Persuasive Essay on the Holocaust
Millions of innocent people - murdered for no good reason. Our history books have given us so much knowledge about the Holocaust; knowledge that we can use in the future. Knowing about the brutality of the Holocaust could definetly help prevent it, or anything like it, from ever happening again, because we can learn from our mistakes in the past, become more aware of what’s going on in the world, and teach our future generations about how malevolent, horrific, and demented the Holocaust truly was.
To begin with, learning from mistakes in the past always helps us in the future. During the Holocaust, America was considered one of the most powerful nations in the world. Why did we sit in silence? While masses of people were being slaughtered in the 1930’s, America did not meddle prior to 1941. Although the United States, after WWI, stuck to the idea of Isolationism (preventing their involvement in other countries’ affairs), the horrors of the Holocaust had little to do with only foreign affairs, and shouldn’t have been ignored because of it. The cruelty of this mass killing should have overridden this concept of not interfering. If America would have acted sooner, we could have saved millions of lives before they were taken. This was a mistake that we can now -because of our knowledge of the Holocaust- prevent from occurring again, if such a situation was to reoccur.
In addition, if we learn of the past (things that happened that were never dreamed possible before the Holocaust), we can become more aware and respond earlier through our more effective, current day, and globally connected technology. Nowadays, we have more global connections, versus the past, where we weren’t as technology savvy. Internet, magazines, television, telephone, and many more of today’s technology that keeps us informed daily on the latest intelligence. If we keep striving for information on current events, then we will be more aware of what’s going on in the world, and because we know
To begin with, learning from mistakes in the past always helps us in the future. During the Holocaust, America was considered one of the most powerful nations in the world. Why did we sit in silence? While masses of people were being slaughtered in the 1930’s, America did not meddle prior to 1941. Although the United States, after WWI, stuck to the idea of Isolationism (preventing their involvement in other countries’ affairs), the horrors of the Holocaust had little to do with only foreign affairs, and shouldn’t have been ignored because of it. The cruelty of this mass killing should have overridden this concept of not interfering. If America would have acted sooner, we could have saved millions of lives before they were taken. This was a mistake that we can now -because of our knowledge of the Holocaust- prevent from occurring again, if such a situation was to reoccur.
In addition, if we learn of the past (things that happened that were never dreamed possible before the Holocaust), we can become more aware and respond earlier through our more effective, current day, and globally connected technology. Nowadays, we have more global connections, versus the past, where we weren’t as technology savvy. Internet, magazines, television, telephone, and many more of today’s technology that keeps us informed daily on the latest intelligence. If we keep striving for information on current events, then we will be more aware of what’s going on in the world, and because we know