Harming people physically or emotionally and taking their rights away without a valid reason is never acceptable. Under the United States Constitution people are protected from this happening to them by rule of law, meaning that they cannot be punished by anyone until they are proven guilty. During the Holocaust in Germany however, it was okay to hurt the “imperfect” people. The Jewish people were one of the most persecuted during World War II. The imperfect people also included anyone else who wasn’t white, blond-haired, blue-eyed, Christian, had no physical or mental disability, was part of the Nazi party, and was attracted to a person of the opposite gender. Many people were being murdered for things that were absolutely not crimes, yet people didn’t try to stop it. This was probably because their leader in Germany, Hitler, didn’t make it very obvious as to what he was doing to these people as they were taken away. The Germans that did know what was being done to them were okay with it because they were scared of them and saw them as threats to the economy and the society. They mostly only knew what Hitler wanted them to know about the Jewish and other imperfect people. …show more content…
Most Germans were especially convinced that the Jewish people were stealing their business, killing children, and other crazy made-up stories. Some of the more wealthy and upper-class Jewish people might have been getting more customers and money than the non-Jewish people, causing them to believe that their business was being stolen. Rumors were also being made that Rabi’s were killing children as sacrifices. Germans saw Jewish people as sinners and killers. They were referred to as “jews”, not even “the Jewish people”, because people are worthy of life and “jews” were