Monday 7 September 2015

class 9 history topic : ordinary people and the crimes against humanity


  • Many saw the world through nazi eyes and spoke their mind in Nazi language. They felt hatred and anger when they saw someone who looked like a Jew.
  • They believed nazism would bring prosperity and improve general well being.
  • But not every German was a Nazi.
  • However, passive onlookers and apethetic witnesses. But they were too scared to act to protest against nazi.
  • What Jews felt in nazi Germany, Charlotte Beradt secretly recorded people’s dream in her diary and published them in a highly concerting book called “THIRD REICH OF DREAMS”.
  • They dreamt of their hooked noses, black hair, eyes, body movements, images published in Nazi press haunted the Jews in their dreams and they died many deaths before they reached the gas chamber.

KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST
  • Information about Nazi tricked out of Germany during last years and of what happened. when Germany was defeated the world came to realize horrors 
  • Jews wanted the world to remember the sufferings they had during the nazi killing operations called “ HOLOCAUST”.
  • When the war seemed lost nazi leadership distributed petrol to destroy all evidence available in the offices.
  • The Jews witnesses in the ghettos preserved documents and camp inhabitants wrote diaries, notebooks, created archives.
  • The memory of the holocaust live on in memories, documentaries, poetry, fiction and in many museums of the world today.
  • These are a tribute to those who resisted it, an embarrassing reminder to those who collaborated and a warning to those who watched in silence.

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