...Many of the ‘opposite’ side to the Nazi government were taken to concentration camps, these were spread around Germany, they had horrible conditions and caused much trauma to the families and people who were in it, these were caused by the types of activities that were happening over there. In this essay, I will be talking about Why, when, where, who and what are concentration camps, the types of activities were held and the long term impacts of the holocaust on the jewish people. Concentration camps greatly impact the jewish people, concentration camps were camps in which people were detained, usually under extremely harsh conditions, where no...
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...The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 Ray Cai Period C Mrs. Chappell 5/9/13 The Rising of a Racist Dictator-- Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler is the leader of the Nazi Party (Nazi is the abbreviation of the Germen word “Nationalsozialismus”) (Shirer Foreword). He improved Germany to a powerful country rapidly after the World War I. Also he is one of the main sponsors of the World War II. He used to lead the Germans to the peak of the power and conquest. His Nazi spirit leaded people to the top of the anti-semitism. With his Nazi Party, Hitler killed at least five million Jews, eight million Bohemians, more than two million Polacks and six million Soviet soldiers and citizens. He started the World War II and it made the death of about twenty million soldiers and twenty million women, children and seniors (Shirer Foreword). In recent study of Hitler and his holocaust against the Jews, he rose to power and spread his anti-semitism throughout Germany and Europe, with the establishment of the concentration camps and his doctrine of hate called “The Final Solution”. I found that the disaster for human beings was not only caused by Adolf Hitler, but was also caused by the everyday people in Germany. In some ways, his “success” represented the common aspiration of the German people at that time. The Treaty of Versailles attacked the finance of Germany and it...
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...Jewish people by the Nazis as he experiences the loss of his humanity by the Nazi party.Elie first experiences dehumanization when he is forced into living in the local Ghetto in his hometown of Sighet Transylvania. As he is deported from the Sighet Ghetto, the Hungarian Police pack the Jews into the cattle cars where they experience brutal conditions and many die. After their long and grueling trip to the concentration camp they are subject to more dehumanization in the form of slave labor and mass killings of their friends and relatives. Thus being a few of the may reasons why dehumanization is a terrible act that cannot be allowed Dehumanazation was a terrible...
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...Hitler did hate Jews and target them because of many reasons. In Germany, they had things that we couldn't get and we had things that they didn't. Hitler created concentration camps to get rid of Jews. In Europe, Hitler targeted Jews, changed Europe and created many death camps. Hitler seemed to hate or target Jews,why is that? Hitler target Jews because he thought that they were the reason for WW1. He thought that Jews did not belong. Hitler thought that the perfect race was the Aryan to be Aryan you would have to have blond hair, blue eyes and believe in a certain religion, the Jews did not fit into that category. He saw how people would hire the Jews more than the Aryan race because they Jews would work for lower pay for longer hours. Hitler created these camps called concentration camps or death camps where he would send Jews or Jewish sympathizers. Hitler originally had them in ghettos but he wanted them gone completely so he created the death camps. In total Hitler created about 40,000 death camps to kill Jews....
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...Holocaust consisted of the persecution and murder of over 5,860,000 Jews by the Nazis. Not only were the Jews killed during this time, but the Nazis also murdered gypsies, Serbs, polish intelligentsia, resistance fighters from all nations, German opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses, habitual criminals, and beggars. Most were captured and sent to death camps also known as concentration camps. We need to understand why the Jews were singled out for mass genocide and why people today deny that the Holocaust ever happened. It is only with complete knowledge of the past can we prevent this from ever occurring in the future. The reason that the Jews were singled out during the Holocaust is based on the Nazis belief that the goal of the Jews was world domination and that this would obstruct Aryan dominance. Also, many Nazis believed that the Jews were the killers of Christ. They claimed that the Jews were the agents of the devil, and that they practiced witchcraft. The Germans defined who was Jewish by issuing the following definition on November 14, 1935: “anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who belonged to the Jewish community on September 15, 1935; someone who was married to a Jew on September 15, 1935 or after; and children that were offspring of a marriage or extramarital liaison with a Jew on or after September 15, 1935.” At first the Nazis didn’t have an operative plan to kill the Jews, but in the early spring of 1941...
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...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 at first as a place of incarceration (HISTORY). The death rate at the camps was very high...
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...day. Corrie's father also loved and respected the Jewish. Along with her father, the author mentions Betsie, her sister. Betsie took care of their home in Haarlem, Holland. In 1940, the Nazis invaded Holland, and World War II began. Due to the Ten Boom's strong Christian beliefs, they felt obligated to help their Jewish friends in every way possible. Their home soon became the center for a major anti-Nazi operation. In order to help her friends, Corrie had to do some sinful things like lie and bribe. Corrie sacrificed her own safety.nd part of her bedroom that became a secret room that was a hiding place for the Jews to have constant safety. The author later tells us that her entire family gets arrested by the Nazis, but the hidden Jews remained safe. Corrie and Betsie were sent to various concentration camps where the conditions were cruel. In every camp, the sisters used a hidden Bible to spread the word of God. Corrie was amazed by Betsie's faith through the ungodly conditions. Corrie found it hard to look to Heaven, but Betsie showed a universal love for everyone including the Nazis. Betsie yearned to show them the love of Christ, but died before the war was over. Before Betsie died, she revealed three visions to Corrie. After Corrie was released from the concentration camp due to a clerical error, she spends the rest of her life fulfilling...
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...act of genocide that claimed the lives of many innocent people in many cruel ways. The victims’ fates were chosen by Nazi doctors through a process called selection. The Schutzstaffel (SS men) would take victims from their homes and families and put them into concentration camps where they would find out if they were to live or die. There were two main options in the concentration camps: labor or gas chamber. If the fate of the prisoner wasn’t labor or the gas chamber then they were likely shot or died because of the harsh conditions that they had to live in. That’s mainly how the victims were murdered. Another way their lives were taken was by the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units). These killing units would...
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...Simon Wiesenthal author of The Sunflower and main character reflects on his time as a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. The Sunflower depicts the inner self conflict of forgiveness. The Sunflower is very detailed placing reader alongside Simon and his journey through emotions that countless would not have thought twice about. Following the main characters, the plot and a personal response to the book will hopefully allow future readers to open their minds as well as allowing the reader to discover within themselves to ask what would you do? () The Sunflower explores the (feeling) of forgiveness. What is forgiveness? Forgiveness is a disposition or willingness to forgive. As humans, we have almost a reluctance to forgive. Allowing us to...
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... JØRGENSEN] 1 Schindler’s List The movie, by Steven Spielberg, stretches over 6 years, from 1939 to 1945, at the beginning World War II to the end of the Nazi regime. The movie follows Oskar Schindler, a Nazi made famous by saving 1.100 Jews from Auschwitz IIBirkenau. In 1939, the Nazis relocated the Polish Jews to the Krakow Ghetto, divided into two sections: A (Jews able to work) and B (Elderly and the infirm) as World War II began. Oskar Schindler comes to town in hopes that he can make money on the war, and he starts out by making many important Nazis his friends. Schindler starts up an Enamelware fabric, using Jews instead of Poles, because they are cheaper. He hires Izthak Stern, a Jewish accountant, to basically run his business, and as Stern hired the Jews, he made sure they were made Essential Workers, meaning they would be spared from concentration camps and/or death. Amon Goeth arrives in Krakow, where he will be overseeing Plazów concentration camp, a camp for the Jews of the Krakow Ghetto. Goeth orders the Krakow Ghetto section B to be exterminated and sends the section A Jews to Plazów. Schindler watches as the Nazis kills and terrorizes the Jewish Ghetto and obviously gains sympathy. Schindler befriends Goeth and talks/bribes him into letting some of the Jews work in his factory/sub-camp, this allows Schindler to both have his business run smoothly (by the help of Stern, who also helps Schindler bribe SS officials) and protect the Jews. While staying...
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...Life is Beautiful is a film that portrays the life of a Jewish-Italian waiter who ends up in a concentration camp with his family, including his son and his wife. The story is considered a comedy-drama and uses comedy to convey its rather harsh story of the Holocaust. Many critics have shot down this movie for not portraying the actual events and the darkness of the Holocaust. Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami, chose this storytelling tool to help develop a sense of deep underlying dramatic irony. They use the theories of survival that were originally developed by Viktor Frankl. His theory is founded on the belief that human nature is motivated by the search for life. Frankl defined his theory on the thought that humans can develop mental health issues and insanity without a sense of meaning in life. He developed this theory while he was in a concentration camp....
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...and Jews during World at War II? Americans’ interned Japanese-Americans into camps out of fear, distrust and discrimination. Nazis’ imprisoned Jews for just discrimination and hate. They were both locked up for just being themselves, it was being Japanese and by just being a normal Jew. World at War II can teach us a lot about discrimination and being prejudice to other minority groups, WWII can show us how some minority groups suffer through even if they’re not inside a camp and just living in a normal neighborhood. In the book Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, it shows us how quickly something evil can happen to anyone in world. After the attack on Pearl Harbor about 120,000 of Japanese and Japanese Ancestry were relocated to internment camps for just being themselves. At one point during the war, Japanese-Americans were given a choice, one choice was getting sent back to Japan and most likely die from American Soldiers or to join the American side and fight against the Japanese. In the book Farewell to Manzanar Jeanne’s oldest brother Woody decided to go to war because he thought the sooner the war ended the...
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...Everyone is guilty of dehumanizing others in some way, shape or form. In wars, 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 story highlights the way the Nazi dehumanized their prisoners. Elie had arrived with his family at Auschwitz, then he was separated from his mother and younger...
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...“In the early 20th century, the world split into three main camps: democratic nations--including Britain, France, Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the US”(Adams, 6). Conflicts arose between the camps. The conflicts led to a world war in 1939. “In 1933, Germany began to build its’ army. With that army, Hitler took over Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia”(Adams, 8). “Britain and France declared war on Germany in 1939. In 1940, Germany overpowered France and then triumphed”(Adams, 12). “Some people joined the Nazi Resistance because they were scared. Some joined because they wanted to help. Some supported the Germans’ Anti-Communist and Anti-Jewish policies because they agreed with the Nazis. Others did not cooperate, they didn’t...
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...The Holocaust: Suggested Reading There is a wealth of information about the Holocaust. So much has been written, in fact, that it can be difficult to determine where to start. This reading list is collected from recommendations from other members of The Holocaust History Project. It is not a complete bibliography but represents our opinion as to what are the most useful starting places for research. Since this list concentrates on works that are easily available and useful to a person unacquainted with the history of the Holocaust, many excellent books which are rare or out of print are not listed. Another class of books that are not included is works that are controversial because of their contents or the unusual theories they propose. Some of these are excellent works, others are not. But we feel that the reader for whom this list was compiled would not have the knowledge needed to evaluate these discussions of the legitimate controversies about the Holocaust. Just as a medical student must learn anatomy before he or she is taught surgery, someone studying the Holocaust must know the factual background before some of the more technical studies can be understood. As well as general works we have included books of specialized interest concerning the matters about which we at The Holocaust History Project are most frequently asked. Many of these books deal with more than one subject, but in the interest of brevity we have not cited a book more than once. General history of the...
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