such as the Olympics would be just the escape the world needed from the politics that dominated every aspect of life. Instead of an escape from politics, however, the 1936 Nazi Games became controlled by politics and was a vehicle for every country’s agenda, especially the rising Nazi party in Germany. The Nazi Games, inspired by the past, became the present focus of world politics and foreshadowed a future with new Germany at the center. Germany, a world power desperately seeking an improvement in
Hitler’s speech, delivered on January 30 1939, was very telling of the reasons behind his deep-seated hatred of the Jews. The extract provided by SHOAH resource center (primary source) outlines that he firmly believed that Jews were diseased, both physically and politically. Additionally, he felt that they were ‘reprehensible’ manipulators, who had gained wealth through deception. This wealth, according to Hitler, rightfully belonged to Germany. Hitler saw the Jews as an “alien race.” He used colourful
visible and invisible, sun and moon; the unshaped and the defined; the bright and the dark; male and female, order and chaos in human history. Both good and bad are needed as yin and yang in order to be balanced as one. This ideology of yin and yang doesn’t directly agree or disagree the existence of pure good and evil, but it suggests that everything are mixtures of good and bad, just like yin and yang. But, even if pure good and evil do not exist, There are still people who like to bully or torture
died at the hands of German Nazis, was not perpetrated by a single, hateful person. It was an act of evil perpetrated by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people. Participation in the Holocaust by such a large body of people leads historians and those studying the Holocaust to ask whether man is inherently evil: did each person who participated in the Holocaust have a deep-seated and passionate hatred for the victims? Some of the scholarship on the Holocausts suggests that man is neither inherently good