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    speaking out against the government are being murdered; it’s all the same. Where do we draw the line between a dictatorship and a genocide? It is said that hating somebody is like drinking poison and hoping that the other person will die. Hitler, Himmler, Heydrich, and all the other Nazi officials hated the Jews so much that they ultimately destroyed themselves. They drank the poison of their crimes, prejudice, and racism and faced the consequences. At the end of the war, the Nuremburg war…

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    Reinhard Heydrich From 1941 to 1945 about 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. One of the most important men to the Nazi cause of mass murdering the Jews was Reinhard Heydrich, one of the highest men in the SS. Reinhard Heydrich had an interesting life as a child and young adult, and a influential career as a Nazi. Heydrich’s death in 1942 was a turning point towards the extermination of Jews in Europe. Reinhard Heydrich had an unique childhood and life as a young adult.…

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    to reach to that position where they can get enough trust of people who will not fight back against them. Well, we all know that it didn’t work out well for them and ended up losing their lives as well. Nazis was a group made of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and some others who wanted all Non-Germans out of Germany. They wanted people who only had blue eyes and blond hair which according to them was a perfect example of true Germans. They were in power from year 1933-1945 in which they tried…

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    Dachau Concentration Camp

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    prisoners were taught to obey authority. Dachau was created to enforce compliance with the Nazi regime. Unlike the death camps that focused on extermination, Dachau was a labor camp where the main goal was to punish political prisoners. Heinrich Himmler was an officer in the Nazi organization of the Schutzstaffel, commonly known as the SS. He announced the opening of Dachau on March 20, 1933, at a press conference. Dachau was located ten…

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    The creation of the einsatzgruppen started one of the first ever genocides in history, by the development of groups that would literally go door to door murdering minorities. With over a million confirmed kills, the Einsatzgruppen contributed to over fifteen percent of people who were killed in the genocide alone. With the technologies and masterminds behind the operation, it truly seemed like nothing could stop this destructive force. The killing squads jump started even concentration camps and…

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    The Second World War witnessed one of the most gruesome and tragic crimes committed against humanity, and the Holocaust, a genocide against the Jews and which occurred at the hands of the Nazis, was among them. In The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, readers are given a closer look at what may have happened behind those fences, and behind the doors to the chambers where millions of Jews were brought to death. On the surface, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story about a kid, Bruno, who is only…

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    The document is a governmental order by Heinrich Himmler, outlining the rules that must be followed in order for a Schutzstaffel or SS member to be granted permission to marry. It was published as SS order no.65 on December 31st 1931, to be implemented from the following day onwards. The Marriage Order was written by Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS with help from the agriculturalist R. Walther Darré. The document was intended to be seen by all unmarried members or aspiring members of the SS,…

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    “Never Shall I Forget,” by Elie Wiesel is a poem of a passage in Night, that deals with the Holocaust which had occurred during the time of World War 2. The Holocaust is a very delicate matter and Elie Wiesel handles it in a way where he describes and shows the horrors committed by the Nazi’s of Germany. This poem, “Never Shall I Forget,” is written in the first person in which it illustrates the horrible events and tragic effects of the concentration camps where Elie Wiesel and his family were…

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    Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, once said “No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgements are wrong. Only racists make them.” In the 1900s, during World War II, the Germans were ordered by Hitler to gather all Jews. The Jews are moved to concentration camps, first to Auschwitz then to Buchenwald. The Holocaust was a horrifying time for the Jews. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, he captures the story of his and his father’s struggle for their freedom. Jews…

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    Argument Essay RD Are people really good at heart? No, it was ironic how Anne, in “The Diary of Anne Frank” stated “In spite of everything, people are good at the heart.” She said that when she didn’t actually know what was going on outside of the annex, millions of jews were being killed, because of Hitler and the Germans. People are bad at heart. While some people are good at heart, no amount of good, can overcome the amount of evil in this world. People are selfish, people are treated…

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