Heinrich Himmler

I now know this was called the Lebensborn project, or Fountain of Life." It was one of most secret and terrifying Nazi projects to be created by the government. Heinrich Himmler founded the Lebensborn project on December 12, 1935, the same year the Nuremberg Laws outlawed intermarriage with Jews and others who were deemed inferior. For decades, Germany's birthrate was decreasing. In the beginning, the Lebensborn were SS nurseries. In order to create a "super-race," the SS transformed these…

The Atrocities of the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic killing of people of Jewish culture. That does not mean that everyone else was safe. They also targeted homosexuals, the mentally ill, gypsies (people of Romanian culture) slavic people (Polish and Lithuanians) and communists. There were many people the Nazi party targeted. The word Holocaust comes from two greek words, holos (whole) and kaustos (burned) (Holocaust encyclopedia). In early 1933, the Jewish…

In The Cunning of History, author Richard Rubenstein discusses the elements within Germany and other countries of the world that contributed to the mass killings of the Jews in what we know as the Holocaust. Rubenstein further discusses the history of anti-Semitism that enabled the persecution of the Jews, and also compares the slave industry of the world wherein the importation and persecution of slaves in the United States and other parts of the world had existed pre-Holocaust. Rubenstein…

The political cartoon, “Little Goldilocks Riding Hood,” was drawn for the American public by the US cartoonist's Herb Block in 1939. The message of this cartoon denotes a small grill labeled as Poland and that is confronted by two fairy tale predators. The undertone of the cartoon is that the little girl is vulnerable and weak and is about to be eaten by two predators. Essentially meaning that Poland is in danger. The cartoon also includes the words “Nazi Germany” on the wolf’s pillow who also…

“We don’t have the luxury of thinking… Some people make all the decisions for us.” (Boyne 13). Although a work of fiction, this quote from Boy in the Striped Pajamas accurately depicts the mindset of many people during the Holocaust, especially children. Children of the Holocaust endured many horrific events that irrevocably changed their lives. Life before concentration camps were calm, and there was a sense of peace within the country. They experienced much persecution with the events…

The darkest era known to man, the Holocaust officially ended on the 8th of May, 1945. The genocide which began on the 30th of January, 1933 lasted for over a decade, and has taken away millions of innocent lives. The genocide had ended due to the efforts taken by the allied forces. These forces consisted of four nations: Great Britain, France, The Soviet Union, and the United States. After the death of Adolf Hitler and the end of World War II, the allied forces needed to react to this horrific…

In Poland, only a few miles away from the city Oswiecim, was the location of the largest death camp during WWII. The camp is known as Auschwitz. It is estimated that around three million to four million people were slaughtered there (Auschwitz-Birkenau: History & Overview). Auschwitz is recognized as the most horrendous concentration camp created by Nazi Germany. The people in the Auschwitz concentration camp were given cruel and unusual punishment in the living conditions they suffered through,…

Women had a very important job in Germany during National Socialism, to marry a German man and bear many German children. However, marriage was only to be about having children. Women were expected to be good wives to their husbands, good mothers to their children, and keep the house clean. Not only this but, women were encouraged to have as many children as they could to fix the falling birth rate and create a strong nation. The Nazis wanted women to believe that having very many children was a…

Only in this way can we obtain the living space [lebensraum] we need" Heinrich Himmler citing Hitler's decree6: "All Poles will disappear from the world.... It is essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles." Hitler didn't want to risk a war with USSR7 on his way, so he proposed…

Adolf Hitler was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 and Leader of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party, better known as the Nazi Party. Since the defeat of Germany in World War II. Hitler, the Nazi Party, and the results of Nazism have been regarded in most of the world as synonymous with evil. Historic and cultural portrayals of Hitler in the West is almost uniformly negative, sometimes neglecting to mention the adulation the German people…