Many religious conflicts are initiated from bigotry; however only a small percentage of these conflicts end up the historical books that are observed today. The Holocaust (also known as the Shoah) refers to the systematic and bureaucratic annihilation of 6 million Jews by the German Nazi Party during WWII (Alba, 2010). After liberation from the camps, Jewish survivors were in a painful state. The transition from a what survivors described as a brutal environment and quotidian starvation to a ‘normal’ life was traumatic (Vashem,2017). This was the nature of the Holocaust. The notorious mastermind of this event, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party used a variety of techniques ranging from persuasiveness to patriotism to convince Germany into complying …show more content…
He needed to do something that would benefit the people and that’s exactly what he did. During his speeches, he made several promising remarks such as: free healthcare, safety, adequate sanity and the ceasing of the economic crisis (in fact, many Germans observers during the time of the Holocaust said that the level of poverty has drastically decreased after Hitler was appointed chancellor). Hence, though this was an act of selfishness, the German’s had no reasons to oppose the Nazi ideologies as they were in an ideal …show more content…
It had become evident that the blame could not rest on just the Nazi’s as the Germans were also a part of the attempting genocide enforced by those who served Hitler’s cause (Gabriel, 2015). For example, a large majority of the German’s were also anti-Semitic (it was a well-accepted belief) like Hitler and hence shared similar perceptions and beliefs to him. For example, both the German’s and the Nazi’s believed that Jew’s were not a religious group but a poisonous race. Since these Germans loathed the Jew’s just as much as Hitler, they also committed crimes against the Jew’s like murder and harassment (they also did not receive punishment for these crimes). This made one thing clear: The Nazi ideology was willed by people and carried out by people. This makes them just as responsible for the Holocaust as the