After reading about some of the bystanders as well as the upstanders, explain why you believe many people stood by and watched the Holocaust take place? What inspired others to stand up or resist the Nazis? What do you think you would have done? Explain your reasoning with details and facts that you have learned throughout our research of the Holocaust. (1 paragraph minimum).
I believe that people stood by and watched it happen because they were in fear for themselves. Many people wouldn't want to help out the Jewish people due to the danger if they did, most of the time it would be a death sentence if caught. Some people just wouldn't want to take the risk of getting caught and getting killed or sent to work camps. Some people realized that this was a horrible thing and they had decided that it needed to stop so they had helped protect or save Jewish people from being killed by Nazi's. They had heard about all these horrible things and made a change to help the Jewish people, such as Schindler, he had saved eleven hundred Jewish people from being killed by Nazi's, by saying they were working for him. Myself personally, would have done nothing, I would have been a bystander because I would fear for my own life, I wouldn't have wanted to put myself in such danger of Hitler and his army of Nazi's because that could be the end of my own life and the people I was helping as well.
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