Who Was Responsible For The Holocaust

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The Nazi doctrine was able to take hold of many people because it was disguised as a rescue plan that was going to take Germany out of its miserable, down-trodden state post WWI and make it into the most powerful nation in the world. Hitler took control of Germany using the Nazi doctrine as his main weapon and basically convinced people to buy into his ideas. He did not “forcefully” push these ideas onto others, but rather he sold his poison as a cure all for Germany’s problems. The German public was tired of being poor, and Hitler knew this. He told the Germans that their problems were not within themselves, but rather, they were due to certain groups of people such as the Jews. As a result, he was able to get wide spread participation from many people because …show more content…

He established this idea that if everyone is truthful, then it will be easier to eradicate the problem. From this public, there was a subsection of people who did even worse things; human experimentation on the people in the concentration camps. While many of these people were doctors, and thus expected to be of high moral value, Hitler was able to fundamentally change their moral base. He convinced these folks, that experimenting would let them cure diseases and help them make the Aryan race even stronger. The Nazi’s also listed “medical science as an instrument of aggressive military power” . The experimentation they did would help the German army become stronger and win the war; since they could not fight on the front lines, these scientists put all their effort into doing human experiments because they had strong national pride and wanted to make sure Germany won. That is why they justified freezing people to death in cold water. They wanted to

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