.” It is not the first time when Rubenstein encounters such opinion; he met other German clergymen who shared the same opinion and admits that the tendency to believe that God has had a unique relationship with the Jews exists also among the Jewish people. According to that, Rubenstein then states that “the idea that the Nazi slaughter of the Jews was somehow God’s will, that God really wanted the Jewish People to be exterminated.” Rubenstein’s belief in the evil of the Holocaust is opposed by the Dean’s idea of God’s absolute power over human lives and his just intentions. He says, “When God desires my death, I give it to him…For some reason, it was part of God’s plan that the Jews died. God demands our death daily. He is the Lord, He is the …show more content…
This theodicy ascribes people’s suffering and pain to God’s punishment for people and their ancestors’ sins. Another perspective on the evil nature of the Holocaust is described by the Holocaust survivor, Primo Levi, in his article “Survival in Auschwits: The Nazi Assualt on Humanity.” Describing his experiences and impressions from the Holocaust, Levi believes that there is no distinction between good and evil in the camp, but the lack of structure and any social norms there makes this place evil from the outsider’s perspective. Levi was captured by Nazis at the age of twenty-four when he was participating in the Resistance movement, Justice and Liberty. Being an “Italian citizen of Jewish race”, he became a victim of the Jewish persecution and was sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz where the number of the Jews was drastically increasing over short periods of time. Age, gender, disabilities did not matter, and the only accent was placed on the Jewish ascendancy. Levi and other “six hundred and fifty pieces” were loaded on the trains “which never return, and of which, shuddering and always a little incredulous” they had so often heard