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Holocaust Memorial Day
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Is being marked today in the uk I thought it would be nice to just post a thread so we can remember it as a community too.
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However I hope people who think it one of the worst events in human history, whether they remember it or not, take this opportunity to understand the root causes of it and not simply one (admittedly horrifying) result of them.
i don't know if it's because i've been there, or if it's because i studied a lot of european history when i was younger, or just because of the person that i am, but i know i will always remember. and of course it wasn't just auschwitz, but the other camps too. sometimes people say that we need to forget about the war and everything associated with it, or that it is pointless to be upset about the holocaust when terrible things are still going on in the world today, but i don't agree. i think that each of the people who lost their lives, and in such a prolonged, painful way, deserves to be remembered for the suffering and indignity they endured. and all for no good reason, just because they were not someone's idea of perfect.
the auschwitz memorial museum in poland
EDIT: To avoid misunderstandings, I'm not trying to "belittle" this day or anything like it, I'm just saying we shouldn't be focusing on the results, in case anyone does that.
But for now, I'd hoped we could just take a minute to think about how it shouldn't have happened, how we can stand for each other to make sure it doesn't again.
At the end of the world war, people were horrified to discover some of the behaviours carried out by the Nazi regime. They didn't understand how 'Ordinary Germans' obeyed orders and killed 6 million people during the holocaust. Many researchers believed the obedience required perpetuate the Holocaust was due to the fact that the 'Germans were different people' they believed the Germans had a particular 'Type' or personality, as mentioned above, the Authoritarian personality.
This concept was developed by Adorno Et Al, describing individuals who were typical, hostile to people or a inferior status while being 'Servile' to those they think to be of a higher status than themselves. Such as individuals tend to uphold the norms of the society in which they live and are intolerant of alternative ways of life.
But Milgrim conducted, that the 'Germans are different' hypothesis to be wrong and the majority of people irrespective of their nationality will obey authority figures, in a particular situation, even if the command requires destructive behaviours.
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