Why was the world silent during the Holocaust?
Why was the world silent during the Holocaust?
By: Mary Katherine Mayes and Sarah Grace Whitt
Gadsden Middle School
Hitler had an invincible ally without whom he could have never flourished. His ally was the world that chose to endure silence as Germany kept challenging the boundaries of the universal acceptance for its evil actions. The Holocaust didn't begin with crematoria. Hitler moved gradually, carefully intensifying his anti-Jewish guidelines. In 1935, he approved the Nuremberg Laws, depriving all Jews of German citizenship. Jews were then streaked from the businesses, their stores were rejected, they were singled out for unusual taxes, and they were forbidden from "intermarrying" with Germans. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. And if one can generously say that the entire world didn't hate the Jews at the time of the Holocaust, most of the nations were powerfully and oddly indifferent.
Hitler triumphed that while some spoke contemptuously of his Jewish policies, no one was eager to take in the Jews that were escaping Germany. The British imposed the White Paper, limiting the possibilities of the Balfour Declaration and stopping emigration of the Jews to Palestine. The United States refused to increase its limited share for immigrants. When a Canadian official was asked how many Jews his nation could accommodate, his response was, "None is too many."
Though the allies had precise maps of Auschwitz and their planes were capable of finding their way to the oil house five miles away from the slaughterhouse, they never demolished the crematoria or gas chambers, which would have seriously disadvantaged the German-programmed mass killings. Arthur Morse's book, While Six Million Died, makes upset reading as we are required to recognize the complicity of so much of the world in what is usually observed as the wrongdoing of the Nazis.
The destiny of the S.S. St. Louis is the brightest sample of
By: Mary Katherine Mayes and Sarah Grace Whitt
Gadsden Middle School
Hitler had an invincible ally without whom he could have never flourished. His ally was the world that chose to endure silence as Germany kept challenging the boundaries of the universal acceptance for its evil actions. The Holocaust didn't begin with crematoria. Hitler moved gradually, carefully intensifying his anti-Jewish guidelines. In 1935, he approved the Nuremberg Laws, depriving all Jews of German citizenship. Jews were then streaked from the businesses, their stores were rejected, they were singled out for unusual taxes, and they were forbidden from "intermarrying" with Germans. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. And if one can generously say that the entire world didn't hate the Jews at the time of the Holocaust, most of the nations were powerfully and oddly indifferent.
Hitler triumphed that while some spoke contemptuously of his Jewish policies, no one was eager to take in the Jews that were escaping Germany. The British imposed the White Paper, limiting the possibilities of the Balfour Declaration and stopping emigration of the Jews to Palestine. The United States refused to increase its limited share for immigrants. When a Canadian official was asked how many Jews his nation could accommodate, his response was, "None is too many."
Though the allies had precise maps of Auschwitz and their planes were capable of finding their way to the oil house five miles away from the slaughterhouse, they never demolished the crematoria or gas chambers, which would have seriously disadvantaged the German-programmed mass killings. Arthur Morse's book, While Six Million Died, makes upset reading as we are required to recognize the complicity of so much of the world in what is usually observed as the wrongdoing of the Nazis.
The destiny of the S.S. St. Louis is the brightest sample of