...The Tragedies of the Trail of Tears and the Holocaust The U.S government stole millions of dollars and millions of acres of land from the native americans. Likewise, the Nazi Regime stole the same from helpless Jewish people who were forced to live in ghettos. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning. When the white settlers first came to America they encountered the Native Americans they thought they were savages, and that they were dumb and could easily steal from them. The white settlers moved the Native Americans to oklahoma and in this process they stole from them and killed their livestock. They also killed them and stole their homes while they made the Native Americans walk all the from their homes to Oklahoma. This is very similar...
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...Night Final Essay In one of the great tragedies in the history of mankind, millions of innocent people were sent to their deaths via gas chambers, overwork, disease, and starvation. While all of this is happening, the rest of the world did nothing until it was too late. How could this happen? A mixture of fear and complacency made tragedies like the Holocaust happen. People refuse to speak out against injustice, while the intended targets did little to prepare for the catastrophes. This made it easy for the oppressors to attack their targets since they knew there won’t be opposed by other people. One factor that made it possible for atrocities is other people’s fear of consequences if they did intervene. This discourages many people from even speaking out and gives the impression to the oppressors that what they’re doing is fine....
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...(“Introduction To Holocaust”). If this sounds terrible that is because it is. In this time thousands to even billions were killed or permanently tramad. In the midst of this there were thousands of kids being killed. Some of whom had no idea what was going on. One of these children was Alfred Munzer. He was born just before the Holocaust.He had no idea at the time that he would survive a great tragedy. In the process losing most of his friends and family. These events ,however, have made him one of the best role models for hope. He is living a ,well deserving, happy life. In 1935, two laws were passed. Together called Nuremberg...
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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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...During times of conflict we are tested, conflict can evoke the best and worst out of individuals based on how they react and cope with it, without conflict we can never know what we are truly capable of. Many figures throughout history have shown how conflict brings out the best and the worst in them; this is also shown in the film Paradise road which is directed by Bruce Beresford. The My Lai massacre is an example of how conflict brings out the best and the worst and people, the My Lai massacre was when a group of American soldiers couldn’t cope with the stress of Guerrilla Warfare against the Vietcong troops, and under their lieutenants command they fired upon the village of My Lai decimating all inhabitants which included women and children. This is a clear example of how conflict brought out the worst in these individuals, they war in a foreign land and the constant stress of being killed finally tore them up internally so they open fired and killed innocent civilians. Although it seems that only the worst arose from the conflict in My Lai, some of the best did come from it, an example is the brave chopper pilot Hugh Laury so put himself and his men on the line to save the civilians. Laury even went as far as ordering his men to fire on the American troops if they didn’t stop shooting at the Vietnamese village; this is a clear cut example of how the best of a person can arise from conflict, his morality didn’t waver , even in the face of the evil around and amongst him...
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... racial or religious group with the intent to destroy the entire group. Genocide was, and still is committed all around the world. Genocide was never formally named until 1944. Genocide was finally named after the terrible occurrences of the Holocaust. a man named Raphael Lemkin named it genocide from the Greek word “geno” which meant race or tribe, and the Latin word “cide” which meant killing. A few of the most wellknown genocides are the Holocaust, the genocide in Darfur, Cambodia, Rwanda and in Bosnia. These genocides have made huge impacts on the world. Many millions of innocent and guilty have been killed from these terrible crimes, and no global authority has taken any actions towards getting rid of it. The corrupt governments of the countries allow this horrific atrocity to continue happening. The global community has a responsibility to intervene in places where genocide is being committed. Like mentioned before, genocide is a word used when describing a socalled “war” in which oe group is trying to wipe out the existence of another. One of the worst and largest genocides in history is the Holocaust. One is not saying that the other genocides are not bad, but this one has by far caused the most casualties and deaths. The Holocaust was lead by Adolf Hitler who wanted to wipe out the Jewish race. and any other handicapped or undesirable race Hitler figured were not useful. He despised them and desperately wanted them off this planet. To do that, he gained many followers...
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...to take our clothes off. The housekeeper rapped me. My husband wanted to intervene but they staved him off by hitting him with a masus [a club with nails] on his neck. He fell back in the chair." the husband was not killed right away they kept him alive to watch multiple men rape his wife and daughters for several days until they finally killed him. II. Connection: I am not here to tell you my opinion about how the Untied States, the Untied Nations, or the world should have handled this historical tragedy. I am here to share with you what had happened to three-quarters of the Tutsi race in Rwanda. III. Thesis Statement: The Rwandan Genocide is one of the lesser known, quickest, and most inhumane genocides this world has ever seen and it is still affecting the people of Rwanda till this day. IV. Transition: When most people think about genocide the first thing that comes to their mind is the Holocaust, but what a lot of people don't know is that the Holocaust wasn't the worst mass murder our Earth has...
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...It seems that the times of Holocaust are already very far away from the point we are standing now, but everything is not as simple as it seems from the first sight. For many people this time will be something they will never forget, the time of struggle for an opportunity to survive. It was a time for fighting for the right to live, the time when Jews were killed just for “being Jews”, a time when a man with a “yellow star” was doomed. It took place in 1939-1945 and was introduced by Adolph Hitler, a man whose idea was to decontaminate the German race from all the minorities. Thousands of Jews were sent to concentration camps, killed or vanished. It was the time of “monopoly on violence”(Torpey, 1997) towards the Jews. This World War II period made an enormous impact on the direction that was taken by the social relations between Jews and other nations. Holocaust divided the lives of Jews into three periods: before, during and after it, which showed how hard was its hit.”…Cats have nine lives, but we - we're less than cats, we got three. The life before, the life during, the life after…"(Joselit, 1995 p.1) Jew people lost loved ones; homes, lives and it took them quiet a time to renew the curative power of their belief. The other main thing resulting from the Holocaust was the influence it had on future terrorism and the appearance of pure racism, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Holocaust the terrorists showed that the “big” goals could be achieved through any possible ways...
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...The Theme of Oppression Since the beginning of time people have been opressed through means such as slavery, prejudice as well as other injustices.The theme of oppression is a theme that has been used in writing ever since books became more popularized after the invention of the printing press. In more current times the theme of oppression is used in fiction to depict dystopian futures . Oppression is a very important theme to both read and understand.There are multiple purposes for both writing and reading about oppression. To begin with, authors write about oppression to describe some of the worst atrocities of history in order to not repeat them. One example of this is Night by Elie Wiesel where the horrors of the holocaust were brought...
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...Hitler’s Influences Imagine creating a monster. Many people have wondered what must have happened to Adolf Hitler to have made him such an awful man. Hitler was most affected by his parents, Georg von Schönerer and Karl Lueger, and Benito Mussolini of Italy. First, Hitler was affected by his parents, Alois and Klara. Hitler went into “2 years of depression and lived in a homeless shelter after blowing all the money his parents had left for him,” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2017). He experienced depression when he was rejected from an art school, which happened shortly after his mother died when he was 17. After being rejected from two different art schools, Adolf spent all his money on the glamorous life that he wished he had, but instead he ended in deeper waters than intended. He had no one to guide and love him, so he went on to meet unfortunate people that only helped build the monster. In addition, Hitler was also affected by Georg von Schönerer and Karl Lueger. These men “taught him about anti-semitism, pan-Germanism, and the basic skills and dogma to overtake the Nazi party,” (Hummel 2013). This means he learned to be prejudice against Jews, to get all Europeans to speak German, and how to overthrow the Nazi party and become the overall ruler. For example, the idea of...
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...But this President would speak to each of all peoples and their need for acknowledgment and the support by pointing out differences and the likeliness of a people who all were at war against each other. Ronald Reagan would grain respect form the German people, the Jewish people and, the American people all in one speech, in an area where he was certain to fall face first in his own words. No, but President Reagan's effect on these people and these different soldiers, would show how every one of us has been in the dark only to be lead to the light, by an unexpected person or people good or bad. There have been times where we all have done the worst just to come out better as a...
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...• Some men did not want to appear cowardly to the other men • peer pressure of not 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 victims • Jews at (A) came mostly from western Europe • More educated/less religious than Polish Jews o (A) was not as bad other camps • Gets attention because there are a lot of survivors • Educated prisoners were able to write and share their story • Western released prisoners were able to spread their stories easier than eastern survivors who were under Soviet rule o 50% of the victims did not die by gas, they died by bullet • Focusing on camps leaves out a large portion of the killings most importantly the mass shootings • Shame- Primo Levi o What (widely-held) ideas about Holocaust survival is Primo Levi trying to dispel? • The people were experienced liberation as a joyous moment- the memories of survivors become colored by the Hollywood scripts. The...
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...What happened in Poland between 1941 and 1944 was a tragedy, thousands of men, women, and children lost their lives to men following orders and ideology. While it would be impossible to speak to the motivations of all the men in Police Battalion's 101 for killing the Jews in Poland, I do not believe that their main motivation was antisemitism. The actions of these men began as a mere order of policy, expectation of others, and conditioning these men became progressively more indifferent to the lives that they ended. The war played a pivotal role in implementing these policies, and taking advantage of these men possible. The men of Police Battalion 101 had not been together for very long when they were sent to Poland. In his book Browning states “the bonds of military comradeship had not fully developed yet” (Browning, 72). This means that even though these men were...
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...Is learning about the Second World War important? WW2 started 1939 and ended 1945. It was even bigger than WW1. Around 55. Millions of people lost their life in this war. Adolf Hitler ruled the war. He was the one who started it all and made both Britain and France announce war against Germany. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust (in which approximately 11 million people were killed) and the strategic bombing of industrial and population centers (in which approximately one million were killed, and which included the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it resulted in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. These made World War II the deadliest conflict in human history. (Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II)...
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...eing a human entails being kind to all living creatures whether that means humans or animals. Being a part of humanity means to be a part of the tragedies that come along with it. Every day there is some sort of catastrophic event that occurs such as, school shootings, bombings, murders, rapes, and so many other dreadful things. These calamitous occurrences are becoming a part of our daily routine. We may stop to read the newspaper or watch that news segment for a few moments to learn what happened, but we do not take the time to empathize what happened to that person or an entire country. As Bloom had stated, “But empathy will have to yield to reasons if humanity is to have a future” (Bloom), this statement has to muster up some sort of emotion...
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