Gestapo

The setting of Code Name Verity is in German-occupied France in 1940-1950’s. It is also a Gestapo holding building where Verity was held. The main character, Verity, was captured by the Gestapo and they gave her a pencil to write about codes, allied bases, and other information. The characters in the story are Verity ( aka: Julia Lindsay MacKenzie Wallace Beaufort-Stuart ). Julia is a spy for an allied base and Maddie her friend is a pilot. Another character is Maddie, Julia’s friend, which…

wrote about what she did every day. (My Hero) 25 months from living in the secret annex they were caught. The person who told the Gestapo’s was unknown. A man named Silberbauer was a spy who found and caught the Franks. The Gestapo went in the secret annex. When the Gestapo found the two families they were hiding in the attic of the secret annex. (My…

In accordance with these laws, a hypothetical has been posed: If a Gentile provided refuge to Anne Frank and her family during the reign of Hitler, and the Gestapo came to their house and questioned if the Gentile were sheltering Jews, what would Kantian ethics permit? Kant would assert that they would be morally obligated to tell the Gestapo…

propaganda, censorship, and educating the youth. Adolf Hitler, who became Fuhrer of Germany in 1933, followed the guidelines of totalitarianism during his reign as leader in Germany. Adolf Hitler was the most totalitarian leader because of his use of the Gestapo as a secret police…

Nazi enforcement was the Gestapo, also called the “Green Police”. When Germany invaded and controlled the Netherlands, they set up the Gestapo, a brutal political police force. Their job was to administer laws that isolated the Jews and inflicted harsh treatment upon them. The Gestapo was present in the text when Anne had a nightmare about them. She told her father that in her dream, they came and grabbed her and dragged her out of the Secret Annex. This shows that the Gestapo connected the…

Fascism attained a mass following in Germany because of the psychological tactics employed by the Nazi party. In the interwar period, Germany was a nation humiliated and impoverished due to its defeat in World War I and the harsh conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. Along with the worldwide depression and the looming threat of communism, Germany was a breeding ground for extremist political parties such as the Nazi party. Hitler promised to stop reparation payments, to give all…

For example, the Gestapo routinely tortured people for any information on the plannings of rebellions or other activities that went against Nazi rules: “Gestapo interrogation methods included… securing a prisoner’s wrists behind his back then hanging him by the arms causing shoulder dislocation” ( paragraph 15 ). They would capture and torture…

Irena Sendler was a Polish nurse, humanitarian, and social worker who served in the Polish Underground during World War II in Warsaw. The German had already taken over Warsaw at the time. Irena was the head of the children's section of Zegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews which was active from 1942 to 1945. Assisted by some two dozen other Zegota members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and…

life and written most of his important work in his flat where he lived with his wife and six children. That is the reason for freud holding as long as he did, so despite being harrassed by the gestapo repeteadly. The breaking point for him was when his daughter Anna, not only got arrested by the gestapo but also threatened. She was released by some help from the american ambassador. He then realized that he had no chance against the nazis, therefore he had to leave vienna. He received help from…

In the nonfiction book In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson, a historian becomes an ambassador in the key formational years of 1933-1937 in Hitler’s regime. He has many opponents but he stands strong to his Jeffersonian beliefs. His daughter comes along and those two are the center of the story. To begin with, the story starts with Dodd, a University of Chicago professor. He becomes an ambassador in Berlin after many others turned the…