Assignment 2

Assignment 2: Old news: Holocaust

T: Tirza, D: Denise S: Sanne, E: Evy & L: Leanne

Where did Hitler get his ideas on genocide from? Who inspired Hitler?

T:  Hitler writes in his book ‘Mein Kampf‘ that he, around the age of fourteen, fifteen first came across the word Jew in political discussions.  He read those discussions and slowly got acquainted with the ‘Christian social party’, which is founded by Karl Lueger. He was an anti-Semitic, discrimination against Jews and his ‘Christian social party’ are sometimes viewed as a model for Hitler’s Nazism.

D: So now we know where Hitler’s views came from. If you look closely, the ideas of Hitler and Karl Lueger are similar. Karl Lueger was an admirer of Edouard Drumont, who founded the anti-Semitic league of France. So you could say that he was the man who in a way started the Holocaust.

What is genocide according to you?

T: “I think that genocide is murdering a lot of people who have a particular belief, race, ethnic background and so on.”

D: Genocide is, making a certain group of people extinct, by killing them.  This is what Hitler did, one of his goals was to kill the Jews. Better known as the Holocaust.

L: Genocide is a method for war that is forbidden. A specific group of people became massacred. The Holocaust is about the Jews. All the Jews were murdered by Hitler and his followers.

S: I didn’t know that much about Hitler, but I knew he wasn’t a good guy. I think that it’s not fair how he treated all the people. Everybody needs to be treated the same and needs to live with the same rules and opportunities. It isn’t fair to treat people different because of their religion and to kill many of them all in once. I know some things about the genocide, but by doing this assignment, I learned a lot more things I didn’t know before.

E: Genocide is a way of cruel violence against a specific group of people. These groups of people are just being killed in every single way possible, no matter how young or what gender you are. For example: Hitler, he did not like the Jewish People so he tried to kill them all. He wanted to wipe out the whole Jewish existence. Genocide is forbidden, but it was used/applied a few times back in the days.