The Uniqueness And Normality Of The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the persecution and execution of millions of Jews along with Gypsies, and the Polish, by the Nazi regime. The Nazis believed that only Germans were racially superior and the Jews were a “threat” to the community. This tyranny spread to Europe and victims of Nazi racism were taken to concentration camps where they were killed. Experts like Zygmunt Bauman state that this genocide was the result of modernity.
As stated in “The Uniqueness and Normality of the Holocaust”, genocide is an example of modernity because genocide always has a purpose. The purpose in the eyes of Adolf Hitler was to have order and stability under his rule. Bauman writes that “The end itself is a grand vision of a better, and radically different, society”. This mass killing is a necessity in order to bring about social change and conformity to design a perfect society. The Holocaust did not resemble a slow change within a society, on the contrary, it was radical and strived to remake their community. Modernity defines the Holocaust as a work of creation, a time when killing was justified as a result to
This gave them a justification to murder the impurities in the society. Their ultimate goal was to have a new generation that was more superior than those around, so, they would rule the world. The Nazis “showed what the rationalizing, designing, controlling dreams and efforts of modern civilization are able to accomplish”. It is an old concept re-envisioned to fit today’s modern social standards, as it is promoted through the actions of current 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump. His goal as future president is to eradicate the Hispanic population, in order to benefit the rest of the Americans. Trump wants to get rid of the roots of Hispanic cultures by also removing children of Hispanic immigrants who are