The Holocaust :: European Europe History

final solution passim the movie, The Holocaust, the phrase, I just do my job, was usually the only salve most people who committed crimes against the Jews could come up with. For example, when Helena and Rudy Weiss were staying in Kiev, the city was bombed. During the bombing, one of the Nazi soldiers, who happened to be Heinz Muller, a friend of Ingas family, was extend to by falling debris. Hesitant, Rudy helped Muller escape from the collapsing building, gave him some water, and asked him why he was taking part in the mistreatment of the Jews. I obey orders, Muller replied, obdurate intimately what he did. Also, when Bertha Weiss was sent to the gas chambers in Auschwitz, Dr. Joseph Weiss asked the Kapo what happened to her. The skirt bluntly retorted, Dont blame me, I just take orders. Whether to keep a job, remain loyal to their cause, or just because they had no other excuse, everyone use that phrase to justify what they did wrong against the Jews. Anti-Semitism and unfair grudges are deuce factors that flock cause Genocide. During the movie, Eric Dorf claimed he did non feel bad about Kristallnacht or what happened to the Jews, because he verbalize the Jews provoked it. Even though Kristallnacht was the prototypic major pogrom, a government sponsored attack on the Jews, and was terribly destructive, Eric said that they killed Christ and they deserved what they got (The Holocaust). In addition, Heydrich believed that Germans and the Aryan race was superior to the Judaic race and they had to isolate the germ carriers (The Holocaust), so he decided to go through with the plan for Jewish ghettos. The ghettos were intended to hold the Jews in a temporary Jewish community until they could be efficiently exterminated. This demonstrates how Anti-Semitism and grudges can produce Genocide. In the video, Conversations With Oprah Elie Wiesel, Wiesel explains that the most important lesson to be learned from what happened during the Holocaust is to not be i ndifferent, but to still be human in spite of everything that happened. He said he believed that the opposite of love is not hate, but rather indifference, because indifference can not be fought (Conversations). not being indifferent is important in preventing another Holocaust in the future. When you have a choice to make and you dont make it, that in itself is a choice, William James once said.