“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.” This quote is by Primo Levi (Quotes About Holocaust) The Holocaust was genocide targeting Jewish people. They would take them and put them in concentration camps and eventually kill most of them. The rest of the world was in a World War because of the Holocaust. Genocide is important for us to know and learn about because it is in our world’s history. It lets kids know that genocide is an awful thing. What drew me to this topic was learning about it. I always found it very interesting to learn about. Even though it is an awful topic to learn about, it is also very interesting. I love learning about all of the different races and religions it has happened to. Genocide is awful and there was no reason to harm these people. People just want someone to blame for their mistakes in the world. Many Europeans thought Jews were a threat to their land.
The Holocaust was a type of Genocide. The Germans were taking Jewish people to Concentration Camps and killing them. (World War II: The Holocaust pg. 1) The Jewish didn’t do anything to deserve this. (How and Why Did the Holocaust Happen pg. 1) Everyone else wanted someone to blame for their economy struggles. (Norton, James pg .4) At the concentration camps the Jews would do slave work and have to do whatever the Nazi soldiers told them to do. (The Holocaust pg.1) Some of the Jews died from starvation because at the concentration camp they would not get any food. Some others died when the Nazi soldiers would tell them they had to come and shower. What was really going to happen to them was once the whole group of Jewish people we...
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So why do we study the Holocaust? Is it to know of Adolf Hitler's madness or know about a large part of World War II? I believe it is to know how to recognize and stop something like the Holocaust from ever happening again. It is like Edmund Burke said, "All tyrany needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." The Holocaust gained it's foodhold because we didn't know what was happening so we remained silent. A lot of the suffering and pain could've been prevented if we had simply realized what was going on. Another one of Edmund's quotes is that, "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." That is why we must learn and know about the Holocaust so that we do not repeat our mistakes of the past.
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( Feldman 213) The Holocaust was one of the harshest things done to mankind. What led to the Holocaust? Some state that Germany was devastated that they lost the first war. “ The Germans were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles feeling betrayed.”
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