Ernst vom Rath

Surrealism began in the 20th century in Europe, known to be the most influential movement finding its roots from the era of Dadaism and Cubism (The Art Story, Web.). As Surrealism came nearly after World War I and World War II, artists decided to recreate the destruction left behind turning into a fantasy. Fantasy: the imagination above the reality of life, which was illustrated as art. The combination of the two eras led to the creation of an art form that was unknown and out of the art world.…

When first beginning to read this novel the reader may think that Jacob’s grandfather, Abe, must be utterly insane, but in actuality Abe has been trying to tell his whole family the unbelievably true stories from his past. The reader might also think that Jacob lives an incredibly average life, but this novel never fails to prove the reader wrong. In the beginning of this novel Jacob Portman tells the reader that in his younger years he used to idolize his grandfather, Abe Portman. Abe Portman…

This juxtaposition of sound and image displays the irony of Mme. Colet’s envisioned future with Gaston, exposing that the romance is no more concrete than reflections and illusions, as we know Gaston plans to rob her and fleet. Gaston and Mme.Colet are seen at the same angle throughout the sequence and the camera never leaves the room. The couple is also contained in double frames, the screen and the mirror or the shadow on bed. These restrictions further pronounce the limitations on the life…

How does the past events in one’s life affect him/herself and his/her actions? In the novel, Beloved by Toni Morrison, the protagonist, Sethe, is forced to undergo a scarring experience from the events that occurred while being enslaved. After being sent to Sweet Home, the feeling of oppression and abuse from the violent and destructive acts affects Sethe to the point where she ends up making an irreversible decision. Morrison uses Sethe’s act in murdering her child and the effects of that event…

War has always effected artists and therefore art. Artists are influenced by everything around them, many artists paint what they see be it realistically or in a more abstract way. When there is a war and an artist is near it and suffers from it or see it a world away and is moved by it then it only make sense that these ideas will come out in their art. Unless the artist is a cruel and slightly heart-less person as Picasso was for quite a bit of his life, then the artist will what to speak out.…

Fortunately because of history people are aware that this could cause the next major discrimination. Many people are ready to fight the government by registering even if they are not muslim, but register just to mess up the system. General Otto Ernst Remer “He was one of the co-founders of…

destroyed synagogues, homes and Jewish owned businesses that were torn apart. ERNST VOM RATH The violence was instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials and members of the SA (Sturmabteilungen) and Hitler Youth. In its aftermath, German officials announced that Kristallnacht had erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public outrage and hatred in response to the recent assassination of Ernst vom Rath. Vom Rath was a German embassy official stationed in Paris. Herschel Grynszpan, a…

17 year old jewish refugee in France. His plan was to assassinate the third secretary of the German Embassy, Ernst vom Rath. His motives were to avenge the deportation of his father to Poland and the constant persecution of the Jews by Germany. Herschel planned on busting in and getting the job done; However, Vom Rath was sent to come out to meet the young man and was shot. Ironically Ernst was actually not an anti-semite, but instead was anti-Nazi. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of…

Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, suggested that the Jews had conspired in the attack on vom Rath. Nazi officials sent out commands to regional officers, who spread the word to their supporters. On the night of November 9, 1938, Nazi officials, stormtroopers, and Hitler Youth members would dress in civilian clothes and destroy Jewish lives…

The Night Of Broken Glass, also referred to as Kristallnacht, meaning “Crystal Night”, occured in Nazi Germany on November 9th to November 10th, 1938, it was the consequence of the assassination of the third secretary of the German Embassy staff Ernst Vom Rath executed by the Polish-Jew teenager Herschel Grynszpan as pictured in source 2, this is a portrait taken after his arrest. This assassination was a contributing and foreshadowing factor to the Holocaust and it sparked further anger by the…