Essay On The Causes Of The Holocaust

There are many causes and lessons to be derived from the Holocaust, but the following three causes and lessons are the most central. The causes that were most central to the Holocaust were Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, ignorance and indifference from the German people, and the Industrial Revolution. We should learn from the Holocaust not to blindly follow authority, to search for knowledge to help others, and to not use new technologies to support genocide. These were the most central causes and lessons to be taken from the Holocaust. Hitler’s arbitrary persecution of the Jews is clearly the largest factor in why the Holocaust occurred. If Hitler had never risen to power in Germany, the Holocaust likely never would have happened. The main reasons Hitler rose to power is because Germany was in terrible economic conditions as evidenced by the hyperinflation that destroyed Germany 's …show more content…
Many German people did not even know that the Holocaust was happening because they were given no information. Hitler prevented most people from knowing because he thought it would lower the morale of the Germans. In Nazi Germany, the media about the Holocaust was very controlled. Most of the people who knew did nothing because they were the bureaucrats of the Holocaust and they were afraid for their own lives. Many German people ignored what was happening because they thought that if they ignored the Holocaust that it wouldn’t be there. The German people also may have thought they wouldn’t be held accountable if they pretended not to know about it. Just like how the people who constructed the death camps knew what they were doing but they did nothing to try to stop it because they were uncaring and indifferent to the suffering the camps contained. This ignorance and indifference of the Germans let Hitler get away with perpetrating his