Eulogy For The Holocaust

The first thing that I want you know know before reading this is that I don’t want it to be read like a traditional research paper.You will gain knowledge on events that took place during WWll, but I want you to be able to see beyond the facts and try to connect on a more personal level to the thoughts and experiences of these people. They weren’t really all that different from us, and they deserve to be remembered as people, not just statistics or facts on a page. I discovered this when I started writing my genres. It blew my mind that I could see into the minds of people that lived over seventy years ago, and I hope that you hear their thoughts through my words. Now I am only going to ask one more thing from of you. Please try to keep an

I will tell you where I began, and it might be the same place where you are starting. You probably know that millions of Jews and other people that didn’t fit into German society were killed in concentration camps, and the responsibility for these deaths falls into the laps of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Army. I knew this as well, but I originally took this information and let myself believe that all Germans during this time were horrible people. Not only did I hate the Nazis, I also hated the German people for not doing anything to stop them. I looked at this part of history from one perspective for so long that I didn’t realise that something bothered me about it until now. Every time my attention was brought back to the Holocaust in school, a question was brought to the forefront of my mind. How could a whole country be swayed to think one way? I didn’t quite understand how every German could be heartless enough to not care about the deaths of millions of people. I let this question go unanswered for a long

I realised that it wasn’t very likely for a whole country to support such a bad idea. I knew from learning about other countries and people in history that it just doesn’t happen. When it comes to big decisions, people are almost always divided. There is usually at least a small group of resistance. This led me to believe that we weren’t hearing the whole story in school, and I was soon proven right. I learned about Claus Von Stauffenberg's attempt to assassinate Hitler at the Wolf’s Lair last year in World History, and it was the first time that I had ever heard about any form of German resistance. When I learned about this group of government and military officials who opposed Hitler, I knew that there had to be other germans that didn’t agree with Hitler. Maybe there were even people that decided to do something about it. It took me a year to finally do it, but I decided to research these people that I was sure existed. I was tired of only hearing one side of the story, and this multigenre project gave me the perfect opportunity to research German anti-Nazi resistance, no matter how small that resistance might have