Social injustice, Propaganda, and Everyday Heroes
The Holocaust was a nightmare example of social prejudice. A time in which many civilians were stripped of their basic rights and throw into a nightmare. Privacy was unheard of, with police and soldiers entering without permits, bag searches without warning and even arrest without cause. The arrest of hundreds of thousand of innocent people because of sexuality, religion, nationality, and status was a disruption in the everyday lifestyle of many, causing people across europe to live in fear.
The extermination of group of people because of, sometimes traits that can not be controlled, in immoral and inhuman. This genocide is exceedingly famous because of the acts that we now can only see as monstrous acts against the people of the world. The amount of people who were killed without reason, and the rights that were stolen due to traits possibly uncontrollable, is an inconceivable thought to our rising generations.
But in this dark time, there were lights that shone through. These were everyday heros that saved the lives of many.
Oskar Schindler. One of the most well known names in Holocaust history. Being a wealthy german business owner, we was able to preserve hundreds of jewish lives from the horrors of the Nazi reign. In realizing the injustice that was occurring in his country, Schindler put his morals as a german behind him and assisted the fleeing jewish population. By employing them as workers necessary for his factory, he was able to postpone the transport of these targeted citizens to concentration camps. Although the work was not the best, and the pay was little to none, the jewish population of Schindler’s factory will forever be in his debt. Although he did not treat the workers “humanely”, as time went on he began to care about his workers, and about what happened to them.