Gestapo

amazing. The diary was a lot more popular than the book because the book has more details about Anne’s life than the movie. The movie also tells about the concentration camps where the book does not mention it. Anne’s diary ends abruptly because the Gestapo found their hiding place and took them all away. There are many similarities between the book and the movie about Anne Frank. First of all,…

Romi Cohn: Wanted by the Gestapo Lying on the wet, cold ground of winter, the teenage boy looks for any movement. Suddenly, someone moves in the distance and a firing frenzy occurs. Silence. The life of a partisan during WWII was not easy and followed the concept of survival of the fittest. Romi Cohn, a teenage Jewish partisan, took on the responsibility of taking care of the Jewish families in his home town, thus leading him to the path of resistance. Romi Cohn was a thirteen year old boy who…

The Holocaust One of the biggest genocides in history, the holocaust, is a symbol of human apathy. Millions of innocent citizens were the target of mass murders. World War II was a time when the world showed indifference. Not only did they ignore what was going on but they also helped the problem at hand by doing nothing. However, there were a few brave and courageous people. These people helped victims, saved thousands of lives, and risked everything for total strangers. We call them resisters…

has wrinkles, poor, nothing like he was before. When the family lived in their town before the war started, Leon was ominous about the future. The Gestapo said a lot of rude things and called them grotesque; before worst things started happening, even though the family was naive and did nothing wrong; always did what they were told to do. The Gestapo was Nazi internal security police; bunch of young 18-19 year old men. They ransacked through the apartments where Jewish families lived and took…

Heinrich Himmler unified all the local German police units with the Gestapo in the Nazi capital of Berlin in 1934. Then on June 17, 1936 Adolf Hitler promoted Himmler to Chief of German Police and Reichsfuhrer SS. This promotion gave Himmler the authority to unify all of the detective forces in Nazi Germany with the Reich Criminal Police Office. Then Himmler centralized the Criminal Police and Gestapo with the Security Police Main Office. Then in 1939 after the invasion of Poland and…

cleansing the state of Jews, not all people approved of the idea. Therefore, Hitler created the Gestapo, a secret police force that helped solidify Nazi control by identifying and arresting anti-Nazi agents in Germany (Lerner). The Gestapo uprooted, arrested, and executed any anti-Nazis and their sympathizers to dismay any threat to the government. In 1936 Hitler passed a law that allowed the Gestapo to execute without judicial rule,…

These cattle cars were packed with 80 people to a car. “There were so many of us, we could hardly breathe” (Wiesel, 22). The Jews were given some bread, and a few pails of water. The Gestapo made it clear that if one person were to escape, everyone was to be…

As early as 1942, the Allies learned from various sources in Nazi-occupied Europe that the Germans were carrying out many atrocities against Jews, prisoners of war, and other groups. On October 7 of that year, the United States and Great Britain established the War Crimes Commission, which made lists of German war criminals. In the Moscow Declaration of November 1, 1943, the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union affirmed that they intended to bring German war criminals to justice…

One resident known as Moshe the Beadle told his true story of the Gestapo who killed innocent people. Over time, Elie’s life and possessions were left behind him, with each day getting worse and worse. The Nazis turned his life and many other lives into nothing. Soon, the only thing that gave Elie’s life meaning was his…

Over the course of World War II, forces such as the Gestapo and the SS carried out Hitler’s cornerstones of ideology. One of Hitler’s ideas included the methodical and industrial extermination of peoples not considered “Aryan,” or the “master race.” Groups targeted by the Nazi Party included the Roma, the disabled, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses. However, the group arguably targeted the most harshly, were those of the Jewish faith. An estimated 6 million Jewish people died as a result of “the…