Western Civilization 2 Signature Assignment By Hannah Arendt

Western Civilization 2 Signature Assignment. The Holocaust is one of the most devastating and terrifying instances in the world’s history. It is mostly known for what Adolf Hitler wanted done, but the ones that are guilty for it even happening are that supported the Nazi regime and what it was doing. Throughout Hannah Arendt’s book she only talks about the people that supported the regime and took orders form it telling them to have millions of Jews sent to concentration camps. While their millions of those Jews never made it out because of the fact that they had gotten sick or they had some physical problems, so the people that were in charge of the prison camps had orders to have those sick or injured people sent to death camps. Those people
Arendt believes that Eichmann only participated in the Holocaust and carrying out the Nazi’s regime regarding the Final Solution as because it could’ve helped him with his career. In this case it turned out to be true as Eichmann had been promoted as a commander of death camp. Eichmann himself contends that the only reason why he committed the crimes he had been accused of was because he had been told to do so. To others Eichmann was an evil man, but to Eichmann he believed he did nothing wrong. In his eyes he believed that he was being a good citizen by following the Fuhrer’s orders. However, though he later on admitted that he could have backed out like many others had done, but he thought such a step as this was “inadmissible,” and even when he was in court didn’t think it was “admirable”; to him it would’ve meant no more to switch another well-paying job. This turned out to be true as Arendt pointed out that Eichmann could have made the choice on whether to participate or not in innocent people being killed. It was because of Eichmann’s unwillingness to say “NO” that helped facilitate millions of people dying, and in the end he would ultimately pay the price for that with his own life.