The Holocaust was a significant event in history that has been analyzed in different ways. Much of what the Holocaust has taught is that all Germans right away supported the anti-Semitic thoughts of Nazis which, is not the case. Discrimination, persecution and eventually the murder of Jewish-Europeans between the years 1933 and 1945 as seen through accounts of historians, is argued that ordinary citizens participated in the territories where Jewish-Europeans resided. These ordinary Germans, participated in the persecution and murder of the Jewish Europeans as a result of the thoughts and ideals of the Germanic rule that was set forth onto German Jews and German Europeans. Much of the stigma that comes with studying the Holocaust is that
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The Germanic regime was expanding itself during the time of 1933 and 1945, making ordinary Germans have the ability to travel and be exposed to the world. Ordinary German men and women had the ability to help out the German government by gaining new jobs, which in turn helped out the government enact the anti-Semitic ruling. Without even knowing it, women exposed other countries to anti-Semitic and Nazi rule, through the jobs they received; even if these women themselves, did not believe in the thoughts of the Germanic regime. Elizabeth Harvey in We Forget All Jews and Poles: German Women and the ‘Ethnic Struggle’ in Nazi-Occupied Poland tells that women participated in two distinct ways to the persecution of Jews: either by physically being a persecutor or by teaching what the regime gave them. Harvey looks at the accounts of women who worked as “teachers, advisers and political organizers, asking how far such women were witnesses of and complicit in [the] acts of violence and injustice,” it is later shown that women were an “allotted ‘human border wall’” being loyal to their rulings and teachings. Such accounts, like Wendy Lower shows that ordinary German women who travelled and worked for Germany were “persecutors, gleeful onlookers, but also violent tormentors.” It can be speculated that these women …show more content…
The thought that people had their own intentions against the persecution of Jewish Europeans have been analyzed and looked as another reason for participation of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust. Two historians, Goldhagen and Browning both use the same sources to give two different opinions on the individual actions of ordinary German soldiers in the Police Battalion 101. Their analysis of pictures that were taken by soldiers of soldiers are the most interesting pieces of evidence they both use. Some pictures depict a sense of pride and glorification of soldiers violently hurting Jews. Browning on the cover of his book, Ordinary Men shows three German soldiers, one seemingly smiling and upon looking at the whole photo, two Jews are down on their knees in the middles of about a dozen of these German men. Actions in pictures give insight into just exactly what was going on in Jewish European areas; these pictures show that these soldiers must have liked the things they are doing. Much can be debated against both Goldhagen and Browning, one saying that soldiers wanted to participate in the persecution and murder , while Browning states that these men all had a choice to with some enacting these rulings and some not. The thought of choice is questioned; if citizens had the choice to enact such violence, and were not met with punishment
The Germanic regime was expanding itself during the time of 1933 and 1945, making ordinary Germans have the ability to travel and be exposed to the world. Ordinary German men and women had the ability to help out the German government by gaining new jobs, which in turn helped out the government enact the anti-Semitic ruling. Without even knowing it, women exposed other countries to anti-Semitic and Nazi rule, through the jobs they received; even if these women themselves, did not believe in the thoughts of the Germanic regime. Elizabeth Harvey in We Forget All Jews and Poles: German Women and the ‘Ethnic Struggle’ in Nazi-Occupied Poland tells that women participated in two distinct ways to the persecution of Jews: either by physically being a persecutor or by teaching what the regime gave them. Harvey looks at the accounts of women who worked as “teachers, advisers and political organizers, asking how far such women were witnesses of and complicit in [the] acts of violence and injustice,” it is later shown that women were an “allotted ‘human border wall’” being loyal to their rulings and teachings. Such accounts, like Wendy Lower shows that ordinary German women who travelled and worked for Germany were “persecutors, gleeful onlookers, but also violent tormentors.” It can be speculated that these women …show more content…
The thought that people had their own intentions against the persecution of Jewish Europeans have been analyzed and looked as another reason for participation of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust. Two historians, Goldhagen and Browning both use the same sources to give two different opinions on the individual actions of ordinary German soldiers in the Police Battalion 101. Their analysis of pictures that were taken by soldiers of soldiers are the most interesting pieces of evidence they both use. Some pictures depict a sense of pride and glorification of soldiers violently hurting Jews. Browning on the cover of his book, Ordinary Men shows three German soldiers, one seemingly smiling and upon looking at the whole photo, two Jews are down on their knees in the middles of about a dozen of these German men. Actions in pictures give insight into just exactly what was going on in Jewish European areas; these pictures show that these soldiers must have liked the things they are doing. Much can be debated against both Goldhagen and Browning, one saying that soldiers wanted to participate in the persecution and murder , while Browning states that these men all had a choice to with some enacting these rulings and some not. The thought of choice is questioned; if citizens had the choice to enact such violence, and were not met with punishment