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Inhumanity: Then and Today What makes a human has been argued upon for unmeasurable amounts of time but there are some points commonly agreed upon. Of course humans are the sole species that have ability of speech (Choi para 10), but humans are the only animals that can express emotion through means such as laughing and crying (Burton para 3-4). Humans also are the only living creatures that can have beliefs and reasoning, which in a way helps explain the subject of the Holocaust. In World War…

At the German concentration camps, Josef Mengele, conducted depraved experiments by developing and testing pharmaceuticals and treatment methods for injuries and illnesses. Many of the people he performed experiments on were Jews and twins. Most of them were tested against their will. He and other doctors performed many experiments, such as the malaria experiments, mustard gas experiments, pharmaceutical testing, spotted fever (typhus) experiments, sulfanilamide experiments, and experiments with…

Two Dictators – Two Roles In the 1900’s, Hitler and Mussolini had a huge impact on the world. Not only were they supreme leaders, but they also led their country in the World War II. Hitler and Mussolini were both strong leaders who have different accomplishments. The stock market crash in the United States in 1929 led to a depression that left millions of Germans without jobs. Unemployment rates were very high. More than 33% of the labor force was with a job in 1932. Banks in America began…

While reading the poem, one can perceive that Mrs. Plath is blossoming from a child into an adult. Symbolism plays a vital role in order to perceive her aging process. In the first stanza, it mentions a black shoe that she lives in. One can observe and compare this to the children’s nursery rhyme, “There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe”. Another example of her childhood within stanza one is in line five when she says, “Achoo”. Most adults would say sneeze, but to a child, it is acceptable…

We humans doubt our actions when we fight our own battles. The author of The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal, went through a sentimental battle. He was a Jew in the Holocaust, while working one day he was taken by a nurse to meet a SS Nazi soldier who was close to death. This SS Nazi soldier surprisingly told Wiesenthal, a Jew in the Holocaust, about all the crimes and death he has done and then he asked for forgiveness for all the people he has killed or potentially hurt. The author Wiesenthal…

The treatment of European Jews by Nazi Germany, during the Second World War, was appalling. They were faced with horrific circumstances and inevitable fates. They were stripped of their basic human rights without explanation or justification. Jews were dehumanised and treated as if they were a threat to Germany and if they were not disposed of, their supposedly evil and nefarious nature would lead to the destruction of Germany, itself. This is one of the worst atrocities that history has to…

Adolf Hitler was once quoted as saying, “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think” (BrainyQuote). Hitler and his top administrators relied on this presumed ignorance in their execution of the “Final Solution,” the systematic extermination of Europe’s Jews. At the Wannsee Conference in 1942, high-ranking Nazi Party and government officials met to discuss the coordination and implementation of the “Final Solution” (“Wannsee Conference”). It was through the…

Paper The Final Solution Ever since the world has become aware of the Holocaust on the Jews, many historians have debated back and forth of who caused this, why this had happened, and when it was decided. Although the popular opinion is to put all of the blame on Hitler because he was the complete ruler at the time, but through more research there are other debates spoken about and other ideas became even more popular. Two of the more popular schools of thought are functionalism and…

During the Holocaust, the Nazi Party was able to successfully convince all the Germans of the idea of eliminating all Jews. The mass murder of the Jews requires lots of strategic manipulation by the Nazis, in order for the Jews to be eliminated without much protest. In the reading Night , we have a glimpse of the both physical and psychological techniques used by the Nazis to influence the Jew 's behavior and reasoning, while they were imprisoned in Auschwitz. Ultimately, the Nazis wanted to…

Hitler lived by this famous quote that he wrote in Mein Kampf , “Germany must be a world power, or there will be no Germany.” Hitler always had this sense of taking over Germany but it’s not so clear as to if he intended a World War. Did he just want to take over Poland, or did he simply just want to take some land for Germany? Ever since Germany’s huge defeat during World War I, and Germany’s weak government, the Weimar Republic, wasn’t doing well. This allowed room for some changes, and the…