Ashkenazi Jews

focuses on one battalion. His focus lies on the Reserve Police Battalion 101 because they were ordinary civilian men that over a quick time frame became a major player in the liquidation of the Jewish population to achieve judenfrei; a Europe free of Jews. Browning follows this battalion group to give insight as to how ‘ordinary’ men could be turned into effective killers and commit their crimes in the manner that they were carried out. The author writes to prove how easy it is to take ordinary…

Hate has always been around. Whether it was because your younger sibling took the last cookie, or because someone is simply different from the rest of the people you know. Over the years it has changed, and it will continue to change. Even after the changes humans always have and always will turn to violence because of hate. In the past hate was a largely common thing. If asked about examples of hate in the past any person could list at least a few events in history that relate to hate.…

Anne Frank is young teenage girl that went through a hard time in world history. Anne and her family went into hiding when the war broke out and Jews were being persecuted because of their religion. The Franks hid in the secret Annex accompanied by the Van Daans Mr. Dussel. They all have to survive until the war ends, survival means a state or fact of continuing to live or exist, but sadly everyone living in the secret Annex died. The diary was retrieved by Miep Gies, who gave it to Anne's…

70 years ago Australian troops added to the already flawless reputation of the digger. Their defence of a small but vital Mediterranean port. Their deeds have become legendary and their nickname part of our language. They were known as the rats of Tobruk. At Tobruk the living conditions were terrible. They dug a hole in the ground for them to live in which would also protect them from the bombing raids. The hole and was full of flees and flies and every now and again a dust storm would come in.…

In 1944, Elli Friedman, is a thirteen year-old girl living in Hungary when it is invaded by the Nazis. Consequences of the invasion descend gradually upon Friedman’s family. Next, the Jews are required to wear yellow stars and have them painted on their houses. The Jewish population is then relocated to overcrowded ghettos, where Elli, despite the poor conditions, feels a sense of pride in her Judaism for the first time. However, it is short-lived, as food begins to run out and all the men…

What happened then, could happen again because of one person. When Adolf Hitler took over he took all of the jews that were in the Germany area and made them work for months to years at a time without food or anything except until they died of sickness, dehydration, starvation, or old age. If you study more into this subject you will see that Hitler has a jewish family. With the jews working, Hitler made the Nazi Germans have roll call every morning in rain, summer, winter, or shine. That…

his friends playing War in the streets, whilst Jewish people are getting detained near them. This shows how ignorant and unaware they are of what the Jewish people are suffering. Bruno’s mother also shows ignorance by zoning out everything about the Jew situation and treats everyday like nothing is happening. At the beginning she is planning a party and comes home from grocery shopping. Consequently, in The Book Thief. Hans Hubermann attempts to conform against the detainment of one of his…

Normally, the beliefs and ideas of political and social fringe groups are brushed aside as “crazy talk,” or belittled as an entity that will merely go away as time passes. Occasionally, these fringe groups attempt to insert themselves into the mainstream and regularly resort to deceptive measures to increase their legitimacy. The book, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It?, written by Michael Shermer and Alex Grobman, discusses and analyzes the Holocaust…

the way that the family celebrates the Sabbath and the way they practice praying each day. The Jewish faith consists of many different elements, beliefs, and traditions based on their heritage. The Sabbath is a very important time of the week for Jews because it is a time of religious observance. Believers celebrate the Sabbath on Friday and Saturday of each week. On the Sabbath you aren’t allowed to deal with…

For this week discussion we were assign to read “The Rhetoric of Hitler’s Battle “, by Kenneth Burke. “Mein Kampf”, is what the article is about, also known as Hitler’s battle. Just reading the title and recognizing from whom we are going to read about, made me very angry, I had a feeling I was going to read something I was going to be completely opposed to it. This article explains how Hitler learned about rhetoric language to be able to deliver his message to the people in a way, which…