Adolf Eichmann

Following the horrific events of the German Holocaust, psychologists and psychiatrists have been attempting to answer questions on obedience. At the heart of the debate is why some humans naturally are obedient to authority, and why others have a tendency to be disobedient. Among the many people researching this topic are Erich Fromm and Theodore Dalrymple. Fromm’s work suggests that Freudian ideology shapes tendencies of obedience. Dalrymple claims that experiences in childhood outline impulses…

“Guilty”. Guilty: it was that one, six letter word that would forever shake and destroy Adnan Syed’s entire world. In an instance, he would go from a high school honours student with a propitious track career to just another name on the long list of the nearly ten thousand Americans who are wrongly convicted each year. Adnan is innocent, and Serial, a popular podcast series narrated by Sarah Koenig, puts light on Adnan’s tragic story of how such a promising young man can be stripped of his…

The Imitation Game and mathematician stereotypes The Imitation Game was produced in 2014 and was directed by Morten Tyldum. It was set during the Second World War and it was based on a true story of Alan Turing, the genius mathematician that cracked Nazi codes, including Enigma, which was thought to be unbreakable. Turing loved codes and ciphers, which is a very hard category to enjoy and understand. The movie depicted Turing as mentally ill, having no sense of humor, and being disrespectful,…

In 2008, a woman from Anderson, Indiana set fire to her ex’s clothes and burned his storage unit. There was “more than $100,000 in damage” (NBC). The woman’s ex most likely did not do anything to deserve this and she was simply just overreacting. Naturally, society expects the girl to get over her ex and move onto another guy; in extreme circumstances, the woman will not move on, but instead kill herself. Welcome to The Aeneid: Book four. Written by Virgil in 19 BC, the twisted love story of…

Vice President Adlai Stevenson: Bio & Quotes Description: This lesson will cover one of the many Vice Presidents of the 20th century. We will discuss the life of Vice President Adlai Stevenson through some of more famous quotes. !!!Adlai Stevenson Adlai Ewing Stevenson was born on October 23, 1835 on his family’s farm in Christian County, Kentucky to Irish immigrant parents. He attended school there until age 16 when the family moved to Bloomington, Illinois after a hard frost killed the…

Impacts of the Battle of Verdun BOOM, CRACK, BANG, BWOOM. These would all be sounds you would’ve heard at one of the bloodiest battles in history, the Battle of Verdun. Let me explain, the Battle of Verdun greatly affected World War One because it was a major victory for the Allies, a major loss for the Central Powers, and a very influential battle in WWI. The Battle of Verdun was a major victory for the Allies. According to History.com “Battle of Verdun Begins”, the French captured…

"I see it as my task, now at my age, to face up to these things that I experienced and to oppose the Holocaust deniers who claim that Auschwitz never happened. And that's why I am here today. Because I want to tell those deniers: I have seen the gas chambers, I have seen the crematoria, I have seen the burning pits - and I want you to believe me that these atrocities happened. I was there." (CODOH, 2013) Oskar Groening – he was a Nazi. He may not have participated in the psychical violence…

Introduction Karl Marx was a German economist, historian, and sociologist. Marx got into trouble with the government when he criticized a new law that prevented peasants from gathering dead wood in the forest in an editorial he wrote. This was the start of his views, which were so radical and revolutionary that he had to leave Germany. His most comprehensive work was Das Kapital, translating to Capital in English it was published in three volumes and was completed by Engels after Marx died in…

On September 1, 1939 the German Army commenced its invasion of Poland. The army invaded through the shared border that they had with Poland and even though the Polish Army was considered one of the best in the world they were defeated in around 18 days or just over two weeks. The Germans had more men, technology, and tactics on their side which made their mission successful against the Polish forces. The German forces when invading moved in from East Prussia, Germany in the North, Silesia, and…

In Death and Redemption, Steven Barnes provides the first major revision in our understanding of the Gulag since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago of the 1970s. Barnes, while noting that Solzhenitsyn – who lacked archival records and relied only on first-hand testimony and his own personal experience – was remarkably correct about many aspects of the Gulag’s history, nevertheless challenges Solzhenitsyn’s contention that we should understand the Gulag only as a place of destruction.…