Intolerance In The Holocaust

Mahatama Gandhi once said, “Anger and Intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” Intolerance is treating anybody unfairly because of their beliefs, they are different, or their identity. Currently, our society is filled with intolerance everywhere you turn; this could be on televisions or movies, in a novel, or even in a school. In general, intolerance can mean almost everything to different people. You’re probably wondering how this could be happening in the 21th century where technology, intelligence, quality of living are supposed to be stronger and safer than ever before. How can one person be sure that one nice school day a person will not be judged just because of their identity, but the content of their character? There are probably tons of things that bother us, but the

Based on Night, during the Holocaust, the Nazis gradually reduced the Jews to little more than “things” which were a nuisance to them. To deprive one of human qualities, personality, and/or spirit is to dehumanize one. In which, there were way more than a handful of examples to support this statement. Examples where men were deprived of food (human qualities), forced to go against their religion (personality), and wretchedly beat (spirit).

However, religion plays a crucial part in Anne’s life, but Peter thinks lightly of it. Even if they are Jewish, Peter views it as a way for people to criticize and make fun of him. Page 342 states, “ Peter: You can’t throw… ? Something they branded you with… ? That they made you wear so they can spit on you? Anne: I know. I know. But afterall it is the star of David isn’t it?” Anne has a positive outlook towards her religion, but Peter thinks of it negatively. Due to this, when the Nazis finally find them in the annex, Peter panics and starts thinking of only the negative. On the other hand, Anne remains calm and sedated because she has something to rely on in hard times. This shows how big of an impact religion plays during the Holocaust.

Race is seen throughout this entire novel. The Holocaust is a sensitive and horrifying time in history for the Jewish community. It recognizes weakness, loss, and death. Starting of the novel, the setting seems relaxing and hopeful. The narrator mentions the German Nazi, but it does not interfere with the story. When Vladek is taking Anja to the sanitarium, it introduces “the beginning of 1938-before the war-hanging high in the center of town, it was a Nazi flag” (Spiegelman 23). After Vladek returns from war, the German troops begin to invade Poland. Graphic scenes such as “Haskel took from me Father-in-Law’s jewels. But, finally, he didn’t help them. On Wednesday the vans came. Anja and I saw her father at the window. He was tearing his hair

Adolf Hitler has become one of the most well-known dictators this world has ever seen. His power didn’t only spread throughout Germany, but throughout Europe as well. During World War II and now, there are people that believe his actions were inhumane and then there are others who follow him and worship him like a god, for example, Neo-Nazis. Before World War II, Germany was on the break of a serious depression, everything started to fall apart. Their economy was crashing and they just lost a major war. Everyone was looking for someone to point blame at. Hitler gave German citizens someone to blame and planned to purify his country. The Jewish people were very well known for their economic stability and this led to the idea that they were stealing the Germans money and creating the depression. The German citizens began to agree with

When people think of discrimination, the Holocaust comes to mind, but there are many more examples and ways of discriminating against others. This issue has been going on for centuries, and it is still a problem in today’s world. Discrimination is the isolating of others because of race, intelligence, and/or religion.

Taking the lives of 6 million Jews alone, the Holocaust is one of , if not the, greatest tragedies in history. It is completely deranged that at one point in time, millions of people stood by and supported Adolf Hitler. Adolf was a man who stored so much hatred towards Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, etc., that he found it acceptable to kill them through mass shootings, gassings, and Nazi camps. Other times called ‘concentration camps,’ the mere idea of Nazi camps was purely wicked. Disease, forced labor, starvation, and murder are only a few things that were incorporated into these camps. During this time, Jews (and every other group affected) were absolutely dehumanized. Once they arrived to these camps, typically through compact trains, they were not only stripped of the few items they had brought, but were stripped of their names, families and friends, usual lives, and any dignity or hope they had once had.

Conformity and group mentality are major aspects of social influence that have governed some of the most notorious events and experiments in history. The Holocaust is a shocking example of group mentality, or groupthink, which states that all members of the group must support the group’s decisions strongly, and all evidence leading to the contrary must be ignored. Social norms are an example of conformity on a smaller scale, such as tipping your waiter or waitress, saying please and thank you, and getting a job and becoming a productive member of society. Our society hinges on an individual’s inherent need to belong and focuses on manipulating that need in order to create compliant members of society by using the ‘majority rules’ concept. This

The problem of evil has been a major concern in the human race with various attempts being made to reconcile the belief in God with the existence of evil in this world. The Christian conception of God as supremely good and powerful has made the problem of evil to be very difficult simply because such a being will make the world a better place than it is by preventing evil from causing pain and suffering to humanity. Both Christianity and Judaism face a great challenge to solve the issue of evil and its existence because of the impact of evil that the holocaust caused on millions of people. Scholars have devoted their time to account for the horrifying events that took place during the holocaust by examining different theodicy

Our life experiences make our present, our values, our way of behaving and thinking. Although no one is perfect, we are prone to develop prejudice against those who are totally different from us.

The Holocaust is considered one of the most notable events to happen in human history. Adolf Hitler’s plan was to exterminate all races of which he thought was inferior to his master race, The Aryan Race. To effectively kill them, he made concentration camps where the prisoners would be worked to death. Sadly, most of the races targeted and killed were the Jews. They were blamed for everything such as World War I and World War II. Fortunately, some prisoners managed to live through the hardship and told the world about their stories. One of those stories is Night, the story of a teenager who survived The Holocaust losing everything dear to him in the process. In Night by Elie Wiesel, his mental and physical grown was developed through symbolism.

Racial discrimination has always caused problems in history. The Jewish Holocaust was one such example. The Jewish Holocaust, lasting from 1933 to 1945, was one of the most horrific events in history.

Don’t we dislike it when someone is treated different than others? Or when someone different isn’t accepted? This has happened to many people either in school, jobs, and sports. Some are not accepted because of their skin color or maybe religion. For example in “My so called enemy”, the text provides strong information on people accepting other for who they are. Also in “Texas vs Johnson” by: William J.Brenam and “America flag stands for tolerance” by: Ronald J.Allen both texts have strong evidence of how we as human’s beings should accept others people opinions. Here are some reasons we as human beings must be willing to accept people and their opinions.

The stories read have accepted or discriminated people and communities. They accept or discriminate in many ways that can deal with their cultures, religions, traditions, and personal beliefs. The definition of discrimination is the prejudicial treatment of different categories of people and things. The definition of acceptance is The action or process of being suitable to be admitted into a group. Both of these are shown “The Wife’s Story”, “The Lottery”, and ¨American Flag Stands for Tolerance¨.

The Holocaust is a shining example of Anti-Semitism at its best and it was no secret that the Nazis tried to wipe out the Jews from Europe but the question is why did the Nazis persecute the Jews and how did they try to do it.This essay will show how the momentum, from a negative idea about a group of people to a genocide resulting in the murder of 6 million Jews, is carried from the beginning of the 19th Century, with pseudo-scientific racial theories, throught the 20th century in the forms of applied social darwinism and eugenics(the display of the T4 programme), Nazi ideas regarding the Jews and how discrimination increased in the form of the Nuremberg Laws , Kristallnacht, and last but not least, The Final Solution.