...Daniel Lowe Mrs. Grace English Some date Some Title Roughly 6 million Jewish people were killed. This is the effect of the Holocaust; a horrific event, caused by horrible people. However, there were also good people who worked to save others. The Holocaust was the genocide of the Jewish people that took place during WWII in Germany. Roddy Edmonds is a hero of the Holocaust because he was brave enough to risk his life for others, did not flaunt his role, and he refused to let others die to save his life. Roddie Edmonds was born to Thomas Edmonds and Mary Sexton in 1919 in South Knoxville, Tennessee (“The Story of an Unjustly Overlooked American World War II Hero”). He had 4 older brothers, one of whom died after a year. He graduated from Knoxville...
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...the Stalinist extermination of the kulaks but instead looks to compare the industrial exploitation of the atrocities and their unique occurrences. Through a powerful narrative that thoroughly researches the Nazi and Soviet atrocities side by side, Synder shows how the two regimes committed the same kinds of crimes, during the same periods, in the same region which resulted in the mass killings of the bloodlands. The economic transformation put forth by Hitler and Stalin examined in the book, produced immoral consequences of their...
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...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 impact...
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...The Holocaust was a mad murder of Jews under the German Nazi rule during 1933-45. The Bangladesh genocide was the deliberate and systematic destruction, in a whole or in a part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different in three different ways; lives lost, ethnic identities, and the effect it had after. The Holocaust started on January 30th, 1933 and ended May 8th, 1945. The Nazi were the ones responsible for this tragedy. The victims of these concentration camps were, Jews, slaves, ethnic poles of color, disabled or mentally ill, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and Spanish republicans. Anyone who was...
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...Resilience The stories of ex-former prisoners of war inhumane experiences they faced during their captures are unimaginable. Prisoners of war, from all nations, were subject to daily beatings, slow starvation, dehydration, murder, forced labor, isolation and even medical experimentation. The ones who did survive were returned to their homes; only these veterans were left with a lifelong scar. The devastating effects of POW’s affects family, work, social and all other aspects of their lives. One illustration is of a Holocaust survivor who spoke about the bitterness that remains in himself about Nazi’s treated him and other POW’s, “If you could lick my heart, it would poison you” (Thomas). To some, crimes like the Holocaust may seem unforgivable, from a religious aspect, it is a Christian obligation. But many could argue that one cannot commit such cruelty and evil and simply be forgiven, so crimes like the holocaust may seem unforgiveable but it is evident by many researchers and scholars that in fact they have found that forgiveness plays a crucial role in the ex- Prisoners of war emotional healing to be able to lead a resilient life after such traumatic events. Generally, forgiveness is a decision to let go of resentment and thoughts of revenge. The act that hurt or offended you might always remain a part of your life. But forgiving allows you to help you focus on other, positive parts of your life. Understanding that everyone may or may not deserve forgiveness no matter...
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...To most Americans, the holocaust has become known as Jewish history, but this understanding is incorrect for there was over five million victims that were not Jewish. The Holocaust was more than just a Jewish event. The Germans kept records that prove they exterminated millions of Gypsies, homosexuals, Russians, Jehovah's Witnesses, physically and mentally handicapped, Poles, resistance fighters, and many more. (Overlooked millions) If people were captured, and not immediately exterminated, they were usually sent to a concentration camp or labor camp. These prisoners were then given patches on their clothing for identification. Political prisoners wore red, prostitutes and other of that nature wore black, criminals were given green, and Jews were given yellow. (Overlooked millions)...
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...On April 11, 1945, American forces, including Harry, freed Buchenwald which in total had held over 238,000 people over its existence of a span of eight years. The death toll was calculated to be around 43,000 or more. Throughout his testimony, including his tales of bonding with the boy, he uses language that conveys his feelings during his experience, for example: pity. He expressed that he felt sorry he had to see the victims but was not able to do anything- and it truly leaves an impact on the reader- showing an unfamiliar perspective from a soldier on the Holocaust. After the Holocaust, most Jews had problems such as having no home, money, or family where they could safely return to, and so this meant they had to live at Displaced Persons. camp. The sand is a sand. At first, these camps did not have the best conditions, but they progressed as more political leaders inspected and invested in these...
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...The Americans are all given coats and go into a delousing station, where all of the men are stripped. Billy has one of the worst bodies there, both skinny and weak, and is berated by a German soldier. We are introduced to Edgar Derby and Paul Lazarro. Derby is the oldest POW there. He is a high school teacher from Indianapolis and is physically sturdy despite his age. Paul Lazarro is a car thief from Illinois who is even weaker than Billy's. He was in Roland Weary's boxcar, and had vowed solemnly to him that he would find and kill Billy. When the scalding water turns on, Billy jumps back to infancy. His mother has just finished bathing him and he then leaps forward to a Sunday game of golf, played with three other optometrists. He leaps again in time back to the space ship, on his first trip to Tralfamadore. He converses with one of the aliens and comments that they do not seem to believe in free will. The alien replies that in all of the life in the galaxy, Earth is the only one whose people believe in the...
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...The Holocaust was traumatizing event in the 1900s. It was a life changing event for the Jews. This time period went down in history. Rudolf Hoss, estimated during the Nuremberg Trial that nearly three million people died while being held hostage in death camps. Also, ninety percent of the ones killed were known as Jews. In death camps the people who were known as “different” suffered from cruel treatment, harsh environment and immoral medical experiments. Well, we all know Hitler had millions of people killed in death camps. It seemed, due to the history that Hitler was a racist man. Hitler disliked any other race that were not considered his race. “That if they eliminated the people who stood in their way and the degenerates and racially inferior, they-the great Germans would prosper” (Schwartz). So, Hitler wanted to kill a lot of...
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...Polish prisoners of war (POWs) were deported deep into Russia and placed into “special” camps (gulags), located at Kozelsk, Starobelsk, and Ostashkov, where they were subjected to lengthy interrogations and constant political agitation, sometimes for months at a time. Conditions in the Soviet gulags were not much better than those in the ghettos in Poland, as each day prisoners were marched out into the unknown, never to be heard from again. Once again, the constant fear of death and the unknown surrounded daily life in the prisons, in addition to the more persistent issues of starvation and...
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...Ha- Shoah In May of 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators hit nearly two out of three Jews as part of the “Final solution,” which was the Nazi’s policy to execute the Jews of Europe. Most Nazis, targeted the European Jews, the homosexuals, gypsies, Polish citizens, Christians, and people with disabilities. Hitler’s men have used a variety of ways to torture and wipe out the European Jews during the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass execution of 11 million Jews. The picture below, taken in 1944 during WW2 in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, shows how many oppressed citizens were murdered on a daily basis in the “Final solution” by the German Nazis. Many people had to suffer...
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...A Graphic Adventure A Graphic Adventure Nathan Reece Herzing University A Graphic Adventure The holocaust is well known as a very tragic event and a first-hand account of such an event is already intriguing enough. However, Art Spiegelman took the intrigue a step further by telling it through an ironic graphic novel. The short adscript, “Prisoner of War” is an ironic graphic representation of the holocaust from a Russian’s perspective. Artie, a secluded boy, visits his father one of many times to ascertain more information about his past experiences in the war. In this instance his father recollects a time of tragic momentums. Artie listens eagerly although seems to take more interest in the recording story’s events than his father’s suffering. Perhaps one of the most ironic aspects of this graphic novel is the decision to use animals to depict race and nationality. Rats and Mice, for example, are used for the male and female Jewish characters. Cats are used for German soldiers and pigs for the Polish, who were very bitter towards the Germans at this time. This allowed him to depict something through picture that he would normally describe in long script. The variation shows the Jews as pests, which is how society saw them at the time. And it also showed the German as their predators and natural oppressors. Cats are viewed as a control factor for rats and mice, which exactly the way they saw themselves. Prior to telling the story, Vladek is demonstrating...
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...Mengele arrived in Auschwitz in May of 1943 He was an SS Doctor who had power of life/death. He performed medical experiments on Jewish children MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS: Sterilization of men and women Endurance of pain to high and low temperatures and pressure Experiments on twins to increase number of multiple births to Aryan women Injections of phenol to kill patients Dr. Mengele attempted to sew children together to make Siamese twins Largest single massacre of Holocaust: Reinhard Massacre March 1942-November 1943 named after Reinhard...
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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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...personifies itself in the character of Peter Kranz, a boy who is willing to fire artillery against the Russians in what obviously is already a lost battle due to his intense belief in the Fuhrer and his country. The film with the complete characterization of a Nazi regime supporter, yet one still struggles to see him as the embodiment of evil as the film presents him as a pawn in the Nazi regime. A boy who loses everything because of war, including his childhood. Furthering this blur between black and white is the main character’s presentation, the structure of the movie even mirrors this with the end and beginning showing the real Traudl Junge’s conveying how she attempted to disassociate herself from responsibility for what occurred during the Holocaust and the Nazi regime. Ending with her talking about her realization that it was her choice not to find out what was occurring, she compares herself to Sophie Scholl, a woman born in the same year as Jung, but who chose to fight to Nazi regime and who ultimately was killed for her this stance. With the words “being young is no excuse”, the film portrays an individual still grappling with the atrocities and the regime she supported. A human trying to work through the sadistic and darkest parts of humanity, highlighting the human qualities in her at the same time as pointing out the dehumanization she supported (Higgins,...
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