Victims of the Holocaust Bystanders were the people who stood by and watched as the atrocities mounted. A. They played it safe, as private citizens and complied with the laws and tried to avoid the the terror happening outside. B. They wanted to get on with their daily lives, they may not have been aware of what was going on around them, or if they were they may just have been fearful of the consequences. Children were especially vulnerable during this period of time and subjected to many injustices and cruelties. A. At first, both Jews and Gypsies children were not allowed in school, and German children were taught that Jews and Gypsies were inferiors. B. They use to teach Gentile children about inferiority by having Jewish children …show more content…
As much as the liberators saw in war all the horrible things that happened it wasn't as bad as the concentration camps, it was said to be more shocking and beyond any war scene a soldier has ever seen. B. There were rows upon rows of bodies stacked up on cordwood, the liberatores struggles to make sense of the scene they witnessed. Perpetrators were Nazi party leaders, bankers, professors, military officials, doctors, and more. A. The perpetrators committed crime against Jews for many reasons, they wanted power and believed in an ideology of racial cleansing. B. They profited financially, displaced their anger from their own failures, or were perhaps following orders. Rescuers saved many people who would have perished by hiding them in attics or helping them escape to other countries. A. The rescuers helped because they didn't look at Jew at their enemies they saw them as human beings, accepting people for who they were. B. Rescuers help remembering that one person could make a difference, even though each of their stories were different. Residents were all different, individual acts to organize armed residents against Nazi territory. A. Residents were also against the Third Reich they knew the consequences but still carried on to help, there were constant threats of deportation and on the spot death by the