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    Nazi Medical Experiments

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    Since the ending of World War II, great controversy has arisen regarding the potential use of the Nazi doctors’ medical experiment findings. Nazi leaders instructed the doctors to perform sickening, gruesome, and terrifying experiments on the inmates of the concentration camps all throughout Europe. These unlawful experiments led the German medical community to gain vast amounts of knowledge regarding the physical limits of the human body under severe circumstances. According to Joel Dimsdale,…

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    Auschwitz Concentration camp was a network of German Nazi Concentration camps and extermination camps, built and operated by the first Reich in Polish areas by Nazi Germany during World War II. In September 1939, the town of Oswiecim and its surrounding areas in Poland joined to become Auschwitz. The Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the worst holocaust camps ever, where over one million prisoners experienced brutal living conditions, execution or were used for medical experiments.…

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    Auschwitz is the main camp that caused the Holocaust and Birkenau was one of the side camps that was a part of the Holocaust. In both camps, prisoners were treated very poorly and had to work for their survival. They had to work for their survival. Whatever choices they made was for their survival. They tried their best to survive as long as they can. In Auschwitz, prisoners lived in old barracks. Meanwhile, in Birkenau, prisoners lived in two different kinds of barracks. They lived in either…

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    “ Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one,” - Bruce Lee My hook relates to the book Night, a book by Elie Wiesel who is a Holocaust Survivor who had suffered in a concentration camp with his father, because it is saying how you can’t pray for an easy life, you have to be strong enough to live through it.It is about horrors of the Holocaust in first person, and how Wiesel and his father endured it. In Night, Elie and his father’s relationship changes…

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    Elie Wiesel Elie Wiesel writes about the horrors of the concentration camps during WWII that claimed the lives of his mother, father, and his younger sister; in the trilogy Night. Elie Wiesel struggles with his faith in God, and his faith in humanity, as his world crumbles around him, all the while just trying to survive. Studying his writings you can see Elie Wiesel’s opinions of God and Humanity, come out through the plot as he retells his experiences so that the world can see what happened…

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    in a Gulag labour camp, where “a convict’s thoughts are no freer than he is” (40) – subjected only to the unjust oppression by the Soviet government – their ideas of what the sun and moon can mean is significantly repressed to ideas of misfortunes that are perpetuated by the camp and the government. In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the sun and the moon are symbols of two ideas that derives from the prisoner’s experience in the Gulag camp: incarceration…

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    In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he writes about his life during World War II. He describes how he is a Jew and was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where the Nazis tortured and abused the Jews physically and mentally. As a result, it caused the Jews to do things that a human being would not normally do. The Nazis had such an effect on the Jewish people that they turned the Jews into ruthless savages and apathetic animals, which dehumanized them to act like animals. The memoir starts…

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    Jewish history. However, what happened after the survivors were freed from the concentration camps? The Long Way Home is a documentary directed by Mark Jonathan Harris that combines footage, images, and interviews of the survivors ' to shed light on one of the most overlooked periods in Jewish history. Harris uses the material to describe the hardships faced by the people supposedly liberated from Nazi concentration camps and how they survived the horrific conditions. When combined, the…

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    inhumanely. During the Holocaust the Nazi’s would torture and kill Jews in what were called concentration camps. Auschwitz, one of the biggest concentration camp, which was actually a combination of three different types of camps located in Poland. There was an extermination camp at Birkenau, a slave-labor camp called Buna, and a prisoner camp for political prisoners. At the extermination camps the Nazi would torture and kill the Jews by…

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    multi-award winning film produced by Mark Herman, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, is set during World War II. The film is seen through the eyes of eight-year-old Bruno, the son a commander of a German concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of a concentration camp fence has dreadful consequences. The film evaluates themes such as the beauty of the innocence of childhood, the relationships of specific individuals, and the boundaries of those individuals.…

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