| The Holocaust: A Failure of Human Reason | |||||||||||||||||
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The Promises "First they came for the socialists and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist. They came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me." -Reverend Martin Niemoller | |||||||||||||||||
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As a group, we have looked at the failure of human reason seen in the Holocaust in many different lights. We have focused our efforts on the failures of Nazi Germany, itself, and those of the Unites States and other world powers who declined to aid. We have also taken a look at the history leading up to and encompassing the Holocaust, to try and get a better idea of how this failure of human reason came to be. You can check out our conclusions by clicking on one of the sections at the bottom of this page. | |||||||||||||||||
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"I have regret and condemnation for the extermination of the Jewish people, which was ordered by the German rulers, but I myself could not have done anything to prevent it. I was a tool in the hands of the strong and the powerful and the hands of fate itself." --Adolf Eichmann Such common ideas/beliefs regarding the lack of intervention on the part of both the Germans themselves and foreign nations are put to rest in Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioners." Golding dispels such ideas as myths and states plainly that the Germans involved were not coerced, but rather justified in their own minds for actions against a people they considered less than human. These ideas of no chance to help, however, find a voice in William D. Rubenstein's "The Myth of Rescue." Rubenstein believes that the Jews were much better off than it seems, that more was done than it seems, and that the US as well as other nations were more powerless than they seemed. An interesting counter-perspective. | ||||||||||||||||
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