The Holocaust: A Negative And Positive Effects Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust has left both a negative and positive effect on the world. This essay will examine the organizations, laws, extermination of minority groups, and the cold war to analyze how the Holocaust impacted and changed the course of history.

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma, the disabled, and

The UN and the many other organizations that began after the Holocaust is a great example of the positives affects that came out of the Holocaust. The United Nations is an international body of 193 countries working to maintain global peace and security, address humanitarian concerns, promote cultural heritage, and administer systems of international law, transportation, commerce and justice. The United Nations began in 1945 as a loosely co-ordinated international system of discussion-based bodies, functional agencies and temporary and permanent commissions with headquarters in New York, Geneva and elsewhere. It replaced the League of Nations, but has a bigger, nearly universal, membership. The term United Nation was first used on the 1st of January in1942 when 26 nations pledged to continue fighting the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan. As the Second World War drew to a close, a UN charter was drawn up by 50 countries, including Canada, in San Francisco. After the Holocaust ended the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, administered hundreds of refugee centers and displaced persons camps such as the Bergen-Belsen in Germany. As there were few possibilities for emigration, tens of thousands of homeless Holocaust survivors migrated westward to other European territories liberated by the western Allies. There they were housed in the hundreds

I believe it’s a positive effect because laws are there to protect our general safety, and ensure our rights as citizens against abuses by other people. Just like today I believe that the laws and acts that were instituted after the Holocaust were for the better of the people. One of the many laws I found was that in December 1945, President Harry Truman issued a law that loosened quota restrictions on immigration to the US of persons displaced by the Nazi regime. Under this law, more than 41,000 displaced persons immigrated to the United States. Another example was with Raphael Lemkin; he was a critical force for bringing “genocide” before the United Nations, where delegates from around the world debated the terms of an international law on genocide. On December 9, 1948, the final text was adopted unanimously. The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide entered into force on January 12, 1951, after more than 20 countries from around the world ratified it. The last example I have was in 1948, when the US Congress passed the Displaced Persons Act. The act provided approximately 400,000 US immigration visas for displaced persons between January 1, 1949, and December 31, 1952. Of the 400,000 displaced persons who entered the US under the DP Act, approximately 68,000 were