Ethic and the Holocaust:
Definition of Holocaust: The Holocaust is generally considered to be the activity conducted by the German government from 1941-1945. The Nazis, the fascist government in power from 1933-1945 in Germany, systematically exterminated about 8 million people during these four years. The Nazis had been killing Jews, other minorities, and political enemies since the early 1930's. It wasn't until an SS conference, chaired by Heinrick Heydrick, convened in 1941. At that conference it was decided that there should be a disciplined, systematic method to take care of the multitude of people accumulating in the concentration camps. The Nazi jugernaught went to work to set up a "production line" procedure to dispose of these "enemies of the state". This became what is known as the "Final Solution" of Jews in Germany and its occupied countries.
For the sake of argument and not believe, I am going to take the stand that the Holocaust is "amoral", and normal standards of morality do not apply. The period known as the Second World War is a period of the greatest upheaval known to mankind. Upwards to 70 million people died. It was a period of unheard worldwide chaos. Most of the world was in turmoil. And to understand this circumstance one has to understand the history of why it happened.
The end of the First World War (1914-1918) left the world in ashes, disorganized. The German Empire was broken-up, by the victors (the Allies), and new states were franchised. War reparations were demanded from the Germans and restrictions placed on their government and society. German society broke down and a period of depression,early 1920's, ensued. It took a wheelbarro ...