The Nazis should not be solely responsible for the Holocaust because the Germans are also involved in playing a role with the massacres of Jews. The Germans bear the sole responsibility for the Holocaust because of their motivation to contribute in a significant role, their feeling of supremacy over minority groups, and their lack of resistance against the Nazi government.
First of all, the Germans exhibited a deliberate will to contribute to the massacres of Jews in the Holocaust. Starting from October 1940, German soldiers were forcing 3 million Jews into concentrated ghettos in Poland, resulting in Jews being easily forced into extermination camps from the SS (Taylor, para. 3). The intentions that the soldiers had to force an overwhelming
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In the United States Memorial Museum website, Germans did not face any death-related punishment for refusing to participate in a killing act, and they were freely allowed to substitute those roles for other duties, such as guard duty or crowd control (Common Questions About The Holocaust, para. 8). This shows that the Germans had no external influences that pressure them to commit massacre-related crimes. Instead of taking corrective, moral measures to minimize the damage (amount of deaths not from German ethnicity) created from the Holocaust, the Germans openly supported the disastrous crime through bystanding towards the lenient governing of the Third Reich. Therefore, the lack of resistance imposed by German citizens and soldiers makes them accountable for the Holocaust.
In conclusion, the responsibility of the Holocaust should be held under German people rather than the Nazis. The direct motivational traits that the German soldiers showed when herding Jews, the superior impression of German citizens that jeopardized the lives of Jews, and the unnecessary degrees of loyalty that the Germans heaved shows the deserving guilt of the Germans for the