Introduction

During the course Facing History and Ourselves you will learn many of the brutal and horrifying details about the experience of the Holocaust. The course takes you through the entire experience of being in 1930’s Germany leading up to the holocaust. The course will show you the entire dark side of humanity as you see countless murders and bodies while men stand aside and allow it to happen. The course will show you every step leading up to the massacre and help explain why each step needed to happen in order to allow the holocaust to occur. I took the course because I had an interest in a certain peculiar subject (the holocaust) that I had never learned much about in school. I took the course because I wanted to see just how the holocaust happened and have the civil agency in order to make sure anything like it never happens again. I took the course in order to become more educated on the subject of one of the worst atrocities in human history. I have always had an interest in history and especially world war two. I have always wondered just how something as awful and unthinkable as the horror of the holocaust ever happened. Before this course, I just could not imagine in my head how the horror of the holocaust happened. But now, I know exactly what happened in order to create the appropriate conditions for it, and more importantly, I now have the civil agency necessary to prevent it.