...The Holocaust was a state sponsored systematic genocide in world history that happened during World War II. About 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust, 6 million being the main target: Jews. Also, pretty much anyone who wasn't 100% German blood was also killed because they were perceived as "racial inferiority" so Polish people, Soviet prisoners of war, Blacks, Jehovah witness, the handicapped, homosexuals, etc. In 1933, there was about 9 million Jews, and 2 out of every 3 Jews were killed. Killing them was part of the "Final Solution", the plan to annihilate all Jewish people. In the 1930's Germany's conditions were not the best. The economic depression hit the country very hard, and lots of people became unemployed...
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...Adolf Hitler’s Rule of the 3rd Reich In October 1929 the stock market in America crashed, approximately one out of every four Americans was unemployed. The Great depression had begun which put Germany under great misery and they needed a solution, that’s when Adolf Hitler came (The Depression). He became leader of the third Reich. He was a cruel dictator in the 1930’s, who was determined to do anything to restore the honor to his country, Germany (American). When Hitler was younger he was influenced by his teachers and he was surrounded by the political confrontation in the Austrian empire, which is what made Hitler have such strong leadership. There was a lot of prejudice against different ethnic groups which is why Hitler is so prejudice. Hitler was temporarily blinded in a gas attack and later that day he found out the news that Germany had lost the war. He was so humiliated and was determined to play a role in restoring Germany to a position of power and respect on the world stage. He vowed to keep fighting for national glory. His solution for restoring Germany’s power was to have a national dictatorship. He believed that his traitors were the Jews, socialist, liberals, pacifists, and all Germans who believed in Democracy. Hitler soon joined the Nazi party and became leader of it. He made the Nazis into a military-like organization and ruled them like a dictator (American). “On February 27 a fire destroyed part of a building and although it was started by a man who was...
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...Entry 1: The Holocaust As Hitler’s armies had breached Eastern Europe in 1941, he started what we know today as the Holocaust. The “Madagascar Plan” was considered before the Nazis decided to murder the “undesirable” people. The Nazis initially considered the island of Madagascar as a potential new home for the millions of Jews and even encouraged Jewish emigration. This solution did not last long and Hitler decided to embark on the “final solution,” which basically means he wanted to kill the entire population of Jewish and other “undesirable” people. Hitler’s special task forces, known as Einsatzgruppen, were mobile killing units that were driven to kill any Jewish person they found. These German special killing forces killed more than a...
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...The name Hitler stirs up many emotions inside the hearts of people. What could have made Hitler so hostile towards the Jews? Could it have been his unhappy childhood, frustrated adolecsnce, his artistic disappointment, rejection from the Jewish society or merely the wound he received on the front during World War I. Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil became dictator of Germany in 1933 and prepared his nation for war and a “Final Solution” to the “Jewish problem”. Hitler posed a great threat to democracy and redefined the meaning of evil for eternity. Hitler’s undeniable hatred for Jews crushed his dream of a “third Reich” and only created more anguish, and enmity among the people of Germany. World War I was a great disparagement to the German people. Despair increased as the army returned to a bankrupt country. Millions of Germans could not find work, and a weak republic had replaced the defeated Germany. The German people were humiliated and full of distress. They were looking for many ways to restore their dignity and pride, but little did they know that things would get much worse. “The rain of inflation fell on the just and the unjust alike”(Flood 313) By 1923, Germany was facing deep troubles. There was major inflation and the majority of the population was poverty stricken. Problems were beginning to escalate while Germany was in a dismal economic state, shops were closing and, no 1 profits in production resulted in vast unemployment...
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...just because you’d be considered a minority- how would you imagine yourself feeling the moment of liberation? Take a moment to picture this in your mind: after being in the concentration camp where you’d starve, be mistreated, and abused, you hear rumors of foreign troops on their way to free you. Consequently, upon hearing this, the cruel Nazi leaders tried to move you all from the camp, where hundreds died on these death marches, and yet they still tried to destroy all the evidence of their crimes that they could. The soldiers came and freed all the people in the...
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...Prime Minister Winston Churchill told listeners about the horrors of World War II: "Whole districts are being exterminated. Scores of thousands–literally scores of thousands—of executions in cold blood are being perpetrated by the German police troops," he said. "We are in the presence of a crime without a name." Did you know Raphael Lemkin created a word to describe the Nazi’s way of killing the Jewish people, by using the ancient Greek word genos, (which means race and tribe) and the word Latin cide, (which means killing)? IT WAS GENOCIDE! Raphael Lemkin created the word Genocide because he lost his family in the Holocaust. Genocide is a mass murder that develop in ten stages: classification, symbolization, discrimination, dehumanization,...
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...Andrea Cohen October 4th, 2012 Professor Marcel Nazi era- Companies that Help in the Holocaust Throughout history, there have been important events that have distinct a particular ethical issue within various companies. One of these horrific events was the Holocaust, which is defined by Michell R Marrus as “the systematic mass murder of European Jewry by the Nazis”, which “sits uneasily in the history of our time” (Marrus, 1987). To many people the Holocaust is still a source of remorse. Consequently they feel embarrassed, since many were apathetic towards the people suffering, but many also believe that historical investigations can bring about additional insight regarding companies and their commitments. The Holocaust is a part of the history that produces an uncomfortable sensation because of the horrible that happened in this era. As Nora Levin stated, it is not only the magnitude of the destruction- the murder of six million Jews- but because the events surrounding are in a very real sense incomprehensible. No one can understand how mass murder in such a scale could have happened or could have been allowed to happen. The purpose of this paper is not to talk about the Holocaust, however, to create a profound analysis of the German automobile companies that helped the Nazis to perform and gain profits from this holocaust of innocent people. Examples of these companies are the Ford Company, BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke), Daimler Benz, and Volkswagen. From 1930-1945...
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...Concentration Camps The concentration camps were a major part in the second world war. Here in these camps millions died at the hands of Hitler’s ideology. These innocent people were put into camps without trial for the idea Hitler had of a “pure race’’. Origins of the Camps The first camps were originally set in Germany as detention centers for anyone who did not agree with Nazi agenda. These people were referred to as “enemies of the state” once the Nazis controlled Europe. This happened once Germans crossed Austria territory and the German Army invaded Poland. These camps were the first of the 20,000 used to cause so much death, loss, pain, and suffering (theholocaustexplained.org p?) . Notorious Camps Some of the most well known camps are such as Auschwitz, Belzec, Burgen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Chelmno, Dachau, and Dora Mittlebau. These camps were known for the death of millions of people. They were apart of the “Final Solution” program that was created for the destruction of the Jewish race. Prisoners’ Day...
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...World War 2 History Assignment World war 2 was an impactful event in jewish history, more than Six million jews suffered at the reign of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi artillery.Hitler was obsessed with the jews but not in a good and caring way, he saw them as a threat to his beliefs and considered them to germany.The Nazi party was formed in 1918 by an individual by the name of Anton Drexler and was originally called the DAP (German workers party).Hitler was then invited to speak at one of the DAP meetings and Anton liked hitler's enthusiasm so much that he joined the group as the 55th member and quickly became the main speaker and the leader of the party ruling over an enormous nazi army. Although there was some racism against...
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...then nothing’s left to stop the whole green world from burning” (Miller 71) she was soon given the same treatment as the other wrongly accused, and was publicly hanged. This shows how overwhelmingly powerful the hysteria was in Salem, and that even prominent villagers were not to be acquitted from such claims. After the girls realized the power and respect they gained by having visions that claimed to “cleanse this town properly” (Miller 150), they had two choices of how to handle the whole situation: tell the truth and be punished for dancing in the woods and for the creating hysteria in the village, or continue accusing innocent people and be praised for “God’s work [they] do” (Miller 115). However, these young Puritan girls chose the evil choice where they continued to accuse others while fully aware that their actions would send many innocent people to their deaths. The Holocaust was an atrocious event that made and still make many people question how the Nazis could conduct such inhumane acts that led to the death of roughly two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe.. The Holocaust was genocide during World War II, which the leader of the Nazi Regime, Adolf Hitler, referred to as the “Final Solution”. Hitler claimed that the Aryans were the master race and that all non-Aryan peoples, particularly Jews, were inferior. At some point, the consequences and the cruelty of the Nazi’s in creating the harsh conditions of the Holocaust must have passed their minds. Perhaps the Nazis...
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...Oppression: To Resist or Adapt? Humans have this mysterious conception the one skin tone, religion, region, or ideology is superior than another human beings. From the beginning of mankind to our world today, groups of like minded people have degraded or oppressed groups that do not categorize under their idea of who is equal to them. The groups that are degraded or oppressed have historically shown that they either resist and fight against the oppressor or adapt and strive to continue living peacefully to the best of their abilities. This can be shown through the examples from the 19 century when African Americans were freed and struggled on whether to resist or adapt to post Reconstruction era America; in World War II between how people of the Jewish faith tried to adapt without resisting to Nazi occupation, imprisonment, and even murder; and finally today, how women in the Middle East, who are going against culture and trying to gain basic rights as human beings. It would be beneficial to begin describing the situation that African Americans faced during the 19th century. After 1877, slavery ceased to exist in the United States and former slaves had constitutional protection against oppression, yet African Americans continued to be oppressed in the South. During the end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century Democrats, who at that time supported the Confederacy and slavery, started to implement a series of laws called the Jim Crow laws. The primary...
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...Religious background of Holocaust 1. Introduction Anyone who bothers to investigate in any depth the Holocaust, and its many involved attendant subjects, inevitably encounters intellectual and emotional difficulties not usually met in other fields under examination. When studying the Holocaust, it is extremely difficult to maintain the same level of professional distance and objectivity that one practices with other subjects. Obviously, the magnitude of the destruction and suffering, the millions of lost lives and their untold stories, their unfulfilled hopes and dreams can be overwhelming. Furthermore, thoughtful and honest investigators will occasionally find that they have encountered an area of the Holocaust wherein are found agonizing personal ramifications. That is to say, the scholar is studying an event or a complex of issues that share key components of one’s personal background, beliefs, and values. It is highly unlikely that the scholar will be able to maintain absolute objectivity, feeling completely uninvolved in what is being examined. Instead, the person will most likely be compelled to ask some rather pointed personal questions, or probe into realms in which the investigator has close personal ties. When this occurs, it can be very distressing and painful. 2. A short insight on the background of Jews in Poland, Germany and Russia Several Polish noblemen of the middle ages showed special favour to Jews who immigrated because of persecution in Germany...
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...AP EH CH. 27---THE DEEPENING OF THE EUROPEAN CRISIS: WW II I. PRELUDE TO WAR (1933-1939) ---the efforts at collective security in the 1920s---the League of Nations, the attempts at disarmament, the pacts and the treaties---all proved meaningless in view of the growth of Nazi Germany and its deliberate scrapping of the postwar settlement in the 1930s ---World War II was largely made possible by the failure of Britain and France to oppose strongly flagrant German violations of the Treaty of Versailles A. The Role of Hitler 1. WW II in Europe had its beginnings in the ideas of Adolf Hitler, who believed that only Aryans were capable of building a great civilization 2. Hitler was a firm believer in the doctrine of Lebensraum which stated that a nation’s power depended on the amount and kind of land it occupied 3. Hitler thought that the Russian Revolution created conditions for Germany’s acquisition of land to its “racially inferior Slavic” east (Mein Kampf spelled out Hitler’s desire to expand eastward and to prepare for the inevitable war with the “Bolshevik Jew-led” Soviet Union) 4. Hitler always returned to his basic ideological plans for racial supremacy and empire as keys to the blueprint for achieving his goals 5. Hitler’s desire to create an Aryan empire led to slave labor and even mass extermination on a scale that would have been incomprehensible to previous generations of Germans (or anybody else outside...
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...life as a concentration camp prisoner. He describes life in the concentration camp, the continuous humiliations, the hunger, the illness, and the constant threat of death. Central to the narrative in “The Sunflower” is the story of Simon being summoned to the deathbed of a young Nazi soldier whom Simon calls Karl and who has been wounded in combat. Karl confesses to Simon his activities against Jewish people, which he did in the service of the Nazi regime, and tells Simon he cannot die in peace unless Simon, a Jewish person, forgives him for the things he has done to Jewish people. Simon, after hearing the detailed confession, leaves the room without giving forgiveness. This experience haunts him long after the encounter. After the war, Simon tracks...
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...The History of US-Israel Relations Against Our Better Judgment The hidden history of how the United States was used to create Israel Louis Brandeis, flanked by Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, founding secretary of the American Federation of Zionists (right) and Nathan Straus, co-owner of Macy’s (Source: Library of Congress) By Alison Weir April 18, 2013 Alison Weir is Executive Director If Americans Knew and President of the Council for the National Interest. She is available to give presentations on this topic and can be reached at contact@ ifamericansknew.org. How the U.S. “special relationship” with Israel came about W hile many people are led to believe that U.S. support for Israel is driven by the American establishment and U.S. national interests, the facts don't support this theory. The reality is that for decades U.S. foreign policy and defense experts opposed supporting the creation of Israel. They then similarly opposed the massive American funding and diplomatic support that sustained the forcibly established state and that provided a blank check for its aggressive expansion. They were simply outmaneuvered and eventually replaced. Like many American policies, U.S. Middle East policies are driven by a special interest lobby. However, the Israel Lobby, as it is called today in the U.S.[1], consists of vastly more than what most people envision in the word "lobby." As this article will demonstrate, the Israel Lobby is considerably more powerful and...
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