Many times we wonder why no one did anything to prevent such horrible events from happening. In fact, many said this would never happen again, but that's not the case. Since the Holocaust we have seen several examples of how the public sometimes refuses to acknowledge the occurrence of events and how the government often has little political will to stop mass murders until it is too late. An example of this happening not long ago is the Rwandan genocide. In 1994, between half a million and a million Rwandan Tutsis and thousands of moderate Hutus were exterminated in the most flagrant mass murder case since the Holocaust. The world stood back and watched as the murders occurred. Samantha Power, in her book, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide,1 and in her The Atlantic Monthly article, “Bystanders to Genocide: Why the United States Let the Rwandan Tragedy Happen,” Power writes “The story by US policy during the Rwanda genocide is not a story of willful complicity with evil. US officials did not sit idly by and conspire to allow genocide to occur. But whatever their “never again” beliefs, many of them sat on their hands, and almost certainly allowed the genocide to happen.”2 Samantha Power's writings show that the US government knew quite a bit about the genocide because With the political will to do something about it, they squandered many opportunities to end the rain of terror.3 The United States was unwilling to support the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) either militarily or financially. Even when there was Ghana's offer to order its troops to remain in Rwanda, as well as other offers made by numerous... middle of paper... extreme working conditions and workloads given to Mauthausen inmates. There are many accounts of the Nazi regime using this spread of knowledge to its advantage to instill fear in the public making them easily subservient. The death camps were the only camps held in secret but as Mauthausen was a concentration camp, it was not kept secret from the surrounding population but was instead used to force civilians into obedience. While there are tons of American accounts of enraged soldiers observing the Austrian population's denial of the existence or knowledge of the concentration camps, they also failed to take into account the horrors that the Austrians faced. In many cases, if the Austrians had not remained silent, they would have been held responsible and would have been considered labor slaves in these fields too..