There are many reasons to study the Holocaust. Not only does it benefit students by opening their eyes to the atrocities committed by the Nazi Party in the 1930s and 1940s, but it also benefits many people who are new to the Holocaust and have not learned enough to understand the terror. faced by “undesirables” and how far we, as a human race, must go to ensure this does not happen again. First, however, we need to know how it all happened. As a child, Adolf Hitler was treated poorly by his father, who died while Adolf was very young. He was an artist, and although he applied twice to the Academy of Fine Arts, he was rejected both times. Although he was Austrian, he held the Germans in high esteem and when World War I broke out he applied to serve in the German army. During the war he was wounded twice and, as he recovered, he learned of Germany's capitulation. He was angry about both this and the Treaty of Versailles. He began to believe that Jews and other groups were responsible for this disaster. He was so distraught that he staged a military coup, which failed. He was sentenced to 5 years in prison, but while serving this period he wrote the book Mein Kamf, or My Struggle. The people in Germany desperately wanted to be a world power again, so they decided to listen to what Adolf Hitler had to say. Because of this new interest in him, Hitler served only nine months of his sentence. During his imprisonment, Hitler became more intelligent and decided to make his way into government as a politician. Finally, in 1932, Adolf became Chancellor of Germany, second in command. He passed a law that said once the leader died, there was no longer a need for that position, so the Ch...... middle of paper...... let's study the Holocaust?" Let's study the 'Holocaust because we, as a human race, cannot allow the genocide of any group of people again. We learn about it for the same reason we learn about slavery in America, apartheid in South Africa, British rule in India and. of other inhuman disasters. that evil human beings have been planning since the beginning. This reason I talk about is the fact that when our conscience tells us to help and our mind tells us that we are not strong enough, we must always defend ourselves. minority and those who are hurt. There is a quote by Edmund Burke that says: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, we can never allow an event like the Holocaust to happen. repeat, and by learning about it we can understand what is necessary and what can happen when those “good men” decide to take a stand.