The first reason the Holocaust should be considered an act of genocide is; The United Nations, Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, explains genocide whether in war or time of peace, that it is illegal under international law, which they will use to stop and to discipline (United Nations 1). The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, presents how inhumane the Holocaust was to Jews. Wiesel states, “ How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” (Wiesel 32). These quotes are important because, they explicitly state how the Holocaust is an act of genocide, and the definition of genocide.
They state, “In Germany, many individuals who were not zealous Nazis nonetheless participated in varying degrees in the persecution and murder of Jews and other victims” (“How and Why Did Ordinary People Across Europe Contribute to the Persecution of their Jewish Neighbors?” 1). However, in the passage about SS officers and soldiers, the author explains that “SS men…established killing centers equipped with gas chambers to facilitate assembly line mass murder” (“Perpetrators” 5). Therefore, SS officers developed the places where Jews were killed and without them, the Holocaust would not have been so severe. Thus, SS officers were more responsible for the Holocaust than non-Jewish Europeans. Moreover, according to “How and Why Did Ordinary People Across Europe Contribute to the Persecution of their Jewish Neighbors?”, “They [German citizens] were aware of the risk that outspoken dissidents faced in a police state, where opponents of the regime could be arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps without trial” (12).
Be that as it may, imagine a scenario where the Holocaust wasn't Hitler's fault. The genuine cause for WW2 and the elimination of the Jewish race was at large the people of Germany, which caused the rise of Hitler.
He also says that there is not guilt for what he is doing because he will be sending young German men off to the war and there is also a possibility of their deaths so why not be able to kill off the so called “vermin” that were the Jews. These two sources prove that the motive behind the killing and massacre of the Rwandan Genocide and The Holocaust are of the similar reasoning. This only strengthens the question of the two events being of the same
The Jews did nothing to deserve this. Hitler had no right to just pick the Jewish people out of all the people. He had them all brought to camps where they were treated cruelly. They were treated like they weren’t even human and were killed in so many harsh ways. Too many people were killed and this is
Adolf Eichmann was a German official who played an important role in the Nazi “Final Solution” and was in charge of facilitating Nazi deportations of Jews to death camps and ghettos. After the Holocaust, he was captured by American Authorities but used false identity papers to flee to Argentina under the name Ricardo Klement. After being tipped off by German official Fritz Bauer, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion set a plan into motion that would secretly capture Eichmann from Argentina and take him to Israel to be tried. Once he was captured, Adolf Eichmann's trial began on April 11, 1961. Eichmann claimed that he was simply following orders from other people.
The leader of the Holocaust was Adolf Hitler. He had an idea of the perfect race and killed anyone who did not agree with his beliefs or did not bow down to him and follow his orders. He convinced multiple countries and a majority of Germany that all of Germany’s problems were caused by Jewish people and that did not deserve to live because of that. Over six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
As a result, we can recognize the Holocaust as a whole as very caustic. We acknowledge many contributing factors, but the largest was the growth of a military and political dictator, Adolf Hitler. His road to power was based on the idea that the Germans’ economic and other national deficiencies were caused by the Jewish populations.
At This conference Himmler had proposed the idea of “ The Final Solution Of The Jewish Question”, to leaders of the RSHA and the Nazi party. After this conference in 1942 to 1943 Eichmann begins to organize ways to deport jews of the Greater German Reich, Slovakia, the Netherlands, France Belgium, and Croatia to killing centers in poland. The next year 1944- to 1945, eichmann deports jews from Greece, Italy, and Hungary to the death camp Auschwitz-birkenau.("Adolf Eichmann: Timeline.") Eichmann was responsible for millions of deaths, he was claimed to have said during his trial “ I will Leap into my grave laughing,because the feeling i have five million human beings n my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction” ( Encyclopedia of World
This supports the claaim because his cruel , violent legacy was seen as a warning to multiple people and to se what violent legacy could of done too people who had national pride and racial superiority. Another example in pargraph 13 ¨Since he hated minorites, espically jews, and saw them as the enermy to germany´s expansion he sent troops out all over the terriorty to kidnap jews, slavs, and other ¨Undesirable people.¨ another is ¨Hitler ordered the death of 6 mllion jews; it was one of the deadliest genocides in history.¨ This quotes means that look what his haterade have done it caused a lot of unnecesarry things which is not good . One may infer that in my opinion that Hitler was up to no good he got mad for seeing them as the enermy to germanys expansion. This supports the claim because of hitlers violent legacy
In this genocide, more than 17 million Jews, Russians, Pols, Romanies, etc. were killed during the time span of 1941 through 1945. A majority of these killings were carried out by Nazi Germany during the period of World War II. The hatred for Jews can be traced back nearly 3,000 years! The Jewish people were seen as individuals that refused to incorporate dominate culture and believed solely in their beliefs instead of their neighbors. As Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, began to gain traction throughout Germany it was prevalent that the Jewish people would be used for his political gain.
You don’t die of it” (ch.1), to the horrors faced by the Jewish people in the concentration camps, “He was sent by train to the Little Camp at Buchenwald and then to Dora Mittelbau…rocks dug out from the tunnels for 12 to 14 hours at a time, without rest and on starvation rations”(p.5). In the Holocaust Encyclopedia on the website for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum it tells of the Nuremberg laws which was a law that stated that, “Jews are prohibited from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of ‘German or related blood’” (p.5). What this law shows is the hostility shown to Jewish people before the massacres occurred and demonstrates the anti-Semitism that led to genocide. It is impossible to deny the murder of millions of people when there are multiple reports and documentations of the concentration camps as well as the previous acts of aggression and murder that took place before the tunneling of Jewish people into the camps.
Hitler had the ruthlessness and means to solely plan a genocide in 1925 . As a youth he was rejected by a Jew, he mistakenly believed the loss of World War 1 was due Jewish weakness and creating a genocide gave him a reason to break the Treaty of Versailles. On the other hand, Hitler was not an opportunist or a functionalist as didn't have any assistance for the Holocaust because he was a powerful, single minded individual and was blamed by other Nazi members in court. Due to the substantial amount of evidence found, the internationalist idea of Hitler intending and planning the Holocaust in 1925 is the most likely opinion. Adolf Hitler was solely responsible for planning and issuing the genocide of the Jews.
The debate over whether Hitler decided from the beginning to murder the Jews or not is a tough debate. There are good points from both sides, but the one that makes the most sense is a mix between the two. I believe that Hitler and the Nazis had first set out to just get rid of the Jews through migration, but in the back of their minds genocide would be better. One of the best examples of a mixed reason is the Madagascar Plan. The Madagascar Plan was a plan to migrate Jews to the then French island of Madagascar after they had invaded and successfully captured France.
As the Fuhrer, he allowed Germans to self-rationalize its problematic beliefs and remains there as the constant reassurance of the perceived righteousness of the Aryan race. Once his power was established, he became a figure similar to the figure of god for religious extremists, the living representation of Germany’s own dangerous nationalist ideology. The Holocaust was designed and carried out by all German people, and Hitler simply had to grant permission to every genocidal advance his people made. Still, this does not make him the sole creator of the Holocaust. The elements of the character of Hitler, nationalism, bitterness, and paranoia, were all present in German society at the time, and he was simply the perfect product of German society.
