The Holocaust was one of the most traumatic and horrific events of the 20th Century. It played a very significant part of not only World War II (WWII) but of Germany and Europe’s history. WWII lasted from 1939-1945. Throughout this time many innocent European people were killed because of their Jewish religion or their ancestor’s Jewish religion or culture. In the years of WWII, Germany was under Adolf Hitler’s total rule. Hitler and his Nazi party planned to kill all nine million European Jews.
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dehumanization is inevitable, in fact it is central to the idea of war itself. The German Nazi government in power during World War II thought of Jews in this way, leading to the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust in various concentration camps. Elie Wiesel’s experience as a Holocaust survivor is documented in his memoir, Night. The theme of dehumanization of war in Night shifts from the way the Nazis treat prisoners like Elie to the they treat each other and themselves. The beginning of the
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me cold chills while reading it. I never knew how hard and emotional it was to live through the Holocaust until I read this book. Elie Wiesel was a young fifteen year old boy who was apart of a jewish family. Born in a small town called Sighet in Transylvania. Wiesel and his family was invaded by Hitlers troops, Wiesel then learns he has to grow up quick and smart to survive living through the Holocaust. Everything all started when Wiesel started studying the cabbala an ancient jewish tradition with
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After reading your novel, I understand the struggles and challenges that you and all of the Jews went through. You really helped me understand your experience through the holocaust. There was obviously a reason you wrote the novel I feel like it was to betray the theme of survival. For example like you said in the novel, you nearly starved and froze to death. Hitler worked all of the Jews to death and then they supplied you with very little bread, water and soup and sometimes not any at all. If they
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stepping up against the idea • Testimony was consistent—gives it weight and truth • Career destruction – thought that if they refused to kill Jews that it would destroy there business/careers • Holocaust: The ignored Reality- Timothy Snyder • What is wrong with making (A) the iconic Holocaust experience? o It was the western most camp o Eastern killings are much unknown o Should view as one mass murder o Most Jews were polish Jews that were killed o Jews killed at (A) were not representative
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whoever has power will have a higher social status. Adolf Hitler had used Darwinism so it could be applied to the Germans. He believed that his people (the nazi’s) were superior and that his race thrived, which he had millions of men, women, and children exterminated in an act of genocide. Hitler had also used eugenics against the Germans. Eugenics was what wiped away all the Germans that were not fitting in with Hitler’s expectations. The main solution for eugenicists was the rapid expansion
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How would you feel, if you got treated like an animal? In the book, Night by Elie Wiesel was a young Jewish boy name Elie Wiesel and his family who get forced into camps during the holocaust. Ellie explains the horror that him, his family and other jews went through during this time. The theme of Night is when people get treated like an animal, they lose their identity. How would you feel if you could feel any pain? When the kapos were beating Elias, he could feel the pain. “The kapos were beating
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The Holocaust was the extermination of the Jews and other people whom Hitler considered inferior. It took place from 1933 to 1945. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany led this effort. About 12 million people were murdered, half of them being Jews. When Hitler took over control of Germany, everything changed. Hitler had a very strong prejudice against the Jews. He wanted to create the perfect race of blonde haired blue eyed Germans. His followers, who were the soldiers in the camps, were called
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result of his experiences during the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel changes from a religious, sensitive little boy to a spiritually dead, unemotional man. His statements and actions throughout his memoir show the change in his character. His beliefs change from everything he sees, and hears through his long and horrid experience. For example “A lorry drew up at the pit and delivered its load-little children. Babies! Yes, I saw it with my own eyes… those little children in the flames.” What causes him to lose
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killing was a lot less harsh than many of the other ways the Nazis murdered the Jews and other disabled Germans, in the end, the victim dies, so technically, there is no difference. Both is murder. The victim group most feared by society during the Holocaust was the Disabled Germans, this fear was propelled by the Nazis use of propaganda, sterilization, and ultimately mass murder (euthanasia). Disabled Germans
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