Holocaust Compare And Contrast Essay

The Holocaust was a systematic persecution and mass murder of over six million Jews by the Nazi regime that took place during World War two between 1941 and 1945. People throughout this time can be categorized into groups as perpetrators, collaborators, bystanders, and resistors. All of these groups had involvement in the holocaust and changed it either for the better or worse. The film Schindler's List directed by Steven Spielberg and the book Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning, both depict how each of these groups took part in the holocaust and showed how it was one of the most devastating genocides in history.

A perpetrator is a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act. A well-known example of a perpetrator is Adolf

After the war, many German and European citizens claimed that they were not involved and that they were bystanders to the events of the Holocaust. they used the word bystander to avoid any responsibility for what happened and hopefully wouldn't receive the death penalty like the Nazis. Bystanders also included those who did not speak out when they witnessed the persecution of Jews targeted just because they were Jewish, or during the mass murder, did not offer shelter to Jews. An example of bystanders in Schindler's list is Amon Goeth's girlfriend or wife who is sensitive to the murders of Jews and tries to stay away from the camp, but doesn't try to help the Jews or tell Goeth to stop. An example of a bystander from ordinary men is Bruno Probst who was a policeman in Reserve Police Battalion 101. Little is known about Probst involvement or noninvolvement in the holocaust but he is useful because he was more honest than others about what actually happened during the holocaust causing many historians to think he was just watching the events instead of taking part in them which explains why he was so

It stripped all the human rights of Jews by the use of the Nuremberg laws which were The Reich Citizenship Law and The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. The Reich citizenship law defined a citizen as a person who has German or related blood. This meant that Jews, could not be full citizens of Germany if they had one or more grandparents that were a jew. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor was a law against what the Nazis viewed as race-mixing. It banned marriages and sexual relations between Jews and people of German or related blood. The Nazis believed that such relationships were dangerous because they led to “mixed race” children and their children would not be considered “racially pure”. This shows how taking away basic rights ultimately lead to the failure of