A second consequence is the fact of not doing something about the horrible things that they did in the concentration camps. If there was something done about it then there could have been a simple …show more content…
Which leads to a third consequence, the herd mentality. If people would have started to do something about the way they were treated then other people would have joined. By them not doing that then everyone else was just going to take the torture. If prisoners were treated as bad as they were in the concentration camps i’m sure that someone would do something about it because that is the mindset of the modern peoples. A quote from a survivor of the holocaust, “it all happened so fast. The ghetto, the deportation, the cattle car. The fiery altar upon which history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” Elie Weisel. What this man is telling of is the way they got them to the concentration camps. The nazi German soldiers used cattle cars on trains to transport mass numbers to the camps. When they were in the ‘ghetto’ he meant that they were taken away from their homes and brought to a very low class community before they were shipped out to the camps. What mr. Weisel means by the ‘fiery altar’ is the sacrificial place where the groups of different ethnicities would mostly end and the people sacrificing them would be shamed for eternity. No one stepped up to stop this phenomena, and help the ethnic groups escape the awful fate that was in store for them. They could not help themselves or others becaues of