Gestapo

Hitler had this secret group of men known as the “Gestapo”, this group of men could arrest any citizen they wanted solely based on suspicion. Hitler thought that if he was able to eliminate all his opposing threats, such as, the Jewish community, communists, anyone who had a different view or was thought to be a threat of the Nazi party as a whole, he would use the Gestapo to eliminate them. Hitler saw communist to be a huge threat to fascism, this was portrayed…

During the 1920’s Germany was in deep crisis from the harsh consequences of the Treaty of Versailles that had lead to hyperinflation and masses of Germans not losing trust in their politicians. The country was in need of a leader, who was trustworthy and would give all their time to putting Germany back on the map. Adolf Hitler soon rose to the challenge to become Chancellor and quoted that he had ‘the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice’ which, in time, won over the votes for the Nazi…

In Resistance by Anita Shreve, the time period was a time of horror and anger. People commonly think of it as the worst time period in history. This time period was widely known as “The Holocaust.” As Anita Shreve writes about The Holocaust, she thinks about the worst time in history. She is trying to portray The Holocaust at its worst for the readers. In order to do that, Anita Shreve includes frightening details of the conditions and how people cope with dealing with the war. In the 1940s,…

The Bill apparently creates, “a modern-day Gestapo” and takes away rights; “No exaggeration, that's what it creates. It chills, censors, and criminalizes free speech, free association, and constitutional rights of assembly”(). With the Act, people tend to think of the police or security agencies as…

First, I chose this quotation because it helps establish Eliezer’s spiritual standings that will be represented throughout the book. To explain, this quotation is important because it allows Eliezer to find the answer to the original question that appeared earlier “Why do you pray?”. Throughout the book, Eliezer is angry and questions why God has placed him on this disagreeable path. In addition to having this quotation, it gives Eliezer the opportunity to find the answers to his questions…

Sentence: “The Geneva Convention will do nothing for you here. You have been with the Maquis, therefore I am free of restrictions….” (Page 199) Gestapo: Established in 1933, this was the Nazi state secret police group who were known for their harsh methods of torture. Sentence: “This was sent to me by the head of the Gestapo in Lyon, Hauptsturmfuhrer Barbie…”. (Page 209) Background…

Noor had her radio and journal. Her journal had all the earlier messages Noor had sent to England. With the journal, the Nazis could now send messages on Noor’s radio, and it could be counted as intelligible. Noor was then sent to a Gestapo prison station and interrogated. She refused to tell any information for 10 months, and this got her constant beatings and starvation (Dalton Par. 26). She had performed two attempts at escape. The first attempt at escape failed due to the Nazi, Vogt…

According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia it says that when the Gestapo found out about “Operation Seven”, which was an operation to help get Jews out of Germany, they arrested both Bonhoeffer and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi in April of 1943. They found out that Bonhoeffer was also a part of the resistance circle, so they moved him to the Gestapo prison that was in Berlin. In February of 1945 he was moved to Buchwald, then in April they moved him to…

took them to the Gestapo and checked them in, which has German documental evidence to prove it. The second Jew recounts that the soldiers grabbed their arm, stumbled and was loaded onto a black truck that took them to the Gestapo and checked them in, which has German documental evidence to prove it. While the first Jew recalls a blue truck, and the second Jew recalls a black truck, those are minor detail divergencies that don’t change the over picture that they were taken to the Gestapo, and…

Lucien’s architectural achievements are hindered in a similar manner to Macbeth, and it is Alain, who Lucien hired to help with architectural designs. First, readers are known that Alain is closely associated with the Gestapo because of the fact that he is raised by his uncle, who is a Gestapo officer. Later in the book, Alain is the first one who gets a grasp at what Lucien is doing. He finds the sketches of a hiding place that Lucien is designing and there is a gush of unconformity. Both…