Gestapo

How much is a single life worth? “Code Name Verity” by Elizabeth Wein is about a young woman named Julie Beaufort-Stuart, who was either known as Verity or Queenie. Julie was a spy who got captured by Gestapo and held prisoner. She tortured, interrogated, and gave away her teams codes (which we later learned those codes weren’t active.) Julie was a very lively, aggressive, yet beautiful woman. She would always put up a fight and worked hard before she was captured. Julie ended up dying. Her best…

sending them to their deaths in concentration camps, despite the risks of betraying the German government. As the Nazis fought to eradicate Jews, people like Duckwitz fought battles of their own. Though they seemed miniscule compared to the armies of Gestapo, these heroes changed the world. Without them, there would have been nothing countering the evil that threatened to overcome humanity, and countless more lives would have been lost. Other heroes took action in Japan. After Hiroshima and…

Holocaust Ghettos Ghetto - A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships (Dictionary.com). Ghettos were just one of the things that made the Holocaust miserable for Jews. They were very important to the Nazis during the Holocaust. They helped them in many ways, and the Nazis probably couldn’t have succeeded; well, partly…

Neighbors, written by Jan Gross, is a book telling a different side of the Holocaust. Most times when people think of the Holocaust, they believe it just had to do with Germans killing Jews in Concentration Camps. However, there is another side to the story, one that starts on a summer day in a town called Jedwabne. This time it is different because it is not the Germans killing the Jews, it is the Poles. Jan Gross mentions many different sources throughout the book to prove what happened;…

Use the ‘Schnellbrief' to answer the following THREE questions: 1. Determine the provenance of the source. (Hint: It's to do with the source author's background/beliefs etc and how these would have affected what is being presented in the source.) 10 Marks This source was a list of instructions set out by Heydrich to somewhat direct ‘the final aim'. Heydrich was a very anti-semitic person, he was seen as one of the darkest Nazi officers at the time. He was put in charge of some of the key…

“It was many, many such stories-synagogues burned, Jews beaten with no reason, whole towns pushing out all Jews-each story worse than the other”(35). It were these rumors that Vladeck heard on the train when he first saw the Nazi flag flying over Czechoslovakia. Like many Jews he never imagined these things would happen to him. Soon they slowly began to take over his life. It was not until later he began to understand the gravity of his own persecution. Regrettably, for him, and many others it…

Why is the second amendment so important? it seems in today's society we find ourselves asking this question whenever a tragedy like the Orlando shooting occurs. the second amendment is what makes America the most unique and special country in the world. We are the only country in the that has a written document that states that citizens have a basic human right to defend themselves and form an a led body militia. It ensures that Americans can keep the government in check and that the citizens…

Sonderkommandos, that administered in the Soviet Union near the theater of operations, or the more conspicuous Einsatzkommandos, which operated inside the battlefield. Formulated as motorized mobile units, they would be transmuted into officers of the Gestapo or the Sicherheitsdienst after several weeks of service. However, methods of recruitment were altered as the Einsatzgruppen matured. Subsequent the invasion of Poland, units were equipped…

actively complicit in Nazi militarism. In fact, anyone that was suspected of being compliant with Nazi militarism and genocide were later deported and prosecuted. This included Georg Rikhey (deported in 1946) who was accused of compliance with the Gestapo and Arthur Randolph (deported in 1984) who was accused of using forced labor. (Both stood trial and were acquitted) Many intellectuals were not employed to their full potential prior to the mass recall in 1943 where they were recalled from…

plant at Mittelwerk used people from the Dora Concentration Camp as slave labor. This was not uncommon among other German wartime production sites. Wernher von Braun was a member of the Nazi party and an SS officer, yet was also arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 for careless remarks he made about the war and the rocket, “His responsibility for the crimes connected to Rocket production is controversial... Following World War II, Von Braun worked with our US Army in the development of missiles. He…