Commandant

hard for me to hold it in and keep it tucked away forever, others need to know what “The Fury” is doing. Bruno, my younger brother was living in Berlin with me (Gretel), mother, and father, (Father at the time had just been promoted to be a Nazi Commandant) arrived home from school one day, after me of course, and found our slightly helpful and annoying family maid Maria packing his things even the things no one should mess with according to him. When he asked mother…

This last weekend, I had the opportunity to interview my brother, who is under 25, and my mother, who is over 25: my brother is 20 years old and my mother is 48 years old. I asked them four simple questions on the Old Testament and they each gave me their own opinions. Each question addressed a different aspect of the Old Testament: creation, historical stories, scriptures’ relevance to today, and the Ten Commandments. The first question I asked each of my interviewees was, “Do you think the…

also believe in the holy book that have laws and texts from the God. Each of the religion have their own different beliefs and didn’t have same text in the holy book, but it does have a little similar like Jews and Christians believed in The Ten Commandants or Christians and Muslims believed in afterlife; Heaven and Hell. It was interesting that Jews and Muslims didn’t have any similar in prayers or in holy book except believe in one God. These religions were passed down from generations to…

puts an idealized image on the life of a soldier. A strong sense of patriotism and nationalism is shown through the quote ‘"During drill-time Kantorek gave us long lectures until the whole of our class went, under his shepherding, to the District Commandant and volunteered. I can see him now, as he used to glare at us through his spectacles and say in a moving voice: "Won't you join up, Comrades?"’. Kantorek pressures the boys into joining the war. However, in the memoir A Long Way Gone we don't…

World War I was the war to end all wars. Many young men went of to war filled with romantic notions of war and patriotism for their country. In the novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, we meet Paul Baumer, the narrator of the story. Paul and his friends were convinced by parents and teachers, that they had a duty their country. Their duty was to enlist in the Army and fight in the war. They came to realize, these people they trusted had betrayed them. War has come at…

Verdi’s Ortello in Vienna. On top of this, he has been awarded all over the world for his contributions to opera, as the article states, “Plácido Domingo has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States as well as the titles of Commandant of the Legion of Honor in France, Honorary Knight of the British Empire, and both Grande Ufficiale and Cavaliere di Gran Croce of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He has received multiple honorary doctorates from Oxford…

Good morning/afternoon, today I will be speaking about Auschwitz, Josef Mengele and the experiments held there. Auschwitz was the largest of all Nazi death camps and likely to be the most notorious of all. Opened in the spring of 1940, its first commandant was Rudolf Hoss, who had history running other concentration camps throughout Germany. During World War II, more than 1 million people lost their lives in Auschwitz. In January 1945, with the Soviet Army approaching, Nazi officials ordered…

My Reflection of Mission Command During my career I have been involved in several situations that I could make decisions using the philosophy and principles of mission command, but I have had lack experience and knowledge about these issues. As a direct leader, I was joint with my Soldiers following orders, many times without think about aspects in connection with the mission command activities. Nowadays, after the mission command lessons in…

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a heartbreaking novel written by John Boyne. Set during WWII, it is a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the nine-year son of the Commandant at the German concentration camp in Auschwitz. His friendship with a Jewish boy, Shmuel on the other side of the fence has shocking and unforeseen consequences. Boyne uses symbolism to explore the ideas in The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The fence, Bruno and Gretel’s innocence…

gets sent from present day New Rochelle, AMerica to 1946 Poland. She then has to figure out whether this is reality or if New Rochelle is reality. Another novel is The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne where a young boys father is sent to be commandant at Auschwitz where he makes a great friend and eventually crosses the fence to visit him, for the last time. A nonfiction Scope article called “Teens against Hitler” is about a boy who escapes a Nazi concentration camp joins a secret…