Adolf Eichmann

Adolf Hitler was solely responsible for planning and issuing the genocide of the Jews. He first came up with methods to eradicate the Jewish population while he was serving his prison sentence in 1925. While in prison, he wrote a book titled Mein Kampf about his struggles in life and his intense hatred against Jews. Historian Lucy Dawidowicz believes that Hitler's time in imprisonment caused him to plan mass murder against the Jewish community because of his history with Jews and WW1. Such as…

SIMON WIESENTHAL 1908-2005 At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in the systematic murder of some 6,000,000 Jews and millions of Gypsies, Poles and other "inferior" peoples, slipped through the Allied net and escaped to countries around the globe, where many still live in freedom. Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of the Nazi death camps, dedicated his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust and to hunting down the perpetrators still at large. "When history looks…

will be punished by 150 Reichmarks.(“Police Decree On The Identification of Jews”Page 1.) The laws shall be valid in Bohemin and Moraria.”(“Police Decree On The Identification of Jews”Page 1.) These people are the main reason why Jews were killed. Adolf Hitler the ultimate…

In a few short years, the Nazis systematically killed 11 or more million people, essentially the entire population of Pennsylvania. The entire state of Pennsylvania, wiped off the face of the earth. It is incomprehensible that people can be driven to kill a whole race of humans, but that was what happened. The SS and Gestapo officers blindly followed everything the high-ranking officials told them to do, for they were lead to believe that it was good for Germany. Nearly a whole Continent obeyed…

War) and World War II had a profound impact on the notion of punishment. The unprecedented tragedy paved way for a new outlook on morality and justice regarding the crimes committed. The works On the Genealogy of Morality, Discipline and Punish, and Eichmann in Jerusalem by Friedrich Nietzsche, Michel Foucault, and Hannah Arendt respectively all cover the idea of punishment as it follows a common thread of power. In these works, one can observe the transition from Nietzsche’s pre-war piece with…

different Nazi Party war criminals, many more are still out there. As stated by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Only a small percentage of these criminals have been brought to justice.” (The Search For Perpetrators 1) In May of 1960, Adolf Eichmann, who played a key role in the Holocaust, was arrested in Argentina under the alias Ricardo Klement. Klaus Barbie, or the “Butcher of Lyon”, was captured in 1970. The Office of Special Investigations, or the (OSI), has tracked down and…

What's rarely touched upon in histories of WWII is how frightened the people in the Fuhrerbunker (Hitler's last hideout in the center of Berlin) were of what was going to happen to them. Discipline had broken down and most had realized that they were going to either be arrested and tortured or summarily executed by the Red Army when it finally took control city. Few of them still saw Hitler was as being the demigod that he was before and the thought had to be going through more than a few minds…

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators (“Introduction to Holocaust”). Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps (“The Holocaust”). To facilitate the "Final Solution" (the genocide or mass destruction of the Jews), the Nazis established killing centers in Poland, the country with the largest Jewish population (“Holocaust…

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 “People’s car”, was chosen. After his…

made a good point but the victor tells the story. No one was punished for the action on the Allied side. Although the Nazis got strict punishments for their war crimes and crimes against humanity there were some that never got their day in court. Adolf Hitler the one that everyone was after killed himself in the final days of the war along with several other confidants. Other individuals…