Who Was Responsible For The Holocaust Essay

Elie Wiesel, who was an Auschwitz camp survivor and author, once said “Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders are sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must- at that moment- become the center of the universe.” During the holocaust, human lives were endangered and human dignity was in jeopardy, yet this place, at the time, was not the center of the universe. There were human beings doing atrocious things to survive in any way they could and to do what they thought is best for their countries. Yet, who is responsible for this? Everyone who was a part had some sort of role in

Also, the countries who did nothing but watch deserve some responsibility, especially the ones who gave Hitler what he wanted. The countries that just gave Hitler land and believed that if they gave him what he wanted then he would go away, but he did not go away and things got worse before they realized what was going on. If they would have jumped in before things escalated to the way they were in the end maybe so many lives did not need to be lost. In a way genocide should be thought of in the way bullying is talked about, even the bystanders are responsible for not standing up and saying anything. So there is also some responsibility held by the people who were living in these countries. They were watching people take their neighbors and not thinking anything of it besides being glad it was not them, yet if it would have been them they would have wanted someone standing up for them. These people should have stood up and questioned why this was happening instead of standing aside. There were those people who believed that this was good for the country though. They thought that getting rid of these people would help “clean” their country but it did not, why didn’t people learn from