Reflection Paper11

I think the Holocaust was one of the greatest tragedies the world had ever seen. A majority of the world knows the stories and the horrors that the victims went through and it moved us all even to this day. To me the Holocaust was the worst type of genocide ever, what those people went through was absolutely mortifying that I would have rather of been shot point blank instead of having to go through what they did. The people thought they were going to be helped to safety and kept away from the horror but instead they were sent to the direct core of literally, hell on earth. No one was spared not even tiny infants, they thrown into the “wolf’s den” like all of the others. If you happened to get sick while in the camps no doctor would help you, instead they would experiment on you making you wish that they would have just killed you instead. They were basically lab rats in the concentration camps; their every move being watched and their lives being played around with like a game. When soldiers became bored they would just go and execute people without a care in the world. It is hard for me to think that none of those soldiers had a conscious or even thought that it could have been them instead. I think that if they wanted to get rid of the “imperfect people” they should have just thrown themselves into the camps and maybe then they would realize that what they were doing was ludicrous. What the Nazi’s did and how they did it was truly inhumane to me because not only did they target Jews but small children, handicap people, homosexuals, etc; no one was safe. It absolutely blows my mind that people actually say that the Holocaust never happened. There is actual footage of what was going on in the concentration camps; journals found in the camps, even the Germans admit the Holocaust was horrible. There is so much evidence to support the fact that it did happen that I would think that it is impossible to doubt. I think that those who do not think it happened should visit a camp to see exactly what is was like and maybe then they would change their opinions about the Holocaust.