There are people in the world who see the actions of Apartheid, the results within the actions of the people while apartheid’s control, and overall their existence as a rare point in history. This idea is not only false but there are also several other governments and actions of the people that have had respectively similar actions. By having a social class system in South Africa where whites are on top and Blacks on the bottom shouldn’t sound unfamiliar; America had a similar racial discrimination from the 50’s all the way to the 80’s, with some arguing that the situation in Africa was worse off for their people than in America. In south Africa the African people that were deemed “lower class citizens” just as Germany’s treatment of Jews during …show more content…
After Adolf Hitler killed himself and the whole regime fell, the Allie powers charged war crimes on the individuals in power. By doing so many military officers were killed, people who were one guards were put in the very cells they put Jews, and anyone who had political power that didn’t escape prosecution was most often found guilty. This has prompt people who were deeply affected by these events to try and cover the truth. Even though there are signed documents of statements people have made stating that the events of the holocaust took place; people have still worked their way to try and deny the actions and the events of the holocaust. In some cases, this stems from people having some sort of gain if they can “prove” nothing happened and by rewriting history they, can have an excuse for doing/ getting the results wanted. Part of the reason the grudge is still held is from the notion “I hurt you, you hurt be; now I’m mad”. Maybe a more understanding approach should have taken place. However, it’s safe to say that because of the differences with both events, the prosecution of individuals involved with mass genocide is
Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: German Collective Guilt I believe that the majority of the German people as a whole were guilty of the Holocaust. Ideally, during the Second World War (WWII) the huge majority of citizens in Germany as well as the overpowered European states took no risks. They were spectators, attempting to get going with their lives the best they could. However, they failed to protest against Nazi domination or endanger their welfare, attempting to overcome their novel rulers by assisting the person in need. Nevertheless, after the end of WWII, many asserted not to have recognized the right nature of Nazi maltreatments as well as the Holocaust.
Even though the past is in the past, we can not let something like this happen again. If a genocide occurs in America, then we have officially failed as a country. This is not something we can forget, this is something life threatening. It comes down to people being too afraid to say anything to stop what was really going on in Germany. Many experiments went on outside Germany by a psychologist named Milgram; his findings were spot on with how the people of Germany went about everything during the Holocaust. Milgram 's experiment shows that when someone has authority, everyone else will do what the person “in charge” says, regardless if it’s right or wrong (Staub).
Despite the fact that the Holocaust is remembered across the world, many people think that it should not be. Some say remembering the Holocaust only allows for people “to rehash and explain the atrocities that happened decades ago, relive it, even be entertained by it in film or documentary. All of these serve as ‘reminders.’ But these reminders have us looking backwards, and we miss what's going on around us” (Why "Remembering" the Holocaust Does More Harm Than Good). They think remembering the tragic events that occurred, forces people to exhibit the hatred and Anti-Semitism that still exist today. By exhibiting this hatred they suppose that it will bring the negative energy back into the world. Others believe that focusing on the tragedy ...
Before it can be understood why the claims of these people are so outrageous, the two sides to the issue of the occurrence of the Holocaust must be explained. The majority of people believe that it did occur and use pictures, memoirs, letters, and other primary sources from the time to prove its existence. On the other hand, there is the smaller community of people who claim that there was no Holocaust. These are radical groups and self-described “revisionists. Those denying the event say that concentration camps were built after World War II was over as propaganda, and that the death toll numbers were simply made up. In their opi...
New societies, people, and communities all have originated from the acts of migration. The choosing of a new life have created different foundations and sever their ties in the search of opportunities. After all, America has been identified as the chase of the American Dream, otherwise known as the nation of immigrants. According to its history, not all journeys have held the easiest routes in regards to freedom. As it first began with the Native Americans and their fight for freedom from the Spanish it also progressed within African descent. While African Americans faced massive movements that have shaped and reshaped their lives into what they are today, it all initiated with the Middle Passage.
The holocaust was a horrible and unthinkable event in history. It was instigated by one cruel individual with the right tactics to get millions of followers. This man was known as Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a very powerful and convincing individual. He made the German people believe he was a compassionate man looking at the best options to get Germany back to where there needed to be post WWI. Hitler did not step into office and bluntly tell the German people he was going to completely annex the race of Jews. If he did this then he would have never been given the authority he was given. With that being said, the German people as a whole should not be guilty. Majority of the German people supported Hitler for many reasons. He found ways to get
The holocaust is a incredibly difficult for some people to discuss with others depending on their extent of connection to the event. It is believed to be the worst genocide known to man by many people. This explains discomfort many people experience when discussing the subject. People debate if the absolutely horrific events of World War II will be forgotten as generations pass. Survivors have many different ways of never forgetting the events that happened to them. Some people feel that it is better to completely wipe these events from memory because they do not want to remember what happened to them, while others want to tell all of society of tragic events hoping to prevent similar events from occurring in the future. Many people debate which method is best to never
The Holocaust is an event that will live forever in infamy in the minds and hearts of everyone that knows its story and of the suffering the victims experienced. The victims of what was mainly Jewish descent were persecuted against by the Nazi regime Because of their anti-Semitic views that led to the largest and most famous Genocide in the history of mankind. The story of the Holocaust spread and was spread around the globe until over time a few facts became mixed or misinterpreted. These misinterpretations gave anti-Semitics and Neo-Nazis what they needed to stir up controversy on the subject to pull blame away from the Nazi Regime. These ideals are wrong but have led to debates over what is right and wrong on the subject and the people who tell the lies need to be proven wrong.
We either should seek to prosecute each and every person that has committed such terrible crime, or we should not convict any at all. Nazi criminals committed some of the most hideous crimes in human history, and age and time do not soften their crimes. As Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said, “the passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of those who participated in the Holocaust. 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. They are just as guilty today as the day they committed their crime—and they do not deserve a prize for eluding justice for so long” (Source
Every year or so, something happens in the media that brings us all back to the atrocities of World War II, and the German persecution of the Jews. It seems that the horrors of that time can only be digested and understood in small bites. How else can we personalize and comprehend a tragedy of that magnitude? Most of what we read and view in the media about the holocaust is a perspective from the Jewish experience. Recently, however, a question has been posed in regards to finding closure with that troubling piece of history from the German conscience. Can one German's experience reflect the tendencies of the entire country with regards to passion, denial, guilt, and finally justice?
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South Africa really began to suffer when apartheid was written into the law. Apartheid was first introduced in the 1948 election that the Afrikaner National Party won. The plan was to take the already existing segregation and expand it (Wright, 60). Apartheid was a system that segregated South Africa’s population racially and considered non-whites inferior (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”). Apartheid was designed to make it legal for Europeans to dominate economics and politics (“History of South Africa in the apartheid era”).
In this thesis I will be explain the ways in which the lives of the
Apartheid is a word that means ‘separation’ in Afrikaans which is a spoken language in southern Africa. Apartheid was used in the twentieth century for racial segregation and political and economic discrimination in the late 1940’s . This is the separation between the blacks, coloured, and white South Africans. The apartheid in South Africa displays racial inequalities by having the twenty percent of whites rule over the majority of blacks and coloured. All whites wanted the blacks to have a whole other separate society. The African National Congress (ANC) which began as a nonviolent civil rights group tried to get rid of apartheid which was not successful until Nelson Mendela became the president and restored the South Africans natural rights.
The apartheid was a very traumatic time for blacks in South Africa. Apartheid is the act of literally separating the races, whites and non-whites, and in 1948 the apartheid was now legal, and government enforced. The South African police began forcing relocations for black South Africans into tribal lines, which decreased their political influence and created white supremacy. After relocating the black South Africans, this gave whites around eighty percent of the land within South Africa. Jonathan Jansen, and Nick Taylor state “The population is roughly 78 percent black, 10 percent white, 9 percent colored, and l...