Analysis Of Respecting The Holocaust By Howard Zinn

In “Respecting the Holocaust” by Howard Zinn, he argued against “the Uniqueness of the Jewish Holocaust”. In his essay, he provides positive and critical responses to the significance of the Holocaust in history. First, he starts by recalling “while he was teaching in Boston University and he was asked to talk about the event of the Holocaust, but he chooses to recall some events that happened in America and the death of hundreds of thousands of peasants in Guatemala and El Salvador.” Zinn’s point was to not focus on the Holocaust only, but “enlarge the Holocaust” to also include other events that happen in other parts of the world. He concludes his argument by stating that “what happened to the Jews is only unique in its details, but it shares …show more content…
I agree with him that we should learn from the past to help prepare us to stand against any rituals, cultural, or religious confrontation in the future. If we didn’t learn from it, then it will be hard to stop other Genocides from happening again in the future. For example, there have been lots of genocides throughout history, such as in Africa the Rwandan genocide where 500,000 people were killed in the civil war between the government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Also, the Armenian genocide lead by Ottoman authorities killed a total number of people estimated to be between 800,000 and 1.5 million. Finally, nowadays in Syria, Syrians are being attacked by the government and people are forced to leave their country. In acknowledging what happened during the holocaust and worldwide characteristics that it shares with other genocides such as cruelties and refusal to someone because of his/her religion belief or race difference, make it possible to stop the causes of violence that can happen in the future or as result of race or belief difference. If we also count and give attention to other events and genocides that happened in history and are happening in other parts of the world, we can avoid other genocides or eliminate any future genocide from …show more content…
Some ways to enlarge the holocaust can require that the world organizations should work together either states or the United Nations to stop extremism and radicalism by treating the origin of worldwide thoughts and traditions of culture or religion bias. For example, (www.wikipedia.com) “during the holocaust which occurred between 1940 and 1945 there was some ignorance of the role of government in Germany as Adolf Hitler was leading as the chancellor of Germany. Hitler called for new elections in an effort to get full control of the German parliament for his political campaign (the Nazis). Through a plan he called “Final Solution” it was aimed at the Jew population to defeat them. The Nazis used the government as a device to arrest the other parties’ leaders and ban their political meetings. Soon after, The Nazis moved slowly to merge their power into a dictatorship. They developed a powerful police and military force based on the idea of dictatorship and one of their roles was to help the government threatens Germany democracy.”(www.wikipedia.com) In the Holocaust, there were some corruption within the government system and ignorance for authority. Also in Syria, people feel they can’t express their ideas and there is no democracy or freedom given to them. (www.bbc.com) “When