Who do you think caused the Holocaust???

When it comes to the Holocaust people easily put the entire blame on Hitler, but he could not have caused all that pain and have killed all of those people all by himself. Even though Hitler had help he had a huge part in all of this. In "The Book Thief " Hitler is praised by everyone in Germany. Slowly everyone comes to realize that Hitler is not that great of a person after all. Liesel realizes that once she finds out that he is the one that made her mom leave. The Nazi party are partly to blame because they follows Hitler's every command, and according to Hans in this novel he did not think the hatred the Nazis had could last, but he was wrong. The Nazis had followed Hitler because he had this power of persuasion and he could make anybody to believe him. Hitlers' autobiography Mein Kampf just how powerful his persuasion was. After reading that the people start to believe, yea maybe the Jews are blood sucking vampires and they should be stopped, Hitler's right.

When people think of the Holocaust and who caused it, they never once even consider the Jewish people, because they are the victims in all this. In my novel Markus Zusak points out that the Jewish people did not do anything to stop Hitler. When a Jewish boy Max Vandenburg comes to hide in the Hubermann's basement he mentions that the Jews preferred to simply stand and take things, take the abuse and then work their way back to the top. With the Jews believing in their Jewish Faith it got them in more trouble then it did help them survive. Death plays a part in the Holocaust because without death there would not have been a Holocaust. And this book is told sort of in the perspective of death, narrated by death, and how death sees the events leading up to the Holocaust. Death took a lot of lives during the Holocaust.

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