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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) was an Indian activist in creating an independent Indian nation through nonviolence, peace, and unity (www. ... After he returned to India from Africa to become a legal advisor, Gandhi found himself treated as a member of an inferior race. From this moment onwards, Gandhi dedicated his life towards making everyone in the human race equal.
During World War II, Gandhi wrote many letters and commented many times to Hitler about the suffering of the Jews. ... He considered Hitler as his friend while at the same time Gandhi knew that Hitler had been killing millions of Jews. Was Gandhi able to convince the Jews and Hitler to follow his ideas?
Gandhi’s ideas of ambivalence through nonviolence were the same realistic goals he was hoping that the Jews would do during World War II. ... Gandhi was capable of understanding the struggle that the Jews were going through in Germany and all over Europe. ...
Gandhi carried his concept of ahimsa in trying to help the Jews after the Nazis came to power. ... Gandhi also said
I make bold to say that if the Jews can summon to their aid the soul power that comes only from nonviolence, Herr Hitler will bow before the courage which he has never yet experienced in any large measure (Dalton 135). ... In concluding with this argument, Gandhi said, “Therefore it is not only highly likely, but I hold it to be inevitable, that they would recognize the superiority of non violent resistance over any display of violence. ...
Gandhi strongly believed that satyagraha could have been used in the opposition of Jews in Germany to the Nazis (Dalton 134). Joan Bondurant, a critique of Gandhi’s ideas and philosophies, supported Gandhi “arguing that if the Jews had used satyagraha they would have ‘mobilized world opinion behind them much more rapidly than they did’” (Dalton 134).
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