Reflection 11

The holocaust was one of the most horrible atrocities to happen in the history of the world. This takes me back to the documentary we watched in class two weeks back. I was utterly flabbergasted and at loss for worlds. I remember the professor asked me what I thought about the video and could not find words to describe how I felt. Now is my chance to tell how I felt about the documentary we watched on those horrible events many years ago. I was shocked that human beings could be treated this way. How could humans perform these cruel absurd experiments on other human beings? I was shocked when I saw the many Jewish beheaded and cast to the side like tennis balls in a cage. I was also shocked to see the malnourished bodies in the hospital that were infected with diseases while their family and friends thought they were being cared for in the concentration camp hospital.
Something else that surprises me about the holocaust is how someone with such radical ideals could cause this to happen to the Jews and other races. We also touched upon this in class. This is what happens when ethnocentrism takes place. Ethnocentrism also has deep roots in prejudice; which we also know is a danger to society. Ethnocentrism is being that your face is superior to another. Hitler believed the Jewish were the cause of all the problems that Germany was having. Not only did he believe this but he also believed the German people were better than the Jews. When this types of thinking takes place it is dangerous for everyone involved. With this type of prejudicial thinking any type of negative behavior is possible and as discussed in the reflection prior to this one, it is a very difficult mind set to break.
I think the people who say the holocaust didn’t exist are the most ridiculous people on the face of the planet. I would ask them about the millions of evidence found at the concentration camps. I would ask them where the videos and pictures came from. I would show them pictures of holocaust survivors with numbers tattooed on their arms to identify them. These people who try to deny the holocaust exists do this because if it is denied then it never happened. This will not happen because the Jewish people will not let us forget. Not forgetting is important because we must remember the past so we do not repeat it.