Arguments Against The Holocaust

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Historians have constantly discussed whether the ethnic Germans truly supported the anti-Semitism by the Nazis, but from looking at the texts from the recollections of Riefenstahl, Haffner, Speer and the Johnson/Reuband interview . Those accounts display a Germany under systematic propaganda, censorship of the press, hovering surveillance of the Hitler Youth, and the power of Hitler’s speaking rhetoric among the German people. When these factors are culminated they deliver a controlled society under Hitler which fear is radiated among the people. Therefore showing one of the many reason why the Nazi regime face so little opposition on the issue of anti-Semitism. Many Germans viewed Hitler’s push for anti-Semitism only as a harmless case …show more content…
One of these major resistances is the unwilling cooperation of the Germans to boycott the Jews. Germans were willing to silently cooperate with the Nazi’s, but making them stop shopping at their favorite stores was unnegotiable. Price of the goods also effected the Germans to defy the boycott since Jewish products were cheaper and made with similar or better quality. What made the boycott even more reveling about the German opinion was that a large proportion of Germans were willing to enter Jewish stores while a SA men stood outside. The boycott was ultimately shut down after one day because a majority of Germans continued their daily routines. The almost immediate termination of the boycott showed that the Germans were capable of resistance, but only chose not too due to nervousness. Helga Schmidt a young German girl from the Johnson and Rebind interviews continue to bolster the idea of the Germans were not truly anti-Semitic. Schmidt recollects that she was fearful of “being watched” (Johnson 189) since she was previously shopping at Jewish stores. Schmidt like many Germans shopped at Jewish stores given the fact they were cheaper, but was deterred of shopping once she discovered that she might face