Bystanders In Germany

Night Essay

The Holocaust was a horrible event in our world's history. It was almost unbearable to read and think about. The thought of infants burning and innocent people being gassed to death, starved to no end is just hellacious. Millions of people including six million jews perished in the Holocaust. While they were enduring through and fighting for survival the outside nations just stood paralyzed in fear of the thought that they were next to be invaded. Nations who stayed clear of the fight for the justice of the innocent are just as wicked as those who are doing the injustice.

People have a hard time fighting for justice when their faith is lost. The Nazies of Germany

Countries that do nothing and make no attempt to fight for justice are very weak in the eyes of the rest of the world. Here is a quote from Elie and it states “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim” (Elie Wiesel, Speech). This means that if a person sees another in anyform of trouble then the person should do whatever is necessary to resolve the issue.Most of the time people will do a form of injustice to seek attention whether it be good or bad this relatable in all aspects of life. For example let's say you in elementary school and one kid is getting a considerable amount of attention while another child is getting none whatsoever, so that kid getting no attention will throw a fit until he gets the attention the child most desperatly desires. As people grow and mature some of their motives stay the same but it is their tactics, their way of getting what they want, that is what changes. And in this case Hitler had grown into so much power and had sunk his roots into the people when they were in a time of need after world war one, and they found refuge in him. They saw him as a very powerful individual who seemed to know what he wanted ad how he was going to get it. So in short they trusted him with their lives. And Hitler got so power hungry that he was willing to do whatever to create a master race, one that he saw fit to rule and populate the earth. And in the process of creating his aryan race, he massacred 6 million jewish people and 5 million non-jews. He did this by concentration camps, they are basically camps built for murdering people. The Nazies had killing people down to a science, how long to leave them in the gas chambers and what type of gas kills the people the fastest, things of that nature. And finale when nations had seen enough they stepped in but most of the damage had been dealt. But what if people had stepped in sooner?