Einsatzgruppen

How do we know the Holocaust happened? The Holocaust was a ‘solution’ created by the Nazis to “solve their Jewish problem” Survivors say it started on January 30th 1933 and finished May 8th 1945, when the Nazis were defeated by allied forces. Holocaust deniers usually ignore all the evidence of the event and insist that the numbers and story were invented by the Jews and the Allies for their own benefit. Also, in this essay when I refer to “Jews” or “Jewish people” I am usually meaning Jewish…

First off, people all over the world were heavily impacted due to the life of Reinhard Heydrich. Even today, there are several aspects of the world that will never be the same because of his life. At a young age, Reinhard Heydrich’s abhorrence towards Jewish people began. Reinhard received incredible backlash from his fellow peers for possibly having Jewish blood, however this was not true and provoked his hatred towards Jews (“Reinhard Heydrich” 1). Heydrich was a sweet child who had a passion…

In We Will Never Speak of It: Evidence of Hitler’s Direct Responsibility for the Premeditation and Implementation of the Nazi Final Solution, by Kevin P. Sweeney, there are many references throughout from people like Robert Lifton, writer of The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, and Helmut Krausnick, writer of Anatomy of the SS State. The article focuses on the “Intentionalist vs. Functionalist” debate that has raged since World War II. The Intentionalist view is that…

“People say occasionally that there must be light at the end of the tunnel, but I believe in those times there was light in the tunnel. The strange way there was courage in the ghetto, and there was hope, human hope, in the death camps. Simply an anonymous prisoner giving a piece of his bread to someone who was hungrier than he or she; a father shielding his child; a mother trying to hold back her tears so her children would not see her pain—that was courage.” One of the factors that contributed…

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…

values are the biggest driving factor about our universe of obligation, the stronger the sacred value the closer the universe of obligation will be toward yourself. The first example would be the video we watched in class where a member of the Einsatzgruppen shot and killed many Jews. He said he knew it was wrong that he killed those people but he said he hated them so much that he did not care. The man said it had something to do when he lived on a farm as a kid and he…

1. The Schutzstaffel was a key parliamentary organisation under the rule of Adolf Hitler and Himmler in the Nazi party, Nazi Germany. The party formed in April 4, 1923. At the start, it was a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz made up of volunteers to safeguard party meetings in Munich. 2. Between 1925 and 1929 the SS leaders were Schreck, Joseph Berchtold, who changed the title of the office to Reichsfuher. I n time, Joseph Berchold became overly frustrated with the opposition party…

In the year 1933 Adolf Hitler was in charge Germany. When he was in charge, he had repeatedly blamed the Jews for not winning World War I. He also hated people with blond hair and blue eyes. Hitler had thought that the Jews were the complete opposite of them At this time the jews were only one percent of the German population. That was around 55 million people. But they were gradually shut out of German society by the Nazis through a never-ending series of laws. Which deprived them of their…

Introduction Nazi Policy in World War 2 was motivated by National Socialist ideology. From Hitler’s rise to power through the end of World War 2 things only grew worse for the Jews of Europe. The German promise to its people for living space was usually accompanied by ideas of Jewish slaves and German owners. The original Nazi policy was to turn Eastern Europe into plantations run by Germans with Jewish slaves. Germany used forced labor throughout the war to great effect. Eventually ethnic…

Sudetenland It refers to the area of Czechoslovakia that were mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. Spielvogel noted that “the Sudetenland also contained Czechoslovakia’s most important frontier defenses and considerable industrial resources as well” (836). Hitler knew the importance of this land. To gain this land, he required the cession of it to Germany, otherwise, he may start a war. He successfully persuaded Britain and French not to defend Czechoslovakia, which allowed Germany to occupy the…