Should The Holocaust Be Prosecuted For Their Crimes

The Holocaust is essentially one of the most horrific and remembered acts of genocide within history, it’s estimated that “between 1941 and 1945, five to six million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime, its allies, and its surrogates in the Nazi-occupied territories ” (Jones 2010, p. 233). A majority of these killings were implemented by the German Army, but the German Army was not solely responsible for these horrendous crimes. As there was a majority of seemingly normal citizens ordering and engaging in atrocious crimes. These citizens were recognised as policemen, camp guards, office workers, doctors and nurses, their crimes were horrific and were performed in seemingly normal environments or situations. A majority of these people had

German prosecutors have investigated 106,000 suspects, but only 6,500 were only found guilty and sentenced. There has been a lot of debate on whether or not to prosecute Nazis that carried out Hitler's orders on killing, and harming during the time span of 1939-1945.Former Nazis killed and tortured over 6 million Jews, also most men and women who participated in harming Jews during the Holocaust have not been punished for their crimes.

Traces from the most brutal massacre in human history is beginning to disappear. This is why the Holocaust should continue to be taught in schools. The book Night by survivor Elie Wiesel gives reasons why this sad tragedy should not be forgotten. People were treated like animals for twelve years, by Hitler. Notice, that if they were to make one bad move their life could end quickly within seconds. During that time they were dealing with dehumanization, starvation and a fight for survival.

The Holocaust was a bad event from our history that leaves scars all over on humanity due to the results of so much loss. The Holocaust should be acknowledged so we can learn from our mistakes and analyze what we can do differently to prevent this from happening again. One thing we can teach kids today is to collect more knowledge by getting opinions of others, and trying to get different perspectives on things before acting on just your opinion. One great example that we need to take a look at is the people. The people of Germany. Well, was he right? Did they think he was right? A lot of people did for they let him reign over them and let him move forward with the plans. The people that followed him had a biased opinion about the topic of the Jews because of Hitler. People can be wrong sometimes. Even if you think they are right about everything, they aren’t. But the people

I asked Karl Boem-Tettelbach how it was possible in the 1930s that someone could respect Hitler and what he was doing for Germany when Jews were forced to lose their jobs and leave the country. In his reply spoke, I believe, for millions of other Germans: "That never came up. Everybody thought the same, that you were in a big team and you didn't separate from the group. You were infected. That explains it a bit." (2) And as for actual officers, during the Nuremberg Trials, a Commandant named Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess had this to say of his indifference, "Don't you see, we SS men were not supposed to think about these things; it never even occurred to us. And besides it was something already taken for granted that the Jews were to blame for everything….It was not just newspapers like Sturmer but it was everything we heard. Even our military and ideological training took for granted that we had to protect Germany from the Jews….We were all so trained to obey orders without even thinking that the thought of disobeying an order would never have occurred to anybody." (3) So there is a delicate balance between conscious and unconscious actions of every individual of Nazi Germany. The majority was bewitched by the charismatic Hitler who not only gave them a reason as to why they were suffering with ubiquitous propaganda, but also promised to strengthen Germany until she was beyond restored. (4) For some it was an underlying hatred that had finally found a vent. For

A fact which we all have to emit is that humanity existence always creates conflicts and fighting which we call "WAR". In war, people kill each others for many reasons ---- resources, personal benefits, territories, powers, revenge, etc. In war, one becomes a hero for killing human lives and eventually he gets honored and well-known in people 's heart. The Holocaust, according to Germans, was the war between Germans and Jews. Approximately six million Jews included 960,000 innocent children died during Hitler 's regime called Nazism. Unlike the "hero(s)" whom people honor, the Holocaust was a hideous crime and the participants were bloody murderers. Today people are taught about the Holocaust

People in the Holocaust suffered things that a human should never go through. People suffered starvation, cold weather, no clothes, and getting beat with whips everyday. Babies, children, kids, adults, and teenagers burned and killed everyday. Not to mention, they worked in the cold winters. Jews in the 1940’s were treated like animals and were lucky if they got a meal a day. Families were separated from each other and never saw each other again. The Holocaust will never be forgotten. A human should never go through what the Jews suffered. People were forced to help kill and burn friends, family, and people they didn’t even know. The concentration camps were impossible to escape. The barbed wire fences stood 8 feet high. The only way you could

The Holocaust is a uniquely terrible dark stain on human history. The perfect storm of racism, a desperate country, and a charismatic leader with ill intentions that led up to the Holocaust are unrepeatable. The world has learned not to let a group of people or political party expressing ill intentions towards another to grow in the magnitude that the Nazis did. The world has recognize the horror of the Holocaust and taken preemptive action. Many countries have instituted laws to prevent similar prejudice fueled actions. The world is a much more connective place than it was back in the 1930’s. The spread of information and visual confirmation would induce action at even the smallest steps towards a second Holocaust. Despite many arguments saying

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 ongoing topic on weather or not to punish those who’ve been deemed a war criminal in the holocaust, it can be hard to pick a side. One example would be that lots of time has passed, many believe that it is wrong to punish them for something that happened more than 80 years ago. On the other side of the debate, people believe that the criminals should still be held accountable for their actions in prior years, “Had these criminals been prosecuted decades ago, when they were far younger, the importance of the effort to bring them to justice would not have been questioned (Zuroff)”. This implies that the criminals should be treated the same as if they had just committed the crime, which in all cases of murder or theft, no matter how long

The Holocaust was a tragic period in the world where Germans persecuted anyone they felt was inferior to them, mostly Jews. Millions of lives were persecuted for nothing. It has been about 80 years since the Holocaust. Nazi’s who participated in the Holocaust are now almost a decade old. But, that doesn’t exempt them from their crimes. Survivors and souls that have died need justice. Getting older shouldn’t exempt them from the crimes they have committed, if persecution of these criminals isn’t remembered, then it isn’t really justice, and a single person is responsible for their actions they know right from wrong, and they knew what they were doing was wrong.

The Holocaust was an event that took place during the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Holocaust was carried out by the German Gestapo, its sole purpose was to exterminate all “inferior”races of people. After the Germans’ defeat and the discovery of the concentration camps, the officials that ran these camps were put on trial for their crimes against humanity. However, some of these war criminals ran from their trials and are now being found in their later years. Their age, however, does not change what they had done in their younger years. Though many believe these men should be left alone, these men should be persecuted for what they did to those many innocent people during WWII.

Victims searched for someone to be punished. They wanted someone to suffer and take responsibility for all the pain and suffering that they endured. All of the, “precedents set in trials against Holocaust perpetrators have guided a new understanding of justice as a tool for seeking accountability, providing affirmation to victims, warning perpetrators, and reflecting society’s highest ideals about truth and justice” (2011 Days of Remembrance). The trials are a crucial stepping stone to the road of justice. They act as a permanent reminder to the world of the mistakes that were made. Germany has paid for its mistakes and has now moved on to become an ally to many nations. This alliance can be taken as a message. The countries can forgive, however, they will never

The Holocaust is one of the darkest times in history. Man’s viciousness against man is the cause of the mass murder of men, women, and children. They did not just die, they suffered, they suffered by starving, horrible living conditions, and being very badly mistreated. They lived in fear and were violently taken from their homes and families. It would have been an awful time and place to live in, and hopefully there will never be events like this happen in the

Most people view the Holocaust as one of the worst things that has ever happened in human history. It’s very difficult to argue this belief. Not only were millions of people killed in battle, but millions were killed outside of battle. After his murder of over six million Jews, Adolf Hitler became regarded as one of the most hated and evil people in the world, and still is today.