Lessons Learned From The Holocaust

The holocaust was a very tragic period of time where millions of people were being killed just because they weren’t the same as the Germans. The most targeted people were the Jews, having accounted of over five million deaths during the reign of Nazi Germany. Due to this event, we can learn many lessons from it to prevent anything like this ever happening again in the future. The United States made a few mistakes during that time that it heavily regrets. It’s vital that we have to learn from those mistakes so we could make the right decisions in the future. As a matter of fact, we are going through a similar situation at the moment and reviewing the mistakes that we did in the past can help the United States make the right choice. Currently, …show more content…
The United States knew that Germany was killing off a lot of people but they just decided that it wasn’t our problem and that the issue would resolve on its own. Then Pearl Harbor happened so it forced us to get involved. By that time a lot of people had already died and would continue to be killed before the war came to an end. If we would’ve entered the war earlier, we could have prevented many deaths from happening. We shouldn’t have to be forced to realize that something should be done about the violence. The United States is currently in the same exact situation with Syria. The country is going through a civil war because of a terrorist group called ISIS. The group has recently attacked the people of France, leaving over 130 people dead and wounding hundreds of more people. However, the United States isn’t completely ignoring the violence going on in other parts of the world like we did with Nazi Germany and the holocaust. Our government is currently working with other countries to try and come up with the best way to stop the terrorist group. America has learned from the past and came to a conclusion that being a bystander to threats like Nazi Germany isn’t the best solution to bringing peace to the world. We don’t have to get attacked to realize that there is a serious conflict going on and it needs to …show more content…
We could look back at what happened in the past and determine if that choice was the best possible decision to make. If not, what could we do to avoid making that decision again. If the younger generations don’t know what happened or what choices were good or bad, how will the leaders of their generation know how to make the right decisions when it comes to making similar choices that we made during the