Why Was The Holocaust Justified?

The Holocaust has become the standard by which crimes against humanity are measured. It is defined as the industrialized mass-murder of predominately Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, the homeless, and the disabled; orchestrated and directed by the German Nazi Government1. Many questions arise such as: why was it socially allowed? How were the murders concocted? And what is meant by “industrialized?” Industrialized murder is the mechanized, impersonal, and sustained mass destruction of human beings, organized and administered by states, legitimized and set into motion by scientists and jurists, sanctioned and popularized by academics and intellectuals (Bartov 4). To move forward, it’s important to understand that industrialized
In the course of the First World War, and throughout the interwar period, the inevitability of a perpetual cycle of industrial killing on an ever greater scale in the future was accepted by all but a small minority of Europeans.”
Similarly, the Nazi’s based their intentions and policies throughout an articulated, shared understanding of Jews, namely their eliminationist, racial anti-semitism (Goldhagen 132). By 1939, the Germans had succeeded in rendering the Jews socially dead with German society. The Germans had ensued policies towards the Jews that perpetrated, encouraged, tolerated violence against Jews, and promulgated social separation of Jews from Germans. The Germans witnessed the promulgation of almost two thousand laws and administrative regulations that degraded the country’s Jews, in a manner and degree that no minority in Europe had