was created to prevent another World War, and to protect the rights of sovereignty of member states. This organization serves to solve international issues, but has failed and continues to fail to prevent genocides. Even though this group signed in 1948 a UN document, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, which punished and still punishes people guilty of genocide, not one life was ever saved from that declaration. The reason is because most at first want to deny that these extreme situations could happen ever again. Sadly,

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think” (Hitler, Mein Kampf). As time passed, there has been many times in history where a genocide has occurred. A genocide is a one-sided massacre from one party toward an ethnic or different group of people. As genocides occurred, questions such as “Why do people kill?” and “How can people allow these atrocities to occur?” are asked. There have been many theories made up as people researched the reason behind genocides. Throughout different centuries in history, genocides such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Asian genocide, have occurred because of the negative psychological effects on the people caused by propaganda, corrupted leaders, and differences in ethnic groups.

Genocide is an important human rights issue. When a person or persons take it into their hands to violate someone’s given rights, it should be considered an act punishable. For people to understand the severity of their actions, their actions must have serious consequences. These consequences must be so extreme to the relevance to the act punishable that those who are planning on partaking in a similar act are made well aware of the possible punishments. If people are better educated on the subject of genocide, the reports of genocidal cases might decrease, making genocide a less extreme problem not only in the United States, but the entire world.

The Holocaust was one of the most horrible and dreaded events in history. Millions of Jews were killed, leaving many families devastated and hopeless. With the goal of racial purity, Adolf Hitler- along with many other Germans believed the Jews caused the defeat of their country, and led the Nazis to the elimination of Jews. For this reason, “Even in the early 21st century, the legacy of the Holocaust endures…as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day” (The Holocaust). Later, Hitler organized concentration camps, where mass transports of Jews from ghettoes were brought and typically killed also. However, the fortunate Jews that were not killed still had many restrictions on their

Nicholas D. Kristof once stated, “You will be judged in years to come by how you responded to genocide on your watch.” Seeing what people have done in history, it's simply easy to say that Kristof is right. He also hits a little close to home because genocide is like dirty dishes. Everyone knows about it, but just try to ignore them, until someone else does something about it. Let it stink up the kitchen, let it get moldy.

The Holocaust was one of the world’s darkest hours, a mass murder conducted in the shadows of the world’s most deadly war. The Holocaust also known as Shoah, means a systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews during the WWII by German Nazi. Adolf Hitler the leader of Nazis, who afraid Jews would take power over Germans; also, many Germans felt they were mistreated by the lost so Jews were like a scapegoat from the previous war lose so they can treat them inhumanely (“The Holocaust”). Millions of Jews were sent to the concentration camps around Europe. In there, they were tortured and killed. Many horrible things happened

Ever since the holocaust in World War 2 there has been more than a dozen genocides, not only in Germany where it started, but from all over the world. Most of these genocides had started off from one race thinking they are better or superior to another. Races that thinks they are better start blaming the other race for economic problems they face like, political, social & many other things. They think the only way to fix this problem is to get rid of the race that they believe is cause of their problems thus causing the being of a genocide. There’s been genocides that people don’t even know that have happened & that the holocaust was the only genocide known. I’m going to name & example some of the different genocide that have happened since

the non-Jewish and Jewish survivors were left with the impossible task of assimilating back into society. The odds were against them. Some of these odds set against them were restricted freedom and continuing of new forms of brutality. This was very difficult because antisemitism was still alive in the minds of the most radical people in not only Europe, but the whole world. Jews were afraid to go back to their homes and regain their property

The Holocaust was a genocide which lasted from 1942 to 1945 in which around 6 million European Jewish people were killed. It was the result of the Ideals of the past chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Hitler came to power in 1933 by capitalising on worldwide events such as the great depression in 1929 resulting from the Wall Street crash. He began spreading his ideas of anti-Semitism to the German population in preparation for the ‘Final Solution' with the assistance of distribution methods like propaganda, violence, and an economic boycott. Most of the impacts resulting from his methods proved to be extremely valuable to the success of the preparation as they efficiently and effectively carved a hateful image of the Jewish population into the minds of the German people and aligned them with Hitler's ideas of anti-Semitism. However, some of his methods were not valuable to prepare the German people as they were not able to depict a strong enough bias against the Jews.

Some of the most notorious death camps were located in Poland. Some of these include Auschwitz (1 million Jews killed), Treblinka (700,000-800,000 Jews gassed), Belzec (600,000 Jews gassed), and Sobibor (250,000 Jews gassed). These camps were the major centers for the slaughter of Jews and other groups (The Holocaust: An Historical Summary. Article on the Internet).

1945. The end of the Holocaust. Total death: 6 million Jews. As tragic as it was, there was only one person behind it all; Adolf Hitler. Hitler, the dictator during the time, managed to transform peaceful and normal people into extreme haters towards the Jews. 158 years earlier, a man had introduced ideas that could have prevented these 6 million Jews from dying. That man was James Madison, also known as the Father of the US Constitution. In Philadelphia’s summer heat of 1787, James Madison along with 55 other delegates attended to what is now known as the Constitutional Convention. The meeting was held to discuss their loose federal government, or known as The Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation was a failure as it was too weak to unite a whole nation. The delegates thought that they must frame, or build a new government soon to be called the Constitution. The delegates were cautious about avoiding tyranny, or when harsh and absolute power gets in the hands of one or a group of individuals. The Constitution guarded the nation against tyranny through federalism, separation of powers, checks and balances, and small/large state compromises.

This website refers to the thousands of people killed during the Holocaust. During 1933 when the Nazis came to power they believed that Germens were “racially superior” and the Jews seemed “inferior.” This made the Jews seem to be a threat to the German radical community. During this time Germans targeted not only Jews but people because of their perceived “racial inferiority” and just anyone who had something wrong with them (gypsies, the disabled, some Slavic people, Poles, Russians, and others.) Also other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, (Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals.) By 1945 the Germans killed nearly 2/3 of every European Jew as part of the “Final Solution,” which

Many times we may hear but not respond, we see and don’t move and having the ability to take action we don’t even move a finger until the situation is out of control. It’s amazing how ignorant and stubborn the human race can be. This is exactly the response of many nations when it comes to genocide. Genocide is the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group. Two of the most recent genocides in history are the genocide of Rwanda and the genocide of Cambodia.

Genocide, one of the most horrendous and unexplainable events, has been a disgraceful phenomenon in the human society. The Holocost, Aremania, Rwanda, and Darfur are just a few examples of the cruelty between humans. They say that through our history and past we learn our mistakes to prevent it, but what very little people know is that genocide is a reoccurring event that has not been stopped. The documentary “Genocide: Worse than War” mentions genocides in history dating back to the Armenian genocide while also questioning the participants of the Rwanda genocide.

We as a nation should prevent genocide by being open minded to when these events occur. We shouldn't have been passive when this was happening we have to act accordingly, when the mass killings were happening. Even though we did help in the end we should have been there in the beginning, so that we can prevent less deaths and destruction. A way we could have prevented less damage and deaths was to start with the Treaty of Versailles.