...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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...remove this darkness from one of the most tragic events to ever happen in history, the Holocaust. There is a classic German legend about a man named Faust. He was a highly successful scholar but was dissatisfied with his life. His legend has created stories of his success in art and music, but the legendary of this man doesn’t end there. According to the legend, Faust sold his soul to the devil in exchange for vast earthly rewards. Millions of innocent Jews were killed by this so called legend, driven by a force of madness and evil of his own ancestors. In his own sick twisted mind he saw an opportunity to solve the problem once and for all by killing off the Jews. It is said that the Holocaust was based upon vague, trivial, or even inaccurate representations. With so much controversy and doubt on the Holocaust did or did it not really happen, everyone has their own point-of-view. Ironically for the people of Germany this legend had an all too real comparison to true events on its history. According to stories from survivors the voices of the dead can still be heard crying out for help. There are many authors who wrote books with great detail on the Holocaust, giving their perspective point of view on this tragic event. During the Holocaust it is said that over six million Jews suffered countless amounts of obscenity throughout the history of time. In the book Histories of the Holocaust by Dan Stone, the author describes the legendary of one man, the will to survive, the...
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... Introduction Understudying Blasphemy Causes of Blasphemy Blasphemy Causes destabilization of world peace Blasphemy and major world religions Islam Prohibits Insulting other religions Major World Religion’s Laws against Blasphemy Different Countries Laws against Blasphemy Need of Global Anti-Blasphemy Laws How Muslism Ummah can Reply? Introduction The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things. Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for a religious deity or the irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things. Blasphemy in Islam is any irreverent behavior toward holy personages, religious artifacts, customs, and beliefs that Muslims revere. It is taken as a gigantic nature of crime with the capital punishment Blasphemy Causes destabilization of world peace Blasphemy in different religions All major religions such as Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism does not allow Blasphemy at all. Along with different religions different countries have made some Blasphemy laws to control it on some aspects. All the major religions books taught us not to go against any religious god, thing, holy personality or Prophet. But we face different cases of Blasphemy, not only interreligious but even in intra-religiously. Causes of Blasphemy Freedom of Expression Anti Islamic Sentiments Lack of Faith Lack of...
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...The Truth about the Holocaust January 30,1933 through May 8,1945 was a tragic time for the Jews. This period of time is known as the Holocaust and it means, “sacrifice by fire.” The Holocaust consisted of the persecution and murder of over 5,860,000 Jews by the Nazis. Not only were the Jews killed during this time, but the Nazis also murdered gypsies, Serbs, polish intelligentsia, resistance fighters from all nations, German opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, habitual criminals, and beggars. Most were captured and sent to death camps also known as concentration camps. We need to understand why the Jews were singled out for mass genocide and why people today deny that the Holocaust ever happened. It is only with complete knowledge of the past can we prevent this from ever occurring in the future. The reason that the Jews were singled out during the Holocaust is based on the Nazis belief that the goal of the Jews was world domination and that this would obstruct Aryan dominance. Also, many Nazis believed that the Jews were the killers of Christ. They claimed that the Jews were the agents of the devil, and that they practiced witchcraft. The Germans defined who was Jewish by issuing the following definition on November 14, 1935: “anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who belonged to the Jewish community on September 15, 1935; someone who was married to a Jew on September 15, 1935 or after; and children that were offspring...
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...for the candidate we see best fit to have a roll in our government. The idea of free speech suggests an equal partnership between government and citizen rather than an oppressive relationship seen in Communist countries like China and Cuba. Countries like these have developed using Communist methods, and for the most part relinquishing free speech rights from their citizens. Free speech guarantees the absence of tyranny and provides the most beneficial relationship between government and citizen. In the early 1620s, the first pilgrims came to the New World seeking religious freedom, but they ironically did not implement that idea into their culture. They had been denied the right to free speech in England because they held different beliefs than the Church of England. According to the Puritan document, “An Abstract of the Laws of New-England”, it states that any person who doesn’t conform to the church’s doctrine shall punished by banishment (Arlandson). So freedom of speech really only applied to those in agreement with the Puritan church. Thankfully, that is not the America we live in today. Thomas Jefferson, a signer of the Declaration of...
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...impacted when the beliefs of Adolf Hitler were expressed into a traumatic event titled the Holocaust. People that followed the Jewish religion, often called “Jews”, were believed to be inhumane by Hitler and the German Nazi party and were forced to their own deaths, regardless of their age, gender, or race. Individuals in concentration camps were traumatized to the point where they became unafraid of death; they saw it as a part of everyday life. Artists, philosophers, critics and musicians all have developed different ways of expressing their thoughts and feelings towards the Holocaust and each of these representations are relevant in their own individual aspects....
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...The Holocaust: Suggested Reading There is a wealth of information about the Holocaust. So much has been written, in fact, that it can be difficult to determine where to start. This reading list is collected from recommendations from other members of The Holocaust History Project. It is not a complete bibliography but represents our opinion as to what are the most useful starting places for research. Since this list concentrates on works that are easily available and useful to a person unacquainted with the history of the Holocaust, many excellent books which are rare or out of print are not listed. Another class of books that are not included is works that are controversial because of their contents or the unusual theories they propose. Some of these are excellent works, others are not. But we feel that the reader for whom this list was compiled would not have the knowledge needed to evaluate these discussions of the legitimate controversies about the Holocaust. Just as a medical student must learn anatomy before he or she is taught surgery, someone studying the Holocaust must know the factual background before some of the more technical studies can be understood. As well as general works we have included books of specialized interest concerning the matters about which we at The Holocaust History Project are most frequently asked. Many of these books deal with more than one subject, but in the interest of brevity we have not cited a book more than once. General history of the...
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...Unfortunately, bad leaders arose from it, too, creating great damage. Two villainous leaders in that time period were Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union, and Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany. These archenemies murdered millions of people during the time of their ruling. They fought to expand their territory along with their political beliefs. Both found themselves continuously fighting for the same territories. Stalin wanted to implement Marxism, while Hitler wanted Nazism, a form of socialism. Despite their enmity, they had parallel lives. Stalin and Hitler, the deadliest dictators in history, shared similar background, political agenda, and denial of crime. Stalin and Hitler shared a common distressing childhood that originated hatred and bitterness towards people. As children Stalin and Hitler were bullied. They...
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...Anti-Semitism and Racism 1 Schrita Scott Anti- Semitism and Racism in America PHI 103: Informal Logic Ashford University July 8, 2013 Anti-Semitism and Racism 2 Anti- Semitism and Racism in America Racism is one of the world’s major issues today. Many people may not be aware that racism still exists today. Within our schools, workplaces, in the public, and anywhere social lives are occurring racism is evident. It is sad but racism is still a major problem in the United States of America. Anti- Semitism is another form of racism which Is the intense dislike and prejudice against Jewish people. It wasn’t until the years of 1865-1900 that an anti-Semitic society emerged. From the end of the civil war to the beginning of the twentieth century did the United States saw the full fledge dislike for Jewish people. People in the United States apparently was intent on that Jews impinged on American lives. (Pinnerstein, 1995, pg. 35). People in America assumed that Jews were Christ killers and would not accept the Truthfulness of Christian...
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...According to the United Nations, the phrase genocide refers to “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, aiming at complete extermination of such groups.” This is the perfect expression to describe what happened to the Romani during WWII. Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s was not the place to be if you didn’t have blue eyes and blonde hair. Everyone knows what the Holocaust is, why it happened and who was victimized, but many people are unaware of the other groups that were targeted by the Nazis as well. The Roma, or Gypsies were a large group that was persecuted mainly before the Holocaust and the Jews. Gypsies originated in Punjab, a region in northern India. They moved into Europe in between 700s and 1000 C.E.....
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...author, and those who have not doubted, never did lose their belief in God. As long as they keep the faith within oneself, an individual like Elie Wiesel who had experienced such adversities in life may become stronger to be able to get through the situation. A Wave of Human Spirit The Holocaust presented a call to people everywhere to reevaluate the role of God in their lives. The pain and suffering that we know took place is in dark contrast to what we would have thought possible in the presence of our God, and anyone who comes in contact with these horrors will be forever shaken in his present faith. Some have reacted with anger toward God, others with denial. Still others reacted with mistrust of all that God had meant before. But by asking questions, some have grown to learn that God never did things the way people expect Him to, and that fact becomes the cornerstone of the new start to their theology. God does not answer questions unless they suit His purposes. This is what we have learned from Auschwitz and from the writings of Elie Wiesel. We must continue to ask questions, continue to challenge God, until, one day, He Himself will give us the answers. And until then we should never feel so secure in faith as to think that Auschwitz could never happen again. We must make certain, through our actions, which it will never happen again. A Wave of Human Spirit Wiesel thought of God before and during the Holocaust as both the protector and punisher of the Jewish people....
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...was a big change in the way that classes of people were treated; Stalin cared much less about women than the previous leader and he aimed to increase profits through industry for the already wealthy elite and the military (Goff, 2008). During this time he promoted education which would reinforce the values of hard work and discipline, but did very little for the people who worked just as hard as others, the farmers. They were living in poverty. I think that the only difference between Stalin and Hitler here is that Stalin's goals were centered around earning more wealth and making people more productive, though at the expense of certain classes' qualities of life. Hitler sought to "extinguish" an entire race of people, based on superior beliefs of a duty to cleanse the world. Thanks for the interesting posts about Stalin and Hitler! Let's go a bit deeper into the comparison of Hitler's and Stalin's use of propaganda. In "Mein Kampf" Hitler wrote the following about propaganda: "The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence is small. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must...
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...rights, the entire world would be in outrage. If affordable health care was offered to all French citizens but withheld from anyone choosing to call Paris home, riots would ensue. If residents of both Toronto and Philadelphia were forced to live their lives according to religious beliefs that may or may not be factual and were written approximately 2,500 years ago, an uprising would surely come about. If nine million people here in our very own country were told that they were not worthy of being wed today because of the verbiage within a document that was written by wealthy white men in the late 18th Century, what would we do? In the United States alone, it is estimated that nearly nine million people consider themselves gay or lesbian--equivalent to the populations in the above mentioned scenarios (Gates, 2011). So why is it that nearly fifty years after the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, the gay and lesbian community is bearing the brunt of such inequality? In the 1930’s, approximately the same number of Jews in Europe were targeted as an inferior class and we are all well-aware of the atrocities that resulted shortly thereafter (Jewish Virtual Library, 1997). While comparing the Holocaust to the rights of the gay and lesbian community in America is undoubtedly a stretch, it should at least open one’s eyes to the wide-spread nature of the injustice that is occurring in our very own country as we speak. All of us here in the United States have grown up believing...
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...As a result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. His statements and actions throughout his memoir show the change in his character. His beliefs change from everything he sees, and hears through his long and horrid experience. For example “A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it with my own eyes… those little children in the flames.” What causes him to lose his faith? What causes him to hate the God he loved so much? With this in mind, Elie focuses on studying the Cabbala. Elie says “One day I asked my father to find me a master to guide me in my study of the Cabbala.” His father responds “You’re too young for that. Maimonides said it was only at thirty that one had the right to venture into the perilous world of mysticism.” He prayed to God often. He with the...
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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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