Holocaust

• I studied about the Holocaust for a whole year in my world history class.
• It’s difficult to write down everything I learned, but I’ll tag my knowledge on Scrapbox so that it’s connected.
• The long-standing anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish culture in Europe.
• Discriminatory policies in the 1930s after Hitler took power.
• The expansion of Nazi Germany and its appeasement policy in Poland during World War II.
• The escalation of gradual discrimination, including the Nuremberg Laws, propaganda, rights, and human rights.
• The development of ghettos and segregation.
• The development of the “Final Solution” involving concentration camps, poison gas, and crimes against humanity.

Thoughts:

• I realized that as the discrimination gradually escalated and people were taken to concentration camps, it was important to be sensitive to personal safety.
• I no longer had the normal bias towards being unaffected by the possibility of being massacred, and it felt very personal.
• It’s scary to think that public opinion can change so drastically in just 10 years, although there must have been underlying factors prior to that.

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