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with many German- speaking people still living in areas now a part of Poland as well as to other countries. Germany viewed the Poles as “less than human” and wanted their land for lebensraum, the German notion of needing more living space for the Aryan race. Hitler made extra precautions and created The Nazi-Soviet Pact that ensured that Russia would not interrupt the German invasion. But Germany couldn’t have done it without its superior military, being its Air Force the Luftwaffe as well as…

Reluctance to challenge Hitler, ultimately led to his armies occupying most of Western Europe and unfathomable human suffering. Hitler’s goal was to create the perfect race, the Aryan race, but to make that happen, he had to get rid of the impurities, the non-Aryans, the disabled, the gypsies, and more, but the most targeted group was the Jews. “In public, Hitler repeatedly boasted that his promise, that in a new war the Jews of Europe would be exterminated” (Weinberg…

The Aryan nation, spread its influence and civilization throughout much of Europe, and around the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the English acknowledged there racial superiority, and in the American colonies centuries later they would follow those same…

Cockroaches. Dogs. These names made it easier. They made it easier to senselessly kill not only thousands, but millions without thinking. Without even blinking an eye. How did they do it? How did the Germans slaughter over six million Jews? How did the Hutu militia murder over eight hundred thousand people in what is the fastest killing spree in history? They were simply underestimated. No one could have foreseen what devastation the oppressors brought. The Germans and the Hutu used the eight…

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…

From 1939-1945 the Second World War in history took place between mostly the USA, France, The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, and many other countries. In the end the war would be one by the Allies just like WW1 causing Germany and the rest of the Allied powers to lose, again. During the WWII era, 1939-1945, many minorities received few positive changes. The specified negative changes socially for African Americans, Politically for German-Americans and Japanese -Americans, and…

Eva Schloss was a Jewish European during WWII who lived in the notorious concentration camp Auschwitz Birkenau. She decided to write her story with the help of Evelyn Kent, at the beginning of her story she talks about what compelled her to write about her story and that after this experience she did not feel any hate towards the nazis but instead lost her faith in mankind. Schloss says “But on the other hand I have do not believe in the goodness of man.”(xii) Auschwitz Birkenau and the other…

Child-bearing was encouraged in Germany, however this was only acceptable to the “Aryans” not the Jews. Hitler has implemented policies such as financial incentive marriage loans and special medals were given to women who gave birth to large families. He also made divorce difficult, abortion and contraception illegal in order to achieve his objective effectively. Also, women’s organizations were created to indoctrinate women with Nazi ideas such as “The German Women’s Enterprise”. These programs…

Between 1928 and 1932, the nazi party went from a minimal 12 seats in the Reichstag to an alarming 230. This enlarging growth of Hitler’s power is due to several factors including his bad childhood, anti-semitism and the Treaty of Versailles. Throughout Adolf Hitler’s childhood, he experiences many dreadful events such as the death of his beloved mother, not being accepted into Vienna’s Academy of Art and his bleeding lung ailment. Hitler’s mother, Klara Hitler died on December 21, 1907 from…

In 1933 part of the world was greatly shaken. People were being torn from their homes, due to their background and their ethnicity. These people feared for their life daily, not knowing what they would be facing throughout the day.These people had lived normal lives, had families, and jobs. Till the day Adolf Hitler rose to power, and their lives began to fall apart. A tragedy began to develop known as the “ Holocaust”. Race , Religion, customs,sexual orientation and undesirable physical…