Being Treated Unfair With Not Enough Help

“How could the Germans sit back while the Nazis slaughtered people all around them and say they didn’t know anything about it? How could they do that? How could they even say that?”-Laurie, pg 19, The Wave

It is true how could Germans just stand there and act like nothing is going on while the Nazis were just randomly killing people for no reason. That’s just like standing in front of someone getting killed and not trying to do anything about it not even tell anybody about it. They were just being bystanders by doing nothing. The Nazis were practically making the Germans look like bad people by doing all of this inside of Germany. The Nazis were bullying the Jews during the Holocaust they weren’t able to do anything they were hopeless and while they were getting bullied and killed the was a lot more people in the world that knew about it but decided to not help.  

This quote reminds me of the theme of bystanders. Because bystanders are people who know about what’s going on but don’t do anything about it. Getting bullied and standing there and doing nothing was like in the Holocaust people knew what was going on with the Jews but didn’t do anything. When you’re getting bullied during school there are tons of people around you that are just watching you and laughing or just standing there not even deciding to help out the one getting bullied or telling someone to help stop it. After every single day they get bullied they and getting beat up they beg for help and the Jews wanted help too but they just didn’t get enough people that would try and stop it so they can be safe. More people were being bystanders then there was people trying to help. This is what was exactly going on with the Jews during the Holocaust the Nazis would kill Jews and laugh about it still people wouldn’t help as much.