A National Genocide : Why?

By blaming the Jews for the economic crisis that Germany was suffering through as well as their defeat in WW1, Hitler targeted the Jews as the country’s main enemy. According to him, the Jewish were directly responsible for Germany’s problems. Hitler hated the Jews leading up to the Holocaust because he believed that the Jewish financiers were responsible for sending the world into its first World War, causing the deaths over 100,000 Germans. According to the Nazis the “Aryan race” was the best and strongest race. Jews were of another inferior race. In fact so inferior that they were not considered to be “people” by the

The world turned a blind eye to Hitler’s dehumanizing way of destroying the Jews as a whole. They isolated Jews: socially, finically and legally. Kristallnacht “the night of broken glass” is where the synagogues were destroyed. The Nazi party rated there shops and took their money and many Jews were forced violently to concentration camps. The Nazi party was so anger at the Jews because they blame the Jews for losing WW1.The raise of the Nazi party was to isolate Jews and run them out of the country. The Nazi party installed ghettos, where the Jews had to live in over crowed, unsafe and non-sanitized environment. The Nazi doctors experimented on the Jews to try and create a perfect superior race .The Jews were transported from the ghettos to the camps in cattle cars stored away worst then animals. Men, women and children’s bodies were tossed around like they meant nothing, not handled with

Elie showed me how cruel they were to the Jews even when seeing that most of them were very hurt. They even burned innocent children for just being Jewish. The Germans treated these horrible acts as if they were just everyday chores they had to do, like feed the dog or clean the house. Most of the Germans just ignored the Jewish people's emotions. Ultimately, the jews were oppressed in many ways and dehumanized to the point where they even hated themselves. Which in the end helped Hitler change the views of Jewish people to the German

When Hitler was in charge of Germany, he hated the Jewish. He never really had a reason to hate the Jewish he just did. Hitler wanted all people to be like him. He wanted to create the “perfect race” that he thought was blonde hair, blue eyes. Hitler killed all people, except for blacks.

Finally, many purely hated Jews because they were not Aryan. Germany was one of these countries. Hitler, the leader of Germany, has carried hate for the Jews since early childhood. Primarily, he blamed them for his mother’s death along with him not getting into his dream school, Vienna Art College. Also, they were blamed by Germany for defeat in WWI and as the cause for unemployment. However, mainly Jews were persecuted because of the way they looked. At the time, Hitler wanted a racially pure Germany. He believed that by adapting the Darwin theory of survival of the fittest, he would be able to create a stronger generation and kill those that are impure or disabled.

Lastly, in the end of the book Elie’s faith and, sadly, his relationship with his father had both deteriorated. In Night a hospital mate of Elie’s said, “‘I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people’” (Wiesel 81). This quote, while not Elie’s words, is very certain, fear ridden, and powerful. My take from this quote is where Elie, in the memoir at least, does not respond to his hospital mate. This tells me that deep down Elie agrees and he knows that he agrees with the man. Also towards the end of the memoir Elie’s father dies. This quote shows the crumbling relationship between father and son, “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have

I think one reason somebody chooses to hate is reed. When Hitler killed the Jews it was because of greed. Greed can drive people insane. One example of greed in the holocaust is telling the Jews to pack some clothes and bring it but then they just take them away. Another example is when Hitler almost cleared out the whole race of Jews and kills them because of greed.

- Another reason Hitler could have hated the Jews is because Hitler did not want the Jews to end up going to Palestine and live a good life there. The only way he could have prevent Jews from going to Palestine was to kill them, so Hitler decided to burn them and torture them so that they would not be able to live a good life in

After the Wannsee Conference, Hitler realized that there wasn’t any other way to get rid of the Jews, so he went along with it. Since Hitler was the leader of Germany, he could of stuck to his word and kept the Jews alive. He could of found another alternative with the Jew situation. If he did, the Holocaust wouldn’t have

For years follow the Holocaust and still today, people find themselves wondering -- why the Jews? Why would Hitler target the Jews primarily of all other groups that could be found in the population of Germany? The number of Jewish people in this world currently amounts to about 14 million people which results in less than 0.2% of the overall population. Hitler’s reasoning for blaming the Jews wasn’t because they deserved to be hated, but instead that they were already dug deep into a hole that made others find it easy to hate this group of people based on hundreds of years of discrimination and false information.

When one thinks about the Holocaust, they will often associate all Germanic people with the actions of a single group. This group being Hitler, as well as the SS. As an outsider, one could make many assessments on the subject of the Holocaust; especially in the psychology of those who decided to hide people during such a trying time in history. There was a very serious risk that people took in the decision to hide those who were victimized by the Holocaust, and while they should have helped anyway, we now understand why it was not an easy decision. There have been many studies done of those who hid people during the Holocaust, proving that not all German people were partial to genocide. A few of them even went as far as to hide people, in an attempt to protect them from Hitler and the SS.

In the past 150 years, tens of millions of men, women and children have lost their lives to ethnic cleansing or genocide. Although the definition is often scrutinized, according to Merriam Webster, "Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political or cultural group". The most notable event associated with the term is the Holocaust. Stated by Judah Gribets, Edward Greenstein and Regina Stein, "nearly six million Jews fell victim to genocide during the years of the Holocaust". Of This number, one million were children who were unable to take care of themselves. People's hopes and dreams for the future were stripped from them, and many families were ripped apart. Many of these people were tortured or raped

The Holocaust slowly evolved between 1933 and 1945.The event took place during World War II. This occurred because of the discrimination against Jews and also because Hitler blamed the Jews for the downfall of the economy and were the reason Germany lost the war. The Jews were taken from their homes, persecuted and finally murdered. In 1941 there was 11 million Jews in Europe, the Nazis killed 6 million of them and 1.5 million were children. They also killed and enslaved the mental or physical disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Trade unionists, political opponents, poles and soviets prisoner of war and Romas (Gypsies). This event a occurred because Hitler and the Nazis wanted to get rid of the rich and diverse culture.

In order to understand the term genocide and how it works, one must understand the definition of it. Genocide, is a greek word, “geno” means people, race and “cide” means to destroy or to kill, so in other words it is defined as intended annihilation of a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. The indigenous people of America, came to this land many years ago, before than any Europeans. They settled their tribes in here and created a new home for themselves where they lived a thousand years. However, this did not last long, until Europeans settled in America. When Europeans were settled in America, they enslaved Native Americans, took their golds away, made them to convert to Christianity and introduced them to many disease. Everything

Genocide, a dire event, has been recurring time and time again throughout history. In the past, there was the Holocaust, where Hitler exterminated over six million Jews based on his anti-semitic views. Elie Wiesel, a Jewish author, has become a very influential man in educating the world of the true events of the Holocaust due to his involvement in the disaster. Presently, a genocide is occurring in the Darfur region of southern Sudan, in which according to Cheryl Goldmark, “a systematic slaughter of non-Arab residents at the the hands of Arab militiamen called Janjaweed” has been taking place since 2003. (1) Not only is genocide a tragic historical event, it also continuously occurs today.