Religion and Ethics Question Answer 2022

Religion and Ethics
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1. Inquiry Question: What is the Holocaust?
Answer: Holocaust is the state determined murder plan to
exterminate the Jews from the Germany, by the Nazis during the
World War II. The Holocaust was the period in the Germany when
Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany during the end of
World War II. The holocaust was a process that started with the
discrimination against the Jews. (Cole, 2013).
Reference: Cole, T.,
2013. Holocaust city:
The making of a Jewish
ghetto, Routledge.
2. Inquiry Question: What were the first measures taken by the Nazis against the
Jews?
Answer: The first measures against the Jews included the
boycott of the shops and the businesses of the Nazis, in April 1,
1933. There also had been the enforcement of the Law for the
Re-establishment of the civil Service on April 7th, 1933 (Zweig,
2014).
Reference:
Zweig, R.W.,
2014. German
reparations and the
Jewish world: A history
of the claims conference.
Routledge.
3. Inquiry Question: How many Jewish and non-Jewish civilians were murdered
during World War-II in Europe?
Answer: The approximate number of the Jewish that had died in
the holocaust were six million people. The Non-Jewish groups
that the Nazis had murdered involve the Serbs, the Gypsies, the
resistant fighters from nations as well as the German opponents
of Nazism, which almost accounted for 5 million people (Deak,
Reference:
Deák, I., 2018. Europe on
Trial: The Story of
Collaboration, Resistance,
and Retribution During

2018). World War II. Routledge.
4. Inquiry Question: Did the Roman Catholic Church support the Jews? and why?
Answer: The Roman Catholic Church supported to Jews and
protected them from the Nazis by hiding them in the monasteries
and convent schools. The catholic church faced the percesution
in the Hitler’s Germany. Just before the Holocaust, the popes
preached against the racism and the Nazi’s and the Jews of
Rome found shelter in almost 150 church institutions.(Libionka,
2013).
Reference: Libionka, D.,
2013. The Catholic Church
in Poland and the
Holocaust, 1939–
1945. PDF). The Reaction
of the Churches in Nazi
Occupied Europe. Yad
Vashem. Retrieved, 26.
5. Inquiry Question: Did the Germans support Hitler’s plan for the persecution of
the Jews?
Answer: There was not agreement in the laws and with the
Hitler’s persecution of the Jews and there were Germans who
opposed Hitler and aided the Jews to escape and hide from the
Nazis. The Germans defied the boycott of the Jewish stores.
Even the German clergy, Dompropst Bernhard Lichtenberg
prayed for the Jews who were sent to the concentration camp.
(Finkel, 2015).
Reference: Finkel, E.,
2015. The phoenix effect of
state repression: Jewish
resistance during the
Holocaust. American
Political Science
Review, 109(2), pp.339-
353.
6.Inquiry Question: Did the Jews in Europe realize what was going to happen to
tehm?
Answer: There was no publicity of the “Final Solution” of the
Nazis. There was every attempt to fool the victims of the victims
Reference: Laqueur, W.,
2017. The terrible secret:
suppression of the truth