Night Final Essay In one of the great tragedies in the history of mankind, millions of innocent people were sent to their deaths via gas chambers, overwork, disease, and starvation. While all of this is happening, the rest of the world did nothing until it was too late. How could this happen? A mixture of fear and complacency made tragedies like the Holocaust happen. People refuse to speak out against injustice, while the intended targets did little to prepare for the catastrophes. This made it
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their communities, that thrived with with cultural richness of Jewish life.” said Jack Mandelbaum. A total of roughly nine million Jews lived in the countries that would be soon occupied by Germany in WWII. In 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany. A couple months later came law boycotting all Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany. On the day of the boycott Storm Troopers stood menacingly in front of Jewish shops and businesses. The Star of David was painted
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Recently, a group called The Daily Stormer made a very disrespectful article about a young women who had recently died, named Heather Heyer. It was then that their host, GoDaddy, kicked them out and since then they have not been able to find another host. People are disagreeing on weather this is OK or weather this is breaking the bill of rights, freedom of press, and freedom of speech. Many people are saying this is bad and it was recently found out that, just like the editor of The Daily Stormer
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Ordinary lives during the Holocaust are more likely to conform than prevent the killing when the government exposed them to an extreme level of anti-Semitism. Holocaust was the mass murder of six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War II. Hitler believes that the Aryan race is superior, and he wants to exterminate the Jews to create his perfect society. The Jews are forced out into their homes and they are transferred to death camps. The Jews are forced to do hard labor, starve to death
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that they used to kill babies while shooting them after they tossed them into the air, there was people getting shot, and also burned alive. And as sad as it sounds there is similar things occur throughout these days. Whose major blame goes to is Adolf Hitler,
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“Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance...” (Tupac Shakur) In Zusak's book, The Book Thief, takes place during the Holocaust and focuses on a group of characters who are very different but live through many of the same situations with different views of each dilemma that the characters face including a hidden jew, true love, and leaving. Zusak's
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JEmma Goldman: The Most Dangerous Anarchist in America Emma Goldman, known as the most dangerous anarchist in America, committed her life on absolute freedom. The definition of absolute freedom in the mind of Goldman is the freedom of expression, freedom of free love, equality and independence for women, and worker’s rights. Although Goldman took many risks to fight for these freedoms; however, at the end she was left with disappointments, still she never gave up. Goldman believes in the liberty
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The book ¨Night¨ by Elie Wiesel is a nonfiction essay about his own personal life during the Holocaust and death march, which he both lived and survived through until his liberation. When the Germans first invaded Romania in 1940 Elie and his Family of his mother, father,and 3 sisters)were living there during that time period. The Germans would go on to persecute and dehumanize the Jewish people along with other groups such as Homosexuals,Gypsies,and the Jehovah’s witnesses. The Germans´ first thing
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The Black Death There are many things that we overlooked as kids when studying the Black Death, and one of them is how religion, economics, and labor made the disease effect even more twisted by showing a horror side to human nature. The Black Death was a disease that killed majority of the citizens in Europe, and originally travelled there by a parasite riding on the backs of rats from Asia on sea merchant ships. The people of that time had different theories of how it came to Europe, however,
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In the novel Adolf Hitler used words to captivate people and continue to deceive and rule the country. as Markus writes “There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone
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