The coverage of John Keegan’s, The Second World War and Hannah Arendt’s, A Report On The Banality of Evil, both discuss important topics on the catastrophic event of the Holocaust, that affected the world. The Holocaust was the massacre of primarily the Jewish race, where they suffered through forced deportation from their native land, hard labor in concentration camps, and experienced horrific mass shootings and the gas chamber. This assessment will discuss both Keegan’s and Arendt’s perspectives on what took place during the Holocaust. In addition the purpose of this assessment is to analyze why Hitler and the Nazi Regime contributed in the slaughter of both Jewish and non-Jewish culture groups and defend the argument of their immoral behavior.
With focus on Keegan’s fate of the Jews, he discusses their legal disadvantage in Germany as the Nazi Regime reigned in power. The diplomatic and military victories of 1938-1939 put many East European Jews under Nazi control, which included East Poland, Western Russia,Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Salonica and Lithuanian Vilna. The implementation of Nuremberg
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That’s 11 million people who were mass murdered under one man’s evil rule in power over six painful years. Arendt's report stated that the four organizations who contributed in the criminal involvement of the Final Solution was the Nazi Party, the Gestapo, S.D, and the S.S. All were held accountable for their actions in contribution of this heinous crime. One must ask why did Hitler and the Nazi regime murder so many innocent people ? In Arendt’s report it states, that mass murders and cruelties were not committed solely for the purpose of stamping out opposition but were part of a plan to get rid of whole native