Examples Of Human Evil Exploring The Holocaust's Legacy On Humanity

The Tragedy of Human Evil: Exploring the Holocaust's Legacy on Humanity

The Holocaust was one of the most devastating genocides in the world that occurred around World War II, led by Adolf Hitler. The Nazis persecuted millions of Jews as well as millions of other minority groups like the disabled and homosexuals because they saw them as threats to their vision of the pure Aryan race. This genocide was carried out through many vicious methods, for example, gas chambers in termination camps, ghettos, mass shootings, and concentration camps. They created laws to ensure that Jews were alienated from the rest of Germany and Europe. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2021), “Among other antisemitic measures, the Nazi German

Jews lost their citizenship, rights, and privileges. They were forbidden to marry or have sexual relationships with non-Jewish Germans and job opportunities became limited to them. These laws forcefully excluded Jews from many aspects of German society and made it easier for the Nazis to group them to deport them to ghettos, extermination camps, and concentration camps during the Holocaust. Nazis separating Jewish families caused chaos and confusion in the country of Europe. During the time of Adolf Hitler, millions of Jews were persecuted and many tried to flee Germany to ally countries but many were not able to make it out of Germany (Anne Frank, 1957). Many Jews were afraid to go back to their homes after the holocaust even in liberation from the Nazis. They traveled west to the lands that were liberated by the Western allies to be put into refugee camps. The “American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee” housed many survivors with food and clothes which helped millions of Jews and

Iowa Department of Human Rights (2023) states “Although slavery had been abolished, many whites at the time believed that blacks were inferior and sought to support their belief through religious and scientific rationalizations”. As shown, discriminatory laws control and persecute a particular group of people depending on their race, ethnicity, religion, etc. The leaders of the group often put these laws into place so that they can justify their actions when they know what they are doing is wrong. Jim Crow laws focused on white supremacy and tried to prevent African Americans from enjoying the same privileges as whites. As for Nuremberg Laws, they focused on stripping Jews and minorities of their civil rights, property, and their lives (dehumanization). These laws are used to gain control over society and maintain the superiority they have over a certain group. Discriminatory laws should not be executed because of the effects they have on society and on each and every individual in the