...Patients undergoing experimentation in Nazi concentration camps suffered cruel and immoral treatment. The series of medical experiments took place in the early 1940’s; during WWII and the Holocaust. In these experiments patients suffered indescribable pain. Typically the experiments resulted in death, trauma, disfiguration and permanent disability. There was as, many as thirty different kinds of tests including: the freezing, the high altitude and the hemorrhage experiments. The Nazi physicians did not care about the patients undergoing tests, they only cared about getting new information to improve the German military. Consent was never given for any of the patients, all patients were forced into doing the inhumane tests created by the Nazis’s....
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...“There are eighty of you in the car...if anyone goes missing you will all be shot like dogs(night pg 24).” This is one of many examples of inhumane content in the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Inhumanity can lead to a long life memory that can't forgotten. Two significant themes i picked out are losing faith and hope as well as the will to survive. The will to survive was very important in the holocaust because it wasn't easy for them to survive. On page 86 in the book night they were running to the next concentration camp but if you would not be able to make it there and stop running you would be shot. The jews wanted to live because they said “don't think, don't stop, run (Night pg 86).” That shows that they want to live and keep running because...
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...atrocities of the Holocaust. ‘Night’ is set during the Holocaust time period in 1944–45, toward the end of the World War Two. It mainly takes place in Auschwitz and Buchenwald which are both Nazi Germany concentration camps. The memoir depicts his experiences with his father in those concentration camps. ‘Night’ takes the reader on a journey where Eliezer, who was only 15 and his family, along with many other Jews, were forcibly removed from their hometown and transported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He wrote about their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the spiteful cruelty he witnesses each day as well as his increasing disgust with humanity due to the inhumane treatment of the Jews and how they were...
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...The Holocaust was a state-sponsored, bureaucratic and systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis under the command of Adolf Hitler believed that Germans were racially superior while the Jews were considered as an inferior group whose presence in the new state would derail the expansionist desires of Adolf Hitler. The Jews were also considered as a threat to the German racial community. During the Holocaust the German authority also targeted other groups that were perceived to be racially inferior. On the contrary, the big slave trade is considered as the business that involved buying and selling of people, especially from Africa, for profit. These people were enslaved in the Capitalist Europe and were subjected to doing menial works such as tending the fields and working in mines (Franklin, 2000). Comparison of the Holocaust and the Slave Trade...
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...In 1945 possibly the world's most devastating and terrifying ordeal began. This horrific experience is now known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a shameful part of our past, where the Jews of Europe and other minorities were persecuted by Nazi Germany. The Nazis treated them inhumanely in concentration camps, forcing them to endure harsh working and living conditions as they tortured and killed them. To this day, survivors are telling the tales of how it changed their lives. In the memoir, Night, by Elie Wiesel, he talks about the terrible and inhumane things he had to endure. The Nazis had purposely treated these innocent, everyday people inhumanely every single day they were in their custody. The Nazis were a very cruel group of people who absolutely despised the Jewish population and all they stood for. When they believed the Jews stepped out of line they resorted to the extreme punishments, most inhumane. The memoir Night gives a picture of this when Wiesel writes about a time he had caught an officer doing something he shouldn’t have been doing, “I obeyed. Then I was aware of nothing but the...
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...What happened in the Holocaust might be the author wants to satirize. Because of the inhumane killing of the Jews, and this happened during the World War 2. The Holocaust was an example of a situation that was imitated in this story. The random killing of people and the whole village acted as they were the Nazis who doesn’t care about the lives of other people. The Holocaust was about groups of people who are killing other people, and this reflects the story where people choose one person to kill each year. It was a tradition of the village, it was very dehumanizing and people still do it. The same as what happened in Holocaust, killing innocent people was very inhumane. Another thing that I’ve noticed is that in their first few years no one is stopping the Nazis that time, even though it was very dehumanizing. Other countries never meddle in and tell them to stop, and they have waited for many Jews to die before they speak up. This is happening because they were not affected by the situation. They’ve acted like they don’t see and hear anything, so they would not speak up. This short story was a piece of what happened in Holocaust. These kinds of crime still exist today in some religion or...
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...Not Just A Memory. 98288. Just five numbers that have so much more meaning than any math equation could. This tattoo does not represent a happy time that the frail individual has witnessed. This tattoo is a evidence of a crime against of humanity that has occurred. Crimes against humanity are inhumane acts against a certain race or population. This one picture does not even give justice to the millions of people who have lost their lives due to racial profiling and not fitting in to what society thinks is “right”. In this picture there lays the arms of a survivor of one the biggest and devastating genocides the world has ever seen. Leon Greenman is just one of the millions of lives were either taken away or that will never be the same, physically or mentally . A tattoo is part of a permanent moment that can never be taken away and like Leon Greenman and many other survivors of the holocaust,it will always be a part of them. It is clear that there were permanent effects that the Holocaust made an impact on; it is clear looking at the picture of Leon Greenman, he was one the lucky ones who survived and his tattoo shows the proof. During the Holocaust Adolf Hitler did not think of the Jews as humans, he thought they were wastes of space and that they needed to be terminated in order for Germany to have a pure race. By doing this Hitler ordered that all individuals of Jewish descent would be transported to camps such as Auschwitz so either they were worked to death like...
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...“Night” Essay. The Holocaust (also called Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to harsh persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. The Jews were the victims of Hitler’s plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe. After the holocaust one of few survivors Elie Wiesel wrote a book called “Night” which was basically about the suffering all Jews had to go through. In this book Elie uses motifs to reveal the theme that the worst suffering comes from man’s own inhumanity to man. One of the motifs Elie uses to reveal the theme was how badly the Nazi soldiers treated their fellow human. First example was when the Nazi’s arrived at first they treated the Jews politely while living in their homes and acted quite civil then the Jews started to believe they were in no danger but Little by little, the soldiers took away their freedom—the leaders of the Jewish community were arrested; the Jewish people were put under house arrest; all their valuables were confiscated; the Jews were forced to wear a yellow star; the Jewish people were forced into ghettos; the ghettos were emptied and the people deported to concentration camps. This shows how the Nazi went from being human to dehumanizing their fellow human...
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...and judgments of legislation dating back to the early eighteen hundreds established to justify a war or hold individuals accountable for cruel and inhumane treatment during a time of war, but not always adhered to by countries. The United Nations established international laws such as the Nuremberg Principles and the Genocide Convention to hold individual responsible for crimes against humanity. Countries have engaged in war crimes for thousands of years in violation of the established laws and customs of war. Torture, rape, massacres, genocide, and atrocities documented over centuries continue today. This paper will discuss some of the heinous crimes committed during War World II Holocaust and the Hutu massacre of the Tutsis. War Crimes the Executioners and the Victims of Genocide Military powers around the world inflict some of the most atrocious crimes against humanity, and in each case, there are executioners and victims of these crimes that never get fair justice. “ The German concentration camps of World War II, the horrors of the Vietnam War, the prolific rape and brutality during the break- up of the former Yugoslavia and the Hutu massacres of the Tutsis in Rwanda,” ("20th Century," n.d., p. 5) are just a few named conflicts that displayed devastating atrocities. The executioners in the World War II Holocaust and the Hutu Massacres in Rwanda caused terrible massacre to the human race more than any other conflict in history. These crimes all have a negative...
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...Kenny Smith April 20th, 2003 The role of men in society has been a vital. Men were subjected to the same inhumane and horrifying events that happened during the Holocaust. When one thinks of a man, you think of father, solider and other manly things. A great deal of pride comes along with being and man. Along with pride, testosterone, intensity, and all sorts of other factors key into the characteristics of men. However, the Holocaust completely stripped men of most of these characteristics. The Holocaust did not allow men to be men. Holocaust art, the “Tale of the Sprinter” by Sudeep Pagedar, and Vladek Spiegelman in the memoirs Maus by Art Spiegelman are examples of how men suffered during the Holocaust and the amount of empathy produced from the suffering of these men. Empathy is the ability to see something from somebody else's point of view and to walk a mile in their shoes if you will. Men are very prideful individuals who are very dominating members of society. The atrocity of the Holocaust has been displayed and expressed through various pieces of art and literature. Famous Holocaust painters like Felix Nussbaum have expressed this atrocity through art. Felix Nussbaum was a prisoner at Auschwitz who died there in 1944. The image to the right is one Nussbaum’s paintings that survived the Holocaust. Besides the man sitting on this wooden box, you see two other men in the rear who appear to be using the bathroom. The condition that these men were forced to live in...
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...In his noble prize acceptance speech Elie opens with, “At special occasions, one is duty bound to recite the following prayer (…) ‘Blessed be Thou . . . for giving us life, for sustaining us, and for enabling us to reach this day’” (Weisel 117). Elie wrote this speech after an elongated amount time after the Holocaust, he had sufficiently amount of time to reflect on all the occasions that took place at the Holocaust. Therefore after reflecting on all the occasions he began to reestablish his beliefs in God, which motivated him to open his noble prize acceptance speech with a prayer about the fortunateness of individuals for the ability to have a life given to them. Elie regaining faith shows that he reflected on his time at the...
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...inevitable for it to happen. History will always hold a place for Tragedy and sadness. It is something that may affect millions of people. Which in times we look back only to see the inhumane actions committed by the people who we see as evil and malicious. The very people who stood strongly for their ideology. Genocide, perhaps the most disturbing and atrocious acts a human being can ever commit, yet so many times it occurs. The Holocaust is perhaps the most well known genocide to this day; but we must not forget that the Native Americans also experienced their tragedy and sadness. Both the Jews and the Native Americans were not wanted....
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...When Dr. Neu’s wife said, “We didn’t know,” about the Holocaust, it could have meant very many things. Firstly, the Nazi’s hid the Holocaust very well from the public and Hitler made it very clear that Jewish people were no good. After this idea was constantly repeated, the Nazi’s accepted it and the hate towards Jewish people was normalized. The Nazi’s created propaganda and a hatred towards Jewish people which made the public feel that the Nazi’s were doing the right thing during the Holocaust. The Nazi’s had fully succeeded in brainwashing everyone. Another reason would be the guilt in Dr. Neu’s wife and other Nazi’s minds. Leon said that Dr. Neu’s wife muttered the words,”We didn’t know.” She mutters the words because she knows it’s not...
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...have detailed responses. Level 1 Etymologically what does the word indifference mean? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." Describe the Holocaust. The Holocaust was where people like Elie were sent to concentration camps and forced to work. Many were killed. Level 2 Analyze the way Elie uses the word gratitude. Level 3 How do you think the Holocaust impacted Elie’s life? Elie is emotionally scarred for life. Evaluate how Elie uses Roosevelt in the speech and how it affects it. 3. Provide clear, precise, and detailed evidence of the following rhetorical patterns: allusion, definition, rhetorical questions, biography, repetition, and parallel structure. Elie uses rhetorical questions by stating things like, “Does it mean that we have learned from the past? Does it mean that society has changed? Has the human being become less indifferent and more human? Have we really learned from our experiences?” He uses repetition by repeating words like, gratitude, indifference, our, and human. In the sentence, “What is indifference? Etymologically, the word means "no difference." Wiesel used definition by giving the etymological definition of indifference. 4. What is your stance toward the speech? Elaborate. I think Elie makes very good points when talking about humans being indifferent, and how it makes us inhumane. Indifference is...
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...largely quiet child, in the small town of Sighet. Eventually the Nazis arrived in 1944, and soon forced all of the town's native Jewish population into Ghettos(The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity). Soon after, the invading Nazis deported all of Sighet's Jewish population into work camps. And for many months, Eliezar and his father Shlomo, had to endure grueling , inhumane conditions in the life of the work camp. Despite all of these conditions, Eliezar managed to pull through.. however.. at the cost, of losing his father....
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