Not Asking for Agreement, Just Tolerance

However, most Europe was willing to help the Nazi party succeed and achieve their main goal. The extermination of the Jews was a dire plan that included all disabled people, homosexuals, Jehovah witnesses, Political prisoners and everyone who helped them, without exception of religious representatives. The Jewish community was accused of trying to revolve and start their own country and before they could take some control of the situation, they were being expelled from schools, their rights taken away and they were being forcibly taken into horrible isolated places; ghettos. The United States became aware of this awful situation when Henry Ford brought The Jewish Peril; a book that extended the anti-Semitism.

In less than a month, the quantity of murdered people was alarming. Concentration camps were set up on strategic places and rail roads were bringing more innocent people in to be gassed in gas chambers, burned in ovens, shot or if they were between fourteen and forty years of age and able body they put to work until they would die from diseases and starvation. Fifteen thousand were down in the first month, eleven million by the end of this dreadful era. Even though there was no punishment for not killing Jews, three thousand people joined the battalions and four hundred volunteered to take women and children to nearby forests and shot them.

Finally, the German forces were become weaker and being driven out of Ghettos. Luckily, the allies who were the R.U.S.S., U.S. and England (the only three countries that opposed to Hitler’s ideas) invaded the nation in September of 1945. Nevertheless, we wonder if we learned anything from that experience because throughout the rest of the museum we see smaller manifestations of the same kind of believes. There is racism, war, murder, organized groups against certain people and much more appalling things that should never have existed. Last but not least, on the fieldtrip I learned something really important; if we all take responsibility for what we see or live, a lot of those things we are not supposed to repeat will be avoided.