...“All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded and devoured by a black flame” (Wisel). The Holocaust was a very traumatic and scary event for many people. Hitler and his idea of the Aryan race drove his acts of violence throughout the Holocaust. It was mass killing motivated through racism towards mostly Jews. Not only were Jews targeted, over 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust. The Holocaust left an impact on many people around the world. Besides Adolf Hitler, German citizens and SS officers were the most responsible for the Holocaust because the German citizens watched their neighbors get killed and did not do anything. The SS officers should be held responsible for their violence and coming up...
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...elder were sent to die. Living in concentration camps, not knowing when their last day will be. The Jews have lost their lives in the most cruel ways possible. Dying of disease, being shot, hangings, and sending them to burn in chambers. What if the Germans weren’t aware of what was going on? They were completely clueless of what was happening. The Germans were not responsible for the Holocaust. Before the ending of WWII, The Germans took a survey regarding their knowledge of the Holocaust. They surveyed throughout Cologne, Dresden, and Berlin. 9.85% of the Germans knew about the Holocaust, which is 255 people. 85.12% Germans didn’t know about the Holocaust, 2,289 people had no idea what was happening to the Jews. Should the ones who didn’t know be the ones to blame? The one’s to blame are the ones who knew about the Holocaust. Why didn’t the Germans stand up for the Jews? They knew about it, so why didn’t they say anything? The Germans had great fear of Hitler. They feared o stand up for the Jews. They risked their life if they were to do so. You can’t blame all the Germans for the Holocaust. You should blame the one’s who knew about the torture the Jews had gone through. They’re the one’s who should’ve spoken up. If they were to stand up in the beginning, it would have never happened. There wouldn’t have been a Holocaust. The Jews would’ve lived a peaceful life. No harm to the Jews would’ve never happened. 6 million Jews wouldn’t have died. No Jews...
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...“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy,” said Simon Wiesenthal. “After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together – many of them only because they helped Jews.” Mr. Wiesenthal was just one of the survivors from the brutal Holocaust who will forever remember the worst time of his life. How he was torn away from his family and was used as a slave for the Nazis. Yet he was still able to have sympathy and think about others. The Holocaust had a significant impact on America by giving lessons about genocides and preventing other genocides, how they punished war criminals after the...
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...The Holocaust was a very tragic event that happened during the 1900’s, that unfortunately murdered many innocent people. Although Adolf Hitler caused the Holocaust to become more tragic, Nazi soldiers and the German army murdered the people and put them into concentration camps. In these concentration camps people would get separated from their family and looked and lived in horrible conditions. In addition, other countries also affected the Holocaust because they did not allow innocent people into their country and instead watched them get brutalized and murdered. The other countries could have saved lives and prevented these tragedies from happening if they would have tried to help the victims that got targeted. Beside Adolf Hitler, Nazi soldiers, and the German army who persecuted and murdered innocent Jews, and other countries were most...
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...therefore, some responsibility over the Jewish Holocaust. It may have been that without the participation of ordinary citizens, there never would have been a holocaust and Germany’s history would have been forever changed. However, without the dedication and ideologies of the Nazi Party, the holocaust may have never been invented. And without the Allies ‘by-stander’ position, the holocaust may have never been so successful in their mass murder. ORDINARY PEOPLE: When the ordinary citizens of Germany cast their votes to elect Hitler the Chancellor of Germany they were unknowingly signing the death sentence of between five to six million...
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...The Holocaust was a mad murder of Jews under the German Nazi rule during 1933-45. The Bangladesh genocide was the deliberate and systematic destruction, in a whole or in a part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different. The Holocaust and Bangladesh genocide are similar and different in three different ways; lives lost, ethnic identities, and the effect it had after. The Holocaust started on January 30th, 1933 and ended May 8th, 1945. The Nazi were the ones responsible for this tragedy. The victims of these concentration camps were, Jews, slaves, ethnic poles of color, disabled or mentally ill, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and Spanish republicans. Anyone who was...
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...Who Is Responsible For The Holocaust All over 22 countries, approximately 5,962,129 Jewish people were murdered during the Holocaust.The Holocaust was a death massacre of the Jewish race and many other humanly races. It was Hitler’s idea to create a “perfect race” of people. Concentration camps and the ghettos were created to keep the prisoners sanctioned in and to work. Crematoriums were big pits of fire where prisoners were burned. Throughout the entire Holocaust, the three groups of people most responsible for the cause are the top SS soldiers, the minor SS soldiers, and lastly Hitler. Top SS soldiers inflicted many harsh punishments along with giving out the orders to minor SS to carry out more orders and discipline. An example of a top SS was Heinrich Himmler. He established the concentration camp for Third Reich and was the head of Germany’s extermination camps. Himmler gave out most of the orders to the rest of SS. He was the one who carried out the order from Hitler to kill the range of 6 million Jews. Himmler was brilliant on the setting up of the concentration camps and how they would work. He believed too in the “purity” of the German race....
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...Shannon Trubatch Imaginary Worlds Assignment 2 ENG201 Behind the Lens: Photographs of the Holocaust Religion has been found to be, time and time again, a factor that influences the actions taken by many, both kind and cruel, across the globe and throughout history. My mother is a Christian, and I grew up in a household celebrating Christian holidays and attending church on Sundays. My father, however, was raised in Long Island in a Jewish home, where he celebrated Hanukah, had a bar mitzvah, and went to temple. As I grew up, I would learn of the history of the world, but nothing would strike me more than the events of the Holocaust. As I continued to learn and grow older, I would begin to understand the atrocities that took place during this time, half a world a way, and the images and films that I saw in regards to the Holocaust would haunt me most of all. A photo essay, compiled by the English department at the University of Illinois, contains a number of photographs from the Holocaust that demonstrates the atrocities that occurred during this time. These photographs support the argument developed by Susan Sontag that photographers must make the decision between a photograph and a life, and that the viewers of these images also have a responsibility to actions of atrocity and human suffering. In Susan Sontag’s book On Photography, she develops the argument that photography is an act of nonintervention; that the photographer is faced with the choice between capturing...
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...Japanese and Holocaust camps were very active during the mid 1900's, causing a vigorous movement between each group. The camps tended to be unfair, and were created due to dictatorship by one persep or group. The Holocaust and Japanese internment camps were major events in the mid 1900's that moved thousands of people to different locations, that people never thought would be relevant in their lives. The Holocaust work camps were harsh labor camps that were spread across Europe. Each camp was planned out by the Nazi soldiers. The Japanese relocation camps were located along the Pacific Coast. The Japanese were sent to a location ordered by the government...
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...Chemical Senses Eric Gunderson PSY/345 - Sensation and Perception June 27, 2016 Matthew Will Chemical Senses The five senses of human experience are well known to most everyone: we can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. However, the science behind them is not as well known. The first three (sight, audibility, and touch) are senses in which external stimuli are perceived by a person through the by-product (i.e. reflection of light, pressure changes in air, pressure/stretching/vibration) of an environmental object. The latter two, taste and smell, are senses in which external stimuli have to physically enter into a person in order for him or her to experience the sensation. The sensations themselves are activated by chemical reactions from the external stimuli as opposed to light and pressure changes that the other senses employ. The chemical sensations smell and taste are interactively working together. The purpose of this paper is to describe in detail just this. The first thing that will be discussed is how smell and taste affect each other and which one of the two one would change to make a meal taste better, followed by a description of the sensory elements that must be present to emphasize the connection between the chemical senses, emotional memories, and the brain in order to make the most memorable meal of one’s life, and concluded by a description of the connection created between the chemical senses, emotional memories, and the brain. How Smell and Taste...
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...The Holocaust was one of the worst wars in history. The Nazis believed that Jews were causing harm to Germany and the only way to stop them was to exterminate all of them. By the end of the war, about six million Jews had been murdered. The terrible events of the Holocaust was the work of many people, but three men stand out. Adolf Eichmann, Josef Goebbels, and Adolf Hitler were some of the most evil leaders in the Holocaust. Adolf Eichmann was an extremely dishonorable leader in the Holocaust. Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the prosecution and murder of millions of Jews. Eichmann was also in Germany’s SS or security service.(“Adolf Eichmann”). Adolf Eichmann saw over the killing in concentration camps. He killed four million Jews and lots of other innocent people too. In the Holocaust, Adolf Eichmann “Murdered ⅓ of all European Jews.” (“Adolf Eichmann”). He was an mass murder in the Holocaust. Adolf Eichmann was a tremendously evil leader and murderer. In the Holocaust, Joseph Goebbels was also one of the most immoral leaders, but he was a propaganda mastermind too. In the Holocaust, “Hitler appointed Goebbels to be the chief of propaganda.” (“Joseph Goebbels”). Joseph Goebbels job for the Nazi party was to make Germany think that “Hitler was a brilliant and...
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...The Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis were responsible for the innocent people who had died during this tragic time. The Nazis set up giant prisons called concentration camps, where prisoners were starved, tortured, and worked to death. Approximately nine million Jews lived in the twenty-one countries. It is impossible to know the real amount of people who died, but six million is a estimate. The Jews were not a threat, they were people who lived in a society where they were alone, hurt, and died brutally in the Holocaust, for no reason....
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...Rainer’s experience impacted me the most out of all the individuals who spoke simply because he made the effort to travel to Auschwitz specifically to visit the land where his father grew up. Not only did he despise his grandfather, Rudolf he also spoke out against his father and his father’s siblings for living directly on the site where millions were murdered, yet no one spoke out against the atrocities that took place there. As Rainer spoke in front of a large crowd of school kids at Auschwitz, I could not believe the level of remorse he felt for what his grandfather did. Furthermore, one of the students asked him, “Do you feel guilty for what your family did?” and he replied “Yes”. Soon thereafter, he was asked, “If you could meet your grandfather, what would you do now”? Rainer...
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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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...Religious background of Holocaust 1. Introduction Anyone who bothers to investigate in any depth the Holocaust, and its many involved attendant subjects, inevitably encounters intellectual and emotional difficulties not usually met in other fields under examination. When studying the Holocaust, it is extremely difficult to maintain the same level of professional distance and objectivity that one practices with other subjects. Obviously, the magnitude of the destruction and suffering, the millions of lost lives and their untold stories, their unfulfilled hopes and dreams can be overwhelming. Furthermore, thoughtful and honest investigators will occasionally find that they have encountered an area of the Holocaust wherein are found agonizing personal ramifications. That is to say, the scholar is studying an event or a complex of issues that share key components of one’s personal background, beliefs, and values. It is highly unlikely that the scholar will be able to maintain absolute objectivity, feeling completely uninvolved in what is being examined. Instead, the person will most likely be compelled to ask some rather pointed personal questions, or probe into realms in which the investigator has close personal ties. When this occurs, it can be very distressing and painful. 2. A short insight on the background of Jews in Poland, Germany and Russia Several Polish noblemen of the middle ages showed special favour to Jews who immigrated because of persecution in Germany...
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