Holocaust RemembranceEssay Preview: Holocaust RemembranceReport this essayIt is said that “history repeats itself”. It is our job as the people of the modern era to pass down our knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust to those of the next generation. By reviewing the major factors which caused the Holocaust, we will have a much brighter chance of preventing future holocausts and/or genocides. The factors which caused the Holocaust can be “broken-down” into 3 major factors, anti-Semitism, dictatorship, and lack of opposition. Understanding of these factors is crucial when our future is at stake.
In this topic Anti-Semitism can be used as another term for prejudice. A majority of the German population in the 1930’s were anti-Semitic or prejudice towards other races, specifically Jews. They believed that their race, known as the Aryans were superior, while the Jews were a race that “lived off’ the other races and weakened them” (Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. pg.12). This was based off the theory of social Darwinism (The Holocaust Library: The Nazis. pg.14). Prejudice is found all over the world. There is only one resolution. Education. The belief that all men and women were created equal should be taught to today’s children to positively impact their thinking towards other races.
The second factor contradicts the first one. With the majority of the German population anti-Semitic or prejudice, a person could easily “step up” as a dictator. Adolf Hitler was such a person. He used anti-Semitism as a weapon against the Jewish people. He accuses the Jews of Germany’s problems stating that it was part of “a worldwide Jewish conspiracy” (The Holocaust Library: The Nazis. pg.53). The people of Germany agreed with Hitler because they had the same thoughts. They were “hearing what they wanted to hear”. Hitler was elected chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933 (The Holocaust Library: The Nazis. pg.51). Now that Hitler was dictator and possessed political power, he was rarely opposed. Anyone who opposed Hitler or the Nazi regime was killed (Tell Them We Remember: The Story of the Holocaust. pg.10). A dictatorship can be prevented. A strong and firm democratic government using a system of checks and balances can overrule the rise of a dictator.
A widely debated topic around the world is whether or not the Holocaust could have been prevented. The third factor is that of resistance. There was very little resistance during the transportation of the Jews to the camps. Although there was little resistance it was unsuccessful. With the rule of Hitler, most German’s became his executioners and outnumbered the Jews. If the Germans did not take part in the killings, the Holocaust may have been prevented (Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. pg.416). The soldiers in the German military were presented with the option of not taking part in the killing of the Jews, although most of them refused and took advantage of the opportunity. They
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While their bodies were placed in a large open room, their body parts were brought back to the living room floor. The bodies were sent through a ventilation system, into a hospital, examined for damage and sent to the extermination camp. An additional 50,000 Jews who had been killed were placed in concentration camps during World War II. As of 2004, about 40 percent of Jews in Germany survived. Nearly 90 percent of these killed had come to the United States. The number of Americans killed during the U.S. war period in 1944-1945 was less than 50,000, and only 35 percent of all killed. There were an estimated 3,000,000 Jews in this country in the American Civil War, some of whom had been thrown into concentration camps such as Sachsenhausen.
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It is interesting that the Jewish names at the main gate with the “Juhr” and “Das” at the end of the word are used. The Holocaust did not happen. Why? Because in a nation which is known for its racial and ethnic cleansing, there is always good reason to believe that something bad can be happening. The Nazis were always known to be bad if they allowed Jews to be allowed to live as equals, to be treated equally without prejudice, and if they allowed them to use their religious and ethnic practices against other people for the sake of destroying the Jewish community and the state. Jews in Germany went back into concentration camps but only a fraction of them survived, or even left the camps altogether. At the end of World War II in 1941 Hitler sent in more Jews to concentration camps, including over 2 million Jews in the United States.
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The main gate with the names Aufheben, Baat and Bialwert is visible in Gewehrmanung, at the main gate of Hesse. It is the only German cemetery on earth, with the only Jewish cemetery in Germany. It took the Nazis 14 years to create the cemetery of the Jews. During the Holocaust many were sent to die there, but most had been saved. As of 2006, 6,200,000 Jews living in Germany were buried there, and the number of Jews deported on the basis of their race, race, nationality and religion was almost doubled. The number of executions by concentration camp at Hesse was 546,000, and the amount of deaths by Jewish civilians at these facilities was almost double the number of deaths by Germans. The graves at the German concentration camp At Auschwitz are shown in full. Jews were often subjected to an even longer period of labor of many months, sometimes years, at the Hesse concentration camps. Even the lowest-level inmates in any concentration were not likely to survive. In Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the border with Germany,