Most can agree that one of the biggest catastrophes in the world. Though no one bothers to ask who was responsible. The most common response is that Hitler was the perpetrator, which is true to a degree but the responsibility isn't his and only his. There were many chances for people to help Jewish people in their time of need but nothing was done. It’s easy to say that measures should have been taken to protects the Jews though when it came to act on them many were bystanders. Many of these bystanders unfortunately included Americans, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jewish people themselves and lastly the Germans.
The first person/group that I feel are somewhat responsible fro the holocaust are the Americans. The reason that I feel that American deserve at least 12.5% of the blame since at the time they tried to prevent every attempt when
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Jewish people tried to immigrate. An immigration quota was set at 27,370 in 1939 for any German citizen to immigrate to the United States. So when in 1938 over 300,000 Germans applied for a visa, most of whom were Jewish, only about 20,000 visas applications were processed. Many of the applications were denied right away when it was suspected that the applicant should have some money or valuables since there was a fear that they would become a burden otherwise. Though, not intended, this affected many Jews who lost evrything the had when the Nazi’s gained power. The second person/group that I feel are somewhat responsible for the holocaust was President Franklin D.
Roosevelt. I feel that he deserves the same 12.5% of the blame since there was an instance where his Secretary of Labor proposed an executive order help get applicants who were fleeing religious or racial persecution. This did not go through since the State Department said that if that order passed it would be like the U.S was putting Germany in a negative limelight and would cause bad relations between the two . President Roosevelt had his Secretary of Labor's proposal though he never issued that proposal so many visa applications from Jewish refugees were rejected. Then there was the Voyage of St. Louis were over 900 passengers sailed to Cuba to wait out so they could enter the U.S but they were unable to wait in Cuba and when there was a telegraph sent to President Roosevelt. He never responded since more than two-thirds of Americans opposed more refugees entering the country, though he could have at least given them some response. The first person/group that I feel are somewhat responsible fro the holocaust are the
Americans. The third person/group that I feel are somewhat responsible for at least 6.25% the holocaust are the Jewish people themselves. It sounds heartless to say this but I believe they are somewhat responsible because many of the horrors that the Nazis’ committed happened in front of their eyes yet they seemed to be in denial and thought that the Germans would persecute them but would not harm them to the extent they did. I feel that Elie Wiesel say it best in his book Night when he said “I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .”. This quote I feel gave an insight into how deep in denial some people were of what the Germans were capable of. The fourth person/group that I feel are somewhat responsible fro the holocaust were the Hitler. The one that is at the base of all this tragedy is when Hitler instituted many laws that deprived Jews of their citizenship and basically legalized describing toon towards the Jews. This is why I feel he deserves at least 25% of the blame for the Holocaust.He thought that the that there was only two ways to deal with them either assign them to forced labor or sent them to concentration camps where they were unlimitedly exterminated. The Germans deserve the other 25% of the responsibility since they were very aware of the situation that Jews among other groups encountered t, though they were as bad as Hitler considering they were the ultimate bystanders. They turned a blind eye and I feel that is one of the most reprehensible thing ever. The fifth person/group that I feel are somewhat responsible fro the holocaust was most of the world, which is why I feel they deserve at least 18.75% of the blame. While Jewish people tried to escape the third reich and its atrocities many countries refused Jewish vis applications for two reasons. They didn’t want to carry the financial load or stand up against Germany by accepting the Jewish people or more commonly it was since anti-semitism was very sparsely located around much of the world. In conclusion I feel that these people/groups were much of the reason of why the Holocaust was as bad as it was in the end and I hope that it shows once and for all that Hitler was not the only and person that perpetrated this whole fiasco. I also learend that it is easier to say “we could have help” when it’s too late then “we should help” when it was the appropriate time.
At a time of loss, the German people needed a reason to rebuild their spirits. The Jews became a national target even though Hitler’s theory could not be proven. Even as a Jew, he accused the Jews people for Germany’s defeat in order to rally the people against a group of people Hitler despised. The story-telling of the Jews’ wickedness distracts the Germans from realizing the terror Holocaust. Millions of Jewish people died because Hitler said they caused the downfall of Germany. Innocent lives were taken. The death of millions mark the rise of Hitler. He sets the stage for the largest massacre in
Not even the most powerful Germans could keep up with the deaths of so many people, and to this day there is no single wartime document that contains the numbers of all the deaths during the Holocaust. Although people always look at the numbers of people that were directly killed throughout the Holocaust, there were so many more that were affected because of lost family. Assuming that 11 million people died in the Holocaust, and half of those people had a family of 3, 16.5 million people were affected by the Holocaust. Throughout the books and documentaries that we have watched, these key factors of hate and intolerance are overcome. The cause of the Holocaust was hate and intolerance, and many people fighting against it overcame this hate
“Jews, listen to me! I see fire! There are huge flames! It is a furnace,” Madame Schachter imagined fire, the fire that would burn millions of Jews, gays, and disabled people. Many people died in crematory ovens during the Holocaust. The people who are responsible for the Holocaust are the minor Nazi soldiers because they didn’t question decisions, they ultimately pulled the trigger, and they separated families.
The Holocaust began in 1933, when the Nazis were beginning to have the most political power in Germany. The leader of this political party was Adolf Hitler. Based on many historians, Hitler was the one who stared the Holocaust,
Adolf Hitler came into power of Germany in 1934. Wanting power, land and revenge, Hitler gets troops ready to attack. Hitler was a troop in WWI for Germany. Once the Germans lost the war, Hitler took that personally, and wanted revenge. After coming into power with his army of Nazis, Hitler is quick to blame Jewish people for all the harsh debt and corruption in Germany. The Germans believe him, causing them to hate Jewish people. The holocaust happened throughout 1933-1945, it ended when Hitler killed himself.
These are indirect variables in the complex equation that is the Holocaust. They all indirectly supplied madmen with the power to decide if one human is better than the other. The most direct role when talking about the United States, lies at the door step of the fourth largest company in the world today, (Forbes, 2012), IBM.
Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million other people starting from the year 1933 were killed. They were put to death. There was one main person responsible for all of this. Adolf Hitler was a Nazi German leader who attempted genocide and was part of one of the worst wars in history, WWII. Hitler took up the role of initiating the holocaust.
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
at the end of your roads, or telling an SS officer about a Jew in your
It is evident that World War II still affects the world today, but are these repercussions the aftermath of a master plan for destruction? The Nazi Party and Hitler were the most significant characters for World War II and thus, they truly made history, however, they made it worse. Many different causes for this devastation have been concluded starting with the end of World War I and the harsh blameful Treaty of Versailles, the new found control in Germany, and the Great Depression; even though was most harmful in America, affected the world in its entirety. Are these the factors that led to the ‘Final Solution’, are these the problems that encouraged Hitler to seize the world? There were many elements prior to World War II leading to the annihilation of Jews, Hitler’s experiences in World War I greatly influenced his outlook on warfare and the Jewish, another predominate factor was the approval of building the camps and chambers in Germany, and lastly the documented intentions for the ‘Final Solution’.
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).
The Holocaust ended 70 years ago, it involved over 11 million deaths. Hitler blamed all Jews for everything wrong with Germany. The Holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis. They were taken to concentration camps where they were treated like animals. Before the concentration camps, their human rights were taken, and also making them wear gold stars to identify the Jews better and faster. The Jews were taken from camp to camp until they finally arrived to the deadliest camp of them all, Auschwitz. The Holocaust also lasted 12 years from January of 1933 to May 8 of 1945. It all started when Adolf Hitler came into power. The Holocaust should never be forgotten because first of all, there were too many deaths. Second, because they were innocent people who
The man responsible for the Holocaust was Adolf Hitler and his Nazi war-machine. As an Austrian born soldier-turned-politician, Hitler was fascinated with the concept of the racial supremacy of the German people. He was also a very bitter, very evil little man.
The Holocaust was an extremely awful thing that should have never happened. But what were the causes of it? You’re probably wondering why I ask. Well, after I noticed the tremendous amount of innocent children involved, these questions presented themselves. People, have been stereotyping and assuming too much of people. This is why a lot of social problems come to be. Some people (namely the Nazis) can be harsh and they arrogantly need a scapegoat for some of their actions. This is what happened in the Holocaust, when the Jewish people were the Nazi’s meek and uncelebrated scapegoats. We know the facts of the past, but do we have enough knowledge and wisdom to prevent this from ever happening again? We won’t know it, but we can start preventing this right now. Resist hate. It’s a start and something we all can do.
The Jews were used as scapegoats by the Germans. They were treated terribly and lived in very poor conditions. Many of the Jewish children were put into homes,ther...