Should bystanders (witnesses) during the Holocaust be held morally responsible for not taking action? by Danielle Kyral

dkyral11036 — 2025-04-14 16:22:17 UTC

I believe that everyone has a moral obligation to do what is right and just, even in the face of danger. When someone stays silent and does nothing to help others, they are just as evil as the one who is causing the harm.

dkyral11036 — 2025-04-14 16:24:36 UTC

I believe that it is ok for bystanders to not do anything because they may be risking more than others understand.

2025-04-14 17:24:51 UTC

yes I do think that everyone should have a moral for the stuff that they acomplaction thought out life

2025-04-14 17:25:09 UTC

No they should not be help responsible for speaking up for what's wrong if anything they were trying to do the right thing and stand up for themselves. amber cantu

603755_1 — 2025-04-14 17:25:46 UTC

I think that people should do what is right.Because what if someone was getting entrouble and you saw what happen you can get someone out of trouble

2025-04-14 17:25:57 UTC

I dont think they should be held responsible because they probably tought if they said something they would get harmed so chose to not say anythong for they're own safety.

2025-04-14 17:26:10 UTC

I think the Holocaust could not have happened without those who had a good idea of the harms being perpetrated but who averted their eyes and did and said nothing. As a collective, Bystanders bear a heavy moral responsibility.

2025-04-14 17:26:14 UTC

yes everyone should have a moral for the stuff that they acomplaction

2025-04-14 17:26:41 UTC

they shouldn't be helped for speaking up, the right thing is to stand up for yourself but that wasn't happening.

078217 — 2025-04-14 17:26:56 UTC

I believe that bystanders are not responsible for defending Jews being taken. A reason I believe this is because if they help whoever is being taken, the soldiers would probably harm them or worse take them to. I agree with the people who didn't take action because they were scared something would happen to them if they interfered with the soldiers.

078150 — 2025-04-14 17:27:06 UTC

I believe that bystanders are NOT responsible because they have the responsibility too help or not its basically a chance. They can help or not which is bad because I they don't help things can end bad so I don't suggest risking this desicion. They may not be able to do it so it is ok but like I said earlier in the text its more of like based of I they want or not its a risky path.

2025-04-14 17:27:09 UTC

I believe that everyone has a moral obligation to do is right because they shouldn't be helped.

2025-04-14 17:27:36 UTC

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2025-04-14 17:28:29 UTC

I think they should be held responsible because its not right to let people get hurt and your watching

2025-04-14 17:28:42 UTC

held responsible because everyone should help good or bad cause better stuff could happen in someones life and it would help the Jews a'lot cause everyone is treating them wrong and all the work.

2025-04-14 17:29:02 UTC

No they shouldn't be held responsible for what happened because, they were most likely scared of The Nazi and what they would do to them if they stand up for the Jews.

2025-04-14 17:29:11 UTC

no because it refers to the National Socialist German Workers' Party, a far right political party in Germany that was active from 1920 They were responsible for the ideology.

2025-04-14 17:29:20 UTC

I believe they everyone has a moral obligation to do what is right because the bystanders are responsible they could have stop them and not just watched

2025-04-14 17:29:21 UTC

I believe they should because if anything they should be able to stand up for themselves

2025-04-14 17:29:28 UTC

I do believe they should be they should take the action they get there revenge. I think so because the people didn't deserve it the people who did it that to them should. they didn't do anything wrong to other people, all they did was live there lives then get it taken away for what doing nothing.

2025-04-14 17:29:35 UTC

yes I do think everyone should have a moral for the stuff that they acomplaction

2025-04-14 17:29:41 UTC

I don't think the bystanders should be held responsible because trying to help the person in trouble will get them killed or maybe get their family killed which is understandable

2025-04-14 17:29:43 UTC

I think that people should do what is right for everyone because if someone got into trouble you could save them and get them no t into trouble

2025-04-14 17:31:01 UTC

I believe that not everyone has a moral obligation to do whats right because if your seeing your best friend about to die and your not helping and sticking up for them then you don't have moral oligation.

2025-04-14 19:11:34 UTC

I believe in my own personal opinion, bystanders should not be held accountable for taking action, the Nazis had guns so if you even tried to make an effort to make a stand, you'd most likely be gunned down.

2025-04-14 19:12:12 UTC

I believe the witnesses of the Holocaust should not be held responsible because of the hierarchy that controlled them. They would not be able to do anything based off of the ways of there government and having no choice into what had happened.

2025-04-14 19:12:43 UTC

No, I don't believe they should be helped morally responsible for doing nothing during the Halocaust, because people that did the littlest things to help the jews were killed. If they had helped they would have been shot on the spot.

2025-04-14 19:12:52 UTC

I believe that bystanders are not morally responsible for not taking action during the Holocaust. Considering the absolute strength and power of the Nazis, rallying together and protesting would be a very bad decision, as Nazi soldiers could easily take measures to silence the crowd.

2025-04-14 19:12:57 UTC

I don't think the bystanders are responsible because during the holocaust, they could put themselves in danger as the Nazis had so much power to even put Jews in concentration camps. Although it maybe could've helped, they may have not want to put themselves in danger towards the Nazis or go down a risky path for themselves as they have less power.

026512_1 — 2025-04-14 19:12:58 UTC

The bystanders are not responsible since if they had interfered with the events the diseases could have spread out more and caused more people to get killed.

2025-04-14 19:13:13 UTC

The bystanders should be responsible since they saw or heard (from other bystanders?) what was going on and did nothing to stop it.

2025-04-14 19:13:18 UTC

I think they should not be held morally responsible because at the time everything was dangerous and some didn't know what was going on.

2025-04-14 19:14:07 UTC

No, I don't think that bystanders should be held responsible because if they did help they more than likely would have been killed and they probably have a family they love more than the others and would like to go home to them again and it wasn't their fault that it happened in front of them and they didn't cause it.

077603 — 2025-04-14 19:14:17 UTC

I think the bystanders during the Holocaust should not have been responsible for not taking action because anything out of line of what they can and not do can cause them to get beaten or worse, but they still should've tried to help others if they had the chance.

2025-04-14 19:14:17 UTC

I believe that the bystanders should not be held responsible because even though they witnessed it and didn't do nothing they still werent the problem.

2025-04-14 19:14:22 UTC

No. as long as you didn't participate nor support it you're good and its common sense to obviously not say anything since seeing someone thats against it getting dropkicked and no one doing anything about it as they're getting sentenced to death would be an obvious alert on not to state your opinions in that matter.

2025-04-14 19:14:32 UTC

I don't believe that bystanders should be held morally responsible for not taking action because they would be attacked or a target for the Nazi's if they stood up for the Jewish.

2025-04-14 19:14:39 UTC

I think bystanders should not be responsable because they are risking there lives for people when the police have all the power.

2025-04-14 19:14:53 UTC

I think witnesses are not responsible for speaking up about what was happening because if they spoke up they would be in even more danger

610303_1 — 2025-04-14 19:15:07 UTC

bystanders should not be held morally responsible because it's risky for them to do something because they can potentially die just for trying to help.

2025-04-14 19:15:08 UTC

No, I don't think that the bystanders should be held responsible for something to tragic, because they were scared for their own safety and they didn't want something bad to happen to them since they were sticking up to someone who is more supirer to them.

2025-04-14 19:15:09 UTC

I think they shouldn't be held responsiable because if one of them tried to speak up it would put them in danger and if the Nazis didn't like it they would try to kill them.

2025-04-14 19:15:15 UTC

I very much do believe that bystanders should be held responsible for not taking action because even if they are risking something that could lead to life threatening, it's still the right thing to do to at least try and save a lot of people than just saving yourself.

2025-04-14 19:15:20 UTC

I believe that bystanders do not have to be held responsible because if they were to defend someone they might put their life more at risk than it may already be.

2025-04-14 19:15:28 UTC

I think witnesses would be in even more danger if they spoke up

2025-04-14 19:15:37 UTC

I believe bystanders should not be morally responsible because it would have been dangerous to help, their family would have been put at risk, and most of the time would have failed and if they did help good job but now your on death row.

2025-04-14 19:15:54 UTC

I believe that the bystanders should not be held accountable for helping or not. Helping could put the person in more danger than simply not doing anything. If someone were to help a Jew or a child that was being taken, they most likely would've gotten shot right then and there, considering the soldiers had no sense of empathy in those times.

2025-04-14 19:16:13 UTC

I think that the bystanders should be responsible for taking action because they saw or heard what was happening and did nothing to stop it.

2025-04-14 19:16:31 UTC

I feel as if bystanders should have some type of responsibility. They should be held accountable only if it's a deeply serious action that has been made. Being held acountable is for to make justice of someones action. As well as having not as much reponsibility, because they were most likely afraid. -Natalie O/7th pd

2025-04-14 19:16:41 UTC

Yes, bystanders during the Holocaust hold some moral responsibility for not acting, especially if they had the power to help.However, many were afraid for their own lives so while silence isn't excused, the situation was complex