...Penn State HIST 121 Term Paper 23 April 2014 Children of the Holocaust This research essay is about the devastating and gruesome incidents pertaining to the children of the holocaust. This essay will cover the unbelievable lives these children had to live and the horrible pain they had to undergo threw this war of extermination. They suffered losses of family, friends, and many became orphaned or homeless. The holocaust took the lives of about 6 million Jewish men, women, and children. There were about 1.6 million Jewish children consisting from infants to teens living in Europe around the start of World War 2. Only about 11 percent of this range of children made it through the war. A lot of the parents chose to hide their children so they would have a better chance of surviving. The Jewish children were extremely discriminated against and were terribly affected by the Holocaust. Jewish children, along with their families, experienced persecution of revocation of citizenship, reduction of food ration, confiscations, deprivation of schooling and restricted access to public institutions. Many people could not figure out why the Jewish children were hated, or why they had to be prisoners. These children were left homeless and many orphaned. They had seen the Nazis murder their parents, siblings, relatives, and close friends. They had to endure starvation, sickness, and awful labor and other brutal acts until they were sent to gas chambers at the camps. Hiding a child...
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...Josef Mengele the Angel of Death. Who is the Angel of Death? Josef Mengele, was once a normal human but soon became the Angel of Death. While the Holocaust was happening, a tragic moment between the Nazi's and Jews, a Man so cruel yet insecure was put to these insane tasks. It was not a choice, its life or death situation. How did the nickname "Angel of Death" came about? The way he earned his nickname "Angel of Death" or also know as "White Angel", was being assigned to a terrible task. The way things would work is that when Jews or Romans (Gypsy's) have a baby his job was to kill the poor baby on the spot. Josef was Head Chief as a Physician in Germany. Another words, he would kill inmates slowly by ending their pain from suffering...
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...making this decision was, frequently, Josef Mengele, one of the doctors assigned to Auschwitz. It is now apparent that he must have started young and tortured animals when he was much younger in age. During WWII, the holocaust heavily impacted millions of lives, especially the people who were brutally experimented on by Dr. Joseph Mengele, who was not a simple human being. Many died and those who survived lived their painful lives with severe medical problems. The Angel of Death was created when he went to the University of Frankfurt to study medicine and then went to the army. Both of which were an extremely important part in his sadistic experiments hence the medical background and the love for “Nazism. After the war, Mengele was so scared of all the bad things he had done as well as his experiments that he fled Germany after they lost?? What Joseph Mengele did at Auschwitz, left his victims scarred both physically and mentally. Dr. Joseph Mengele was brought to this earth by Karl and Walburga Mengele in the Bavarian village of Gunzburg. He was the oldest of three children and was followed by his two younger brothers. From all accounts Karl Mengele was a harsh and distant man, one whose main concern in life was the pursuit of his fortune. Karl had a factory that manufactured and made farm tools and equipment. He was never at home since he was too busy at work so Walburga Mengele ruled this household as a dictatorship. This caused Josef to be close to being a complete...
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...where she met and married my father. but once she became pregnant she returned to Germany. My Opa passed away two days before I was born and even though I never got to meet him, I am proud to be his granddaughter. When I was approximately six weeks old my mother flew back to the states and reunited with my father. I was raised in the swampy state of Louisiana until my 14th birthday. My present was a one-way ticket to Neufarhn, Germany where I was to meet and live with my Oma. It was over the next 3.5 years that I had the privilege of getting to know my Oma, the woman that continues to inspire me to this day. A few days after my arrival, my Oma showed me a photo that she had taken during WWII. In the photo was Adolf Hitler, Dr. Josef Mengele and various Nazi Generals, laughing and smiling while eating dinner in our family restaurant, which is still in business. They were seated at a large round table with a miniature christmas tree as the centerpiece. She tells me that, unbeknownst to the Nazi’s, there was a Jewish family hiding beneath them, in the basement. Tears fell down her face as she spoke about how terrified she was of being caught as she would sneak them food and water. Listening to her stories of war, poverty, and struggle, I didn’t realize I was crying until I felt her arms embrace me and squeeze...
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...prisoners also resulted in death. Dr. Mengele, the man who had done taboo medical experiments on prisoners. This is the life of Josef Mengele from his life as a young individual, to becoming a very well known “doctor”, to becoming a wanted victim. This is the Angel of Death. Born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg , Josef Mengele was the oldest son of Karl Mengele. He lived in an upper middle class family which ran a machine tool business. His family was described as a “Strict Catholic” family. His peers in the town he lived in would describe Mengele as an intelligent and popular person. “A young person with intelligence but more or less ordinary” were the words of description from a close relative. From a very young age Josef Mengele was interested in the racial theories of Alfred Rosenberp, a philosopher of National Socialism. In 1935 Mengele graduated from the University of Munich with a Ph. D in physical anthropology. After graduating he got into believing racism towards Jews. Two years later he became an assistant of Dr. Omar Von Verschuer who was most and commonly known for researching twins. He then served as a medical officer in the beginning of World War II with the invasion of the Soviet Union, he redeemed four medals for his actions. That same year he joined the Nazi Party. Mengele was then transferred to Auschwitz in which he was most closely with selection duty than any other medical officer in Auschwitz. When Josef Mengele became a medical officer in Auschwitz he...
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...Auschwitz was created in May 1940 on the site of a deserted Polish army barracks. The first transport of Polish political prisoners arrived by railroad on June 14, 1940 (BBC, 2013). All three camps, Auschwitz I, II, and III had different methods. However, their purpose was the same and that was to kill as many as possible. Auschwitz I, was the first and main camp. It was constructed to incarcerate real and perceived enemies of the Nazi regime. It was also constructed to have an available supply of forced laborers and to physically eliminate targeted groups of the population. Auschwitz I was a death camp that had a gas chamber and crematorium (Museum, 2013). Medical experiments were also carried out in the hospital by SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele. There was the “Black Wall” where SS guards executed thousands of prisoners. The shooting of women and children here began to cause troops psychological damage. As a result a larger permanent gas chamber was constructed to make the killings more systematic and impersonal. A Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber. A sign painted in Hebrew said “This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through” was placed on a curtain covering the chamber’s entrance (BBC, Auschwitz- facts: BBC, 2013). The main camp’s population grew from 18,000 in December 1942 to 30,000 in March 1943 (Organization, 2013). The Auschwitz concentration camp was the largest complex made up of three main camps (Museum, 2013). It was...
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...visual stimulation, many times it takes a keen eye to delve further into the reason the movie was made in the first place. This supposition can be pulled into play in the case of The Human Centipede, a graphic independent horror film written by Dutch filmmaker Tom Six. Despite the general presumption that the movie was produced for shock value and shock value alone, a deeper look into setting, themes, and casting reveals a film that holds much greater social value than recognized by most. The movie begins chronicling the ventures of two American women, visiting the country of Germany. After their car breaks down in the middle of a virtually uninhabited forest (typical), the women end up finding their way to the isolated house of Dr. Josef Heiter, who ultimately sedates and binds the women. Around the same time, Heiter captures a Japanese man, and holds him captive with the women in his basement. While at this point it is...
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...In the movie “Crimson Tide” the two main characters, the Executive Officer and the Captain, both possess ignorance on what should be the right thing to do for SS Alabama. The captain possesses invincible ignorance and the executive officer possesses vincible ignorance which afterwards shifted to invincible ignorance. The captain’s duty as the chief of SS Alabama is to carry out whatever mission given to him by the command post. He should carry out his mission at all cost even if he needs to make his subordinate undergo very strict measures. As the chief of SS Alabama, everyone depends on him that he shouldn’t perform mistakes in delivering protocols for if he committed a mistake he might risk the lives of the crew of the submarine. Because of this, the captain becomes ignorant of what is the proper thing to do. He has always remained true to his duty as the chief of the submarine which blinded him of the truth. His ignorance is invincible because his doings are based on his responsibility as the captain. He need to execute every protocol to him because it is his duty to do so, it will be hard for him to dispel this because there are lives that would be risked if he failed to accomplish his duty. He also need to response quickly on protocols for the sake of Alabama, he is not aware that he needed enlightenment. On the other hand Executive Officer possesses vincible ignorance. His duty was to repeat the duty of the captain in order to concur the protocols. At the movie he seemed...
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...Josef Mengele University of Phoenix Abstract: An overview of Josef Mengele, a man who became known as the “Angel of Death” for what he did to prisoners in the Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Germany during WWII in his quest to create a superior race of people for his superior; Adolf Hitler. Included is also how Mengele mistreated the Hippocratic Oath for preventing harm to people and ways in which he did mistreat his power and how he escaped imprisonment before the war ended and where he continued performing experiments even after he eluded capture and found refuge in Brazil until his death in 1975. Josef Mengele Although he was not part of the Nuremberg Trials, this man was responsible for everything preceding the trials. He developed the experiments that would become known as the crimes against humanity in which the Nuremberg Trials were started. This man was nicknamed the “Angel of Death” because of the cruel and bizarre experiments he did on humans in concentration camps during the reign of Hitler in Germany. The real name for this “Angel of Death” was Josef Mengele. He was responsible for performing experiments on people in the Auschwitz concentration camp and other camps in which he had access. Mengele would then report his findings back to Hitler and continue his work without remorse. It was as though Mengele enjoyed destroying life and by the time the Nuremberg trials started, Mengele had fled the country and continued his brutal experiments. He...
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...burundanga. They’re sure to tell you some horror story about the drug. They’ll tell stories of victims who willingly handed over their wallets and PINs, or visit the bank with their captors and withdraw huge amounts of cash. They also take the thieves to their home and casually help them load all their possessions into a truck. Sound scary? That’s because it’s supposed to. The borrachero is real and dangerous. The active substance is scopolamine and is extracted from the Bugmansia plant, also known as Angel’s Trumpet, which grows wild throughout the Andes. The stories about criminals chemically making people compliant are an urban myth. There’s plenty of mystery surrounding scopolamine and it’s ability to create submission. Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, known as the “Angel of Death”, supposedly experimented with the drug as an questioning aid. The CIA had a similar idea and investigated it as a truth serum, but it was unsuccessful. It’s mentioned in a number of Hollywood movies, including “Where Eagles Dare”, “The Guns of Navarone” and “Robocop 2”. So it’s not surprising that scopolamine pops up in the international press every once in a while. There are stories of politicians forced into smuggling suitcases of cocaine; men who handed over all their money to prostitutes; or the jeweler who gave away all his stock because of a scopolamine-laced business card. They’re the kind of stories you’d definitely pass on to other travelers to warn someone about the dangers of people who...
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...Ethical Scrapbook Part 1 Johnathan Hendricks CJS/211 October 19th, 2015 Leesa A. McNeil Ethical Scrapbook Part 1 Good Samaritan Acts- Oprah Winfrey The bulk of Winfrey’s giving has gone to educational causes, including charter schools, programs that support African-American students, and the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. According to Forbes, Winfrey had given away approximately $400 million to educational causes by 2012, including nearly 400 scholarships to Morehouse College, and more than $40 million in operating support for the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa. She’s also given at least $10 million to A Better Chance. Its mission is to improve access to quality education for students of color, and has given $1 million or more to at least nine different charter school organizations in a number of different areas throughout the country (insidephilanthropy.com, 2015). Princess Diana Diana’s interests were reflected in the organizations of which she was Patron or President. These included the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London and the Royal Marsden Hospital, which specializes in the treatment of cancer. Her patronages also included Centrepoint, an organization working with the homeless, The National Aids Trust and The Leprosy Mission. The Princess's love of the arts was underlined by her involvement as Patron of the English National Ballet. During her lifetime she was at some time patron...
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...Mengele’s Experiments The Jewish Josef Mengele asked the Jewish people for doctors. About fifty moved forward. Then he asked the fifty doctors if they studied pathology and forensic medicine, but only Doctor Nyiszli moved forward. That gave Doctor Nyiszli a place as Mengele’s personal research pathologist. Mengele used Doctor Nyiszli by making him dissect the bodies of Mengele’s experimental victims, just so Mengele could learn more about the Jewish people (Deem X). Doctor Joseph Mengele did terrible things to the Jewish people, such as using one of the Jewish to conduct his experiments on the Jews and his notorious twin experiments, Doctor Mengele conducted a possible seventy different medical research projects during the Holocaust....
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...“Night” Essay. The Holocaust (also called Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to harsh persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. The Jews were the victims of Hitler’s plan to annihilate the entire Jewish population of Europe. After the holocaust one of few survivors Elie Wiesel wrote a book called “Night” which was basically about the suffering all Jews had to go through. In this book Elie uses motifs to reveal the theme that the worst suffering comes from man’s own inhumanity to man. One of the motifs Elie uses to reveal the theme was how badly the Nazi soldiers treated their fellow human. First example was when the Nazi’s arrived at first they treated the Jews politely while living in their homes and acted quite civil then the Jews started to believe they were in no danger but Little by little, the soldiers took away their freedom—the leaders of the Jewish community were arrested; the Jewish people were put under house arrest; all their valuables were confiscated; the Jews were forced to wear a yellow star; the Jewish people were forced into ghettos; the ghettos were emptied and the people deported to concentration camps. This shows how the Nazi went from being human to dehumanizing their fellow human...
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...DNA profiling (also called DNA testing, DNA typing, or genetic fingerprinting) is a technique employed by forensic scientists to assist in the identification of individuals by their respective DNA profiles. DNA profiles are encrypted sets of numbers that reflect a person's DNA makeup, which can also be used as the person's identifier. DNA profiling should not be confused with full genome sequencing.[1] It is used in, for example, parental testing and criminal investigation. Although 99.9% of human DNA sequences are the same in every person, enough of the DNA is different to distinguish one individual from another, unless they are monozygotic twins.[2] DNA profiling uses repetitive ("repeat") sequences that are highly variable,[2] called variable number tandem repeats (VNTR), particularly short tandem repeats (STR)s. VNTRs loci are very similar between closely related humans, but so variable that unrelated individuals are extremely unlikely to have the same VNTRs. The DNA profiling technique was first reported in 1984[3] by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester in England,[4] and is now the basis of several national DNA databases. Dr. Jeffreys's genetic fingerprinting was made commercially available in 1987, when a chemical company, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), started a blood-testing centre in England.[5] Contents [hide] 1 DNA profiling process 1.1 RFLP analysis 1.2 PCR analysis 1.3 STR analysis 1.4 AmpFLP ...
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...Bloodlines of Illuminati by: Fritz Springmeier, 1995 Introduction: I am pleased & honored to present this book to those in the world who love the truth. This is a book for lovers of the Truth. This is a book for those who are already familiar with my past writings. An Illuminati Grand Master once said that the world is a stage and we are all actors. Of course this was not an original thought, but it certainly is a way of describing the Illuminati view of how the world works. The people of the world are an audience to which the Illuminati entertain with propaganda. Just one of the thousands of recent examples of this type of acting done for the public was President Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union address. The speech was designed to push all of the warm fuzzy buttons of his listening audience that he could. All the green lights for acceptance were systematically pushed by the President’s speech with the help of a controlled congressional audience. The truth on the other hand doesn’t always tickle the ear and warm the ego of its listeners. The light of truth in this book will be too bright for some people who will want to return to the safe comfort of their darkness. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I deal with real facts, not theory. Some of the people I write about, I have met. Some of the people I expose are alive and very dangerous. The darkness has never liked the light. Yet, many of the secrets of the Illuminati are locked up tightly simply because secrecy is a way...
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