Gestapo

motivations, resources and positions of its members. Resistance in the German Reich in particular took a number of forms; two notable examples are the “Red Orchestra” and the “White Rose,” two resistance groups formed in Germany. The “Red Orchestra”-a Gestapo code name derived from the system of referring to members of different…

Eliezer’s teacher, is deported and comes back a few months later. He describes the horrors that happened on his train ride to his fellow Jews: “The Jews were made to get out. They were made to dig huge graves. And when they had finished their work, the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion, without haste, they slaughtered their prisoners” (Wiesel 4). Nobody believed him. Everyone thought he was merely seeking attention. This is the beginning, the beginning of the hell Elizer and his family are…

To what extent was the Hitler Youth used to defend the Third Reich? To answer that question, the Hitler Youth had been used extensively to defend the Third Reich by fighting as soldiers to their death on the front lines. Adolf Hitler was the Dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945. Hitler founded a youth organization ordering all boys and girls ages ten-eighteen to join a youth program that leads to mandatory military service for the Third Reich. The boys and girls ages ten-fourteen fell into…

War & Genocide a Concise History: Review Pages 90-100 & Chapter 4. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime had and were a very well organized machine. Hitler used well thought out methods and implemented them as the push and pull back depending the popularity of society. He had many treaty’s and pacts that he made knowing full well he would eventually break to gain his ultimate plan of race and space. I find it interesting that a man with not real high intelligence, unpopular, and a politician made by…

Nazi Germany is forever remembered as the villainous provocateur of World War II. This war played host to some of the most atrocious events in human history. The war has evoked several images of human cruelty, war torn cities and towns, concentration camps, nuclear holocaust, racial hatred, and villainous dictators. Underneath the tumultuous events of World War II, there was a section of Nazi policy directed at military, medical, and euthanasia experimentation. In a ravaged post war Germany,…

Franklin D. Roosevelt: President of the U.S. from March 4, 1933 -April 12, 1945 (so during WW2). Stood for an isolationist policy so the U.S. could focus on domestic policy in solving the Great Depression. Responsible for “The New Deal”, which tried to revamp U.S. economy Neville Chamberlain: British PM from 1937-1940. His main policy was appeasement with Germany, believing Hitler’s wants could be satiated. In the beginning, he was hailed as a hero for keeping peaceful diplomatic relationships,…

Leader Analysis of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill was a British writer, statesman, military officer, and Prime Minister. He was born in1874 at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire to father Lord Randolph Churchill and mother Jennie Jerome. (Hardy) Churchill “grew up with social status, privilege, and a keen sense of heritage, but little money.”(Churchill museum) He attended the Royal Military College where he graduated 20th in a class of 130 and became an officer in the British Army (Britannica)…

was extremely willing to support the SS's counter-SA activity since he had already questioned SA loyalty and believed he could gain political power if the SA was out of the picture. In addition, the SA's police activities were rivals to Goring's Gestapo which had been established in Prussia since early 1933.20 Goring was also the Prussian Minister of the Interior and did not appreciate the SA's bid for police control in his area of influence. To assist in monitoring SA and other possible…

It is often questioned what level of independence one should take in relation to society, government, and the influence or aid of others. Achieving a level of independence, the ability to stand on your own, is a key area of accepting responsibility for oneself. Individuals should have total free will if they are capable of taking care of themselves. Independence is for the ones who can depend on themselves to get by, but the actions of individuals should only be limited to prevent harm to others…

(First Page) The holocaust happened between 1941 and 1945 (USHMM. “Timeline of Events.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Source i). Around 6 million Jews were murdered and about 17 million people overall. This was a horrific period in history. The holocaust was truly a crime against humanity. It killed millions of people and affected even more lives. Before 1933, World War 1 devastated Europe. Germany had built up resentment after the war’s peace settlement and the Treaty of…