Inhumane In Germany

In Germany during the era of World War II, it was a barbaric time for Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, political enemies, people with mental or physical disabilities, and almost everyone who didn’t pertain to the Aryan race. The Nazi Party wanted people to live in Germany if they were unblemished in the eyes of the law. Specifically white Christians, who had blond hair and blue eyes were deemed the superior race; therefore, approximately six million people were murdered because they didn’t belong to this group. However, that number is an estimate since the bodies were buried or burned and they didn’t keep track of the amount of humans disposed. The entire situation was inhumane: they have been tortured, abused mentally/emotionally, physically, and sexually throughout their time in the concentration camps.
While reading the testimonies of Holocaust survivors, some people can’t fathom what they were going through or …show more content…
While others like Orenstein, saw people attempting suicide. He proclaimed, “They used to cut their veins actually against the locks of the wagon doors or they used to bite with their teeth the arteries on their arm in order to bring the bit of life that was left in them to an end.” This may sound deranged, but they wanted to end their own life since they knew their fate. They knew even if they survived the Holocaust their past would still haunt them everyday. Orenstein recalls that he will never forget want this thirty year old Jewish Man said in the train, “Well, we Jews don't commit suicide. We Jews have now been committed, of course, to death, but if we go to death, let's do it actually, "Shem Shamayim", let's do it with "kavod", to show the world, the other people, the Germans, that we are not afraid of