Adolf Eichmann

Both articles of Browning and Goldhagen investigate the issues regards to the Police Battalion 101. It was a department of the German Order Police that amid the Nazi control of Poland assumed a major part in the execution of the Final Solution against the Jews and the suppression of the Polish citizens. Both authors primarily agree that the members of this unit were “ordinary” Germans, they were selected to commit to the genocide of the Jews and the killing of the Jews expressed their ethnic…

“Men to the left! Woman to the right!”(Wiesel 4). It was the spring of 1944, when the narrator of the memoir, Night by Elie Wiesel, experienced the most unforgettable event of his life: the Nazis began to take control of Sighet, which is the hometown of Eliezer. Not long after the war began to come to a close, the Jews in his hometown were forced into cattle cars. Little did they know, this horrific journey was only the beginning. Nearly starving and exhausted, the innocent Jews had reached…

both races and the inhumanity behind the laws passed against illegal immigration and those stripping Jews of their civil rights in Germany. The intentions behind both works is to avoid repeating history. Between 1933 and 1945, Chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler, began his systematic extermination of the Jewish community.…

“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.(109)” Throughout Night by Elie Wiesel, Nazis show time and time again how relentless they will be with their physical and emotional abuse towards prisoners in concentration camps. Through understanding the ways Nazis dehumanize Jews and other minorities, we can see three very important steps to bringing them back into normal life: Non physically abusive treatment, giving them goals, friends, a reason to live, and a…

In Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killings, author and social psychologist Chris Waller focuses on how the everyday person has a hand in the brutal act of annihilation that is genocide. In his book, Waller analyzes the evolutionary forces responsible for shaping human nature and the psychosocial influences on individuals that make them more prone to engage in acts of extraordinary human evil. Waller offers readers a persuasive four-prong model for how everyday…

The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, by Amity Shlaes is a graphic novel that captures a period in the history of America that was dark. This dark period in the history of America was the Depression that lasted from 1929 to 1940. Some of the main characters in The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression are, Calvin Coolidge Vice President, and then he became President when President Harding died, Herbert Hoover the president during the early years of the Great…

President John F. Kennedy spoke to the German people of West Berlin addressing the issues of Communism v.s. Democracy dividing the city. Kennedy’s purpose for writing this speech was to keep the loyalty of the West Berliners as well as give them hope and courage to continue fighting this battle. He speaks with an unwavering voice to evoke bravery, strength, and stoicism. He adopts this tone to appeal to his audience’s thoughts and feelings pertaining to their current situation. In his speech to…

“Everything has got to be smashed to start with our whole damned civilization has tog to go, before we can bring any decency into the world” ‘Mourlan’, in DU GARD’S Les Thibaults This quote is a good way to describe what Karl Popper labeled as Utopian Engineering to which he thought was the most dangerous Platonic approach to creating and running the ideal state. In the Republic, Plato has a Utopian Engineering way of how he wants to start and run his ideal state. This is something…

Everyone has heard the spine-chilling experiences the Jewish faced in the Holocaust, but few understand the true atrocity of it unless they themselves experienced it. The true horror of how the inhumane Nazis decimated the Jews, forcing them into concentration camps and treating them as animals, comes to life in the story “The Shawl” by Cynthia Ozick. Through the use of symbolism and carefully orchestrated imagery, Ozick conveys the horror and despair the victims of the Holocaust encountered in…

Lieutenant Commander Oram and Captain John Adam are lethal weapons. These characters are leaders; kings of their castles. Their emotions are storms that cloud their thoughts, making hard decisions similar to escaping from quicksand. When the submarine of Michael Bruce’s Gentlemen, Your Verdict lies helpless at the bottom of the ocean, Commander Oram must decide whether 15 innocent men should die for 5 to live or if all 20 men will die from oxygen deprivation. Colin McDougal’s The Firing Squad…