That's what I'm going to talk about.
The Holocaust was the systematic killing of about 6 MILLION Jews during World War II. This year I read a book called I Have Lived A Thousand Years. It was a narrative of one girls struggle of survival in Auschwitz, one of the worst concentration camps in Europe.
And what is the Holocaust?
*The Holocaust is generally regarded as the systematic slaughter of not only 6 million Jews, (two-thirds of the total European Jewish population), the primary victims, but also 5 million others, approximately 11 million individuals wiped off the Earth by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. It is hard to grasp the idea that it isn't just 11 million deaths, but 11 million people whose lives were cut off because
of racism and hate, all in a period of 11 years (1933-1945). There are actually two main phases to the Holocaust, the period between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi rise, and the period between 1939 and 1945, the period of war, or more specifically, World War II. The first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war and the Third Reich: May 8, 1945.
The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the "Aryan" ideal.*
of racism and hate, all in a period of 11 years (1933-1945). There are actually two main phases to the Holocaust, the period between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi rise, and the period between 1939 and 1945, the period of war, or more specifically, World War II. The first concentration camp opened in January 1933, when the Nazis came to power, and continued to run until the end of the war and the Third Reich: May 8, 1945.The Holocaust was the extermination of people not for who they were but for what they were. Groups such as handicaps, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, political dissidents and others were persecuted by the Nazis because of their religious/political beliefs, physical defects, or failure to fall into the "Aryan" ideal.*
It's so hard to imagine killing others due to their race, or religion...Especially 11 MILLION! I found a story about a man, John Michael Lamb, who was sent to prison for shooting and killing a man in Texas. After he killed the guy he stole his car and went to Florida. Seven days later he was found and taken back to Texas. In Texas they convicted him of 40 years in prison, but he declined the offer because he thought he could do better.
He was finally assigned an execution date of November 17, 1999. He was killed at 6:13 P.M. on the planned day by lethal injection. The last words that he spoke were:"I'm sorry -- I wish I could bring him back. I can't. Goodbye. Do it."
I don't believe in the death penalty. Even if the person killed 1 or 11 million. I believe that no one should be able to determine when someone else dies. I'm not saying that these people who murdered someone else shouldn't be punished, but I don't think that the state government should be able to decide if, or when, one of their inmates should be killed. Murder is intentional killing...and isn't the execution of someone intentional? I think so. That means that the government allows the intentional killing of others, just as long as they are the one's killing.
3 comments:
There really are no words to properly convey the immense tragedy that was the Holocaust.... there is no possible way for me to imagine what that must have been like for the human beings that suffered then. But you're right. Murder is murder, whether by a madman or the state. Regardless of who a person is or what they have done, no one else has a right to bestow judgment or punishment upon them. I do not believe in the death penalty either, because no matter how despicable a thing is that someone has done, I don't feel that it is my place (or anyone's) to decide for them their fate. Excellent final blog, my friend.
Peace and Love.
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