Causes of the Holocaust
The Holocaust is considered one of the most horrific times faced by the Jewish community in Europe and the world at large. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state- sponsored persecution and murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust took place primarily in Germany and Poland from 1933 to 1945. Factors such as dehumanization, racism, and crowd mentality created the Holocaust. These factors and others caused one of the world's worst war crimes ever committed in human history. For instance, of dehumanize can lead to violence like against people. According to the Pyramid of Hate, violence is the highest level of hate. For example, in “Family Album”, Amos Neufeld mentions: “Their …show more content…
Jew were discriminated by Anti-Semitism like employment discrimination, housing discrimination, educational discrimination, etc. This is a different level in Pyramid of Hate. For one example in “The Ball”, the owner said: "This good-for-nothing Jewboy here broke my shop window,"(Hans Peter Richter 17). The owner ran out of the store and immediately accused the Jew. This quote from the story is significant because you see how the woman feels about the Jews. She was calling out the Jew even though the German boy was the one to blame. Through this story shows how they discriminated between a Jewish child and a German child in a daily life. For another example in Crystal Night, "windows slashed like skin pulled tight frozen with stone..." (Lifshin 38). This poem also expanded my prior knowledge by showing me how the Jews were discriminated not just in the concentration camps but in their homes and …show more content…
According to Hitler, propaganda was an important aspect since they reasoned that when lies are repeatedly heard, eventually they gain acceptance among the public. According to Dr. Gregory Berns, a professor of behavioral science, he said: “One is that they know what their eyes are telling them, and yet they choose to ignore it, and go along with the group to belong to the group,” Once the propagandas became popular anti-Semitic sentiments gained momentum. They did good works around their neighborhoods and they had ranks and levels, but they were also immersed in Nazi propaganda that caused them to believe in Aryan Superiority. “What that suggests is that, what people tell you – if enough people are telling you – can actually get mixed in with what your own eyes are telling you,” Berns said. Gradually, some people recognized it. “And what we are seeing here, we think, is the fear of standing alone,” Berns said. And finally, many of the German Aryans began to believe in Hitler's racial
The Holocaust is considered one of the most horrific times faced by the Jewish community in Europe and the world at large. The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state- sponsored persecution and murder of more than six million Jews by the Nazi regime. The Holocaust took place primarily in Germany and Poland from 1933 to 1945. Factors such as dehumanization, racism, and crowd mentality created the Holocaust. These factors and others caused one of the world's worst war crimes ever committed in human history. For instance, of dehumanize can lead to violence like against people. According to the Pyramid of Hate, violence is the highest level of hate. For example, in “Family Album”, Amos Neufeld mentions: “Their …show more content…
Jew were discriminated by Anti-Semitism like employment discrimination, housing discrimination, educational discrimination, etc. This is a different level in Pyramid of Hate. For one example in “The Ball”, the owner said: "This good-for-nothing Jewboy here broke my shop window,"(Hans Peter Richter 17). The owner ran out of the store and immediately accused the Jew. This quote from the story is significant because you see how the woman feels about the Jews. She was calling out the Jew even though the German boy was the one to blame. Through this story shows how they discriminated between a Jewish child and a German child in a daily life. For another example in Crystal Night, "windows slashed like skin pulled tight frozen with stone..." (Lifshin 38). This poem also expanded my prior knowledge by showing me how the Jews were discriminated not just in the concentration camps but in their homes and …show more content…
According to Hitler, propaganda was an important aspect since they reasoned that when lies are repeatedly heard, eventually they gain acceptance among the public. According to Dr. Gregory Berns, a professor of behavioral science, he said: “One is that they know what their eyes are telling them, and yet they choose to ignore it, and go along with the group to belong to the group,” Once the propagandas became popular anti-Semitic sentiments gained momentum. They did good works around their neighborhoods and they had ranks and levels, but they were also immersed in Nazi propaganda that caused them to believe in Aryan Superiority. “What that suggests is that, what people tell you – if enough people are telling you – can actually get mixed in with what your own eyes are telling you,” Berns said. Gradually, some people recognized it. “And what we are seeing here, we think, is the fear of standing alone,” Berns said. And finally, many of the German Aryans began to believe in Hitler's racial