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poison used in the gas chambers, to the thousands of empty suitcases, clearly marked with names, which Nazi personnel emptied and appropriated after their owners were gassed to death. The Nazis not only took the lives of millions of Jews, they took everything that was a reminder of their lives. The world stood by while this occurred, and did nothing.
Why did the world stand by and allow millions of Jews to disappear into the death camps? Perhaps it was because most people could not comprehend anything so sinister and evil. Who could possibly believe that such evil could exist in the world? Who could believe that a race could incite so much hatred that another race would attempt to completely exterminate them? The very idea seems beyond imagination or possibility. Perhaps that is one reason the world stood by and watched as the Jewish ghettos emptied. They simply could not comprehend anything as evil as the Nazis treatment of the Jews. As one photo caption in the "Then and Now" exhibit states, "Entrance to the main camp, Auschwitz I. One sees the scene today, hears the terrible stories, and finds it hard to picture these things in their mind's eye" (Editors). If it is hard today to picture the gruesome treatment of the Jews and other prisoners today, it would have been even harder during the war. Stories of the death camps did circulate, and the mass disappearance of so many people could not have gone unnoticed by the rest of the world. And yet, very little was done to save the Jews or protest the death camps. Randolph Churchill did organize a...
Therefore, the outside world did know of the plight of the Jews, but they allowed the murders to continue until the war ended. The world's religious leaders also stood by and did nothing, which is overwhelming even today. In his tour of Auschwitz, author Wiesel commented on the evil that occurred there, and how incomprehensible it was even today. His comments seem to say that if the happenings at the death camps are impossible to believe today, they were even more improbable then, and that many people could not believe or comprehend that such evil could actually exist in the modern world. Perhaps the situation was so unbelievable that people simply did not think that much evil could exist in the world. Unfortunately, the relics at Auschwitz and the reminiscences of her survivors tell a far different and chilling story.
In conclusion, it seems clear that the Nazi death camp personnel were inhumane and evil in their treatment of the Jews. They murdered millions in the crematoriums or by simply working them to death. They treated the Jews worse than animals, and the world allowed the atrocities to continue, at least in part because they were so incredibly unbelievable.
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Editors. "Then and Now." Remember.org. 2006. 9 June 2006. http://remember.org/then-and-now/tn03.html
Winfrey, Oprah. "Inside Auschwitz: The End of Times." Oprah.com. 2006. 9 June 2006. http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/night/holo/holo_trip_350_101.jhtml
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