Adolf Eichmann

Allison Wessels February 23, 2018 Walter Benjamin Illusions In the first part of the essay on Walter Benjamin, a German Jewish philosopher, who wrote the book Illusions, I discussed art reproduction through the use of historical and theoretical examples and quotes from many authors. In the second part of the essay which includes sections eight through fifteen Walter discusses much more about film and how it has evolved and the effects the actors and the camera have on the audience. Overall,…

Barack Obamas speech target audience are the German citizens first however he refers to American and other European people as well . This speech has a few purposes for example he informs people that democracy is wonderful and Obama said that working together I very importantly for both countries for the economic and security reasons. Barack Obama used a balanced phrase about Chancellor Angela Merkel “ from a child of the east to the leader of free and untitled Germany” which is saying that…

During World War II, the invasion of Germany caused an evacuation of the British and French soldiers at Dunkirk, France. The evacuation of Dunkirk was also known as “Operation Dynamo”. The Operation Dynamo lasted nine days from May 26, 1940 to June 4, 1940. Since they weren’t enough ships to transport too many soldiers, the British asked all civilians to lend them any type of ship, so they could evacuate as many soldiers as they could. The battle of Dunkirk, France was a defeat for the British…

The wars scarred and bruised the land, almost nothing left of what was once a mighty kingdom. Stones to pebbles, Wood to ash, houses flattened, temples brutally pillaged and destroyed. What had happened to this place it was once a land of gold and trade, but only bodies and fire remain. Ancient Battles Two of the most fierce empires in the ancient world, would soon clash together. This clash was called the Punic wars or the Carthaginian Wars. It was called the Punic Wars because Punic is part…

Adolf Hitler is the world's biggest terror from making the Jews suffer in concentration camps to the outright slaughter of the Jewish people. Although historians have many theories what his motives were none of them were proven true. Adolf Hitler was actually a normal human before he became the biggest terror the world has ever seen. Adolf Hitler before he became fuhrer, is a very interesting time for us to study. It was April 20,1989 in upper Austria at Braunau am Inn. The fourth child that…

To what extent did King Henry the VIII make a positive contribution to English society through his policies and actions from 1509-1547? Done by- Joshua Ivanovic Summary of Evidence Primary Source 1: • The first primary source is that of a painting by Hans Holbein, a painter from Germany What I learned from the source: I learned that in these times from 1509 to 1547 paintings were important to the folklore to resemble their King as high royalty and…

Ethnic cleansing can be done through deportation, displacement and mass killings. The Holocaust was an ethnic cleansing act because the leader, Adolf Hitler was an anti-semite. Therefore, Hitler wanted to “get rid” of the Jewish people. The Jewish people were displaced and deported to concentration camps, without consent. When Jewish people arrived to concentration camps, they were dehumanized…

One might argue the Second World War was the greatest and most horrific war in the history of this world and a major impact to modern everyday life. It was the most international and fatal war in history with many detrimental causes to many countries. Thus, proving how crucial it is to know about specific historical events in history and to apply past mistakes to future decisions. Leon Trotsky says, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” This quote signifies the…

The Volksgemeinschaft was the Nazi ideal of a perfect Aryan society. It was created to bridge and replace traditional class and social divisions. Hitler wanted all ethnic Germans who were considered pure to come together into one community to be a superior dominating race. People, who were not ethnically German, possessed communist, homosexual or Jewish values would be omitted from this community. For Volksgemeinschaft to have existed violence had to exist too. Violence has always been used in…

Even though the Axis powers didn’t have unlimited resources like the Allies, one of the biggest benefits was with Adolf Hitler. It was believed that the Allies had planned an assassination attempt on Hitler. During this attempt, something went wrong and their attack had failed miserably, along with the Axis powers gaining access to Allie’s penicillin. It is said that…