Gestapo

move. Adolf Hitler specifically hated Jews. Hitler managed to convince the Germans that the Jews were to blame for all the problems in the country. Hitler used the media to brainwash most of the people that it was the Jews fault. On May 10th, The Gestapo (German secret police) is created by…

Hitler’s biggest accomplice during the Third Reich were the German “ordinary” citizen. The German people had a part in the oppression and genocide of the Jewish citizens. Albeit some more than others but to what degree. In order for the Nazi regime to survive it needed the collaboration of the German people. However, you cannot completely blame the regular German citizen for the Holocaust because the people who are directly responsible to a higher level of culpability. This is not to say that…

extreme detail gives us unimaginable insight into how inhumanly they were treated. The way Elie describes Moishe the Beadle's experience perfectly shows this, "They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for machine guns. This took place in the…

Graded Assignment Journal, Part 1: Night The questions in this Journal Assignment cover readings in Lessons 1–4 in Night (Sections 1–3 of the text). You will need to turn in this assignment after you complete Lesson 4 of this unit. Your answers should be a minimum of 5 sentences and include examples from the text. (Remember to use APE: Answer, Prove, Explain). (12 points) Score 1. Read this quote from Elie Wiesel: “I only know that without this testimony, my life as a writer—or my life,…

book, and his crucial parts in the key atrocities of the period, from Kristallnacht to the last arrangement itself, take up a generous piece of the account. So, the question arises: is the roughly strewn story of Heydrich's rising to leader of the Gestapo and "Protector" of added Czechoslovakia (where he got his nickname, "the Butcher of Prague") in any…

signaling them to open it, but they wouldn’t so they use the butt of the weapons or guns to open the door and while the people who were inside the building waiting to be taken away for there was nothing else to do or any other way to escape the Nazis and Gestapo, then the door was busted open. The times set back to the characters from the first Act of the Diary of Anne Frank where Mr. Frank and Miep were talking about Anne and how she was happy to see the world she couldn’t see for two years,…

limited. Such ability is using the washroom. In the middle, conflicts grow between the inhabitants of the annex. They have fallen into a pattern for living in hiding, but their terror is still present with the threat of being caught. By the end, the Gestapo found the annex and brought them into concentration camps. Out of all the people hiding, only Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, survived to be liberated. After seeing both versions, I feel…

began as a special guard for Hitler and other leaders. “The black-shirted SS members formed a smaller, elite group whose members also served as auxiliary policemen and, later, as concentration camp guards.” After Hitler took power, the SA and Gestapo agents went from door to door looking for Hitler’s enemies. Socialists, Communists, trade union leaders, and others who had spoken out against the Nazi party were arrested, and some were killed (“SS Police…

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…

Ellie Weisel’s novel The Night and Shirley Wachtel’s In My Mother’s Shoes are as much similar as they are different. Both novels narrate the details of those who were forced to live in the concentration camps for years. In My Mother’s Shoes is told from Holocaust survivor, Blima, and her daughter, Shirley, and switches from each of them throughout the novel. Although In My Mother’s Shoes is told from two view points it can be viewed as three because Betty is Blima’s American name and only…