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,German Company Volkswagen One of the German companies that were directly linked to the Holocaust is the Volkswagen. History reveals that the company played a crucial role during the Holocaust. Ferdinand Porsche, the founder of Volkswagen Company, was a close ally of Adolf Hitler. He met with Adolf Hitler in the year 1934 to discuss the possibility of creating a car for the German people. His aim was to create a popular car that would appeal to people, hence the name Volkswagen, which means…

“For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe” (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice). Throughout history, the Jews have suffered a great torment. Many of these include persecution in Spain, abolition from England, or the Russian Pogroms. Out of all however, the most recent and profound is the Holocaust. Millions upon millions of Jews and other minorities were discriminated and brutally murdered. The Nazi Regime attempted to capture all of the Jews and end the race. Prodigious suffering occurred…

Some of the first guilty females were those that donated to Hitler and helped him become who he was. Author Paul Roland gives us several examples of the women that influenced Hitler early on. The very first woman you might say was Hitler’s mother. Klara lost many children before having Hitler, so she clung to little Adolf when he survived. Hitler was a definite “momma’s boy” and his mother was said to be the most important woman in his life, which is why Hitler might have had so much trouble…

The story of the Holocaust cannot be told in one simple way, there are many complex individual stories that make up the more complete Holocaust. Museums thus struggle with the issue of trying to decide how to represent the Holocaust and encounter the dilemma of trying to decide what information to include and what to omit. Los Angeles is a prime example of this struggle because they have two Holocaust museums, only a few miles apart, which have completely different backgrounds and motives,…

PETA Campaign Gone Wrong? During the Second World War, the Nazi party, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler tried to kill all the Jews in Europe. The Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jewish people, including 1,500,000 children. This terrible period in history is now referred to as the Holocaust. In 2003 PETA launched a campaign called Holocaust on a Plate. In this campaign they compared the slaughter of animals to the horrific holocaust. This campaign is completely wrong.…

Approximately 6 million jews with 6 million additional people from other groups were murdered in the Holocaust, at the same time the Death Marches were a big part of the deaths in the Holocaust. The Death Marches occurred towards the end of WWII, German forces knew their time was up(Death). Prisoners no longer feared death, thats clearly evident today. It can be inferred that their only goal was to survive; Survive the next couple of hours, the night, the week. The marches damaged the Jewish and…

Before WW11, As the German government and community were collapsing, Adolf Hitler rose to power. He soon convinced his followers that Jews were a threat and needed to be killed. The Holocaust was the mass killings of 6 million innocent jews, led by Adolf Hitler. These were innocent people just like us that the Nazi Germans believed were undesirable. They were killed, beaten, starved, and tortured.Life is Beautiful and Night are both stories involving families trying to survive the Holocaust.…

I would say that there were upstanders in the memoir. One group that I can think of are the Sonderkommandos who blew up one of the crematories and fought against the Germans (Lengyel, 2014, 175). However, I think the upstanders at Auschwitz were few. This is because protesting against the Germans would certainly mean instant death. Some people would disobey orders just to help a person up and be shot on site. One such example is Olga’s husband, Miklos. So, only those who did not fear death could…

Night Theme Essay A survivor of the horrific happenings of the concentration camps in World War II named Elie Wiesel writes a book called “Night”, telling the readers about his experience in the concentration camp and all how traumatizing the experience was and how it has left him scarred of the camp. The themes discussed in this essay are, Hope, Brutality, and Terror. To begin this essay the first theme spoken about is Terror. Terror is one of the main themes in the book “Night”, for as…

Harald Welzer identifies the divergence between official, public cultures of remembrance in Germany (the history of the Third Reich taught in schools, the establishing of Holocaust memorials, etc.) and private cultures of remembrance in Germany (multigenerational histories situated within family storytelling), evolving from his study of Western and Eastern German families through interviews, individually and collectively, regarding contextual, historical knowledge of the Third Reich and their…