“To live. Living was living. The price was guilt and shame.” (Zusak 208) Max Vandenburg, the Jew that resided in the basement of 33 Himmel Street, had a rough life growing up in a country where being a Jew almost guaranteed persecution. His family pushed him out of the house when a Nazi soldier came to their house. Max felt guilt and shame for not going staying with his family and for becoming a burden to others, such as Walter and the Hubermanns. Max felt like he was being selfish by leaving other
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In the novel Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie explains how he saw inhumanity when he was at the concentration camps and being tortured by the german soldiers he says, “In the wagon where the bread had landed, a battle had ensued”(Wiesel 101). In the wagon where the bread was the jews were fighting like they were animals for a piece of bread a worker had thrown into the wagon. The worker was watching them fight for the piece of bread with great interest. People responded to inhumanity by losing faith in
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Dehumanization is the act of process of reducing people to objects that do not deserve the treatment accorded humans. The Nazis dehumanized the Jews because they blamed the Jews for all the misfortunes that had befallen Germany. The Germans dehumanized many Jews during the Holocaust, the mass murder of millions of people leading up to and during WWII. For example, at the beginning of the novel the Jewish community of Sighet is forced to evacuate from their homes. Later they are forced to sit crowded
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Violence, death and murder. These are the words people never want to hear. In the memoir, “A Long Way Gone,” Ishmael Beah is a young african child, who is turned into a child soldier. He goes thru horrifying changes throughout the novel as he explains his graphic experiences. He explained the memoir in such a graphic and serious tone because he doesn’t wish this nightmare upon anyone else. Ishmael uses all sorts of gruesome language, violence, and gore to alert the reader about always being aware
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The Holocaust have many things in common, many innocent people were killed in both events and they became known in the towns they took place in. The Holocaust took place in 1933 where 6 million Jews were killed. The leader of the Nazi group was Adolf Hitler. The Nazis would imprison people for no reason and kill people who had mental illness(Ushmm.org). The Holocaust was marked with a yellow star, because it meant a symbol of Nazi persecution and inscribed with the word “Jude”. “Don’t be deluded
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It’s the sirens, too close to death, though alive men, and the constant popping of guns that changed Eliezer. Night by Elie Wiesel is from his and his father’s experience in the Holocaust. Taken out of their homes and forced into camps to be starved, tortured, and challenged by death daily. Eliezer had been changed in ways in which he could see the world’s true colors, had a better look on relationships, and his faith in God was tested, leading to the dwindling of faith in his life. Originating in
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Some of the Nazis got away like Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann, but the survivors that did got caught wear Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Speer and Hass Frank. All of these Nazi’s officers were punished for all the wrong doing that that they did to the Jews. The Nuremberg Trials will be a trial that we
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The term, “Holocaust” has historically been used to reference both the ongoing persecution of Jewry in society as well as it’s specific culmination of the systematic killing of the Jewish people during the mid twentieth century. Due to the extended and often convoluted past involving the mistreatment of Jewish people, identifying the inciting event proves to be difficult, and is debatable from a multitude of perspectives. Early on, the oppression was prominent but was not a dominant factor of everyday
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Peter Gay states in the preface of the book that his purpose is to bring together those themes that mark the hectic life of the Weimar Republic. In this context, first, he describes the trauma of the birth and views the birth of the republic as an outcome of a tragedy- the tragedy of the World War 1 that left no stone unturned in destabilizing Germany on various levels like political, social, and economic. However, in the subsequent chapters, he depicts the rise of the Weimar Republic, arguing that
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The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) took a toll on many Europeans, but one man named Hans Heberle was able to document the horrific events during that time. A cobbler, husband, and father, he began to write down his life events after observing a comet in 1618. Besides the war itself, Heberle encountered traumatic events within his family and lifetime. Despite these occurrences, such as deaths within his family, starvation, and inflation, Heberle and his family were apart of the very few survivors of
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