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From your readings of chapters 1&2 of Night and the informational text on St. Louis, in full well-developed paragraphs answer the following question with textual evidence.
“Who is the most responsible: Perpetrators, Victims, or Bystanders?"
The people who were most responsible for this time period is the perpetrators. I feel like they are most responsible because they are the ones doing the damage. The victims in this case the Jews are getting blamed and hurt for things that are true. The perpetrators or the Nazi’s were killing the Jews, so they are the ones who should be responsible. The bystanders or the other countries had nothing to do with it. The bystanders could have made an impact if they joined, but they did not help or hurt more than what was already happening. They could have stopped the Perpetrators and saved more lives, but they didn’t do any wrong. For example, the Nazi’s would invade Ghettos to capture the Jews. What did the Jews do to make it okay for the Nazi’s to capture them? Nothing, so why did it make it alright for them to do what they did. That is why I feel like the perpetrators were most responsible for everything.
ReplyDeleteThe most responsible for the deaths of the holocaust is victims.The perpetrator had set up a plan step by step to eliminate all jews.This plan was called the final solution. The victims are responsible because they were given two warning. Moishe the Beadle had to go help soldier load coal and dig trench. When they were done the soldier try to kill all that helped ,but Moishe the Beadle escaped to tell the jews danger is coming. In the end no one had believed him ,and label hi as poor and sick. A month later they were put in the ghetto. They still believing that the nazi were great people and wouldn't harm them. Elie father's friend that was a Hungarian police came to warn them ahead of time ,but it was too late.
ReplyDeleteThe most responsible are the perpetrators. The perpetrators are the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. They murdered and killed innocent people. That is beyond human understanding and pure wickedness that you could wake up and say that you want to get rid of a whole group or race of people, just because they don’t believe in the things you do and you want to hold power and respect in your hands. No compassion in your heart, or even pity or others. The perpetrators also allowed jealousy and blindness cove their insight. They took over everything they could to blame, hurt and shame a group of innocent people, who were seen more as targets than normal individuals with sane souls of emotion. The blame was meant to fall on the Jews, but I believe the chaos and calamity that happened, the cries and screams of millions of people being heard until this very day, all goes back to the devil himself, Adolf Hitler. He was the reason the Nazi was even created. Without passion or haste, they sot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed in the air and used as targets for the machine guns (Wiesel 6). We are not discussing figurative language or diction, but even from hearing this sentence, the imagery is totally terrible for one to ponder and you can tell the severity of indifference they possessed. Tossing children and babies in the air, and just shooting them is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever heard. Sometimes you get lost in the book and forget it is even real-life because of the perpetrators. You think whether this could have actually taken place and it’s so hard to imagine. It makes me feel like their robots with no love in their hearts. The Nazis were extremely violent and full of terror, to follow orders as cruel a that. I believed the Nazis are perpetrators because they committed a crime of killing their own kind, only because of how one man stood up and educated them on how bad Jews were. It was definitely very strange that they were able to follow all those orders without question, but then again the Nazis had to, or they would be killed by other Nazis. In modern day, it would be unimaginable for these perpetrators to ever come back to life in any form, and have that same negative and depressing impact on people, like the Jews. The poor passengers of St. Louis were victims and they were innocent. Some were Jews who tried to escape, but they got caught and held hostage. I think we have to understand our perpetrators and deeply analyze them, so the victims and bystanders would not fall into such deceitfulness and evil trickery. I feel like Hitler couldn’t have done this whole thing without brainwashing people and using his words; it would have been a lot more difficult for him. They handed us some bread, a few pails of water. They checked the bars not the window to make sure they would not come loose. The cars were sealed. One person was placed in charge of every car: if someone managed to escape, that person would be shot (Wiesel 22).
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ReplyDeleteThe people most responsible are the bystanders. The perpetrators were blindly followed the man in powers, out of fear, out of indifferntness and maybe even out of respect. But the bystanders who did nothing but watch and let it happen are just as responsible for the lives as the perpetrators.
According to the informational text on St. Louis “US Coast Guard ships patrolled the waters to make sure that no one jumped to freedom and did not allow the ship to dock in the US” leaving them to turn right back around to head back to Europe. They “patrolled the waters”, meaning the made sure that no one got off the ship. The U.S. didn’t want to get involved when they should’ve. They had the chance to save nine hundred lives, instead they turned their back when they needed it the most.
Despite U.S. knowledge of the genocide taking place in the death camps, the U.S. did not take any specific steps to stop or slow the murder of Jews until 1944. Even when they did help they did very little. According to “The voyage of the St. Louis”, “In 1939, the annual combined German-Austrian immigration quota was 27,370 and was quickly filled. In fact, there was a waiting list of at least several years. US officials could only have granted visas to the St. Louis passengers by denying them to the thousands of German Jews placed further up on the waiting list.” During this time also the U.S. was gong through the great depression and president Roosevelt didn’t step in because it didn’t benefit the U.S
So in my opinion the bystanders are just as responsible as the perpetrators.
I think the perpetrators, which were the Nazis, the SS, and Adolf Hitler, were the ones who is most responsible for the Holocaust. They were the ones who actually prosecuted the Jewish and treated them very unfairly. One textual evidence is “The Hungarian police used their rifle butts, their clubs to indiscriminately strike old men and women, children and cripples.”
ReplyDeleteI think the victims were the least to be responsible for the Holocaust. They were the ones that were getting sent to concentration camps, being blamed for, and were killed. They couldn’t do anything about it because they had no power but they were being warned 2 times. If they had listened to the people who had warned them, they would’ve got away and survived.
I think the bystander were somewhat responsible for what happen because they knew what was happening around during that period and they did not bother to help the Jewish at all. If they had taken the chance to help the Jewish, they would’ve saved so many lives.
To me the bystanders were the most responsible . I say this because they knew the situation but didnt bother to stand up and tell the other . Because of them not standing up , they were put in a horrible situation . The perpetrators had responsibility to . They were the Nazis and Hitler . Hitler was the leader of all this commotion so he had a impact on this too , a very big one. For Hitler to be the leader and ruler of it all how could anybody not follow his rules without being in critical conditions or anything . "The jews of Budapest live in a atmosphere of fear and terror".
ReplyDeleteThe bystanders were also responsible because for them to have known this piece of information , it had to harm their ears and maybe think about the other guys they could be put in this same situation or better yet who was put in this situation. Therefore, now they all have to be put in this situation . But not only if the bystanders spoke up and tried to put an end to the problems . I think if the bystanders happened to speak up and let the jewish people know what was happeneing , maybe more lives coud have been saved . The victims really had no responsible impact on this because what could they have done . If they were to maybe try and do something the Nazis would have did something to them. What they would have did would not have been joyful so maybe keeping their mouths closed wouldve helped in the end . I say it didnt because of how many lived were killed during this situation .
I think that the most responsible during the holocaust were the bystanders. There were people who didnt know what was gonna happen, and i dont blame them much but they could have stepped in and said something against Hitler and the Nazi party. Then there are those who new that the holocaust was going to occur and they did nothing, that gets me mad cause they knew this was gonna happen and they didnt do nothing to help prevent it. And then we have the Allied powers (especially USA). I understand that france and some others took in the jewish refugees, but i still think that all of the leaders of the allied powers could have done more.
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