According to Bauman, why is it important not to relegate the analysis of the Holocaust to academic interest?

   The views of Bauman were very much clear on this matter. He believed that the Holocaust should not be relegated in any given terms because it was the failure of modern society with all its modernity. He wanted people to believe that the Holocaust had happened because modernity laid the foundation, so academic researchers should keep reminding people about this fact. He wants the general public to get the truth and put them in a state of mind, where they should still believe that they are dealing with a threat of another Holocaust. He wanted us to acknowledge the fact that a horrific genocide has happened before, and there is no concrete evidence to say why it won’t happen again. History has this knack of repeating itself in one way or the other. If we will have correct knowledge about the past in true sense, then it will be easier for us to assess the situations, which may or may not happen in the future (Bauman, 2013)

Q. 2: In this excerpt, Bauman says, “People refused to believe the facts they stared at.” Can you think of a situation where you realized – after the fact – that the facts had been there all along?

            It is hard to come up with any specific example because I cannot remind myself of any kind of such an example. However, I must say that we do this in a variety of ways in our daily life. We tend to believe something in the first instance, then we start raising doubts on those facts, and put things in a fishy context, where nothing is crystal clear. It is difficult to say anything, why we do this, but when we see more concrete evidence for any kind of facts and think back in time, then we suddenly realize that fact was already there, it was just that we could not identify it in the past. Actually, we are busy in so many things in our daily lives so we miss a variety of small things, and we don’t give enough focus and attention, and this is the reason that we miss the facts (Bauman, 2013)

Q. 3: To what extent do you agree with Bauman’s assessment that Western Civilization facilitated the occurrence and widespread participation in the Holocaust?

            I don’t agree with Bauman on this assessment that the Holocaust was facilitated by Western Civilization. If a person has his own mindset, and unluckily he also had all the powers to exercise his idea, so we cannot blame a whole civilization for this. There is always a dark side of history, where many grey areas. But it never happened that people had a single mindset all over. You will always find this example around you that when any issue or event has happened, the people are divided with their views. Some would go with one side of the coin, and others will go to the second side of the coin. We can’t generalize that Western Civilization was developing in a way that facilitated the Holocaust. There were factors, which did play their part in this genocide, but I strongly disagree with the assessment made by Bauman.