The quote with your posted picture of the pink triangles is most appropriate for the reading of this week’s texts and film, “A race where men victimize each other.” In studying the holocaust the number of victims is unfathomable. Last week we focused mostly on the stories of the victims of genocide. We pondered that some of the men at the Wansee Conference being informed of the Final Solution were victims of the Reich in a different sense. Were they coerced into an agreement over something as incomprehensible as the extermination of the Jews and other misfits or were they intrinsically evil? In comparison to their final decision, it is hard to be sensitive to the idea of victimization on their part though. But in lieu of the quote it follows that man is a race that victimizes each other; albeit in different degrees. This week we delved more deeply into that concept to see how one person can be both a victimizer and a victim. As you stated, fear is one thing that can make someone a victimizer with the need to survive. Yet fear can also make them a victim, as the Jews rarely retaliated against the unknown, partially out of fear.
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