Reflection #11

The Holocaust was just a total tragedy and hatred showed to a certain group or people. The Jews were under attack at night so to speak. This by far was one of the worst kinds of genocide in history. To think people would essentially kill their open because of the mere fact they thought they we threaten. When I watch the movies and hear the stories of victims it just gets me so mad that people could even think of a despicable thing to do not even taking the time out to think what if it was me what if I was the Jew they were out to annihilate maybe this Holocaust would not happen to begin with. The word Holocaust means “being sacrifice by fire” (Greek word). Even though Jew were the large target for the Nazi regime that wasn’t their only target; there were the gays, handicap, Roma (Gypsies), Slavic people, communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses etc… Just being different from them was killed and if you went against their ideology. The Germans believed that they were the big dogs and everyone else was the inferior little dogs. I believe in those malicious German minds were just total extinction of all Jews. Even when I look at the movies and the victims that came and spoke to us it still feel like it’s a nightmare where I can just wake up from. But when in fact I stop and guess what it is still there the pain and sufferings that the Jews had to go through and endure. To see them humiliate the Jews okay take out Jews degrading human beings in that fashion scares me thinking what the hell goes through people mind when they think they are the “better choice” “the best race or kind”. How can a group of people get that far to want to kill someone because they were born a certain way. That’s like saying let us kill all the girls because they do not look like males. This shows that the Nazi had no consciousness no type of heart at all. Everyone is different so to say “we going to kill that group” then another group can say the same thing for my group let us kill them (my group) because we are different from them. If everyone thought like that everyone would be killing each other for no reason at all. Oh you have brown eyes you do not belong here; you have blue eyes you do not belong here. Man, we need to wake up as people to realize there is no perfect person or race what so ever. Also wake up so something like this never happens again to any group of people ever again. A lot of people deny the Holocaust because they feel something like that could never happen in this world. Or looking at it in some Germans point of view, we Germans would never do such a thing. A lot of people do not want to admit it happen in their back yard so the deny it ever happening to begin with. The fact is it happened we learn from it so we don’t repeat history.