Thursday, December 6, 2012

Beginning of the Holocaust, In justice

              I recently started reading the book, Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust, by Carol Ann Lee. Although i am only three chapters in, i have already learned so much about the Holocaust that i never knew before. This book is about Ann Franks life in the Holocaust and what her and her family went threw, from the beginning. Although this book is just about Anne and her family, Anne represents millions of un known victims during the time period of Hitlers presidency. The Nazi Party, a strong political party in Germany around the time Adolf Hitler started coming into party, had one vision for Germany citizens, a blond haired, blue eyes, catholic society. In this plan, Jewish people, handicapped people, and other people of different religion and outcasts, that were either not 'membors of the nation' and/or where different, where not excepted in Germany. people started treating those people differently, Brown shirts, Nazi's and Hitler's Bodyguards, would go around the streets fighting any Jewish people they came across, burning down and destroying Jewish shops,  and synagogues, became a everyday event. This was just the beginning of the up coming years of hardships in the holocaust.
              Adolf Hitler had such strong political and stereotypical view that he wanted for Germany, that he did not even care about what he had to do in order to get what he wanted. There were so many levels of un justice, in what he was doing. One, Hitler had a Strong political view, therefor he disliked any one who was not catholic and/or supported or was a Nazi. Because there was such a large amount of Jewish people living in Germany at that time, Jews automatically became the most hated group of people by Hitler. He was judging people by their religion and not who they were as people. Second, Hitler had a stereotypical view for Germany. While the Nazi's where rounding up Jews to take to concentration camps, they never stopped to ever suspect people with blond hair and/or blue eyes because that was a trait that Hitler wanted Germany to represent all their people by, and of course, the majority of Jewish people had brown eyes and brown hair. Third, he was lying. Because Hitler controlled all of the newspapers published, the main source of hearing news all over the world in the 1940's and 30's, Hitler lied about Jews being 'bad people' and doing things to hurt Germany. Fourth, Hitler punished any one who stood up for the Jews. that eliminated the majority of people who disagreed with his treatment of Jews, to stand up for them. Jews where punished for nothing, their stores where burnt to the ground, they were beaten in the streets, their freedom was narrowed down to almost no freedom at all, until they were shipped to concentration camps.
            In the end, who truly brought justice was Britain and France who had a pact with Poland that they would fight on their side during war, right after Germany attacked them. This started world war two. Though the countries fighting against Germany in world war two truly served justice to the Holocaust, justice could have been served by the people who were against the Holocaust in Germany to take a stand and fight against Hitler. It is true that little groups, usually anonymous, fought back to Hitler, but those groups quickly ended after Nazi's got involved.
         It truly scares me how such a big nation could do something so terrible and no one would stop it. To think that one man could turn a nation on one group of people that they have associated with for the past number of years without problems, is insane. The majority of the children in the U.S. have grown up to be around modern technology, a new president that has been helping out the economy, and other things that the 20th century brings to us, but when we read about what has happened in the past, the history of the world, it is hard to believe that at one point there was no one to stop these situations from happening. We wonder, how could  a whole nation get away with imprisoning and killing millions of innocent people, with our anyone telling Adolf Hitler it was wrong?
        In justice is a strong act to be done when the consequences are so big. People can worry so much about themselves, and what will happen to them when injustice is served, but they don't realize that by not acting up, a group much larger then just you can be suffering because of that. The story of the Holocaust is a  story that really changed the views of many Americans.

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