Hitler was trying to create a master race and he hated all that was affecting the growth of this “master race”. Hitler’s hatred towards the Jewish people cause deaths amongst 11 million people; Jews, homosexuals, disabled people, gypsies, tramps and anyone he thought would affect the development and growth of the master race; he was creating.2.) Amongst the 11 million people killed 6 million of the people were Jews. The Jewish people forced to go into execution camps which said "Arbeit macht frei" in other words “work makes you free”, they were then tricked and placed into gas chambers where they were stripped of their clothes and then killed. Apart from getting executed from Gas chambers, Jewish people were also experimented on by the Nazi’s and many were also killed by the “Hunger Plan” which was a plan where the Jews would starve to death. The strong survived and the weak were killed. Those which weren’t killed either attempted to escape or were forced to work in labor jobs. These are some ways that the Nazi tyranny used to annihilate the Jewish …show more content…
It is unjustified that God is to blame for what happened during the Holocaust. Imagine a scenario where you are a believer of God and one day a random man comes to your house and kills your family but not you. The thing that you would do it to blame God for not preventing the murder and blame him for killing your family, but in fact God is not the one who killed your family, the random man is the one who killed your family. We can relate this situation to the Holocaust. It’s the same situation, you blame God for not helping the Jews but he is not the one who killed them, Hitler is. To support this idea a famous philosopher called Irenaeus made an Irenaean Theodicy which states that humans born evil. Irenaeus believes that through evil and suffering humans can develop to become morally good. For example we cannot be generous when there isn’t poverty. To conclude God allows evil to happen so that humanity will benefit a