The Neutrality Of The Holocaust

Would you speak out for strangers when horrific things happened around you? Unfortunately, Jewish Holocaust was a significant case that happened in history that no one stand up for it until 6 million Jewish people were murdered by the Nazi Germany SS officers between 1933 and 1945. The Holocaust was unprecedented attempt made by Nazi Germany and it collaborator to annihilate the Jewish people and to destroy what the Nazis defined as Judaism. The people who have one Jewish grandparent were defined as Jews or you don’t have enough evidence to prove your grandparents were not Jews. Places become dangerous is not all the people become evil, but the people who do not do anything about it. “ Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim” by Elie Wiesel. This quotes demonstrate that silence only make the situations worse, it only helps the oppressor like hitler to motivate him to achieve their evil goals. The ideas of modernity and other moral values collapsed. The basic humanity were shaken to the core. The Jewish Holocaust was a good example revealed clear and painful manner the deep abuse of human cruelty. The Jewish Holocaust happened in Nazi Germany not only affected the Jewish people, but change the point of view of millions of people during World War Two. In the ghettos, people didn’t have any reaction about death people in the street every morning. …show more content…
People live in the ghettos either just walked around it or stepped on it because the environment was overcrowded. It was normal to see life being lost. People in 21 st century probably will freak out. This show the difference of moral standard. It is no surprise that this traumatic event challenged the fundamental nations of the world. “ ...see the horror… Jews falling in the streets from hunger…”( Sara Angel, Pg 1) This pieces of textual evidence demonstrate that Jewish people don’t have an ability to help others who struggle in striving because all the Jewish people were facing the same situations. They were only allowed to take 300 calories, which normal people take 2,000 to 2,500 calories a day. They were also forced to work 10 hours everyday. If you didn’t work fast enough, you will be beaten or killed. “ Nazi’s goals to make Polish Jewry disappear without a trace…” ( Sara Angel, Pg 3) This pieces of textual evidence analysis that Hitler and Nazis’s goal were eliminated the whole Jewish race disappeared in the world. The reasons that Hitler believed the German were racially superior to all non- Aryan people, which the characteristic were blue eyes and blonde hair. The world we lived in is full of selfishness or love. We as a student in United States of America were educated to caring, loving and fair through the country. For example, there was a talk about “ No placed for hate” in Francis Lewis High School. The teacher were talked about how hate is the gate to lead to genocide. Therefore, we need to prevent the horrific things happened, which is treat everyone the same not based on their color, nationality, race, religion and background. Once you stepped in the land of America, you are one part of America. On the other hand, Jewish people were treated horrible in German because of their religion. It started with teaching the students how to identifies the jews and