How Was Adolf Hitler Bystander

From a young age, Adolf Hitler knew he wanted to become an artist, but his father, Alois, sent him to a standard secondary school called Linz, which prevented him from learning classics. Since father and son did not get along, Hitler decided to purposely fail his classes in order to be kicked out, so he could follow his dream. In 1907, years after the death of Alois, 18 year old Adolf Hitler received permission from his mother, Klara, to move to Vienna, the epicenter of art at the time. He wanted to enroll in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, but failed the admission test twice as his technical skills were unsatisfactory. After the death of his mother, Hitler became poverty- stricken and was often forced to sleep in homeless shelters or under
They were bystanders. Germans and Europeans who lived through the Holocaust label themselves as bystanders, even though the world denotes a passivity and indifference shown during the mass persecution of the Jewish population and demonstrates an attempt to avoid taking responsibility for the violence that occured. The Holocaust happened gradually as Hitler slowly orchestrated the events necessary to accomplish his ideological goals and build an enemy that his genius could defeat. Even as Jews were deprived of rights, isolated, and the victims of prejudice, most people did nothing. When Jews were rounded up and treated with violence and killed by the masses, most people did
These “upstanders” include Sempo Sugihara, a Japanese consul in Lithuania, who issued 3,500 visas to Jews which allowed them to emigrate to Shanghai, the entire population of Denmark, and the small French community of Le Chambon Sur Lignon that saved from Jews than their entire population of 5,000. In Winter of 1940, a Jewish, German woman came to the door of the Trocmé household, the Huguenot leader of the village, asking for help. Magda Trocmé even went to the mayor to help her get false papers and although she was unsuccessful, she persevered. Pastor André Trocmé then began showing signs of resistance, the biggest being an underground network to help protect and care for Jewish refugees. Throughout the entire war, not a single Jew was captured in Le Chambon because of the collective effort of Trocmé and all of the villagers. At a very basic level, the villagers helped because it was the right thing to do. They were threatened by the Nazis, could have earned great rewards, and had to trust strangers, yet still demonstrated such strong morals. Their sense of morality came from their need to help others while Hitler’s came from his need to dominate others because he saw himself as