Why Did The Nazis Burn The Holocaust And Holocaust?
On 10 November 1938, a message was delivered to the German State Police and field offices. The regard at the top of the message noted, “Measures against Jews tonight.” This message, the Kristallnacht Order, resulted in the first large-scale attack against Jewish communities in central Europe. The order provisioned the burning of synagogues, Jewish homes, and businesses. All Jews, particularly wealthy males, were to be arrested and sent directly to concentration camps. A German firefighter, who was involved in what is now know as the Night of Broken Glass wrote, “The marshals rounded up the Jews and dragged them in front of the Synagogue, where they had to kneel down and put their hands above their heads.” Another Englishman, Michael Bruce wrote,
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Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust. In this he describes that the public burnings of the Hebrew Bible had nothing to do with racial ideology but more to do with Nazi anti-Semitism. His interpretation and argument of the holocaust is different than many other scholarly articles that impose that Hitler and his Nazi followers were racially prejudice and wanted to watch the impure nations burn. In David Caldwell’s article Reflections on holocaust and Holocaust, he argues that the final solution occurred because of human propensity for genocide and the lack of effort to intervene in the holocaust from other countries. He argues that it is human nature to act in hateful manner to other races and communities unlike the one a person identifies with and that this could have led to the isolationist nature of other countries that kept them from intervening. In Daniel Goldhagen’s book Hitler’s Willing Executioners, he argues that the Nazi plan to annihilate the Jews was due to the growing anti- Semitism in Germany post the Great War that caused many Germans to become willing and active participants in the execution of the Jewish Nation. He argues that the political ideology of the time period allowed for the growing anti-Semitism that was adopted by most of the German population. In Kevin Spacers book, Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust, Spacer claimed that the Nazi Germans were not the only anti-Semitic group but that many Christian European nations faced Christian anti Semitism which ultimately lead to some of these countries involvement in the holocaust and other countries unwillingness to
Nazi Germany, Representations of the Past, and the Holocaust. In this he describes that the public burnings of the Hebrew Bible had nothing to do with racial ideology but more to do with Nazi anti-Semitism. His interpretation and argument of the holocaust is different than many other scholarly articles that impose that Hitler and his Nazi followers were racially prejudice and wanted to watch the impure nations burn. In David Caldwell’s article Reflections on holocaust and Holocaust, he argues that the final solution occurred because of human propensity for genocide and the lack of effort to intervene in the holocaust from other countries. He argues that it is human nature to act in hateful manner to other races and communities unlike the one a person identifies with and that this could have led to the isolationist nature of other countries that kept them from intervening. In Daniel Goldhagen’s book Hitler’s Willing Executioners, he argues that the Nazi plan to annihilate the Jews was due to the growing anti- Semitism in Germany post the Great War that caused many Germans to become willing and active participants in the execution of the Jewish Nation. He argues that the political ideology of the time period allowed for the growing anti-Semitism that was adopted by most of the German population. In Kevin Spacers book, Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust, Spacer claimed that the Nazi Germans were not the only anti-Semitic group but that many Christian European nations faced Christian anti Semitism which ultimately lead to some of these countries involvement in the holocaust and other countries unwillingness to