Lost Generation Vs Holocaust

Nowadays, when you picture a child, most people would picture them living life to the fullest. Maybe going to the park, setting up playdates, playing with friends, and just having fun with their families. Now imagine a small child having their normal life taken from them within a blink of an eye. Being forcefully taken from their families due to their ethnicity, and put into institutions. They taught them that they weren't who they really were, raped and even neglected. Just like the Holocaust, The Lost Generation has been a tragic time period in the history of the world, however, these events differ in the goals of the perpetrators, in their impact on the world, and in how they were both resolved. Although the Holocaust and The Lost generations …show more content…
For one, over many decades after the holocaust, ordinary Germans went through many hardships with its sour legacy while many survivors and even families of victims got their wealth and property back after being taken away by the Nazis. As said in a text on its ending, “Beginning in 1953, the German government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as a way of acknowledging the German people’s responsibility for the crimes committed in their name.” While on the other hand, The Lost Generations ending wasn't at all the same. In 1995, the Australian government put together an inquiry into the policy of forced child removal. It's said that “the report was delivered to Parliament on the 26th May 1997.” In all reality, It estimated that between 10 per cent and 33 per cent of all Indigenous children were taken away from their families between 1910-1970. The report acknowledged the differences of social classes between them and other, and concluded that the policies of child removal breached fundamental human rights. Clearly, still today we have yet to uncover many more genocides than what most people already know, and even genocides that are happening right now. And although The Lost Generations and The Holocaust had many differences, One being how it was resolved, and others like their goals and their huge impact on the world, they are still both considered major genocides. As we go on with the years, and teach children the greater picture of what a genocide truly is, we yet still see them going on in our world right now. We must never forget the past and use it as our weapon to end genocides