I blame my local library's American History section for instilling in me a fear of Caucasian women. Go ahead, pick up Robert A. Gibson's "The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880–1950". After reading how the rhetoric surrounding lynchings frequently suggested they were to protect the virtue and safety of white women, you'll cower in fear ! Subsequently, only the brave should dare google Lisa Lindquist Dorr's White Women, Rape, and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960. It doesn't stop there....…
The Holocaust happened during World War 2, where the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jewish people in the so called Euthanasia Program. In power at the time was a socialist government that created concentration camps to hold their opponents. During the Nazi rise to power, the world had tons of evidence about the Nazi's actions. However, the allies did not respond.…
Some of the most important human behaviors that have been part of why the Holocaust had occurred are Blind Obedience, Conformity, and Stereotyping. Blind Obedience is when you do things or follow orders without thinking. Conformity is when you want to be like everyone else, or you are doing things so that you feel like you are part of the community. Last but not least, Stereotyping. Stereotyping is when you are judging people/things by who/what they are.…
Perhaps the most dreadful event in recent history is the tragedy that befell the world during the Holocaust. Throughout a twelve year period, the Nazis were able to wreak havoc and torture innocent people purely because of their “inferiority”. The Nazi ideology was rooted in the idea that the German race was superior to all, and this state of mind was behind all of the atrocities that took place in Germany and surrounding areas. While the majority of the worst travesties took place during the final years of the holocaust, there was a significant build-up to those events, which took place throughout the years from 1933 to 1938. During these years, the Nazis began to show their true intention to the world, and began their systematic persecution…
Fences of prejudices is what the world has become where the ignorance of the people have them separated due to differences in ethnicities. One of the fences that have left a great inconsolable memory around the world the fence used during the holocaust for the reason of. One being Jew and one being German, they were both separated and forbidden from interacting with the general population because of their ethnicity all this was enforced under the wing of the Nazi regime. This separation was portrayed by the long fence around the Auschwitz concentration camp that confined the Jews inside the fence. Throughout the holocaust times, societies were predominantly brain washed into trusting the commands of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi parties.…
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them”, someone once said. Everywhere in the world their is lives in danger, and there is people being judged by their religion and race. I agree with Elie about what is happening in the world, and like he said that place must become the center of the universe.…
European Jews were treated terribly by Nazi Germany during WWII. They were faced with horrific circumstances and inevitable fates. Jews were dehumanised and treated as if they were a threat to Germany and if they were not disposed of, their supposedly evil and nefarious mannerisms would, ironically, soon destroy Germany as a race. According to the film, Schindler 's List, the discrimination of Jews and the actions the Nazis took to expose them was non-expectant and unpredictable.…
To many, the Holocaust is the first thing that comes to mind when discussing or remembering World War II. I feel that this alone is an argument for the Holocaust being a defining factor for the war; however, there were occurrences during this time that stand out above the others. Not only was there a mass genocide on a particular grouping of people, there were also a vast number of concentration camps and medical testing that occurred during this period. When we are taught about the Holocaust, we are told that this act of genocide was focused on the Jewish population, particularly those residing in Germany. Hitler thought that these people were greedy and evil and had to be exterminated.…
During the holocaust, a genocide in which the Jews were targeted by Hitler, over seven million people were executed, that's almost the entire population of New York. The holocaust was a genocide, or a mass execution of one race, that lasted over ten years. Elie Wiesel was a holocaust survivor who wrote about his experiences in the holocaust. Many genocides have occurred throughout history. We shouldn't forget about the holocaust, or any genocide, because we need to prevent more from happening.…
In the modern context, perceptions of the Judaism, Jewry, and the Jewish diaspora by non-Jews are often limited by one identifying historical event: The Holocaust. The Holocaust was the largest recorded genocide of the Jewish people and is widely accepted as both a Jewish and international tragedy. Though the Holocaust was one of the most historically noteworthy events to occur involving the Jewish people, using such an event to identify the Jews is as faulty as using the terrorist attack of September 11th, 2001 as the basis of one’s knowledge of what it means to be a citizen of the United States of America. There lies one of the fundamental challenges facing the Jewish identity, the identification of Jews as victims of the Holocaust portrays…
Anti-Semitism is the practice of hating and being hostile against Jewish people. Merriam webster's definition of anti semitism is “hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group” (M-W). Anti semitism has a very dark and ugly past. Anti- semitism dates back as far as Jewish History. Jews who originated in the ancient kingdom of Judah were often criticized and persecuted because of their efforts to remain a separate cultural group.…
The Holocaust was one of the greatest genocide that the whole world will remember forever. The main thing that we think of when we are talking about the Holocaust are the concentration camps, and some people don’t know just how awful it was. One of the biggest and most horrifying concentration camp was, Auschwitz. More people died in Auschwitz than the British and American loses of WWII combined, that is why my partner and I thought this was the most important topic of the Holocaust to be memorialized. When we were assigned Auschwitz we thought about how it is the most notorious concentration camp, and we really wanted to make a memorial that would leave people wanting to learn about the story of the camp and what happened there.…
The leader of the Nazi party was Adolf Hitler; to him Jews were an inferior race and were like aliens to the German community, Adolf Hitler used the war to cover up the mass killings and the use of ghettos and concentration camps, the largest and most known camp was Auschwitz. Although that was a horrible event, and some people would like to not speak about it. It is very important for us to still gain our knowledge on it. “The Holocaust provides one of the most effective subjects for examining basic moral issues.” (ushmm.org)…
By exploring this topic, we can learn about how the Treatment of Blacks in United States is similar and different to the treatment of Jews in Germany. Adolf Hitler is known for how he treated Jews in the holocaust. For this research project, this topic will compare the Treatment of Blacks and the Treatment of Jews. For both of these treatments , they both had human rights violated and had to suffer. Adolf Hitler was one of the greatest dictators throughout history, he is known to be very powerful figure.…
Scientific racism refers to the classification of different races due to physical features and the understanding that those differences are of different worth. Both German and Australian authority, considered this practice a science, but with increasing scientific evidence, this was deemed a pseudoscience. The respective countries used scientific racism as justification for the things done to the races they classified as inferior.…