Genocide In The Holocaust

Genocide…it’s a scary thought and hard to imagine. How such a thing could happen? Not only does it involve the intentional and systematic annihilation of a race of people, but also the destruction of their personal property, security, religion, dignity, liberty, and life. Stop and consider it for a second. If it was happening to people around you, would you do anything to stop it? Could it happen again in today’s society? One might be quick to say it could not, but think about this.It has happened to many races of people many, many times throughout the history of mankind. In particular, The Jewish community has seen more than its share of persecution. Everyone thinks they know the basics on the Jewish Holocaust, but did you know that there weremillions more gentiles (non-Jews) also killed in the Holocaust as well, and their most famous genocidal killer, Adolph Hitler, was not the prize winning mass murdererin the twentieth century? Mao Zedong of China and Joseph Stalin of Russia killed way more people! (Top 10 Most Horrific Genocides In History& Overlooked Millions: Non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust)Why does“the Holocaust” specifically stand out as such a horrific and fiercely debatedgenocide? One scholar, Daniel Goldhagen, who wrote the book Hitler’s Willing Executioners:Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, believesthat it is because never before in history has mass genocide been associated with such a highly educated, modernized,western civilizedcountry like Germany.(28) This wasn’t a genocide that could be easily reasoned away by severe poverty, lack of functional or normal economic and political structures, or the non-existent human rights associated with most of the genocides in history.This was a genocide perpetrated by a ...

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...” (R & J).Their book which is testimonies taken from all kinds of Germans from the era, speaks to the same theme: Anyone who claims they did not know… is lying! Another Book, “The Good Old Days: The Holocaustas Seen by its Perpetrators and Bystanders, by Klee, Dressen& Reiss, contains stories that not only did ordinary Germanswitness some of the killing, that at times it was a public spectacle! The shame, if not just down right embarrassment, of having to say that one knew and did nothing, only perpetuates the whole idea of what was and still is, the horror and evilness of the Holocaust-a major breakdown of human civility, morality and courage in the 20th century in a country considered much like America.Only in recognition and understandingof what really happened, can one learn what series of events,neverto allow in society again, to create such a perfect storm.