The Holocaust is arguably the most powerful and tragic disaster in modern human history. However, once we distance ourselves from the emotional aspects of this event we’re able to fully evaluate the legitimate reasons why the Holocaust brought suffering to a great number of peoples. This essay will focus on the holocaust, first with a brief explanation of its nature. Second, what effect the holocaust had on the war. Third, what effect the war hand on the holocaust and Fourth, to what extent the holocaust indirectly or directly inspired resistance or increased resentment during the war.
The holocaust was the ‘final solution’ proposed by the third Reich which entailed the mass elimination of undesirable or sub-human peoples, typically though …show more content…
Despite this sense of burning hatred towards the Nazis for their crimes against humanity (a term coined from this atrocity) the initial war time response to its conduct fails to match the sentiment held by the wars end. In November 1942 Allied command had received sufficient and undisputable evidence of the activates these facilities were conducting but their response was initially apathetic. War ministries provided little to no military assistance provided to the liberation or disablement of the camps, instead focusing on military target . A hypocrisy can be noted in a parallel drawn between this tactical decision and the choice to reduce the city of Dresden to rubble between the 13th and 15th of February 1945. At the time Dresden was far in the heartland of German controlled territory with no war industries and no military presence besides a small scale POW detail. Comparing the two events one wonders what the thought process was when allied command set their priorities, perhaps that these peoples were less deserving of military intervention then it was to intimidate a civilian centre. But within the interior the holocaust had a separate and somewhat conflicting effect on the relationship the Nazis had with the local populous of the territories they conquered. Some Pol and Slav locals, under the sway of Nazi propaganda were inspired to take violent actions against local Jewish and Soviet citizens . Contrary to the former, the mass killings of ethnic groups such as Jews and gypsies also alienated some the Pols and Ukrainians against the Nazis, ruining the chance to assimilate them and, in the case of the Ukraine, replenishing their manpower as opposition of the Stalinist government could have given some cause to join the Nazi military
The holocaust was the ‘final solution’ proposed by the third Reich which entailed the mass elimination of undesirable or sub-human peoples, typically though …show more content…
Despite this sense of burning hatred towards the Nazis for their crimes against humanity (a term coined from this atrocity) the initial war time response to its conduct fails to match the sentiment held by the wars end. In November 1942 Allied command had received sufficient and undisputable evidence of the activates these facilities were conducting but their response was initially apathetic. War ministries provided little to no military assistance provided to the liberation or disablement of the camps, instead focusing on military target . A hypocrisy can be noted in a parallel drawn between this tactical decision and the choice to reduce the city of Dresden to rubble between the 13th and 15th of February 1945. At the time Dresden was far in the heartland of German controlled territory with no war industries and no military presence besides a small scale POW detail. Comparing the two events one wonders what the thought process was when allied command set their priorities, perhaps that these peoples were less deserving of military intervention then it was to intimidate a civilian centre. But within the interior the holocaust had a separate and somewhat conflicting effect on the relationship the Nazis had with the local populous of the territories they conquered. Some Pol and Slav locals, under the sway of Nazi propaganda were inspired to take violent actions against local Jewish and Soviet citizens . Contrary to the former, the mass killings of ethnic groups such as Jews and gypsies also alienated some the Pols and Ukrainians against the Nazis, ruining the chance to assimilate them and, in the case of the Ukraine, replenishing their manpower as opposition of the Stalinist government could have given some cause to join the Nazi military