The Humanity Behind The Holocaust

The Holocaust was an event in history that will be entrenched within our minds for eternity. The holocaust started when Adolf Hitler became the dictator of German. To anti-Semitic Nazi leader Hitler, the Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community. 'The German nation must find a way out of the plundered land and production space.' Hitler’s claim to the hegemonic world was supported and supported by the German monopoly bourgeoisie. The Nazi Party headed by Hitler followed the popular nationalist and socialist signs in Germany, proclaiming the German nation as an outstanding nation, using the anti-Semitic and religious complexes that had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the German people, and spreading 'Jewish The paradox of the plague treats the Jewish people as inferior. To paralleling the idea he advanced in his book, Mein Kampf, Hitlher eliminated all opposition and launched an ambitious program of world domination and elimination of the Jews once he was in power. During 1933-1945, the the mass killing of Holocaust, about 6 million European Jews were murdered by the German Nazi forces, as well as millions of others, including Gypsies and homosexuals.

The Holocaust was not just bad but was horrific in every way. After reading the book The Book In Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, I could not help myself thinking about the question why. How could such a terrible event happened? The first word that came to my mind was, evil and inhumanity, so I did a little research on the internet. In the article Explaining, Again, The Nazis' True Evil, the author Simon Says declared that “I've interviewed young Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members. They seem to be loveless, clueless clods, who see only skin color and ethnicity — or 'blood and soil' as the Nazis of the 1930s and 2017 call it.” However, another question came to my mind-- was the Nazis born as evil? If not, what made them “so cold bloody, so cruel, so evil, so inhumanity and so different” than us? What was the truth under the surface of this ideas of bloody and evil? The German-American philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt has accurately revealed that the central problem in the Auschwitz concentration camp, how terrible could humans be: The reality is that the Nazis are ordinary people like everyone of us. This terrible nightmare shows that there is no doubt that people are proved be to able to murder, even slaughter other human beings like themselves. How to come to know and think The evil of high rationality and crazy ideas has become an issue we cannot avoid.

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Let’s we review the Holocaust from a more objective interpretation perspective. In Arendt's 'Eichmann in Jerusalem' and Bowman's 'Modernity and Massacre', they demonstrated the industrialized production of modernity and the moral neutrality caused by the bureaucratic system are the basic prerequisites for the great evil of the Holocaust. Arendt used the notion of the famous 'the mediocrity of evil' to reveal the mediocrity of evil, that is, the professional man of the modern bureaucracy may be the evil maker. In this way, Eichmann, who is responsible for arranging the slaughter of millions of Jews, is not a murderous murderer. As a member of the law-abiding bureaucracy, he is doing what he needs to do because of the job he needs to support his family. He is A 'state that cannot be thought', he just did evil without thinking. Thus, the obedience and obedience to the social status quo is the greatest evil in the bureaucracy, which greatly challenges the traditional understanding of evil and the violation of moral principles. Our traditional understanding of evil is to distinguish it from goodness. For example, like the movie 'Schindler's List', the Nazis was portrayed as cold-blooded demons, so we have nothing to do with them. This kind of distinction between good and evil makes our soul comforted, we are nothing like them. Anyway, the Nazis are some kind of inhuman beings that are very different from ours, so that our own identity will not be threatened. By distinguishing between our good and evil by good and evil, we can be outside the evil and achieve the purpose of protecting ourselves. Thus, the massacre in the concentration camp seems to us to be another distant world. By distinguishing between good and evil and classifying it into evil, we do not need to change our judgment on human nature.

The serious historical disaster represented by the Holocaust has destroyed the traditional interpretation concepts and categories used to understand evil, we faced with the difficulty of creating perfect explanations to understand it. This is not the concept of reverting an unknown phenomenon to a known one like Enlightenment, but on the contrary, we need to defamiliate our own concepts to be possible to grasp the complex nature of the Holocaust. But there’s one thing we know, that it is impossible to exhaust all evil of the world. In addition to the conspiracy of technology, society, politics and other factors, the evil of the Holocaust has a deeper black holes that we need to penetrate, and revert to any single factors will repeat the enlightenment. simplifies and restores complex errors. When talking about forgiveness, Derrida said that forgiveness is the forgiveness of forgiveness, and this impossibility of forgiveness is the starting point for thinking about forgiveness. Similarly, realizing the impossibility of thinking about evil is also the starting point for thinking about evil.

However, leave aside the question of kind and evil, the effects and damages of the Holocaust was dreadful, irretrievable and eternal. “I Remember Everything”. This was the titile of the story of Marian Kalwary, a Jewish girl who survived from the Holocaust with her family. Marian was born in Warsaw in 1930 in the assimilated family. In her story, Marian shared her experiences of escaping. According to Marian, “In normal circumstances, time goes fast, but in the ghetto, it dragged exceedingly long. Every day passed very slowly, as if to spite us.” Maybe God heard her prayings, and gave her incredible luck, a miracle happened to her. Her mother was worried about her daughter and son-in-law who lived in Warsaw and suffered hunger, so she gave Marian supply food packages for them, and gave her the responsibility to transport the packages to the nearest post office, Marian has to risk her life take the train to get there. Once when she was transporting one of these packages, a Polish railroad man who was sitting across from her in the train compartment, found out that she’s a Jew. He screamed and tried to get the police to get her, and this was when the miracle happened: There wasn’t any policeman in the station as it usually was, Marian got away. Moreover, Marian hide in the cellar under her apartment to get away from the inspection of German policemen.

Can you imaging you or your children grow up like that? Among those survivors, many of them are orphans, no one protects or take cares of them. These surviving children inspired me. I was deeply immersed in the spirit of their desire to survive and the destruction of the Holocaust and the ability to create new life. After the Nazis came to power, Jewish children became the biggest victims of anti-Jewish legislation. First in Germany, and over time, in every Nazi occupation or countries that became Nazi’s allies. Jewish children were forced to separate from non-Jewish kids and leave public schools. They saw that their parents lost the right to protect their families and often witnessed the family's gradual desperation.

“If the Holocaust proved anything, it is that a person can both love poems and kill children”. The story behind every names of the victims of the Holocaust should be remembered, not just Marian Kalwary, not just the boy like Bruno and Smuel in The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. Those facts t reminds us never to be silent or indifferent again when we are in the face of evil. Like I said, the effects and damages of the Holocaust was dreadful, irretrievable and eternal, but futrue is not. “I remember everything.” So should we.