...Germany is one of the greatest nation in the world history. However, many people have a negative orientation toward Germany and German people, mostly because of what Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler did in the second world war. Also, in many cases, the another reasons why people do not have positive thoughts about Germany is because of their pushy behaviors, how their language sounds like to non-German speakers, and their royal power for many years in Europe. Initially, like many countries around the world, Germany has done many wrong things, and at the same time, accomplished many great things. Although, the Holocaust is an irremovable stain for the country of Germany, they have lots of great accomplishment and cultural preservations that...
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...The Horrors of France According to popular beliefs, the Holocaust in Nazi Germany was one of the most tragic events to have ever occurred in Jewish history; unfortunately it wasn’t the only one. The French Holocaust imprisoned over 38,000 Jewish citizens; roughly 780 of them would survive. (Laffitte) Not all Jewish peoples were just rounded up and thrown into trucks; some were actually “immune” to relocation. (Curtis)These special peoples had to carry slips, and papers to show they were legally allowed to be outside of the camps. There were several unknown levels of clearance for the Jewish peoples. Not much is known about the levels but what is known is that, there were curfews for most, and only wealthy, powerful, influential Jewish peoples...
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...In the 1940's, the Nazi's invaded Eastern Europe and brought their racist ideals with them. It is apparent, that within this time period, the Nazi's were able to convince the majority of the population that killing Jews could solve all their problems and create a purified Europe. Her are the number one ways the Nazi's were so easily able to cause what later become known as the Holocaust. A cause of the efficiency of Hitler's reign could have been the bombardment of propaganda that supported the Nazi's Anti-Semitist ideas. The Nazi's owned news agencies and bought articles in newspapers that sold their mindset to the public. For example, Amy Witherbee mentioned the claim that Jews were destroying German bloodlines and selling this with drawings...
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...The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust Edith Hahn Beer who was born in 1914 wrote The Nazi Officer’s Wife, a memoir about her life and difficulties of survival during the reign of Adolf Hitler. Edith goes through her life day by day explaining the constant fear she lived in. Edith’s biggest nightmare during this entire thing was her true identity being revealed and losing it at the same time. Even though there was a grave amount of risk for Edith’s life she made sure she kept record of her survival. She saved all the papers she had gotten from her lost love, Pepi and all the photographs she somehow managed to take while she was in the labor camps. After fourteen months in the Nazi labor camps she had finally returned to Vienna, Austria to soon find out that her mother had been deported. Edith’s father had died many years before and her two sisters who were her only siblings had fled for Palestine hoping they could hide from the Nazi takeover. Edith was left with no one to support her along with nowhere to stay. After all this had happened Edith was forced to change her entire identity in order to survive. She got identity papers from her good friend Christl. After this process Edith was soon to be Christina Maria Margarethe Denner, but her nickname was Grete Denner. Edith’s entire life revolved around keeping her identity a secret mainly for survival purposes. For example, when she first moved to Munich, Germany she got a job to work with the Red...
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...What Our Fathers Did was a documentary brought out many different reactions in me. It was unsettling for me to see someone who was so devoted to his father who participated in making sure that the Holocaust was able to happen. A man who Horst Wachter remembers as a loving father, Otto Wachter, who helped fight for the Ukrainians, and could never fully admit that his father was not as evil as he was. In the case of Niklas Frank, who had basically no relationship with his father, Hans Frank, and has only one single good memory with him, he never doubted that his father was innocent or did not deserve to die for his crimes. In the beginning Wachter says how his father was a committed Nazi from the beginning, that made me think he could understand that it was not good of him to be, but when he talks about how it was because his father could not say no and had to join that annoyed me. It angers me when that is the excuse some people give as an excuse...
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...It has become quite ordinary to not think about the past. Sure it gets taught and everyone knows it’s there but people never want to look back. Out of shame? Fear? In today’s day, we respect the past but rarely delve into it except for certain days. Elie Wiesel’s book Night is the self-account of Wiesel’s life in the Holocaust. It reflects back to the time through the eyes of a Jewish boy living in the awful conditions. It tells the story from the first few steps that Hitler takes, to when the camps was liberated. Wiesel delivered a powerful message "of peace, atonement and human dignity" to humanity. The Final Days is a film about resistance in Nazi Germany of one woman in particular. The movie starts off showing the main character having fun and there is light and laughter. This quickly changes as it shows her with members of the White Rose, an Anti-Nazi organization. She was caught and found guilty. This movie is a true story based on an actual Sophie Scholl who lived throughout this and was a member of the White Rose. Although one is about standing up for your rights not matter the consequence, and one is about knowing when hope is but a lost phrase, barely living in your mind. While that is all true, they also have a lot of differences, for instance, they have very different main characters who come from different parts and are effected by the war in different ways, each story is told in very different ways and each has its own meaning, and they have different...
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...November 2014 We can know the end of the story just by knowing that Ellie Wiesel wrote the book. We know it because this book is about survival. Physically we know Ellie Wiesel survived the holocaust, but does any psychological or spiritual part of him died during the holocaust? Elie Wiesel wrote about all the horrible torture, brutality, degradation, lost, and inhumanities he suffered by the Nazis just because he’s Jewish. Considering Elie was just a teenager, all he had to go through could turn his faith, religion, humanity, or beliefs. Before the Nazis took Elie and his family we could notice that Elie was a strong, religious boy who wanted to learn the Cabbala. Moshe the Beadle taught him it, and answered all Elie’s questions. By the point of Elie learning the Cabbala his faith was very strong. Elie compared praying with breathing, it is something so important for him that he does it without thinking. He’s faith in god is unconditional, and he believes since God is good and its everywhere, then his world and everything in it must be good too. I believe Elie knowing the Cabbala took an important role in his spiritual survival. Elie Wiesel was devoted to his faith to God, humanity of others, and a sense of justice in the world; which eventually we know are beliefs challenged by the holocaust events. One of the first events occurred to Elie was his mother and sisters being taken away, and learning about the crematorium. So Elie knowing he is surrounded by death and suffering...
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...darkness, leaving behind only unease and uncertainty. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, night symbolizes the suffering of Eliezer in the nightmarish Holocaust which he lived through. During the hours of darkness, Eliezer experiences uncertainty in his ever-evolving situation, fear during his sleepless nights, and loss of those that he cares for. During the Holocaust, Jewish people are forced from their homes, forced from camp to camp, and forced to change against their will. Eliezer and his family anticipate their departure from the ghettos into the lethal uncertainty of this war against them. Eliezer’s mother instructs her children to “go to bed early [and] conserve [their] strength… [as] it was to be the last night spent in [their] house” (Wiesel 18). The night is expected to be a time of rest and rejuvenation; however, the nights proceeding a change are stressful and often represent the fleeting moments of security and consistency in their lives. Even when Eliezer spends his last night in Buna, he is fearful. He knows a change is approaching and despite his horrific circumstances, Eliezer knows it...
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...1958 Genre: autobiography, memoir Historical information about period of publication: World War II, and the Holocaust, ended in April 1945 when the liberating Allied armies came through the conquered territories in Nazi Europe. Night describes 16 year old Elie’s loss of faith in God, humanity, family and morality in general. Elie, therefore, vowed to not speak of his experience in Auschwitz, Buna or Buchenwald (or any event between 1943 and 1945, from the beginning of the occupation of Hungary to Germany’s liberation in 1945) for ten years, until he had time to internalize this dramatic loss, and regain his faith and possession of his memory and life. In 1954, after realizing that even less than ten years after the end of the Holocaust, the world was already forgetting and Jews were abandoning their roots, the time had come to testify and justify to the world that Hitler had not succeeded. Biographical Information about the author: Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel was born on September 30, 1928 in Sighet Romania, where his memoir Night begins. In his childhood (up to the Nazi occupation of Romania) his father encouraged his study of the Torah, other Judaic texts and other literary works. As described in the beginning of Night, Elie was also curious about the realm of Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism. From 1944 to 1945, Elie and his family were subjected to the Nazi terror (will be described in the plot summary section). Elie and two of his sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, survived...
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...Evil in the World Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel in his speech “The Perils of Indifference”, argues that indifference is a punishment to the victims and dangerous to the world because the “lines blur” between “good and evil.” He supports his claim by first stating what indifference is which is when the “lines blur” between right and wrong, then Wiesel questions indifference and how someone could possibly see it as a “virtue.” Finally, he explains how indifference could seem easier to some even though it's bad, but at the same time “seductive.” Wiesel’s purpose is to inform the audience that indifference is an aggressor to the world in order to prove that the world would be better if people weren't indifferent. He creates a serious yet hopeful tone for “Mr.President, Mrs.Clinton, members of Congress, Ambassador Holbrooke, Excellencies, friends.” Ultimately, Wiesel strongly disagrees with indifference and believes it's an “end”, “not a response”, a “sin” and “punishment.” He thinks without indifference the world would be better. This is important because the innocent people wouldn't be in pain for no reason. The general argument made by author Elie Wiesel in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference”, is that indifference is a “sin.” More specifically,...
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...memoir Night by Elie Wiesel because when the Jews first arrived in the camps, they did not know what was about to happen to them. Once the Jews learned of what would happen, they lost that innocence. The memoir Night by Elie Wiesel is about Elie’s experiences changing from an observant Jew into a walking corpse due to the horrific experiences that occurred whilst he was in the Nazi camps. A primary theme in the memoir is Eliezer’s loss of innocence as a result of the experiences he endures during the Holocaust. Firstly, when Eliezer was torn from his hometown and brought to Birkenau, he witnessed many horrific events...
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...“When first I came home it looked exactly so as before I went away… (74),” Vladek begins recalling his past experiences to his son Art. In Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art is the son of a Polish Jew who writes and records his father’s memories of the horrendous holocaust. This ability to create multiple perspectives is known as frame narrative, allowing the readers to learn more insight about the characters such as thoughts, feelings, and motivations. Although the comic itself is seen through Art’s eyes, words, and sketches, it is Vladek’s story that is being represented. Art Spiegelman did a wonderful job of incorporating numerous smaller narratives into one graphic novel with his constant use of two very important literary devices. The use of...
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...trial than anyone else who does not have a positive attitude. This fact was especially true in World War II because it helped many people in the concentration camps to endure. In fact, some who endured with a positive attitude became a Holocaust survivor. The theme of "The Diary of Anne Frank" reveals that from childhood to adulthood that having a positive attitude is relevant today when times get harder. Anne did not did not complain or become bitter about hiding or her situation in life. That fact was really commendable for Anne to have a positive attitude because she was living in the time period of the holocaust. Even though the Nazis were cruel, she still believed that there is good in people. In the Drama: "The Diary of Anne Frank", it says: "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." (Frank 1). This quote is a good example of maintaining a positive attitude because Anne...
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...In his memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel recalls his experiences as a young Jewish boy in a Nazi death camp. The narrative begins with Wiesel and his family living in Sighet, Romania, when the plot of the story begins to unfold. Soon afterward, the Jewish people are deported, and the horrifying events of the Holocaust are revealed. Throughout the story, Wiesel describes the atrocities that took place during this period of genocide during World War II. As the story progresses, various relationships that Wiesel holds with certain individuals evolve, and these changes contribute to his survival. Two such characters that the author relates to through his horrifying experiences are God and his father. Wiesel starts out in the story as a firm believer in God; however, his faith in and relationship with God begins to change as a result of his agonizing experiences. Despite constantly being on the verge of life and death, Wiesel is able to carry on, partially because of this correspondence with God. At the beginning of the novel, Wiesel claims that "he believes profoundly." (1) The author has a naive, yet strong, faith in God at an early age, and he is constantly studying the Talmud and spending time in the Temple with his religious mentor, Moshe the Beadle. Months later, the Jews are placed in the ghettos, and then are expelled in cattle cars soon after. During the transport, the Jewish people receive false hope of good conditions in the labor camps, so "they give thanks to God." (24)...
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...They say, “Poor fellow. He’s gone mad,”(Wiesel, 17). In both of these texts a warning about the horrors of the Holocaust is ignored. However, in the book Night, a victim lives to tell of the horrid acts of the Nazis, but in The Berlin-Bucharest Express a person aiding the victims passes along a story she heard from one of the Nazi officers. Also, in the narrative the Nazi officer is so remorseful he is in fits of tears, but in Night Nazi officers are portrayed as being heartless and remorseless machines. For example, on page 16 of Night it reads, “Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners.” A similarity the two pieces have is their tone. The tone in both texts is somber and anxious. “From that moment, everything happened very quickly. The race toward death had begun.”(Wiesel, 20) This excerpt shows the anticipation and melancholy felt by the author during this time. In The Berlin-Bucharest Express this excerpt shows a similar mood: “How does one mistake infants, small children, babies at their...
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