...II, however the common belief of fault resides on the implementation of Adolf Hitler. Hitler was possessed by a passionate set of ideals to expand Germany, and with his election as German chancellor in January 1933, marked the start of an accelerating progression towards world war. Under the dominion of Hitlers ambitions, Germany invaded western Poland as a result of the intransigence between both countries. World War II ravaged civilians more severely than any previous conflict, and served as the justification for genocidal killings by Nazi Germany, under the order of Hitler. To fully understand how Hitler attained the support of a nation to agree with his ideology, one must know the conditions before the wake of World War II, and how Hitler instilled influential ideas of national pride. In this essay, I intend on showing why it is important to understand a certain aspect of World War II. I will first focus on establishing the importance of knowing what events led Germany into the circumstances it was in prior to World War II. Accordingly, I will then analyze Hitlers ideology, and why it is vital to understand his point of view. That being the case, I will then narrow the focus on the genocidal killing of Jews by Hitler, and emphasize the importance of understanding why this was happening. From there I will probe through the writings of Hitler in his work of Mein Kampf, and discuss how knowing...
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...The Holocaust was probably one of the most devastating human death events to ever occur. The term Holocaust actually is the root of the word “holokauston” which in term means “sacrifice by fire.” This was the perfect term seeing how Jews were tormented. Plenty of Jews also used the word Shoah when describing the Holocaust since it is defined as devastation, ruin, or waste.” (Holocaust Facts) It all started when Adolf Hitler was put as the ruler of Germany after World War I. He had the right chance to claim power for Germany because everyone was devastated because of World War I. The Treaty of Versailles destroyed Germany’s economy, industries, facilities, and almost all their land was lost. Adolf Hitler came in and raised the people’s confidence in saying they can do anything they can. Once he did this, people started supporting him. With the power of the people and the government on his side, Hitler associated the Enabling Act. It was officially called the Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich. If passed, it would be the end of democracy in Germany and make Adolf Hitler the dictator of Germany. (Holocaust Facts) With Hitler as the new ruler of Germany he started his so called attempt of a “Perfect Race.” On April 1, 1933, the Nazis started their first action against German Jews by making a boycott of all Jewish-run businesses. (United States Memorial Holocaust and Genocide Studies) At this time, The Nuremberg Trials were being held. These trials were held...
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...Corruption of Pigs, Leaders and Modern Day Life Corruption is a provoking issue for many societies around the world, impacting multiple generations and at various degrees. Corruption is defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as, ‘dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people’. It is displayed by Hitler in the Holocaust, George Orwell’s book Animal Farm, and even in our modern day. George Orwell conveys a powerful message that applies to all three situations, supporting Orwell’s compelling message. Orwell’s political message about corruption of the government and leaders abuse of power is depicted in the way Hitler led Germany, the current U.S. government and George Orwell’s portrayal of the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm. There are many examples of people taking advantage of power in our country today. In a New York Times Article titled “ "Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping", author Charlie Savage informs readers of the government’s new push for an increase in surveillance. Recently, phone companies and networks have updated their software, causing it to be additionally difficult for the government to spy on them and take the customers personal information(Savage 1). As the U.S. government continues to wiretap and collect information from large phone carriers such as AT&T and Verizon(Savage 1), it will become an extreme and impactful invasion of privacy. This push will extend the laws to companies like Gmail, Facebook and Skype(Savage 2). Savage...
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...Propaganda: Selling Social Policy How was Hitler able to use social policy and propaganda to manifest support for the National Socialist Party Hitler’s radical antisemitism? by James C HIST2** Professor: Judith S****** The name Adolf Hitler, will be forever synonymous with one of the most oppressive and destructive eras in human history. Often regarded as the worst anthropological disaster in history, World War 2 was responsible for the deaths of millions of soldiers and civilians alike who. This would mark “...the first [war] in which civilian populations became systematic, strategic targets.” (Merriman page1049) Driven by his intolerance or perhaps hatred, towards the Jewish people Hitler was able to turn a largely personal vendetta against Jews, into an issue of public policy, and ultimately one of the largest genocides ever documented[1]. How did one mans ideas, Hitler’s anti-semitism, evolve from the hurtful words of Mein Kampf to anti-Jewish laws in Nazi Germany and ultimately the biggest recorded savagery in the History of mankind? Although the blood of over 6million Jews stains his hands, Hitler was not alone in his actions; he required support. This essay examines various theories regarding the conception of Hitler’s antisemitic values and asks how Hitler was able to use social policy and propaganda to manifest support for his would be genocidal Nazi regime. Central to comprehending policy decisions made by Hitler, is an understanding of his antisemitism...
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...Recent attacks on Israel can be easily compared to how the Holocaust began. The ethnic cleansing efforts of Adolf Hitler didn’t start out as a scheme for the destruction of an entire race, but simply, yet horrifically, many spontaneous murders aimed to encourage Jewish emigration. Israel has already given a vast majority of their land to Palestine, yet no matter how much land they have given, Palestinians keep pushing for more and more land. Thus, much like Hitler starting with the want to relocate Jews, is truly an awful plan to slowly take over land which the Jewish people are indigenous to. “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” - Vladimir Lenin Hitler managed to convince the majority of a nation that Jews were to blame for Germany’s problems. Palestinian propaganda, such as maps falsely advertises the idea of Israel taking their land.This propaganda has been shared and spread so vastly that true maps are almost impossible to find. Similarly, in Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, he discusses his formula for coercion such as stirring up people’s emotions. According to one of Hitler’s main inspirations, Gustave Le Bon (an author who was considered an authority on the psychology of crowds), when people form a group, their will as an individual is surrendered to what is perceived to be the will of the group. These individuals enter into a state where...
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...Implications of this tragic historical reality have been further demonstrated in empirical studies. A study that highlights the intense power of Nazism and how it correlates to group behavior in humans, is the Milgram study. In this study, Stanley Milgram experimentally controlled participants in order to test their level of obedience. The experiment had three individuals participating in the study: the participant, the scientist, and the confederate. The actual participant was instructed to administer shock to another individual who they perceived to be another participant of the study, whenever the individual answered incorrectly. Fascinatingly, as the intensity of the administered shock increased, the participant shocking the confederate exhibited emotional discomfort for their actions. However, even though participant was aware of the harm they were directly evoking on the confederate, they...
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...Book Review Parallel Journeys Parallel Journeys, by Eleanor Ayer with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck, compares the life of two young people in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the outbreak of World War II. They were born within sixty miles of each other, but their lives took dramatically different paths. Alfons, is a boy who grew up on a farm in Germany. When Hitler came to power he became involved with the Hitler Youth. Alfons grew up on a farm but was a Nazi boy who became a commander at age sixteen. This book truly depicts Hitler's impact and influence on the youth of Germany. Alfons was brainwashed by Hitler's promises, a full pledged Nazi youth is how it is presented in the book he participated in all rallies. He started his training to become the future of Germany and eventually of the world. There he learned discipline and order. He trained to become a soldier and he learned the ways of warfare. He was taught to be a follower of anti-Semitism and was told to hate the Jewish people. He along with millions of Nazi’s believed that they were the reason for Germany's problems. As years went by, Alfons rose through the ranks of the military until the end of the war where realized what atrocities had been committed, he than took off his uniform and went on to help people. On the other side of the spectrum we have Helen Waterford a young Jewish girl who grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. She married Siegfried Wohlfarth and moved to Amsterdam because of tension brewing...
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...During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's violence, they did fall subject to persecution along with their parents. Jewish children were first exposed to persecution in school. Many of their friends who were not Jewish began not socializing with them and even began to treat them in prejudice ways. This was soon followed with the announcement that, "German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). The life of children had quickly become as torn apart as their parents. However, there were more efforts to help the children escape the grips of the Nazi rule. Before 1939, several thousand children were able to escape in "Kindertransports to the Netherlands, Great Britain, Palestine, and the United States (www.mtsu.edu/.baustin/children.html). Those who were not able to escape were placed in ghettos and transit camps. These ghettos and transit camps served as the foreground to the death and slave labor camps that would soon follow. It was written in a Jewish diary, A Jewish ghetto in the traditional sense is impossible; certainly a closed ghetto is...
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...because the director said that words just would not do it justice. People sometimes do end up getting lost in what is going on because they are listening to what is being said. There is no need to have them talking because it’s really self-explanatory and speaks by what is being shown. I learned that these kids were being taken and killed by the loads. It’s sad to think of these kids as alone and being murdered, but this one man that went with them, who didn’t have to, died with them. Very touching and it’s something new that I learned about and decisions that some of the people probably made on a regular basis during the Holocaust. The next film, Imaginary Witness basically just depicted the Holocaust through films. It tells us that compared to how the survivors of the Holocaust actually were. For instance, I learned that after the Holocaust, some of the survivors, became mute. Didn’t say anything...
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...Roosevelt met in late 1944, they disagreed with the idea of notifying the world about the project, and decided "enquiries should be made regarding the activities of Professor Bohr and steps taken to ensure that he is responsible for no leakage of information, particularly to the Russians" (The Conferences at Quebec). It makes sense for the directors of the Manhattan Project to be cautious of who learns of the project for it could cause other nation’s desire to build an atomic bomb which could lead to a world tragedy if they were to succeed. Others many believe that foreign scientists should not have had part in the Manhattan Project because they were susceptible to exposing the project’s plans to the world. Most Jewish scientists fled from Hitler and took refuge in America where many of them worked on the Manhattan Project. News of Germany’s discovery of fission caused foreign scientists to warn President Roosevelt of the situation which caused America to begin the Manhattan Project which, with the help of foreign scientists, resulted in the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. Ultimately, the discovery...
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...(236). By directly establishing his audience, Wallace's piece becomes controversial. The reason for this is because his audience consists of well informed food critics, not animal activists. Since the essence of his essay addresses the morality of killing the lobster, it is apparent he is targeting the wrong audience. By choosing this direction of writing, readers most likely become lost or disinterested. The majority of the readers want to hear about the MLF as seen in some of the critiques he was given, “I did not find Wallace's article on the Maine Lobster Festival the least bit hilarious or informative about the festival...please find writers who enjoy their job, their travels, other travels, and food” (Gourmet 60). This critique shows how many subscribers felt upset when reading “Consider the Lobster”. This response also weakens the authority and credibility of Wallace because the critique claims he does not know enough about the MLF. Other responses were documented as well that contrastly supported Wallace’s article, “Wow! ‘Consider the Lobster’ is one of the most entertaining, well-written, and honest articles I’ve encountered in the past decade”(Gourmet...
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...The holocaust happened between 1933 to 1945, this event was lead by Hitler and killed many jews. 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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...These are the Law against overcrowding in schools and universities and the altogether expulsion of Jewish students. These laws are like a timeline they show the escalation of the laws in Germany and how they got worse over time. The first law limits the amount of Jewish students allowed in a public school which was a huge problem considering that many Jewish students didn't have another school to go to after they were kicked out. This caused many Jewish boys and girls to not get the education they needed. The second law was passed said that no Jewish children could attend school which was an even bigger problem. Now no Jewish boys or girls could get the education they needed even at a private...
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...One of the greatest historical novels to be written in the 20th century, Schindler’s List is a true masterpiece written by Thomas Keneally several years after World War II. The book is set during World War II when Germany was under the reign of Adolf Hitler. Keneally, an Australian based writer was inspired to write the book by Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor. Published in the year 1982, the book is a remarkable piece of literature that has won many awards including the Booker Prize in 1982. Keneally began his writing career as a writer who wrote ordinary books until he met Poldek Pfefferberg, the man who encouraged him to write Schindler’s List. Pfefferberg met Keneally in one of his stores and requested him to write the book, to raise awareness relating to the Holocaust system and the misery of thousands of Jews under the Nazis. At the same time, Keneally wanted the world to know about the good deeds of one man over evil. It was later made into a film in 1992, which won many academy awards as well. Schindler’s List tells the tale of a remarkable German businessman, Oskar Schindler, who with his wealth and manipulating abilities helps save the lives of thousands of Jews from being terminated by the Nazis. Keneally takes us back to 1939 when Germany invaded Poland and occupied its territory. Their extreme hatred towards the Jews forms one of the themes of this book. The Nazi soldiers were ordered to round up the Jewish families, separate the men and the...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ‘ONCE’ – Morris Gleitzman ------------------------------------------------- Practice essay topic; Hope is critical when dealing with extraordinary circumstances. Discuss in relation to ‘Once’. Plan: STEP 1: Rewrite the topic in your own words _faith is important when dealing with amazing circumstances. Discuss in relation to ‘once’ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ STEP 2: Identify the three key words/ideas and compile a list of synonyms for them Hope faith _________: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Critical important _________: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Extraordinary amazing _________: ____________________________________________________________________________________ STEP 3: Find the specifics Quote Quote Quote Quote Topic sentence – Main idea Topic sentence – Main idea THE TASK You are required to respond to the essay topic in an extended text response essay of five paragraphs. (An introduction, 3 TEEL paragraphs and a conclusion) WRITING AN INTRODUCTION In your opening statement/s you must do two things: 1...
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