Video Response

The Holocaust was obviously a terrible event in human history. Whether or not it was the most tragic loss of life in our history, I do not know. I feel very confident that if another genocide was taking place today that we would put an end to it. After I make that comment, the war in Syria comes to mind – granted they started what they’re currently in. However it is still difficult to imagine what the average German was thinking during the Holocaust. Is Hitler right? Are the Jews really to blame? Another question one thinks of is did the average German even know what the Reich was doing to the Jews? Had they been utterly unaware, I could understand their silence. Perhaps there were attempts from the Germans to voice their opinions on the matter, or even attempts to put an end to them; one might recall a failed Operation Valkyrie.  

The film wasn’t as difficult for me to watch as it was for others in the class. Did it make me angry? Absolutely. There is not a perfect race of people, and there is not a perfect human on all of Earth. Every race and religion has its fakes and murderers as well as thieves. This being said I can honestly say that there was probably at least one person who was murdered that had committed a crime which called for death as a punishment. I am not saying that the gas chamber was a humane way to punch out, but they were dead either way.

Depending on how you look at the Holocaust, there was one positive outcome – medical advancement. If we didn’t have humane groups for this and groups for that, we would be so much more advanced in the medical field than we already are, however the negative side of that would be more death from testing.

In conclusion I will say this – the next time a dictator rises to power and decides to massacre his own people, I will stand between them.