...Cory Arentsen History 1000024 Professor Hackner 16 April 2015 The Holocaust The Holocaust is possibly the biggest monstrosity that has ever been committed by man. The one specific man, Adolf Hitler, was the main contributor to this horrid time. Hitler was a festooned veteran of World War I and also a German politician, a chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. By the end of World War II, which ended in 1945, the Nazis had thrashed millions of Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and communists. The primary targets of Hitler’s motives were the Jews. Of the nine millions of Jews who lived in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately 6 million were killed. For years, European Jews were prosecuted and seen as a problem by most of Europe. Anti-Semitism was extremely popular in Europe and during the rise of the Nazis, the new laws that were put in place to discriminate against the Jews were highly tolerated. All of this combined with Hitler’s radical nature set the stage for the slaughter of the Jewish people. Legal discrimination against the Jewish people began immediately after the Nazis took power in 1933. However, the mass slaughtering of all the European Jewish people were widely kept a secret until after the war. These highly topped secret death camps were first coordinated and discussed at the Wannsee Conference held in Berlin. This conference was between all of the highest ranking Nazi officials and its purpose was...
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...In 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and transformed it into a totalitarian state. Through persecution and propaganda, Hitler convinced the German people that all of their problems could be blamed on the Jews, making the events of the Holocaust plausible. Throughout Europe, Jews were historically ostracized due to their minority status and beliefs contrasting with those of Christians. For these reasons, when Hitler came to power the Jews were a natural group to blame Germany’s struggles on. During World War One, people often said that “The Jews, [...] had done much to spread defeatism and thus destroy the German army” (Rise of the Nazis and Beginning of Persecution). As a result of this rumor, many people in Germany already had...
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...“You could not do this and you could not do that. They forced Father out of his business. We had to wear yellow stars. I had to turn in my bike. I couldn’t go to a Dutch school anymore, ...” Anne writes in her diary. Her words tell of being stripped of basic human rights and freedoms. In the play, The Diary of Anne Frank, written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the Frank family was subject to involuntary hate and discrimination from his dominance. The debt and chaos after WWI in Germany started the horrific event of the Holocaust. The historical events reflected in the play show Hitler’s actions affect Anne and her family through persecution and dehumanization. The historical timeline, “Frank Family and WWII Timeline”, states the major...
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...It seems that the times of Holocaust are already very far away from the point we are standing now, but everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight. For many people this time will be something they will never forget, the time of struggle for an opportunity to survive. It was a time for fighting for the right to live, the time when Jews were killed just for “being Jews”, a time when a man with a “yellow star” was doomed. It took place in 1939-1945 and was introduced by Adolph Hitler, a man whose idea was to decontaminate the German race from all the minorities. Thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps, killed or vanished. It was the time of “monopoly on violence”(Torpey, 1997) towards the Jews. This World War II period made an enormous impact on the direction that was taken by the social relations between Jews and other nations. Holocaust divided the lives of Jews into three periods: before, during and after it, which showed how hard was its hit.”…Cats have nine lives, but we - we're less than cats, we got three. The life before, the life during, the life after…"(Joselit, 1995 p.1) Jew people lost loved ones; homes, lives and it took them quiet a time to renew the curative power of their belief. The other main thing resulting from the Holocaust was the influence it had on future terrorism and the appearance of pure racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Holocaust the terrorists showed that the “big” goals could be achieved through any possible ways...
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...German Workers’ Party between 1933 and 1939, Jewish life was changed drastically. This was due to a combination of factors such as Hitler’s rise to power and anti-semitic beliefs, Nuremberg Laws, and Kristallnacht. This essay will serve to explore Jewish life prior to 1933 and explain the many factors that attributed to the changing of Jewish life from 1933 to 1939. Anti-semitism has existed for about two thousand years throughout Europe, but despite this, the life of German Jews was reasonably peaceful before 1933 (Berenbaum 2018). Anti-semitism existed in many forms such as the Jews being scapegoated for the cause of the Black Plague and the death of Christ, as well as employment...
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...counts of participating in a common plan or conspiracy against peace, planning, initiating, and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace, and war crimes. (New World Encyclopedia Contributors) Joachim von Ribbentrop was Nazi Minister of Foreign Affairs. (New World Encyclopedia Contributors) He was sentenced to death by hanging, being guilty on all counts. (New World Encyclopedia Contributors) Alfred Rosenberg was Hitler’s chief racial ideologist Reich Minister. (Jewish Virtual Library) He also was sentenced to death by hanging and was also guilty of all counts. (Jewish Virtual Library) Fritz Sauckel was the Plenipotentiary General. (Jewish Virtual Library) This means that he was in charge of providing laborers for Germany’s industry. Under his leadership, nearly five million laborers were imported to Germany involuntarily. (Jewish Virtual Library) He was sentenced to death on counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity. (Jewish Virtual...
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...deadliest times in history: The Holocaust. Children screaming, wearing striped pajamas, being tutored and treated like you were nothing, seeing some of your closest friends die right in front of you. That’s what it was like for Jews during the Holocaust. You might be thinking we would learn from our mistakes but their are so many other genocides that have happened and are happening right now. Another genocide that has happened is The Stolen Generations. The Holocaust and The Stolen Generations both were terrible genocides in our world, however, these two genocides are different because of their intended goal, the impact in on the world, and how they were ended. The Holocaust was one of the deadliest and cruelest genocides. 6,000,000 Jews were killed during this time. Hitler’s goal for this genocide was for the German Arias to be the only group left. Hitler’s idea of the perfect person was a blond haired, blue- eyed, and tall. Everyone else that didn’t look like this...
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...This time he succeeded. Next they had to get voted into office.This was hard as they lost every election they ran for. However, the Nazis got lucky during the great depression. The great depression was when most Germans were poor because Germany were forced into paying for the damages caused from world war one after it was over. Most Germans couldn't afford food and the economy was poor.The Nazis saw this as an opportunity and ran for election. They won this one. Next Hitler combined the powers of the branches to make himself fuhrer,or leader in July 1934. Hitler gave a public speech about how jews were the cause of world war one and the great depression and how jews were bad.This convinced many people.Soon there were boycotts against jews.Jewish owned stores and businesses were crowded blocking the entrances preventing anyone from...
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...Elie Wiesel in his memoir recounts about one of the most horrendous and dreadful event in the world history. Anti-Semitism which is the discrimination or prejudice against Jewish people that has been present in world history since the crucifixion of Christ is shown well and clearly in Wiesel’s Night. The first organized campaign against Jewish people had occurred in 1096 during the First Crusade, also known as the First Holocaust. The Holocaust, which was the organized terror and genocide of Jewish people, took place between 1933 and 1945. Hitler's release of his autobiography, Mein Kampf, in the mid-1920s told about his intentions of ridding Germany of its Jewish population. In the beginning, it was proposed that they had to simply leave...
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...the negative belief and emotions about “Jews qua Jews” (Newman, 2010, p. 15). Anti-Semitism dates back to 70.C.E where the ancient rebellious Hebrews “exhausted the patience of their Roman masters”, lost their homes and were spread through the Mediterranean lands (Botwinick, 2014, p. 4). Jews were always outcasts to Christians because the Jews denied that Jesus was the “messianic son of God” which therefore added more tension when it was believed that Jews killed Jesus (Botwinick, 2014, p. 5). The Holocaust also known as the “Catastrophe, the Sho’ah, is one of the tragic periods of “Jewish Diaspora” (Keter Books, 1974, p. 1) It started between 1933 and 1945 in Europe. It first started with discrimination...
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...by name is Adolf Hitler. Hitler’s acts against the Jewish people as a totalitarian dictator in Nazi Germany revealed to the world just how erroneous discrimination and supremacy based upon race are, and how important it is to love our brothers and sisters. I am...
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...acting, or maybe, it was a lack of knowledge. In events like the holocaust, post 9/11, and McCarthyism & the red scare, similar theories can explain the causes.This presents, that the reasons for the Salem witch trials are those same reasons for “witch hunts” throughout history. The belief in evil had a major role in the Salem, Massachusetts witch trials. After just one person in the village became ill and the doctor who evaluated that person said that it was not a sickness,...
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...Holocaust Essay The Holocaust is one of the worst tragedies in our history. Millions of people had died and thousands were left with mental or physical disabilities. All of this was simply because of intolerance and hatred towards Jews and other “minorities” The Holocaust is a very significant part of our history. It gave us an example of how prejudice our society can be. Today we are taught that we shouldn’t discriminate other people based on their religion, race or gender. Most countries don’t have dictators anymore, but instead give the power to their people. Discrimination, prejudice and racism are often frowned upon these days. Those are just a few examples on how the Holocaust has really affected us in ways that we haven't really given...
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...time when technology limited forms of communication, newspapers accumulated a majority of the responsibility for informing the public. Surprisingly, America as a nation, usually well informed and considerate of global issues and situations, left the Holocaust, the genocide of over six million Jews, Gypsies and handicapped across Germany and Poland, in the shadows of the concurrent war. Beginning in 1939, European countries engaged in a war that America clearly seemed unprepared to participate in. When America finally entered the war, the domestic concerns it faced at the time held precedence, even though it received news of the atrocities in Europe. The Holocaust, initially neglected as front-cover news, now holds a major concern and memory in American history. Since the start of World War II, strengthened and advanced reactions to the horrors of The Holocaust have ensued from simultaneously increasing publicity. As war broke out across Europe, Americans laid back, hoping to continue isolationist efforts. Still recovering from the Depression, newspaper companies held a large monopoly of the public information distribution (Holocaust). American citizens simply remained unaware that millions of people were suffering from discrimination and hatred. The New York Times, one of the most prominent publishing powers in America, held a delicate, complicated stance on the situation as news of the victimization and mass destruction of thousands of Jewish Europeans finally unraveled. Reporters...
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...University of Phoenix Material Appendix D Part I Define the following terms: |Term |Definition | |Ethnic group |Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | |Anti-Semitism |Prejudiced against or hostile to Jews | |Islamophobia |Prejudice against Muslims | |Xenophobia |A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that, which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign | | |peoples. | |Persecution |To oppress or harass with ill treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual | | |orientation, or beliefs. | |Religious group |A set of individuals whose identity as such is distinctive in terms of common religious creed, beliefs,| | |doctrines, practices, or rituals. | Part II Select at least 1 religious and 1 ethnic/racial group not your...
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