Commandant

Imagine a nation, where poverty runs rampant. Rations are at an all time low, and people work themselves to their demise, yet they still receive the bare-minimum to feed themselves and survive. However there are those who sit above the commoners, and feed on their hard earned produce. This is the lethal power of corruption, which was also found in George Orwell’s Animal Farm. Since government corruption is a major issue in various countries, new leaders should be sincere, altruistic, and…

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators (“Introduction to Holocaust”). Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps (“The Holocaust”). To facilitate the "Final Solution" (the genocide or mass destruction of the Jews), the Nazis established killing centers in Poland, the country with the largest Jewish population (“Holocaust…

Pajamas is a drama/history film that is set during world war two during the Holocaust. Nine year old Bruno and his family move away from their home in Berlin leaving behind all of Bruno’s friends. They are forced to move because Bruno’s father is a commandant in the German army, the new house is located near a concentration camp. Bruno has no friends at the new house and he feels very lonely so he starts to explore, one day while he is exploring he comes across a barbed wire fence and finds…

Ilse Koch was, the wife of Karl Otto Koch, sent to trial for having people killed to make lamp shades out of their skin. Hermann Pister was a SS guard who was commandant from 1942-1945. He ran away before the liberation, but was caught at a camp near Munich. As a consequence, he was tried, proven guilty and had a death sentence. Karl Otto Koch was a war criminal who mistreated prisoners to a severe degree. After…

of research and I learned so much. While we were learning about the Holocaust we read the book “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.” That book is super sad, but really good. During the book the main character Bruno father is promoted to Commandant, and they have to move to “OUT-WITH” due to the orders from “The Fury.” Eight year old Bruno who is lonely wanders out of the house one day and goes through a gate that leads to the destination his parents didn’t want him finding out about.…

Aggression Pact of 1939 clearly illustrated their involvement. In the same way, Britain and Soviet Union were not tried for the invasion of Iran and Finland respectively. After the war, General Rudenko, the Chief Soviet prosecutor of the trials, became commandant of the former Nazi concentration camp of Sachsenhausen, where he imprisoned political opponents and anti-communists. The fall of the Berlin wall brought to light the bodies of more than 12,000 people who died there of malnutrition and…

The Fall of Mighty Rome The Ancient Roman Empire was known to be an advanced culture and its grandeur had long-lasting effects on the societies of the entire world. The fall of many great civilizations is a repeating pattern in world history, but in Rome’s case there is no single factor that caused their declivity. It is evident when reading, Western Civilizations Volume one, that the combination of issues stemming from Rome’s imperialism such as economics, politics, and societal led to their…

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was a movie directed by Mark Herman released in 2008. The setting of the story was in a German household near a concentration camps during World War 2. The movie portrayed a vivid image of the effects and lives of people during this horrible time period. The way the Nazi soldiers and the Jewish people were displayed were accurate and very emotional. The movie did its part in informing people of this grim period in time, and makes people who watch it realize just…

Party Discontent at Cal Maritime and Nationally America is supposed to be the great democratic experiment. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness guiding the purpose of government. A place where you can worship whoever and whatever you want while being able to speak your opinions without legal repercussions. A government for the people by the people. Nothing is perfect and everybody cannot be happy at the same time but if these guiding principles are followed government could maybe get close…

Dachau was the first concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in 1933. It was a labor camp designed to punish political prisoners and enemies of Adolf Hitler. Dachau was a model for how other concentration camps should operate under Nazi Germany. Through intense labor and strict regulations, prisoners were taught to obey authority. Dachau was created to enforce compliance with the Nazi regime. Unlike the death camps that focused on extermination, Dachau was a labor camp where the…