History EQ Blog Post
- Thoughts and Feelings
- Watching the video, I am disgusted by the Nazi’s cold brutality. The last line about living as a profit and him beginning to live only after being liberated from the concentration camp since he was dead in there is a great closing and summary of the film. For me, genocide is a horrific act; although a certain ethnic group may have a greater tendency to use unjust ways for their benefit, like the famous “Korean judge” examples present in the Asian Games and the Olympics, in which Korean judge favors Korean Takwando players, not all individuals in an ethnic group are horrible. Moreover, although Jewish may be ruthless when competing and may even stab you in the back, this does not justify their murder, especially when not all Jewish people stab you in the back. Genocide wipes out individuality in a population. The gruesome scenes in the documentary scares me and makes me appreciate how safe I am.
- Thing to Remember to Prevent Genocide
- I believe that remembering about the importance of individuality and one’s rights to fair trial would prevent genocide. Genocide is conducted to eradicate a race as a whole, often due to a common hatred toward a particular ethnic group of people. But the right to fair trial and individuality, two justified philosophy in the enlightenment, shows how ridiculously unjust and heinous genocides are. Although a group may show common trait of selfishness, the belief in individualism shows that people are different from one another. Hence, murdering a race of people is unjust since some people of the same race may be altruistic and kind. Second, the right to a fair trial is important because although one may be selfish, they should not be punished so severely as to being murdered. A fair trial shows how people should not be murdered because of their wrong, but be punished accordingly to a fair trial instead. Hence, individuality and fair trial are major thoughts to be remembered to prevent Genocide.
The image above is the gate of Auschwitz death camp, the largest camp the Nazis had built, located in Poland. Victims, often Jews, are killed in its gassing chambers then burnt into ashes in its furnace. | The picture above is the wall of an Auschwitz gas chamber. It's filled with scratch marks of victims, who often attacked each other or, as above, scratched the wall, as the poison gas slowly kills them. |
Adolf Hitler, above, led the Nazi Party in Germany to power. His antisemitism and nationalism developed when he was in Vienna. Hitler developed the Final Solution, a plan to kill all Jews in Europe because according to him, Jews are the Aryan's greatest enemy.