The Environmental History Of The Holocaust By Adolf Hilter

First and foremost, ethnocentrism can be defined as an advantaged ethnic group’s perspective becoming superior to another ethnic group’s perspective and therefore, the inferior group’s point of view is disregarded. A classic example of ethnocentrism is The Holocaust, in which Adolf Hilter negatively persuaded German citizens’ way of thinking towards the European Jews. Hitler and the Nazis believed they were clearly superior to the Jewish residents of Germany, and this belief motivated Hitler to lead a genocide of about six million Jews. During this time, Hitler organized concentration camps where Jews were either murdered in gas chambers upon arrival or forced to be laborers working in poor conditions. The history of the Holocaust can be found

Throughout this journal, the ever-evolving human-to-nature relationship is demonstrated through the perspectives of the Jews being forced laborers at various concentration camps. Malczynski describes personal testimonies, photographs, and documents of nature and the environment surrounding concentration camps when he writes how nature was perceived as, “a shelter for victims and perpetrators, and as something that also masks crimes” (The Environmental History of the Holocaust 4). From the Jews’ inferior perspective, nature was viewed as a force maintaining the power to protect and keep them sheltered from the evilness and ruthlessness of the Nazi camp soldiers. Nature provided a sense of warmth and protection for the Jews, and these feelings reflect a positive outlook on the human-to-nature relationship. On the other hand, nature was viewed in a negative light as Jews were murdered inside gas chambers where they experienced no protection from nature or their environment. This outlook relates back to ethnocentrism as the inferior perspectives and well-being of the Jews were disregarded by Hitler and the Nazi