Jugend im Dritten Reich Zwischen Anpassung und Widerstand Heutzutage sitzen wir vorr dem Fernseher, in unseren heilen Welten, sehen nur durch Nachrichten was auf der Welt passiert. Elend, Unterdrückung, Diktatoren, all das finden wir schrecklich, aber es ist zu weit weg, als dass wir uns wirklich vorstellen können, wie es sich anfühlt, mitten im Geschehen zu stehen. Vor etwa 75 Jahren ist in Deutschland etwas geschehen, dass unsere Geschichte massiv geprägt hat. Die Zahlen der Opfer sind unermesslich
Words: 1037 - Pages: 5
Albert Einstein stated, “The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.” In other words, this quote is trying to say that the world is unsafe not because of people who hurt/harm but because of the people who do not do anything and just ignore it like nothing.And this allows people who harm to be getting more powerful. Elie Wiesel, say who was there in the Holocaust. He got separated from his mother and sisters while the Holocaust
Words: 300 - Pages: 2
Depression It all started when The Treaty of Versailles was signed to end World War I. This document blamed Germany for the war and made them pay a very heavy fine for it all. This made Germany very mad, so mad that they wanted to take revenge. Adolf Hitler was a very powerful man during this time period. He craved power
Words: 614 - Pages: 3
Members of the jury Captain Henry Wirz is guilty of war crimes, and should be sentenced to death unlike all the rest of the Confederate soldiers. Captain Henry Wirz has medical background of occupational therapy, and he allowed the prisoners of Andersonville survive in such horrible conditions. Captain Wirz also allowed a substantial amount of violence acts to happen. Andersonville had no clean supply of water, and the water supply that they had people were bathing in it along with going to use
Words: 340 - Pages: 2
Night Essay According to dictionary.com, fear is a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid. Fear is an emotion known far too well for the Jews during the holocaust. Nazis have taken over their lives and left them with nothing, but fear. Jews fear for the lives of themselves and their loved ones. Elie Wiesel was a lucky individual that got to escape this fear. His book Night describes the trepidation
Words: 634 - Pages: 3
The Jews of Sighet have an amazing, but irrational ability to be foolishly in the face of tragedy and danger. Barely a few pages in, action has already stirred up with all foreign Jews being expelled from Sighet. Yet, even with such drastic changes, the Jews of Sighet somehow just brush it off as though it nothing had occurred, and thus “the deportees were quickly forgotten...rumored to be working...and even...content with their fate” (Wiesel 6 emphasis added). The “forgotten” Jews had once been
Words: 453 - Pages: 2
When analyzing ordeals such as the Holocaust and slavery, virtuous people often question the thought process of those responsible. However, the racist mindsets that motivated these calamities remain present in today’s world and continue to be disregarded. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor, comments on the importance of acknowledging racism in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. He advises, “Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race...that place must become the center of the
Words: 670 - Pages: 3
The Book Thief novel is centered on the themes of rebellion and conformity to the different directives that the Hitler Germany gave to citizens. Hitler who was the German leader in the second world war used propaganda to sell his policies to the Germans to ensure that they conformed to what he aspired. In Hitler’s Germany, it was not about doing the right thing but conforming to the expectations of the ruler. Not all persons, however, could conform to the wishes of the leader and some rebelled out
Words: 1175 - Pages: 5
Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Dexter Filkins both write about hate and how it is a common cause of unnecessary death whether it be murder or suicide. In Erdely’s “School of Hate” she discusses the hate of the gay community in schools, while in Filkins’s “Atonement he focuses on the military and how they are ordered to murder people (peaceful people) solely based on the fact that they look different than you and me. Collectively these essays provide the same point of view by joining many nonfiction elements
Words: 811 - Pages: 4
It was January 26, 1918 when I received a message that changed my entire life. I was going to get deployed to Europe near the Western Front. I couldn't find the precise words to tell my wife Edna and my five year old son Joseph that it’s my turn to help out my fellow battle buddies in this war. My family is the most precious people I have in this world I’d utterly give my life away for them. Edna supported every decision I made but it is time to help fight this war to ensure the United States is
Words: 550 - Pages: 3
