Who Was Responsible?

 Based upon an idea by Leslie Bradley found at http://members.accessus.net/~bradley/nightresponsible.html

Directions: You will be determining who was responsible for creating the Holocaust and to what extent they are guilty of crimes against humanity. Create graph or list in which you assign the person(s) listed the percentage of responsibility you believe they should bear for the Holocaust. Remember, all your percentages must add up to 100%.

After you have made the designations of responsibility for each person(s), we will discuss your choices.

A: Local residents of Auschwitz and other towns near concentration camps who knew about the camps but did nothing to stop them.

B: Minor Nazi soldiers who carried out the mass extermination orders without questioning their superiors.

C: Hitler, the leader of the German nation who hated Jews and wanted them destroyed.

D: German citizens who voted for Hitler and the Nazi Party to revitalize their morally and economically depressed country.

E: The Jews who did not try to escape or resist more.

F: Top SS officers who designed and executed the "final solution" for Hitler.

G: Non-Jewish Europeans who turned against their Jewish friends and fellow citizens for fear that they too would be imprisoned as Jewish sympathizers.

H: Leaders of the Allied countries who saw evidence of the Holocaust but refused to get involved or voice opposition to Hitler's plan of extermination.

I: Churches of all denominations who remained silent and refused to intervene when confronted with evidence of the Holocaust.

J: God—Yahweh, the God of the Jewish faith, who seemed absent and silent during this destruction of His chosen people.