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The world was silent during the Holocaust. The people that were involved in the Holocaust were Adolf Hitler, Nazis, and the victims Jews, Soviets, and many other groups of people. The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 in Europe and northern Africa. It happened because Adolf Hitler wanted a "pure race" and he chose to blame and use the Jews as a scapegoat since they were not well liked at the time anyways. He also wanted to eradicate the Jews for many other reasons, such as land, bankruptcy…

An Irish priest named Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was a patron of Rome’s high life, a well-respected Vatican diplomat and a regular attendee of all the most prestigious parties in the capital. O’Flaherty grew up in an Ireland under British control at the turn of the 20th century. Irish citizens fighting for their own freedom faced the wrath of harsh British army forces, including the infamous ‘Black and Tans’. As a young clerical student he witnessed first-hand atrocities committed by the Black…

Imperialism is the policy of extending a countries power through the acquisition of foreign lands either through military force or through diplomacy. The former tended to be the method of choice for most of the colonies. Although France and Great Britain had many colonies in Africa the way in which they ruled their colonies was vastly different; the French used a more “hands on” approach, handling problems as they came up in their colonies in North Africa, and the British had taken steps to…

I don 't usually weigh in on politics. In the past, I 've left that to people I thought knew more than I did, or were more eloquent when speaking on the subject. Those days are over now because they have to be. The president-elect does not even know more than I do about politics, nor is he more eloquent on any subject, so all bets are off. I no longer have the luxury of remaining silent. The election of Donald Trump has uncovered some seriously ugly truths about our country that we cannot afford…

gods. This encouraged the separation of the Japanese from many other cultures for a long time. Vulgaria is a state that encourages the segregation of children and adults. It closely resembles Nazi Germany are their ways of belief. Much like the Gestapo, the Nazi police, Vulgaria had the childcatcher. The Child Catcher is the physical representation of hate thriving within Vulgaria. She willingly acts upon the belief that children have been painted as monsters. She goes door to door attempting…

1st Month It’s not as bad as it was made out to be. I had been evacuated out of my house, and into a ghetto. I have never been closer to my community than I have now. We are in immediate vicinity of each other and we are able to socialize and operate normally for a community from a certain aspects. The guards aren’t being heinous, and they seem to take our best interest in mind. I mean sure, they may have taken away our liberties such as taking away my gold, but it’s all orders given to them.…

Since the beginning of history, art has been used as a way to express the feelings a nation faces during one of society’s biggest tragedies: war. When the city of Guernica in Spain was mercilessly bombed by the Luftwaffe, Pablo Picasso began working on his painting titled Guernica to show the Spaniard’s disdain for the war. Similarly, Bernie Boston captured his photograph titled Flower Power during a protest for the Vietnam War. These two works of art share many differences, both obvious and…

Schindler Paragraph 6: Oskar Schindler is one of the most famous Jewish liberators in the Holocaust. He was forever immortalized through Academy Award winning movie, Schindler’s List. The movie truly paints him in a heroic light. Placed in the late 1930s-40s, Oskar Schindler was a Czech man that bought Rekord Ltd, a previously jewish owned business. With that business, he employed over 1000 jews from the Krakow ghetto. Later, numerous Jews of the ghetto were being liquidated to Camp Plaszow. In…

Introduction The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.” Goebbels (“Nazi Propaganda,” 2016). This paper will be discussing the damaging and long lasting effects of Nazi propaganda on the global perception of Poland. Unfortunately, what Goebbels says rang true for the people of Poland and this paper will be discussing the methods and impact of Nazi Anti-Polish propaganda.…

Comparative study project Night was an extraordinary novel that comprises the tragedies and horrific life the author goes through under the atrocities of the Nazis. Night, has put together some of the excellent themes that can be compared and contrasted with the movie, American history X. Both the subjects share some common and opposite themes, that shows the human characteristic under different circumstances, which could be analysed. In the following paragraphs, I will put together the…