ALMOST as Guilty as The Nazis

As noted in the Final Solution Reading, “hundreds of thousands of people were involved, either directly or indirectly, in implementing the ‘Final Solution’.  In your opinion, were any of these people exempt from blame?  Explain your thinking. (Echoes and Reflections)

In my opinion, I think it was a little bit of the bystanders, but mostly it was the Nazis and Hitler. The top Nazis came together to make a plan because they realized they were losing the war. So they came up with the Final Solution. This plan was to exterminate Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, and many other groups that were in the camps too. It was not only Jewish people, it was whoever wasn’t “pure blood”. But there were Nazis and people who knew and disagreed who didn’t do anything to help or save the people in the ghettos and camps. Anyone could be like that, teachers, the elderly, kids my age, anyone, except for people who could not have made their own decisions such as infants and the mentally impaired who could not understand what was going on.  The bystanders are ALMOST as guilty as the Nazis who made and carried the idea out. Any of them could have joined the resistances or hide and help the Jewish people. But they chose to turn their faces away to the ground, and block out any and all of the horrors they knew that was going on and could have helped ended. Some people were NOT guilty at all. They were saving, helping, and hiding people. Like in 1943 and the 60 men in the Treblinka camp. They killed guards and ran to the woods to hide. And in the French Partisans resistance, there were 2,000 to 3,000 Jews who joined the resistance and helped other people escape. In the end, people who knew, didn’t like the idea, but still did nothing, in my opinion were almost as guilty as the other Nazis who carried the Final Solution.