Why didn't the non Jewish people fight for their friends, family, and acquaintances? If the non Jews would have collaborated then they would have had capitulate from the Nazis. Were they scared, or were they afraid that they could not do anything? Well, if enough of the non Jews had fought back they could have helped the Jews out of the Concentration camps and all of the torture that they were being put through. One reason that the non Jews should have fought back was if they were in the Jews predicament then they would want help too. The non Jews could have been triumphant. The non Jews should have had an aspiration for saving their friends. Hitler was putting them through the worst possible treatment. I know that I would want help. I would help it is the right thing to do and that the Jews have a right to believe what they want. Everybody has the right to believe what they want. The non Jews who did not want to fight back almost all of them were too scared to do anything. They were afraid that they would lose their freedom. They also did not want to be sent into the concentration camp too. They did not want to be tortured either so none of the non Jews stood up ; all of the reasons were too scary to them that they did not want to risk it. They were too terrified to do what was right there was too much risk. Many non Jews went into hiding; however, everybody else did to. Hitler had thought that the Jews did not believe in the “right” thing so he tried to eliminate the race. He did not want them to believe in what they did and still do. He thought that the Jewish race was inferior and did not mean anything. The way that Hitler treated the Jews were crimes against humanity and I know that many non Jews saw that but did... ... middle of paper ... ...erson that shows that there might actually be something going on. That this man is intelligent about this horrific case. If you were a non Jew and you tried to fight back you would end up dead, or severely injured by the punishment that the Nazis inflicted on you. Sadly, this rebellion of non Jews never happened to free the Jewish people suffering in the Concentration camps. Those are many of the reasons that the non Jews should have fought back against the German Nazis for the Jewish. The non Jews probably could have save almost all of the lives if they had just stood up and at least tried to help all of the Jews in the concentration camps. The Nazis had hurt innocent people and became feared, hated, and ruthless. Jews could have Forsooth been freed from the brusque concentration camps.There could have been many lives saved. The Nazis could have been seized.
Beginning in 1933, Hitler and his Nazi party targeted not only those of the Jewish religion but many other sets. Hitler was motivated by religion and nationalism to eradicate any threats to his state. It was Hitler’s ideology that his Aryan race was superior to any other. Hitler’s goal was to create a “master race” by eliminating the chance for “inferiors” to reproduce. Besides the Jews the other victims of the genocide include the Roma (Gypsies), African-Germans, the mentally disabled, handicapped, Poles, Slavs, Anti-Nazi political parties, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Homosexuals. In Hitler’s eyes all of these groups needed to be eliminated in order for his master race to be a success.
In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, it talks about the holocaust and what it was like being in it. The Germans were trying to make the German race the supreme race. To do this they were going to kill off everyone that wasn’t a German. If you were Jewish or something other than German, you would have been sent to a concentration camp and segregated by men and women. If you weren’t strong enough you were sent to the crematory to be cremated. If you were strong enough you were sent to work at a labor camp. With all the warnings the Jewish people had numerous chances to run from the Germans, but most ignored the warnings.
Some will say that the Jewish people cannot be held responsible for the crimes committed, because they are the victims. This is not the case, however; the Jewish people could have prevented a great deal of pain and suffering that they experienced. Elie wrote “And thus my elders concerned themselves with all manners of things - strategy, diplomacy,politics, and Zionism - but not with their own fate” (8). The Jewish people had heard of what the Nazis had done to the foreign Jews of Sighet, their town; a Jew had returned and told them, but they refused to listen; they ignored his warnings. Furthermore, the Jewish people had many chances at this time to escape; most notably emigration to another country. The Jewish people ignored the warnings they had received, and their chance to escape; for this reason, they bear a certain degree of responsibility for what
Adolf Hitler wanted the Jewish race to be destroyed forever. But he didn’t just stop at beliefs. Even if you were a Christian, Catholic, Atheist, etc., you were still in danger. You were still in danger because if you looked Jewish to him then you were swooped up and taken hostage in a concentration camp.
Should you risk everything you have to help others? Everyone agrees that many Jews were killed during WWII, but some say that people should not have helped them, while others believed that they should have.
The Jewish people were targeted, hunted, tortured, and killed, just for being Jewish, Hitler came to office on January 20, 1933; he believed that the German race had superiority over the Jews in Germany. The Jewish peoples’ lives were destroyed; they were treated inhumanly for the next 12 years, “Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews” (Levy). Hitler blamed a lot of the problems on the Jewish people, being a great orator Hitler got the support from Germany, killing off millions of Jews and other people, the German people thought it was the right thing to do. “To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History.com Staff).
Hitler's main idea was to, as he called it, 'cleanse' Europe of these non-deserving people. Hitler despite having gained anti-Semitic views on his own from things. he saw he was influenced a lot by Neil Darwin. He based a lot of his racial arguments and views on this. However, another point to consider was that the Jews were being used as scapegoats for German problems.
Despite the horrific conditions, giving up was not an option. Even in the concentration camps, those grim dens of utmost terror, Jewish prisoners found the courage to oppose Nazi rule- their determined spirit provided hope and solace to all of Europe. And this electric idea of rebellion was widespread, especially after the Treblinka Rebellion of 1943. In general, resistance calls to mind an armed struggle against the enemy, hence the fame of the rebellion stories. However, for the Jews in a diaspora, this was ironically only possible when the Nazi persecution forced them into close quarters. But the entire definition of the word includes subtler incidents of resistance. For example, daring to preserve Jewish culture is certainly a brave opposition. And everyday, by living and breathing, the Jews defied “the Final Solution”. According to Barbara Coloroso, “The three characters in the tragedy of genocide are the bully, the bullied, and the bystander”.
“They believed that the Jews were not just the followers of an abhorrent religious doctrine, or that the Jews had grabbed too much economic influence, or even that they were too intrusive in politics or culture: what made the Nazis hatred of the Jews so different is that they believed that the Jews were biologically and racially distinct and that there was a kind of biological struggle for dominance over the entire human race between the Jews and everybody else.” The view that the Jews were trying to dominate over the Nazi’s developed the idea of Nazi superiority. Every life was not sacred to the Nazi party, so they agreed to murder innocent citizens. The lives of the Jews became a threat to Germany that must be eliminated, but the main cause of hatred was not the Jewish religion, it was based on the mindset that the Jews were in a race for power. The overall reason for the retention of the Jewish people came from Hitler’s mistrust.
It was in December 1948, when it was approved unanimous the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide at France which became the 260th resolution of the General Assembly of the United Nations. What made the leaders of the 41 States create and sign this document in which the term Genocide was legally defined? This document serves as a permanent reminder of the actions made by the Nazis and their leader Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust where more than five million of European Jews were killed. In summary I will explain what were the events that leaded the ordinary Germans kill more than six million Jews in less than five years. To achieve this goal, I will base my arguments on the Double Spiral Degeneration Model provided by Doctor Olson during the spring semester of the Comparative Genocide class.
Throughout time, the Jewish people had been discriminated, oppressed, mistreated, and even killed way before the Nazi era. From Christ-killers to being the devil, the Jews were never truly accepted anywhere. When Hitler came around, his hatred towards the Jews and other minorities went in crescendo. First using “legal” actions to repress and signal out the Jews in Germany, then measures got worse by the second. Right before Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Jews were banned from every aspect of German life, social, religious, economic, etc. Unfortunately, from 1939 through 1941, the German Wehrmacht having tremendous success, their new weapons and tactics such as the Blitzkrieg caught their enemies by surprise. As a result, more than six millions of Jews were now under the control of the Nazi
When Hitler came to power he could not just force people to agree with him to start treating Jews the way they did, people had to agree.Hitler did not make the Holocaust happen by himself. Many Germans and
...g of Judaism, there would have been more people helping the Jews during WWII. However, there were many other Christians who helped Jews escape from being executed.
In the first place, the Jews, who had done nothing wrong except have a different religion than most Germans, turned sometimes to violence in order to survive. Sometimes they wouldn’t get food for several days, then would be crammed into freezing train cars with very few clothes. In one instance, a German citizen threw a piece of bread into one of those train cars, and Wiesel recalls, “In the wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued. Men were hurling themselves against each other, trampling, tearing at and mauling at each other.” (Wiesel 101) If they had more food and were less desperate, there would much less violence. More Jews would have survived, as they sometimes ended up killing each other to get the measly bit of food. Moreover, in the infirmary, the Jews would beat up fellow inmates, such as Wiesel’s father when he had dysentery. When Wiesel was talking to his father, his father told him, ‘“My son, they are beating me!...the Frenchman…and the Pole…They beat me…”’ (Wiesel 109) The other inmates knew that Wiesel’s father was going to die soon, so they mauled him for his bread so they co...
After learning about the Holocaust, many choose to question how this horrible event in history could have happened. Why didn’t people fight back? Why didn’t anyone question the murderous methods of the ruthless leader, Hitler? After conducting multiple searches, I have found that many lacked the courage or believed they lacked the power to take a stand in the midst of the horror. Hitler and his group of power hungry minions gained power by taking lives and stealing the possessions of the innocent, robbing them of their previous time of happiness and sending them to confront death in concentration camps. Many feared for their own lives,