The Three Major Horrors Of Jews In The 1940's

What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word “horror”? For some people, it might be the latest Paranormal Activity movie, or the thought of ghosts or demons. However, for the Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s, all of their horrors came true, without the help of the supernatural. “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions,” – Primo Levi.
Today, you will be learning about three major horrors of the Holocaust. They are three large parts, but definitely not all of the terrible things that were done to these poor people. Having your arms brutally sawed off, being murdered without reason, or even being
The rise of Hitler was taking place, and nobody thought that his power would be used in such the negative and disgusting way that he chose to use his newly found influence in the world. “In spite of the scientific prominence of these racial views, they had a limited effect upon most Jews until the 1930s. Most German Jews were proud of being Germans and considered themselves Germans first and Jews second. Many Jews modified the German intelligentsia’s racial views by including themselves in it. Their assimilation into German life was to the extent that most felt its anti-Semitism did not represent a serious threat to their security. Most Jews also were convinced that Germany was now a safe harbor for them” (Darwinism
The idea of Darwinism and Eugenics is very closely related, and that’s what Hitler was basing his ideas on. As wrong as it is, it made perfect sense to him, and everyone involved. “Hitler argued: ‘If I can accept a divine Commandment, it’s this one: “Thou shalt preserve the species.” The life of the individual must not be set at too high a price. If the individual were important in the eyes of nature, nature would take care to preserve him. Amongst the millions of eggs a fly lays, very few are hatched out — and yet the race of flies thrives.’” He set out on this mission to create the perfect race, which many people actually supported. “Richard Weikart, professor of modern European history at California State University writes, ‘Since Hitler viewed evolutionary progress as essentially good, he believed that the highest good is to cooperate with the evolutionary process. … If evolution provided the ends, the Darwinian mechanism suggested the means: increase the population of the “most fit” people to displace others in the struggle for existence. This was the rationale for the Lebensborn program” (Hitler’s