...In the year of 1933, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Nazis, who came to power in Germany, had the belief that the Jewish members of society were racially inferior. With this thought in mind, the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, organized what would be known as The Final Solution. In 1933, the European population consisted of over nine million Jewish members. By the end of the Holocaust in 1945, the German-Nazi Party “killed nearly two out of every three European Jews” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016). During the years of the Holocaust, the Jews, and other groups persecuted by the Nazi’s such as homosexuals and the mentally challenged, were forced into concentration camps where they would either be deemed...
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...Psychological Effects of the Holocaust In February of 1933, the Nazi Party ruthlessly started to persecute Jews simply because they were Jews. Under the Nazi Party, Jews were "worthless", and considered "animals". As time went on in the Holocaust, the physiological impact of the Nazi hatred demoralized the Jews. Jews were shot as target practice, starved (mostly to death), and forced to kill their own kind to save themselves; it was just about one's own survival- no one else mattered. Family and love soon became words that people no longer understood. In anyone’s life, it is important to have a strong family and the bond of love, but in the Holocaust, Jews were stripped away from the aspect of love and family. Many the Holocaust survivors can still recall horrendous memory's of their experience in the concentration camps. When people were in the concentration camps, the trauma was much worse; people were not mentally and emotionally strong to enough to endure the pain that it caused. In the Holocaust the Nazi Party caused psychological pain of the Jewish people to ensure their complete dominance. The psychological impact was so great that the Jewish people in the time and thereafter were scarred for life. At the time of the Holocaust, the Nazi Party used mental and physical psychology to undermine the Jewish people. When Jews were transferred into concentration camps like Auschwitz, other Jews already there were placed in charge of them. When they arrived, SS...
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...The Holocaust ended May 8th, 1945 with the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest camp in Nazi territory and the one where most deaths took place; but for those who were lucky enough to survive, the effects of the war would remain with them for the rest of their lives. Not only were the Jews stripped of all their belongings and identity, but they were also forced to betray their own ethical codes. As survivors tried to assimilate back in to every day life, the memories of the family they had lost and the brutal events they witnessed kept resurfacing, leaving long-term psychological effects such as: anxiety, depression, psychosomatic disorders, survival guilt, isolation, and sleep disturbances. Not only did the survivors themselves experience these effects, but their children and grandchildren would as well. Victor Frankl’s memoir Man Search for Meaning, Lawrence Langer’s memoir Holocaust Testimonies: The...
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...When the Holocaust started, no one believed it would be as horrid as it was. No one believed the rumors they were hearing until it was happening to them. Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, and elderly people went through traumatic experiences and many were murdered in huge masses. The children of the Holocaust and the children of Holocaust survivors, however, suffered more physically and emotionally because they were given away, tortured, left alone, and put through many hardships. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, Jews were targeted from the very beginning. Laws were implemented and they had a severe impact on the lives of children. The laws restricted the number of Jewish children that could attend school, it banned children from many public...
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...The Holocaust was a terrible and traumatizing experience for the prisoners, but have you ever thought about what happened to the survivors? How did they get back to their normal lives? Well if you have, you're in luck, I wrote a whole paper on it. Following their liberation, the lives of Holocaust survivors were hurt by long-lasting physical illnesses, mental health issues, and difficulty returning to their lives before their imprisonment. Descendants of the holocaust damaged by physical illnesses caused by the Holocaust. Some Holocaust victims also suffered from mental health issues because of their experiences imprisoned in the camps. They also suffer from not ever able to settle back into normal lives. Overall this essay will be discussing the tragic suffering that took a great toll on holocaust survivors, Specifically with psychological and bodily sicknesses, also including getting back to their normal lives. There were a lot of horrific ways prisoners in the Holocaust were badly altered. One way holocaust prisoners suffered was by mental illnesses because of experiences in the holocaust. An example of this is post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders depression and this sometimes even...
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...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 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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...During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, "German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in "Kindertransports to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary, A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is...
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...Discuss Psychological Explanations of two or more forms of Institutional Aggression (8 +16 marks) Institutional aggression can be defined as aggressive behaviour that occurs within a place of confinement such as prison, and is motivated by social forces, rather than anger or frustration. One psychological explanation of institutional aggression is institutional aggression within groups. This form of aggression can be explained using the importation model which involves interpersonal factors. Research by Irwin and Cressey (1962) suggests that prisoners bring their own social histories and traits with them into prison. This then influences their adaptation to the prison environment. They also argue that prisoners are not simply ‘blank slates’ when they enter prison. Due to this, many of the normative systems developed in the outside world would be ‘imported’ into the prison. Harer and Steffensmeier (2006) offer some research support for the importation model. This particularly applies when evaluating individual factors such as age, education level and race. Their study involved collecting data from 58 US prisons where they found that black inmates had significantly higher rates of violent behaviour. However, these people displayed lower rates of alcohol-related and drug-related misconduct than white inmates. Despite this, there is a problem of sample bias with Harer and Steffensmier’s study. This is because only US prisons took part. This means that the results are not representative...
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... However, that is nothing compared to the 12 million persecuted victims of the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, factions of people, including Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled were hunted down and forced to enter concentration camps. They suffered extreme amounts of mistreatment and were identified by a characterized arm band. The Holocaust and the Salem witch hunts are comparable because a single leader initiated the hunts, terror triggered the movements, and people fell victim by what others perceived them as. The Holocaust transpired during World War II, 1939-1945, when one man came into power, Adolf Hitler. After World War...
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...The Nazi regime came to power in German in 1933. In the same year, in August, Stanley Milgram was born into a working class Jewish family in the Bronx in New York City. Throughout his childhood Stanley was acutely aware of his family’s worries concerning Nazi Germany. Milgram (1963) was interested in understanding how Nazi officers and soldiers could commit the atrocities they did in the Holocaust. Milgram became interested especially in obedience since it was being suggested after the Second World War that the German people must have some national character defect which made them especially susceptible to obeying orders. At the Nuremburg trials after the World war 11, Nazi justified that they were only following orders. It is important to...
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...Sanjida Afrin Morality of Massacres and Genocide Prof. Harman Salton 2nd March, 2016 Nazi Memorandum The Holocaust was an extreme incident of genocide as defined by the UN Genocide Convention that took place in the 20th century in Germany as a religious, political and economical manifesto targeting an ethnic, national or racial group such as the Jews. The plot of this heinous genocide however started back in the 1930 before the WWII when Hitler and the Nazis started spreading propagandas to wipe out Jews from Germany. This memo will give a critical overview on the purposes behind the holocaust, how propaganda were used to conduct such extreme genocide and the role played by the Nazis and the Germans, followed by a brief comparison between the genocide in different countries and the Holocaust. When we start talking about Holocaust, one of the basic terms to use is “Anti-Semitism” which refers to hatred against the Jews. Even though factual evidences hold Hitler’s strong hatred towards the Jewish population as a major reason behind the holocaust, it is still a debatable issue. One of the most interesting facts that come to attention is the wide support of many of the educated German elites in the Nazi propaganda. This might be result of the flourishing economic conditions of the Jews in the then Germany. The Jews were open to modern education, they flourished in business and basically not as much affected as the Germans after the WWI. This might have led to economic and political...
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...A Look at the Holocoust One might not view Adolf Hitler as a great leader because of his horrific attempt to exterminate the Jewish race, but in fact, his ability to draw an entire nation together to systematically murder six million Jews between the years of 1933 and 1945 would indicate otherwise. Looking throughout history, massive moral inversions have occurred underneath the watchful eye of otherwise “moral” beings. If we find ourselves believing that this type of event could never happen again, we would need only to look at the many massacres that have occurred since and are taking place now to realize that we are all capable of performing evil tasks. And, if not capable of “pulling the trigger” per se, our inaction and indifference is the timid man’s evil. Evil is consistent in its nature and will always find an outlet as is good. The difference in the two is merely the outcome; the steps to achieve such a feat are the same. Human beings can be taught to do nearly any task, no matter how sinister, as long as a certain level of tolerance is reached. Tolerance is reached through a variety of methods namely by the diffusion of personal responsibility, group identification and legitimacy. The Milgram Experiment shows ever so clearly how capable the human mind is to quickly become evil when given the opportunity to transfer accountability. In this experiment, a normally “good” individual became willing to transmit an electrical shock to a complete stranger simply because...
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...The Holocaust The holocaust was the mass murder of six million Jewish Europeans during World War Two. The Nazi Party in Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, exterminated about two thirds of the Jewish population residing in Europe. The Nazis placed the blame of all of Germany’s problems on the Jewish people. The Nazis referred to the holocaust as the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” This paper will discuss the terrible things that happened throughout the holocaust by the Nazi party to the Jewish population. The holocaust was not the first plan by the Nazis to get rid of the Jewish race in Europe. Their first plan was to deport all of the Jews to German colonies such as Tanganyika and South West Africa (90 facts). Hitler was against these places because he argued that no place where “so much blood of heroic Germans hath spilled” should be made available as a residence for the worst enemies of the Germans. Madagascar became the most seriously discussed location for a Jewish relocation. Madagascar was perfect because it was a remote location that had unfavorable conditions so it would hasten deaths. This plan was approved by Hitler in 1938 and was carried out until the mass murder began in 1941(Facts about the holocaust). This first step was an important psychological step on the path to the mass murders of the Holocaust. Concentration camps were where the Nazis kept Jews, political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals, gypsies, and the mentally disabled. These camps were founded...
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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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