The Perpetrators In The Holocaust

The Victims and The Perpetrators in the Holocaust
The attitudes of the perpetrators and the victims towards the holocaust were vastly different. The Nazis who were the perpetrators in the Holocaust saw the Jewish population as nothing but a large mass to justify the killings. While the Jews who were the victims in the Holocaust recognized that not all Germans were bad people who deserved hate. Through these differences, the Jews and the Nazis had similar attitudes because they were both trying to avoid disturbing the Nazis to steer clear from being killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
One of the most profound contrasting attitudes of the Nazis and the victims was that the Nazis did not view the Jews as being anything more than a large mass, that did not have feeling. They did this to justify their killings. When asked how he felt about killing the Jewish youth, Franz Stangl says “I rarely saw them as individuals. It was always a huge mass” (Franz Stangl). Franz Stangl dehumanized the Jewish people in order to justify the mass killings he took part in. Clearly the dehumanization of the Jews shows that Franz saw the Jews as being worthless and unneeded in society. …show more content…
You have good people, and you have bad people” (Berek Latarus). Berek Laturus clearly states that he viewed the Germans as all being bad people, he recognizes that all are not at fault. Although those who were Nazis were Germans and the Nazis brutally killed millions of Jewish civilians just like Berek Latarus he was still able to see that not all Germans were bad people. This is in contrast of the Nazis who saw each and every Jew as just a mass who did not offer any good to the world. Most Nazis never put into consideration that the Jews that they were killing may have been good people who did not deserve what they were getting. Unlike the Jews who found the good in the