Summary+of+the+Holocaust

=Summary of the Holocaust =




====The perpetrators of the Holocaust were those who played some role in the formulation and implementation of destructive measures against the Jews. These perpetrators were Nazi uniforms and S.S. or "brown shirts". While some wore business suits others would ware clerical collars, knickers or pigtails. Over 300,000 people in Germany and it's satellite territories took part in the systematic decimation of the Jewish populations and the deaths of many other victims. The role of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust has been a hotly debated topic for decades. It is known as well as noted that the Catholic Church’s administration never took a distinct stance, as a whole, in regards to their support or condemnation of Hitler, the Nazis, and Germany in general. As millions of Jews were being murdered for their beliefs, much of the religious world around them took subtle and diplomatic actions rather than making a strong and evident stance in their defense. The Catholic Church was, and still to this day is, questioned on why there was no quick and direct response. Moreover, the leaders of the Catholic church underwent much scrutiny given that if they would have taken a stance, the Catholics around the world would have followed their lead and maybe would have been a force against Hitler. There was a world response to the Holocaust. In the United States the U.S. state department delayed publicizing reports of the genocide and failed to act decisively in rescuing victims of the Holocaust. On April 19, 1943, U.S. and British representatives met in Bermuda to find solutions to wartime refugee problems. They refused to send food packages to Jews in camps and ghettos but allowed the sending of similar packages to Greek citizens whose nation was being occupied. In Germany, German military's General Staff was one of the small pockets of opposition to the Nazi regime that existed. German military's General Staff also attempted to assassinate Hitler. Individual German theologians such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer opposed the regime as well. In France General Charles de Gaulle advocated open resistance against the collaborationist Vichy regime. In Demark a resistance movement began operations with activities including killing informers, raiding German military facilities, and sabotaging rail lines. Dutch Population Mounted a general strike in protest against arrests and brutal treatment of Jews. In all countries across Europe underground resistance movements supplied forged documents to those in danger or arranged for safe hiding places or escape routes. In the Soviet Union guerrilla fighters called partisans offered armed resistance and engaged in anti-Nazi sabotage. In May 1942 Czech agents assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The Polish Home Army began a revolt in which Slovak partisans launched an armed struggle (the Slovak national uprising) against the pro-German Hlinka government. Survivors of the Holocaust were  called Heroes of the Holocaust. In Poland on the outskirts of Lvov, eleven-year-old David Tennenbaum and his mother Fanny miraculously survived the Nazi genocide. In Denmark a courageous German diplomat, Georg F. Duckwitz, risked everything to assist the Danish Jews in escaping to Sweden. In Poland the Chiger family managed to escape the liquidation of the ghetto by hiding in stench in the sewers for 14 months amid rats and filth. ==== ====Sung Song ====

====Leading up to the Holocaust and after taking control of Germany, the Nazi party published the Nuremburg Laws. These laws stripped Jews of their citizenship, prohibited Jews from displaying the German flag because they were inferior, prohibited marriage and intercourse between Jews and Germans, and said that you were Jewish if one or more of your grandparents were Jewish. The Nuremburg Laws degraded the Jews and helped convince Germany that they were an inferior race that needed to be destroyed. ==== ====Hitler came to power through the enabling act. The enabling act granted Hitler dictorial power for four years and also dissolved all other political parties which secured Hitler’s power. The German government gave Hitler power believing that they would be able to control him. Hitler believed that the Aryan race was the superior race. The Holocaust didnt just involve the Jews, but all races other then German. He was determined to exterminate all inferior races. Hitler appointed Heinrich Himler to be in charge of the Gestapo and also the S.S. The Gestapo was Hitler’s personal police force and they were given the job of rounding up and eliminating the Jews. The S.S or “Brown Shirts” were Hitler’s loyal bodyguards who aided the Gestapo along with protecting Hitler. The S.S was largely made up of thugs and street brawlers to assure Hitler he was well protected and to intimidate those who opposed him. Heinrich Himler was the orchestrater of the holocaust under Hitler. Hitler used the Armenian Genocide as a blue print to exterminate the Jews. " Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity… after all, who today remembers the Armenian Genocide?” This is a quote that Hitler gave at one of his political speeches showing that he had a plan.====

The Holocaust was structured to eliminate all non Aryan races. It was during this desperate struggle the Nazis murdered approximately six million Jews. What triggered the Holocaust was Kristallnacht, or also known as "The Night of Broken Glass”. A young Jewish boy in France shot a German boy and the Nazis used this to spin the public in their favor and to gain support. In response to the incident the Nazis went around that night destroying all Jewish shops, businesses and approximately 200 synagogues, leaving the city streets in complete destruction. The next day the Nazis rounded up about 20,000 Jews and forced them to clean up the mess then proceeded to march them to concentration camps. More then half were systematically exterminated in highly rationalized gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps. They were later given the nick name “Death Camps” because of the lack of knowledge about them. The Jews were unaware that they were willingly walking into a death trap. They believed that these concentration camps were strictly labor camps that they could eventually work their way out of.

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==== ==== ==== ==== ==== ==== The Roots of Evil Summary:  Ervin Staub really captures the behind the scenes look at the Holocaust in his genocide book.  He talks about the Holocaust and other major genocides that have occurred. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He tries to give us some of the reasons behind why he thinks the people might have done this; even though he says regardless it is wrong that they did. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The section on the Holocaust itself talks much about Hitler and what he thought of the Jews. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He says that the “Nazi propaganda about Jews emphasized three broad themes: (1) profound devaluation, (2) threat to racial purity and (3) threat to German survival” (103). <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">This explains everything I have ever learned about the Holocaust. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">This was their bases for hating on these people. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The believed the Jewish people were “low and evil creatures” (104). <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They believed that the German Aryan was pure and they were not true Germans because they were not pure. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They had all the bad qualities that no one wanted to be passed down, a disgrace to the Germans. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They lastly thought that the Jewish people were plotting to gain all the power since after the war they were the wealthiest people at that time. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The Jewish people were looked at as if they were completely worthless and nothingness. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;">

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-tab-count: 1; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msotabcount: 1;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Staub also notes the way the government was to rule their people. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hitler requires obedience. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He believes the Jewish race does not follow these rules he has set out. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He points out that “every nation has its principal motive; in Germany it is obedience; in England, freedom; in Holland, trade; in France, the honor of the king” (108). <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The Jewish people did not do anything to deserve these cruelties but Hitler convinced people they did and manipulated all of Germany into believing him and fulfilling his plan. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Staub discusses that the people of the country of Germany used Hitler as a crutch basically for their own problems and to “escape personal responsibilities for their lives” (108). <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Obedience was taught everywhere in Germany. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Starting at a young age parents would teach their children obedience and respect. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They taught this from the beginning of their child’s life because they wanted the children to know rules and when to follow them. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">This training of obedience and respect would thus later on in life have a huge influence on them as adults. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">They would have a lack of independency and mental freedom from being taught to follow someone’s orders at such a young age. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The parents were basically told to take discipline further and teach them through punishment and more forceful ways. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">This lack of independency and mental freedom would be how so many people were easily manipulated by Hitler’s thoughts. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-tab-count: 1; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msotabcount: 1;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Staub then examines the influences of other big thinkers at the time to see where Hitler could be pulling in some of his beliefs. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Nietzsche was one of these thinkers; his views of “no givens, no absolutes, whether in human nature or by God – who is dead” (110) was displayed in some of Hitler’s actions. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Some of Nietzsche’s thoughts that were like that were probably where Hitler got the interpretation that they are the superior people. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The Aryan German people are the only good type of people that are good in the world. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He believed they were the ultimate race and that if you were not like that you were a threat. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Nietzsche also did not believe in equality or respect which supplementary adds to the superiority rule that Hitler believed and spread all over. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Thoughts like these were a big influence on whom and how Hitler was and his actions of the Holocaust. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-tab-count: 1; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msotabcount: 1;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hitler took over many people’s beliefs and turned them into his own. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He discriminated against anyone who was not of the superior race he believed in and anyone he thought posed a threat on his nation and himself as a leader. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The Jewish race was not the only group of people that were killed. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">There were many other small ethnic groups that were exterminated as well by Hitler. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He did not like disobedience and demanded respect. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">If someone disobeyed his authority he would take action; he was very good at what he did. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Hitler swayed and manipulated many of the world’s minds. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Staub discusses how many people died not only the Jewish race. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">There were people that died just because of how Hitler was. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He had many people believing his every word and those who did not agree in his beliefs he did not like. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He did a good job telling the people what they wanted to hear when they wanted to hear it and could get the people to believe anything. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-tab-count: 1; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msotabcount: 1;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">So many innocent people were killed and or suffered from the Holocaust even the people from afar just watching saw the cruelties of the extermination of so many. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The Holocaust affected a lot of people of people during and even still after. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Violence and racism was a major concern during this time and even now it continues. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Violence and racism will always be an issue but a lot of this could come from Hitler’s actions. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Not that he was the only person that spread these thoughts, but he was the only man to take his beliefs out and put them into action with the most ample force. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-tab-count: 1; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msotabcount: 1;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">Staub’s book proves to be a great impact on the times of the genocides. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He tried to give a thorough discussion on the reasons behind the scenes of the Holocaust and the other genocides. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He showed the people what they should know and brought their attention to what happened in a great manner. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He gave us all the background information on the conditions leading up, during, and even after the Holocaust. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He brings together everything you needed to see about the Holocaust. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">He wants to show that now we need to give respect for one another and their lives and who we are as people. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The book also shows us the evil in the world and where it comes from and how it comes about. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">The __Roots of Evil__ displays everything evil and puts it into words for the generations hereafter to see and to learn how to deal with. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-spacerun: yes; msobidifontfamily: TimesNewRomanPSMT; msospacerun: yes;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'TimesNewRomanPSMT','serif'; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT;">This shows how developed we should be past these thoughts by now, yet we are still fighting the same fights today. Krista Fassio

Staub, Ervin. __The Roots of Evil The Origins of Genocide and Other Group Violence__. New York: Cambridge UP, 1992.


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