Indifference is one of the many cruel faces of society; the face of a monster with no emotion or empathy for suffering. People around the world must resist inhumane and unbearable conditions while others silently watch or ignore. These spectators are either not interested in the anguish of the victims, or are consumed by a greater emotion. As the many genocides that have taken place show, indifference leads to something negative if action is not taken against the perpetrators or the situation. Apathy towards small things can also lead to something bigger in the end, and when people start to ignore the minor details that make up an entire entity, the importance of that entity degrades. Indifference has a detrimental effect on people, society and the attitude of nations. In the early 1940s, Germany was in turmoil. The Nazi massacres of millions of Jews created an atmosphere of fear and these victims witnessed the indifference of Germans and foreign nations. As Adolf Hitler rose to power, he hatched an assassination plan, which began with ghettoization; it was the process of confining Jews to a congested area of ​​a large city where conditions were very pitiful (Jones 151). As World War II continued and Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Jews were sent to concentration camps, or death camps. Here they died not only from the use of gas chambers and murder by the Nazis, but also from hunger, disease, and overwork (Jones 152). The Allies and the Churches of Germany were mainly responsible for the indifference towards the Jews. The Allies were still shaken by World War I and sought appeasement of Hitler rather than hostility. At a meeting in ...... middle of paper ...... and it could be detrimental to the population. The death of Kitty Genovese in 1964 is a prime example. As Genovese returned home, she was stalked and eventually murdered by a strange man. As she was being stabbed, she called for help and, with many of her neighbors watching, she died. Thirty-eight of her neighbors admitted to seeing her being killed, but did nothing to stop the murder (Wainright, “The Dying Girl that No One Helped”). Indifference slowly invaded society through massacres and ignorance of details. . To prevent a major event from happening again, nations must be aware of what is happening in the world and take action. People in society need to be attentive to trivial subtleties, because if one mistake remains unchanged, who's to say that a bigger inaccuracy won't lead to something horrible.?