Who Was Responsible For The Holocaust Essay

Although there were people other than the Germans who refused to help the Jews during the Holocaust, the Nazis and Germans were more responsible for their deaths. The Germans were actually responsible for the capturing, tormenting, and killing of the Jews while other countries refused to save the Jews from the concentration camps. Leaders of countries who knew about the German’s treatment of the Jews who refused to help were not as responsible of the deaths of Jews because they weren’t the ones who were actually killing the Jews. When Wiesel was at the concentration camp and decided to leave with the rest of his group, the ones who stayed behind in the infirmary were later saved by the Russians. (Wiesel) The Allied countries were not responsible for their deaths because while some of the countries did not show up, there were a couple that came and saved the prisoners. Also, they Allied countries were not responsible at all because they didn’t physically kill the Jews, even though they had the power to possibly save them, they still weren’t the ones torturing and murdering the Jewish people. According to CNN, “...the Philippines saved 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust” (Park). The Philippines is only one country, and still it was able …show more content…
“This was the idea that all things German would be turned Nationalist Socialist, the political ideology of Nazis, transforming the country into a totalitarian state” (Kinser). Hitler was able to make everyone believe what he believed which made many people agree about what he says about the Jews. “He even went as far to blame the Jews for Germany’s military defeat in World War I, claiming that the Jews were the culprits of Imperial Germany’s downfall” (To what extent was Hitler solely responsible for the Holocaust). Hitler brainwashed people into believing the Jews were bad, this helped him create his