The Holocaust was a horrific time in world history with brutal murders to millions of innocent Jews. At the time of the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1925, Germany was in a state of economic turmoil. Many would ask how Germany or other European countries even allowed this type of dictatorship to happen. As absorbed as it may seem, in 1933 Hitler becomes president of the German Republic due to the lack of economic stimulation at the time and the citizens of Germany believed Hitler would change the state of Germany for the better. There was lack of jobs and money after World War I …show more content…
The experiment also suggest that many destructive human relationships have their source in learned roles. Zimbardo explains that if you put humans in a certain role they can 't help but act that way. In reviewing the results of his prison experiment, Zimbardo found that sadism in people who were not ordinarily sadistic. The experiment consisted of guards and prisoners. The findings was that both guards and prisoners had settled and learned to accept their new roles. The guards were able to quickly accept their role and learned to enjoy the brutal and sadistic position they played. The prisoners also began to accept their role. In the concentration camps, the Jews who had to dump the bodies of other Jews. In reference to the people in concentration camps, there are two types of people, they either had to conform to their role or be killed for not …show more content…
They were set up to separate and exclude the Jews from the rest of the population. They were designed as a temporary location to house the Jews. Several thousand of Jews were kept here for months and sometime years. There usually wouldn 't be good hygiene in these areas and many people were packed into a small place which caused sickness to occur. In addition to that, people were always hungry and the Germans purposely gave the Jews minimal food so they would starve and die. Thousands of Jews killed themselves while in the Ghettos because they could not bare the harsh conditions. These Ghettos were important to the Final Solution (which was the extermination of all European Jews) because they served as a holding grounds while the Germans contemplated and decided what was the best method of removing the Jewish population. In addition to this, the ghettos is also where Jews were exploited to do hard labor for the economic advancement of Germany before they were killed