economic quiz

1. How did sex and the Nazi show how radical they were?

Nazi had an anti- Jewish policy which focused on expelling Jews from society by stripping them their rights in the society and plundering their property. They were involved in the campaigns of inciting, abusing, and violence of different proportion to the Jews. The Nazi changed the moral of the society so as to gain power. Women were raped right before they were murdered by the Nazi in the camps. Women were forced to have sex with the forced laborers in the camps. The Nazi were against Jews as they considered them to be corrupting the German women. This was not the case in the camps as the Jewish women were used for prostitution in the camps. Hitler promoted sex by encouraging women to have children.

2. Why did most nations act as by standers?

Most of the nations claimed that they did not have the information of the holocaust which was not true. The British were afraid of the angering Arab leaders in Palestine hence they refused to allow the Jews to migrate to the British-controlled Palestine. Nations were influenced to act by standers due to political context and the geographical position of the country as seen in Denmark where entire nation took part in rescuing Jews and they were not punished unlike their counterparts in Poland where the penalty of assisting the Jews was death. President Roosevelt made US t act as by standers because he was worried that due to anti-Semitic sentiment in the nation, he would not be able to get public and congressional support to help the Jews to escape. Most of the nations including US were dealing with economic struggle hence making them to be by standers.

3. Psychological profile of a rescuer and bystander

Rescuer

These were people who helped at least one Jews at a great personal risk. The rescuers showed higher level of social responsibility, empathy, risk-taking and responding to human suffering with care and compassion. They had a sense of moral salience that made them to help the Jews. Less than one percent of the rescuers acted as rescuers. They believed that they were building moral behavior.

Bystander

The bystander had group pressure due to anonymous within the group. They acted according to the prejudice and fascitistic propaganda which made them to obey the higher authorities’ blindly so as to have conformity, security and stability. Norm shifting process was another psychological factor of the bystanders hence making them to accept mass killing or genocides.

4. How does Hitler’s psychological profile play a role in the holocaust?

Hitler was driven in the pursuit to compensate for all of the perceived threats he felt was existing in German and the insult of the German. He had a strong messiah complex which was masochistic tendencies and sexual pervasion making him to be homosexual. Hitler was affected with psychosexual development and the traumatic life events such as his relationship with his father. He was influenced with the incestuous oedipal desires and feeling he had for his mother and the desire to eradicate his father who was unloving and he transferred this to the Jews. Hitler was a momma’s boy and he was in the military making him to have the desire to restore Germany.

5. Explain the geopolitical outcome of the holocaust

The outcome of the holocaust made the countries involved in the genocides to be unstable. After the war, the Jews returned to their country only to find out that their neighbors were not there as they had been killed. They had to move to states that care for them so as to avoid further killing. They also created their own state so as to ensure that they are protected and they are not killed. Palestine loss their land to the Jews as the Jews claimed to be the owners of the land hence making it to be their sole state. This made the Palestine’s to move to refugees camp leading to conflict between the Jews and Palestine to date.

6. What are the three ways of dying at the hands of the Nazis?

The Nazis killed the Jews by inciting the gentiles to kill the Jews through the Gentiles violence which involved pogroms, torture and killing of the Jews. They used killing units who were referred to as Einsatzgruppen who made them to dig their own graves before killing them. They also used camps and gas chambers where Jews were killed by gas and they were killed with starvation or sickness in the camp.