I have learned a lot about the Holocaust over the past couple of months, but one thing that really stuck out was how someone, (Hitler), could be so hateful towards the Jews. When Hitler was young, his father was an alcoholic and wasn’t at home much. I understand how that feels because my parents are divorced and my dad was an alcoholic, but still it amazes me how differently Hitler reacted compared to how I did to the nearly exact same situation. Hitler’s mother encouraged him to be an artist, but his father disagreed. Hitler decided to apply to an art school despite his father’s advice. The school board was made up of Jews, and Hitler was a Christian.  The school board said that his artwork wasn’t good enough for him to go to school there, therefore Hitler decided that all Jews were evil and a major flaw in society.
Another thing I learned about during the Holocaust unit is how intellect can be taken for granted and used for evil,  an example being Josef Mengele.He was a brilliant scientist who was fascinated with twins. He would inject chemicals into children’s eyes to make them blue and tried to genetically alter them to make them have blond hair. So many children and mothers died because of these experiments. The idea of my older brother and I being experimented on is unimaginable, and it would be crippling if he and I had been twins. This has shown me that when you are given gifts, you must be very careful as to how you use them.