Issue at Hand:
Over 80 years ago an event had taken place that would change the history of all civilization. An event that would lead to the death of tens of millions of innocent lives, a near annihilation of an entire group of people, and a redistribution of world power that is still affecting us today. The “Holocaust” began when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and lasted for a dozen blood-drenched years. In that time World War 2 started (1939-1945) and it has received the distinction of being the deadliest war in the history of mankind (60-85 million fatalities). There are not enough words to express the horrors of what took place in those 12 ill-fated years, however, a lack of words must not be a an excuse to forget. It is extremely disheartening to find that with all the efforts that have been made by our society in order to maintain a memory of those past events, the details of the …show more content…
With the political turmoil that is crashing down on society today it is not unusual to hear references to the Holocaust and anti-Semitism at every turn. References to the Nazis, Hitler, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the Holocaust have been rampant all across the current political spectrum. Today, these words seem to be applied to many minorities who are being persecuted and attacked but with the Jewish community being as small as it is these “antagonistic” words always bring forth a wind of fear and anxiety. In addition, one doesn’t have to look very far to find that there are entire countries and groups of people who do not believe that the Holocaust had ever taken place. Jews, Serbs, Ethnic Poles, the disabled, Romani, Freemasons, Slovene’s, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Spanish Republicans (nearly 10 million people in total) were never tortured or murdered. How such thinking can exist is beyond my simple minds comprehension but nevertheless it
Over 80 years ago an event had taken place that would change the history of all civilization. An event that would lead to the death of tens of millions of innocent lives, a near annihilation of an entire group of people, and a redistribution of world power that is still affecting us today. The “Holocaust” began when Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 and lasted for a dozen blood-drenched years. In that time World War 2 started (1939-1945) and it has received the distinction of being the deadliest war in the history of mankind (60-85 million fatalities). There are not enough words to express the horrors of what took place in those 12 ill-fated years, however, a lack of words must not be a an excuse to forget. It is extremely disheartening to find that with all the efforts that have been made by our society in order to maintain a memory of those past events, the details of the …show more content…
With the political turmoil that is crashing down on society today it is not unusual to hear references to the Holocaust and anti-Semitism at every turn. References to the Nazis, Hitler, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the Holocaust have been rampant all across the current political spectrum. Today, these words seem to be applied to many minorities who are being persecuted and attacked but with the Jewish community being as small as it is these “antagonistic” words always bring forth a wind of fear and anxiety. In addition, one doesn’t have to look very far to find that there are entire countries and groups of people who do not believe that the Holocaust had ever taken place. Jews, Serbs, Ethnic Poles, the disabled, Romani, Freemasons, Slovene’s, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Spanish Republicans (nearly 10 million people in total) were never tortured or murdered. How such thinking can exist is beyond my simple minds comprehension but nevertheless it