Reflection 11

The same way I feel about slavery, genocides, and such is the same way I feel about the Holocaust; its is one is the world's darkest times. I will forever be spellbound at the fact that it only takes one person with uncheck ethnocentrism to poison a whole nation. I do feel that it was perfect timing on Hitler's behalf though; Germany was in shambles. World War I basically killed them politically and financially. In a sense we can look at Hitler as the anti-Obama; he made promises that things would get better and he, in a wicked way, delivered on them, the difference is Obama is actually helping a desolate situation and I can't honestly say Hitler inspired any type of positive change on his behalf. Yes its great that he was able to unite his whole country but it was totally wrong that he did so against a group a people that made up less than one percent of the population of the entire country. The people of Germany were desperate and when this guy came in telling them it wasn't their fault and instead the 'inferior' races fault, I'm sure the people didn't require much convincing, just a few bogus studies. The Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and the handicapped were just the scapegoats. When I see videos of Nazi Germany I am in awe. I always think to myself how if people could get that fired up about human rights, or multicultural awareness, or anything else for that matter our world would be unbelievably awesome. We could solve so many problems and I probably wouldn't be writing this reflection cause there would have been an extermination of a group of innocent peoples. For someone to deny that the Holocaust occurred would be downright stupid. How much evidence does one need? Are the letters from those who perished in the concentration camps not enough? Is listening to the stories of those who survived not enough? What about visiting the actual grounds of the actual concentration camps where people never came out, is that inadequate? There are countless documentaries on the subject and you would think its impossible not to acknowledge this time in history. But people are only going to see what they want to see. Some people would rather be left to their bliss.