People being sent to a foreign land. Sons leaving friends and family behind. They fight for their homeland, with a sense of unquivering pride and courage. Fighting against an enemy as equal in power as they are, these soldiers protect the life of one another and of complete strangers. Strangers who fight against starvation, suffocation, and death, strangers whose very existence is being slowly eradicated all because the will of one man. The destruction of so many and so much are all the lasting effect of World War II. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, the German lifestyle began to change. As Germany began to assume an egocentric psyche, reasons of previous downfalls and economic disasters soon took the form of a commoner and of a class
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As war progressed the atrocities Jews faced only increased in severity. Jews were seen as vermin and as diseased. Quarantines were established and these “vermin” were exiled and brutally nudged into their ghettos. As German control expanded past the borders of the homeland, other nations began feeling the impact of widespread discrimination. Poland was one of the hardest hit by the cruelty of the Aryan race. All through the Polish landscape Jews began to take the punishments taken by so many Jews before them. Masses of Jewish citizens were being deported and sent to labor and death camps ("Holocaust Forgotten - Six Million Polish Citizens Were Killed During the Holocaust."13). Life in camps was no easy task. Labor was forced and food was scarce. Housing was inadequate and immensely over crowded. The Jews were lucky to have a bed and even when a bed was present it was shared by more than one person. When a bed was not present the floor was the harsh substitute, “the women picked up their straw pallets from the floor and piled them in the corner, raising a fresh storm of dust” ( Boom 156). Any able body Polish male is immediately put to work or drafted into German military ranks ("Holocaust Forgotten - Six Million Polish Citizens Were Killed During the Holocaust." 12). German rule is established throughout the land and any traces of Polish culture are
As war progressed the atrocities Jews faced only increased in severity. Jews were seen as vermin and as diseased. Quarantines were established and these “vermin” were exiled and brutally nudged into their ghettos. As German control expanded past the borders of the homeland, other nations began feeling the impact of widespread discrimination. Poland was one of the hardest hit by the cruelty of the Aryan race. All through the Polish landscape Jews began to take the punishments taken by so many Jews before them. Masses of Jewish citizens were being deported and sent to labor and death camps ("Holocaust Forgotten - Six Million Polish Citizens Were Killed During the Holocaust."13). Life in camps was no easy task. Labor was forced and food was scarce. Housing was inadequate and immensely over crowded. The Jews were lucky to have a bed and even when a bed was present it was shared by more than one person. When a bed was not present the floor was the harsh substitute, “the women picked up their straw pallets from the floor and piled them in the corner, raising a fresh storm of dust” ( Boom 156). Any able body Polish male is immediately put to work or drafted into German military ranks ("Holocaust Forgotten - Six Million Polish Citizens Were Killed During the Holocaust." 12). German rule is established throughout the land and any traces of Polish culture are