What Are The Similarities Between The Bombing Of The Holocaust And The Holocaust

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The atomic bombings of Japanese cities and the genocides of the Holocaust are horrific events in human history. Although these events have their differences, they influence the world greatly today because they differ from each other to provide comparisons for history, have significance because of the survivors who tell their personal story, and achieve significance morally as well as immorally. Though they both occurred during World War II, they have their variances. In Toshiko Saeki’s narrative of the Hiroshima bombing, she fails to find her mother in Hiroshima, but is eventually shown what was left of her burnt head by her brother. She describes her brother’s psychotic post-nuke behavior as his “mind was shattered into pieces.” Despite many …show more content…

Primo Levi’s narrative of the Holocaust explains the true struggle and chance for survival for the Jews in camps, specifically Auschwitz. Separately, Levi describes the true chance people had for survival in that they could have been selected to or in some cases boarded alone either the train car going to work or the train car going straight to the gas chambers. This is similar to the bombing of Hiroshima where some people could have been in the city, such as Saeki visiting her mother in which she could have died, or Kuribayashi being lucky enough in the distance away from the city. As Levi worked in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, he describes the struggle and dehumanization Jews had to go through to survive including tattooed numbers on their arms which labelled them, prisoners stealing soup or shoes to keep going. The major difference between the Hiroshima bombing and the Holocaust was the torture before an end versus an end before a torture. The Holocaust was either a two-minute torture in a gas …show more content…

I do not believe the people who claim this reasoning would think of a boy to be left alive without either of his parents’ or any relatives’ support as Kuribayashi “had no nowhere to go except an orphanage” (Kuribayashi, 547). This how he was taken care of, however, he felt unhappy and did not think seriously of them as the bomb desensitized his mindset. The atomic bombings fail to recognize the aftereffects of radioactivity as within Saeki’s narrative where her brother goes mad and his mind is shattered. Saeki explains this simply in, “war does not only destroy things, killing people, but shatters the hearts of people as well” (SWS, 345). The negative sides to the atomic bombings are these aftereffects of physical and mental, contrarily the atomic bomb was the correct plan to go with according to a moral significance standpoint. To save the lives of tens of thousands of American and Japanese soldiers shows how far extreme the Unites States had to go to put an end to the second World War. The Jews were not causing much harm in Europe, a small 1.7% of the total Europe population, however they were blamed for being a nuisance to society. Europeans were only effected by them because the government or someone has said they were a “pest” for no reason, such as Adolf Hilter. Historians should not analyze

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