Who Was Responsible For The Holocaust Analysis

The Mirriam-Webster dictionary defines the word “blame” as a verb, meaning “to place responsibility for a fault or error; to hold responsible; to find fault for.” In the face of a horrific tragedy, it seems to be a natural response to want to place the blame on someone or something, perhaps to channel the anger and the trauma and be able to put it somewhere, anywhere, in hopes of alleviating the pain. It might be a way to rationalize what happened, to try to apply reason and logic to the equation, making steps in the right direction of moving on. But who can be blamed for the Holocaust? Who is responsible for the countless number of atrocities committed during this time? When looking at the dehumanization and systematic murder of millions of people, there is no single perpetrator to place the blame on. No one person could have committed these heinous crimes against humanity alone. In order for it to have happened, there had to be a following of thousands of people, lead by one seemingly inhuman person. …show more content…
Would he have developed his anti-Semitic and nationalistic views to what they became had he been admitted into art school, shifting his main focus to his artwork? Would he have been able to use art to creatively express his beliefs instead of forcing them into reality? Had these things happened, would he still have found a way to rise to power and attempt to eradicate the Jewish population from Europe? Did these outside forces and occurrences direct Hitler down a certain path, leading to the murder of millions of people? These questions will always have loose ends because we will never know the answers to them, but these sort of thought provoking speculations seem to add even more people or events to the list of things that are valid to put blame