Dominatio Conformity In The Holocaust

The event that had a puzzling reaction and has often sparked many experiments to test how this event could have occurred is the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a tragedy that occurred in Germany on January 30, 1933. It resulted in the genocide of eleven million people, six million of whom were Jews and other minorities such as Soviet POWs, Polish, Serbs, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma Gypsies, Homosexuals, African Americans, the physically and mentally disabled and anyone who resisted his ideology.
In the 1930’s when Hitler came into power Germany had been facing serious economic hardship. He proposed that he could help Germany to become stable again but they had to get rid of anyone who stood in the way of Germany’s advancement. Hitler believed that the Aryans were superior to all people and believed that by ridding Germany of non-Aryans would help to end the struggles they were facing. He believed that Germany had become impure and corrupt due to race mixing and that the Jews were enemies who sought to take over Germany by destroying the nation state and establishing Jew …show more content…
Conformity is a change in behavior or belief because of real or imagined group pressure. This ties into why most of the Nazi’s complied with Hitler’s orders, although as a group they outnumbered Hitler and could have easily overturned his reign the social pressure to obey authority and the outcome of what could happen to those who did not determined their decision. Another term that strongly correlates to the actions of Hitler and the Nazi’s is aggression. Aggression is physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone. The Holocaust was an event based on aggression because Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause of Germany’s problems so he used aggression as a solution to his problem. The Nazi’s also used aggression by exterminating the Jews and using them to conduct unethical experiments for