Einsatzgruppen

It is common is common knowledge that during the Second World War that the Hitler and his Nazi army targets and killed millions of Jewish people. However, many fail to realize that the Nazi army did not only their hateful and heinous crimes to Jewish people, but many others as well. When reading the War of Annihilation: Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front 1941 by Geoffrey P. Megargee explores not only the events of the conflicts between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union but also gives…

The Holocaust, the time in history where the Nazis killed six million Jews. Most of these Jews were not longer of the Jewish faith as they were only related to Jewish people but, since Hitler thought of Jews as a race it did not matter (“Introduction to the Holocaust”). The Ladder of Prejudice is the steps that the Holocaust followed in. The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice in three distinct steps they are speech, discrimination, and extermination. Speech is shown in many ways.…

Devil’s Quest: The Infamous Tragedies of the Holocaust on the Jews Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw Nazi policies that resulted in millions of deaths. The Holocaust was one of the twentieth century’s greatest tragedies that was generated by widespread anti-Semitism, absolute terror, and human experimentation. Anti-Semitism in Germany resulted in many difficulties on Jews during the Holocaust. The Nazis and their collaborators…

When one researches the Holocaust, they are often overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of this tragedy. Numbers in the millions and low survival percentages show people just how devastating this time period was to the Jewish community. What the numbers do not show, however, is exactly how devastating the Holocaust was to each individual person. The way the lives of innocent people were forever altered is something that is hard to draw from a statistic. The victims of the Holocaust and their…

Defiance is a 2008 American War film directed by Edward Zwick set during the occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany.The film depends on a genuine story, starting in August 1941. Nazi Einsatzgruppen (teams) are clearing through Eastern Europe, deliberately executing Jews. Among the survivors not slaughtered or confined to ghettos are the Belarusian Jewish Bielski siblings: Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron. Their parents are dead, executed by neighborhood police under requests from the possessing Germans…

The Einsatzgruppen, the roaming killing squads which followed German lines into Eastern Europe, killed Jews far more quickly and in greater numbers than any of the camps did. Hypothetically, if the camps were in fact rendered unusable, the Einsatzgruppen could easily be employed to make up for any loss in killing power. The Allies also had no way of accurately knowing which rail…

The Tutsis were the minority and had always been higher in social class compared to the Hutus. The Hutus were not fond of this. The Rwandan genocide was one of the most unorganized genocides where instead of designated killing squads like the Einsatzgruppen in the holocaust, it was all of the Tutsi’s neighbors that were coming to kill them. Although, every mass killing needs some form of infrastructure. No two perpetrators in the genocide had felt the same about what they had done. They all had…

The Final Solution was a huge plan by the losing Nazis in WWII. on July 31, 1941 The Final solution was put into effect, starting a chain of events that would eventually kill a total of 6 million Jews. Killing centers were formed and the killing was to continue until the eventual defeat of Germany on May 7th, 1945. By 1940 The Nazis established over 360 ghettos in Poland, the Soviet Union, the Baltic States, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. All ghettos had absolutely horrible conditions.…

In the aftermath of World War I, Germany remained in turmoil throughout the 1920s, providing the setting for the rise of extremist ideologies and political leaders. To Germans burdened by reparations payments to war victors, and threatened by very high rise in inflation, political chaos, and a possible Communist takeover, Adolf Hitler offered scapegoats and solutions. Germans were provided with an easy explanation to all their problems: Jews and democracy. It was the “International…

In the beginning of WWII when Adolf Hitler and his fascist party of the Nazis came to power in Germany, they used what would become to be a major issue that would still have an effect on society today. The Nazis used discrimination and prejudice against Jews known as anti-semitism, because he thought they were the cause of Germany’s problems during their economic hardships and the reason for Germany’s defeat in WWI. Hitler wanted more living space for “Aryans” which were people of purely North…