THE HOLOCAUST and Germany

"I was only following orders." "What was I to do? How could one person stand up to a powerful government?" "I wasn't aware of what was happening." "The real German people did not do these things." "The Holocaust was a myth." These statements and others have been repeated by thousands of people for 45 years as explanations for the atrocities committed by the Nazi government in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, apologies for the German nation, abdications of responsibility, and denials of reality. In truth, however, The Holocaust did occur; a nation was responsible; and individual Germans were knowledgeable of the atrocities, and made choices that, in turn, permitted the development of a societal system in which such atrocities could, and did, occur.

This research analyzes the development and manipulation of the social system in which nearly six million Jews, and hundreds of thousands of gypsies, Socialists, Communists, liberals, left-wing intellectuals, homosexuals, and the insane were systematically annihilated. That social system was Germany; not Nazi Germanyùjust Germany. This analysis is not an indictment of the German nation. It does recognize, however, that it was a German government which committed the atrocities, and that it was a German society which spawned that government.

Since the mid-1970s, it has become popular to subject, in absentia, the more prominent figures in the Nazi regime to psychoanalysis. The pu

. . .
ermany is 1295. Since that time, the Jews have been the scapegoat for German problems on many occasions. In 1348, the Jews were blamed for the plague which caused the Black Death, and they were expelled. In 1500, they were accused of ritual murder, and for this alleged action, 30 Jews were burned at the stake, and the remainder were expelled once again. After 25 years had passed, it came to light that the Jews were innocent of ritual murder, and they were again readmitted. In 1573, however, the German political leader who had proved the innocence of the Jews died. Rumors spread that he had been poisoned by the Jews, and they were expelled againùthis time "for all eternity." During these centuries, Jews were harassed throughout Christian Europe. In Germany, however, Martin Luther advocated the following actions be taken against the Jews: à their assets be sequestered, their homes razed, their synagogues be leveled, à they be driven from the roads à assigned to the mines à , compelled to fell trees à in misery and captivity as they incessantly lament and complain à . As Luther's statement reveals, the idea for many of the brutal actions taken against the Jews during the time of the Third Reich did not originate i
. . .

Some common words found in the essay are:
Third Reich, Jews Germans, Nazis Nazis, Douglas Kelly, Jews Germany, Ten Rorschach, OCCUR GERMANY, Nazis German, Germanyùjust Germany, Dubno Ukraine, nazi government, german society, german people, third reich, actions jews, mass psychology, heinous acts, sociological conditions, jews germany, atrocities committed, mass psychology nazi, german society gentiles, commission heinous acts, description american actions, nazi government consolidate,
Approximate Word count = 3453
Approximate Pages = 14 (250 words per page)

More Essays on THE HOLOCAUST and Germany