Time and Culturally Based Morality

             Time and Culturally Based Morality
             Any way you look at it millions and millions of Germans did believe in Hitler. And it was a belief that was spread not only in the slums or ignorant but it included intellectuals, scientists, and political party members, even opposing party members believed him. What they believed was one of the biggest lies ever told. A lie that will be remembered by the whole world and all the generations to come. The lie of Germans being a superior race swept throughout the country instilling fear in the heart of anyone of Jewish religion or other backgrounds. Some people say that he thought himself God. But Hitler did not think he was God, he thought himself to be someone predestined by God with a knowledge given to him and only him and a mission given to him by divine intervention which was destined to change the course of all humanity. All this with one lie. In this picture (page 2) we see the corpses of hundreds of Jews stacked up about 15 feet high in the snow. Any movement or ideal which has this picture included in its mean to an end cannot be right. Today, many years after this massacre of Jews, we don't even question the fact that Hitler might have been right or even on to something. I believe this picture to, without a doubt, shows how cruel his ambitions were. We have to ask ourselves how someone as Hitler, without superior studies, was able to in just a few years introduce himself into the highest political levels, trick experimented leaders of great nations, convert millions of civilized people into followers and enforcers, and raise the largest genocide known to man and be followed until the very end? When I see a picture such as this, with all the bodies piled up I think of how someone be convinced that this was right? How someone in their right mind could believe that this picture, what had been done in this picture was acceptable. By accepting what Hitler believed one w...

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