Gestapo

Unfortunately, her diary is left unfinished, for she, her family, and the other occupants of the annex are discovered by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp. The general horror of war, coupled with the specific horrors that the Nazis inflicted upon the Jews, is the major theme of the diary. Anne Frank, the young teenage girl who writes the diary, experiences the pain of war first-hand. In order to try and escape the Nazi extermination of Jewish people, her family and the Van…

When the world needed a way to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, they turned to the Nuremburg Trials. 13 trials were held between 1945 and 1949. The ones on trial were major German officers and industrialists for causing one of the largest disturbances to world peace that mankind has ever seen. Although Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had committed suicide before the Trials took place, there were still many people to be punished for crimes against humanity. Firstly, when Adolf Hitler became the…

Two mighty leaders, two totalitarian governments, but two different ideologies. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were two supreme leaders of their own totalitarian countries. They both used similar methods to control their people and their increase in income. They had very different ideas in mind though. So how were they different? Let’s take a closer look. The political ideology originated in an interesting way. In prison, “Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (“My Struggle) (p.552). The book was…

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”- Dr. Wayne Dyer. This quote is an example of how symbolism can work, because the way you use to see something can completely change and you will use symbolism to help you explain those feelings in a different way. There are many examples of symbolism in the novel, “Night.” The symbols I will be talking about is; spoon and knife, fire, and lastly “corpses.” The spoon and knife Eliezer received from his father was a use of…

Adolf hitler killed over 6 million Jews during the holocaust. A Lot of people didn't support Hitler and Himmler's plan, and Jan karski was one of those people. Born in poland, he strongly believed in freedom of religion. He did not support how hitler killed so many innocent people. He worked hard during his life and through his capture. Even after he escaped, he went back to the underground and saved many people's lives. After touring the Warsaw Ghetto, he donned a disguise to enter a nazi…

leadership skills were. Heydrich great leadership played another roll in WW11 by playing a role in the purge of the German high command and to plant false information that led to a similar purge by Stalin of the red army. In 1937 he directed the Gestapo to carry out searches and mark arrest. He did this to crush public speaking. Reinhard Heydrich was a very good leader because he grew very rapidly in is successful career with being the general of all German police and being in charge for all…

Jeffrey Herf’s book Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys studies the distinct ways in which post-World War II German national political leaders in both the East and West were influenced by both their pre-war beliefs and post-war “political interests in domestic and international politics”. Herf specifically addresses four questions he wishes to find an answer to: why did German politicians place such prominence on to Nazi crimes in mainstream political rhetoric after 1945; why did…

Oskar Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party and German businessman who used his influence and power to have a positive impact during WWII, rather than the negative one many people he was associated with had. Schindler was born on the 28th April 1908 in Moravia, Austria-Hungary. He attended both primary and high school and later enrolled in technical school but was expelled for forgery. He took courses in Brno in several trades and worked for his father for three years in his farm machinery…

Nearly every aspect of life, for Jews and non-Jews alike, was altered by German occupation. There are the obvious changes - increased military presence, secret police, conspiracy, bribery… the list goes on. In tandem with the more ‘concrete’ parts of being occupied, there is also the way that interpersonal relations were shaped and impacted. Thomas Blatt’s From the Ashes of Sobibor provides the reader with an understanding of just how severely the daily lives of individuals were altered,…

his surrogate mother. Despite their difference in appearance, the blond-haired, blue-eyed Alfred had no sense of being different from the rest of his Indonesian-Dutch family and he was too young to question why he was hidden in the cellar when the Gestapo came to the…