Thoughts and Reflections on: A Leader Tries to Shape a Master Race.

Ben Howson
World History 2 Per. 2
5/04/15

The Holocaust 

It is possible for a modern society to carry out a systematic murder of a people for no other reason other than they are Jewish, and this exact thing happened during the Holocaust. Germany was in an economic crisis, but then Hitler stood up and got everyone's attention. He blamed the Jewish for what had happened, and he truly got people to believe that he was right, so they went along with it. Even when the killings started to happen, Hitler had just engraved in people's minds, that what they were doing was right. He stood up when people were down, and he got them to do what he wanted with no questions. There is always a reason why some people resist and other's obey authority. Many people obeyed Hitler, because they were scared to stand up against him, but some people, despite the fear, really knew that what he was doing was wrong, and that it would have to stop. They basically thought that giving up their life trying to help others was worth it, because they looked at it as one life for a hundred. For the people that obeyed Hitler, they could of had something really important to them, like a family, and just didn't want to leave them, so they chose fear, and to obey him. Many people stood by and did nothing when the Holocaust happened, for really three reasons. Either

the people whom worker for Hitler were truly convinced that what they were doing was the right thing. The people that were against him, they were treated like Jews the moment they stood up, there for couldn't do really anything. Also, basically anyone that was outside of Germany had no idea what was happening for the longest time, because they would show them fake videos of the camps, to make people believe that every thing that they were doing was good. I am sure that an event like this could happen today under the right circumstances, it is just that we would be better prepared for it, so it probably wouldn't get to the same point of extremity. Today, the situation in North Korea is pretty simular to what happened in the Holocaust, but with just a few minor differences. The thing that sets apart the Holocaust from other events in history, is that during that time, basically an entire group of people was wiped out; exterminated due to the vision of one man in power.