"(1) These women did have much to fear from the regime, but there was more they could have done. If they had collectively opposed the war, they might have been able to bring about change. I do not think that these women are to blame for the Nazi regime, but they obviously didn't do anything to stop it. (1) Owing, A. (1995).…
While historians like David Imhoof have argued that pre-existing sociocultural preferences for male authority dominated Nazi towns like Gottingen - Stokes’ study expertly refutes this claim. Eutin, an archetypical Nazi town like Gottingen, housed very few of these soldiers. In fact, the Nazi town housed a majority too young to have experienced WWI; “almost 53% of male members were too young to be called up for battlefield service.” Elucidated by the data, it’s clear that personal combat experience “played no role” in the growing disaffection with modernity that supposedly engendered support for the radical Nazi Party. As a result, in the case of Eutin, economics proved to be a causal force in compelling Nazi support.…
The underlying theme here is that what cannot be indemnified, cannot be forgiven. This is because to forgive is to heal, but healing can only begin when there some form of compensation received by the victim; something must fill the void caused by his loss. Consequently, the remuneration need correspond to the severity of the misdeed. For merely irritating another, a sincere apology would be enough, since the regret is an equal counterpart for the victim’s feelings. In the case of Simon Wiesenthal and the Nazi, however, the wrong doing was life-altering.…
“Later on in the Weimar Republic, resent grew for the government for offering a glimmer of freedom but discontinuing the promises made toward women’s equality” (Gardner 4). The desire to go back toward the gender norms was wanted more when men saw women trying to prosper. The New Women and liberation caused a lot of debate because it was seen as challenging male authority and the very structure of patriarchy. With the increasingly amount of men that died in war and the decreasing birth rate, women were the dominate gender. Men saw the aspects of women being the dominate gender and expressing their independence as a threat and were willing to do anything possible to end it.…
World War II was a cruel war spanning every corner of the globe, resulting in millions of casualties. Victims of the war suffered brutish force from the Axis and Ally powers alike. Due to this, their experiences were felt on a collective, widespread scale. In the book A Woman in Berlin by Anonymous, the woman suffered horrible rape that made her loathe her own body.…
Leni Riefenstahl exerted a significant impact on Nazi propaganda between 1933-1939 and epitomised Josef Goebbels (Minister of Propaganda) opinion that propaganda messages are most effective when they are disguised in popular mediums, contain partial truths and enable deeper emotional connections with the audience. She used her artistic capabilities to produce cinematic masterpieces portraying numerous Nazi ideologies. Riefenstahl also greatly impacted Nazi propaganda as she used eye witness accounts to reinforce Nazi's held opinions and Hitler's totalitarian ideologies which distorted reality with the partial truth and glorified the 'master race'. Her films appealed to the masses and reinforce key messages of the need for racial purity'; 'images…
American women played numerous important roles during World War II. Women not only supported family members who fought throughout the war but also joined the Armed Services themselves, in addition to working in factories and other home front jobs. The era of war began in 1939 and did not cease until 1945, giving women of that period plenty of time to gain independence, identity, and ultimately impact future generations as well as the economy. Women during World War II took on roles during the war that no woman had dared to take on before; consequently, the influence women of this era had on America ultimately impacted future generations as well as the economy.…
On the 30 of January in 1933, the shocking Holocaust starts. The unimaginable vindictiveness was unleashed on the Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party. German troopers rash the pure homes of Jews, compelling them to bow underneath. The Jews carrying on with an ordinary typical life were now presently a target for an inhuman evil man, Adolf Hitler. We read and learn about the terrifying demonstrations in the concentration camps by unique and individual stories from the surviving Jews.…
The way she handles and responds to Hitler's injustices is the way people today should handle our issues, with peace. There are many similar flaws from the 1930’s that are repeating in 2017. This book opens the eyes of the youth and society as a…
“Women recognized that isolation and separation were created by the Nazi system in the camps. They also knew that, if strength mattered, if it was even possible, it could only exist with others” (Reigleman 1985). Women depended on one another for encouragement in the camps, and all agree that more so than any material possesion friendship was most important to survival. Mothers who lost their children would foster orphaned children and create new pseudo-families as way to honor lost loved ones. Women shared recipes on how to stretch food when it was scarce and imagined their best recipes to mentally escape starvation.…
The way women in the Holocaust were treated has been overlooked and still is today. Horrible occurrences took place against women and their children. Gender played a big role in how someone would be treated. Women were subjected to discrimination and overall neglect. Doris Bergen, author of What Do Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Contribute, presents that “a collaborator grabs the child and throws him into the already burning building”.…
Females usually have a more nurturing quality than males, which was a useful resource during times of turmoil. During the Holocaust women bonded and later reflected on those friendships. Goldenberg claims, “ Memoir’s describe the bonding that was the natural extension of women’s care taking roles in pre-hitler days.” (p.87)…
Have you ever thought of what it would feel like to be treated differently than others because your skin color was different. On December 1, 1955 a regular civil rights activist black woman was coming home from her job and got on an ordinary bus. She sat in the back in the section for black people. The bus kept filling and filling and the bus driver noticed that they were several white people standing. He stopped the bus and moved the black people sign back a row.…
World War II took place from 1939-1945. It was a war in which women had to take on responsibilities that had previously been unavailable to them to compensate for the roles of men whilst they were away at war. The impact of World War II had repercussions for Australian society. The changing roles of women during World War II impacted upon both Australian women and men.…
For example, the encouragement of the German children to the use of guns as toys and to enjoy fighting had adverse effects to the present-life Germany. The Nazi nationalism ideology also involved biased education system, which deprived girls a chance to study various subjects such as sciences and mathematics. This affected the career development of the German women, thus encouraging women to become house wives. The Nazi nationalism also included the symbolic description of the German woman as a home carer looking after children while the men were out working and protecting the family. Children were forced to join the Nazi…