The Negative Effects Of The Holocaust

The belief that the Jewish race was associated with the Devil developed from biblical times, thus shaping Jews into a scapegoat for social issues throughout the centuries. Jews were not viewed as equals to the rest of society nor were they given the opportunity to prove their worth. They were forced to believe that they were inferior to the majority of the world and that if a predicament occurred they were at fault, even if they had nothing to do with the matter. Jews were blamed for disliked decrees enforced by the government, economic desolation, and war destruction throughout Europe resulted from the First World War. Adolf Hitler used the European’s resentment towards Jews and the detrimental effects of the First World War to his advantage …show more content…
Adolf Hitler advanced in power and status, which made his political opinions known across the world as he strongly despised the results that the Versailles Treaty inflicted upon Germany. Since Hitler was a soldier during the First World War, Germans found comfort in the fact that Hitler shared similar feelings of betrayal and humiliation, and that he wanted the Germans to succeed in the end rather than give up. Germans felt protected by Hitler’s comparable beliefs and he used their sense of security to his advantage, as his followers were willing to carry out his immoral orders in honor of their leader. Adolf Hitler spent time in prison for treason but he did not let that descend his career, as he used the time incarcerated to compose Mein Kampf, a written plan to eliminate the Jewish race and dominate the world. His book was known as the ‘Nazi Bible’ and allowed his followers an insight of what the Nazi Party would become. As the Nazi Party developed widespread, Adolf Hitler’s Anti-Semitic beliefs were enforced upon his citizens resulting in their loyalty to their infallible leader and voluntary support in the discrimination against Jews. Nazi’s took part in enabling Hitler in his hateful acts by supporting the Anti-Semitic laws created and being part of groups such as …show more content…
The safety of his people and the power he maintained was more important to him rather than possessing an un-guilty conscious.
If the race is in danger of being oppressed or even exterminated the question of legality is only of secondary importance. The established power may in such a case employ only those means which are recognized as 'legal '. yet the instinct of self-preservation on the part of the oppressed will always justify, to the HIGHEST degree, the employment of all possible