Write An Essay On Varian Mackey Fry

There have been many advances in the fields of science & technology in recent history that have allowed our civilizations to advance in terms of size and productivity, but it seems that this has been accompanied by an increase in immorality, segregation and deadly hostilities amongst populations of different ethnicities based on the belief that there is an inferior ethnicity that must be viewed as animals. These beliefs become ideals that the ruling race uses as a tool to sway the general public into treating the “inferior” as animals in order to prepare that nation for their final solution in committing a genocide on those people. However, there are some people in the world who will not stand by and watch their fellow man suffer and will do whatever in their power to insure their safety. One of those people was Varian Mackey Fry and he was educated from Harvard University and was New York Times editor. During the Holocaust, which took place from 1933 to1945, he made the noble choice of going to Marseilles, France in an effort to save as many Jewish intellectuals and artists that were on Hitler’s list for execution. Aristotle defined the virtue as “a settled disposition of mind determining the choice of
The main experience that led Fry to travel to Marseille to save the people on his list was when he personally experienced what could happen if Hitler won, while he was visiting Berlin in 1935. In his memoir, Surrender on Demand-“, on page xiii he described the atmosphere in Berlin as being oppressive and the Jews and anti-Nazis that he spoke to on the streets “shared their anxiety and their sense of helplessness, felt with them the tragic hopelessness of their situation.” (Surrender On Demand-“Foreword” xiii)The event that occurred that helped him make the choice to aid the oppressed was when he