Was The Holocaust A Fear Driven Society

All throughout time there have been society, organizations, and people driven by fear. When a society is driven by fear they live a life in which thoughts, decisions and actions are predominantly motivated by fear. One of the most iconic societies driven by fear was Nazi Germany. The Holocaust is mostly highly known as the attempted genocide of the Jews from 1933 to 1945. During this time, Hitler and his army would target the Jewish population all throughout Europe. Mostly all of the Jewish people that were living in or close to Nazi Germany would live in constant fear of being taken from their families and being killed. The Holocaust was a fear driven society because of the targeted victims and the people living in fear of being taken from their families and killed. …show more content…
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust was a time of extreme hostility towards the Jewish. This was mostly because Hitler was a anti-Semitism and had a hatred of Jews as an ethnic and religious group. The Nazi army would target mostly the Jewish, but also the people they thought were “evil” and a threat to the German racial purity and community. The Nazis would murder its own Jewish population and the Jewish populations of its conquered territories in addition to all of the other people killed. The victims included about one million children and about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had lived in Europe. The Holocaust was also seen as Hitler’s “final solution” to the Jewish