Bystander The Holocaust

Many people looked on, others watched from a far in a tree or another hiding place. But, many didn’t intervene with the affairs of the Nazis and German Officials as they rounded up their friends and neighbors, put them into ghettos, and ultimately killed them. Few people tried to save the unfortunate Jewish people, and some prevailed, while some met the same fate. This wicked act of Jewish extermination not only occurred in Germany, but it effected places all over central Europe. With this in mind, a priest named Father DuBois ventures far to uncover the eye witness accounts of the devastating attack on the Jewish population and publishes in 2008 a book called: A Priest’s Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of 1.5 Million Jews, The Holocaust by Bullets.
Furthermore, the roles that bystanders, witnesses, and observers played in these circumstances are an important factor for the Jewish executions. The bystanders in Father DuBois’s book can be separated into three categories: those who witness the murders, those who were requisitioned, and those who helped Jews (either to escape, save the living who got out of the pits or hid Jews in their homes), along with the roles of each case. People think when there is a genocide that the only people who are responsible for the deaths of the victims are the bad guys or murderers. However, this is not always the