The Extermination Of Jews Documents

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Nazi murderers who were the animals.

Many of these readings reminded me of the question "Where were the
people? Where were those who said, `NO! This is wrong!'? Why would no one
stand up to such an obvious wrong?" The ninth document shows how the Nazis
eliminated Jews' rights. It amazes me that there weren't more non-Jews who
would speak out against these ridiculous, arbitrary laws. Can fear truly
silence a person to the point of just accepting the dehumanization and
deaths of millions of people? I still cannot bring myself to believe that
this is human nature. No thinking human being could accept this, yet an
entire nation bowed to the insane will of a madman. Clearly, somewhere in
human nature is an innate passivity possessed by many people. This
passivity must be so powerful that it can silence those who wish to be
active, who will stand up for what is right. Is it not reasonable then to
think that ,despite all of the good intentions and courage that ...

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accurate
representation would be that some people are evil, and that they when in
power can influence the primarily neutral population. Locke's view of the
rationality in man's nature seems an absurd optimistic opinion after
reading all of the offenses against humanity. Although there may well be
people governed by rationality they quite obviously cannot make up the bulk
of those living or such illogical random acts of cruelty and evil , such as
the Holocaust, could not occur. Ardrey makes statements that there is a
natural instinct for man to be aggressive. Indeed this may be true, as it
explains the behavior of the Nazi executioners. Without some sort of
murderous tendency it ...

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