History of the Jews in the United States

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    For the first half of this quarter we have been reading Ordinary Men and how regular civilians were able to be part of a mass murder of the Polish Jews not protest the nation. Countless times in class my classmates kept repeating how could the inhumane Nazis kill innocent Jews, as if they put themselves in the position will not be part of any mass murders, I wouldn’t stand for country of those actions. I truly believe these are lies not only do we support similar actions of the Nazis. We’re not…

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    But before all the violence that had occurred, in 1933 the Jewish population had more than 9 million all over Europe. Many of those Jews, lived in the countries where Nazi Germany had occupied in World War II. In 1945, two out of three European Jews were killed as part of the Nazi policy, which was to wipe out all the Jews in Europe. During the time, before all Jews were exterminated, no one around the world was aware of what was happening in Europe. In fact, many Americans didn’t know until…

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    The holocaust was one of the biggest massacres of history. For the 12 years that Germany was ruled by the Nazi Party, a central belief was that there existed in society, certain people who were dangerous and needed to be eliminated for German society to flourish and survive. Before WW2 the population of Germany was 9.6 million during the period of the holocaust it dropped to 3.5 million. It shows it was one of the biggest mass murders ever and not only effected the Jewish but also the German…

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    catastrophic event included many lives lost, a way of life, and buildings burned to ash. Historians call this massive coordinated attack on the Jews by the German reich- the Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. I chose to research Kristallnacht because it was a huge turning point leading into the Holocaust, and many people look over this event in history. Through my research I hope to find what developed before Kristallnacht, and I also desire to find a personal interview of someone who…

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    Holocaust Ethnocentrism

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    to human history is class conflict (Henslin 1.7). He proposed 2 classes, bourgeoisie and the proletariat comprised the society. Bourgeoisie were the wealthy, owners, but smaller group and the proletariat were the poorer classes that worked for the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat, in many aspects as a form of control. In the case of the Germans and the Jews, the Germans were the bourgeoisie and the Jews, proletariat. Adolf Hitler ordered the murder of thousands of Jews…

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    Genocide In Human History

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    Genocide in Human History Compared to Unwound Genocide is the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group. Genocide has been a prominent part of human history and changed the course of the world multiple times, creating wars and tearing down governments that had been corrupt. Usually occurring in places where people need a sense of leadership or change, the first recorded genocide was the annihilation of the inhabitants of an island called Melos…

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    eliminating the Jewish culture because he was convinced that Jews were the reason that bad thing kept happening. He especially blamed them for their loss in World War I. During World War II, Adolf Hitler’s plan to eliminate the Jewish culture was not a simplistic idea, but one that was developed through the years. The first stage to eradication the Jews was definition. What is meant by definition is that he made it known which people were Jews and which people…

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    Jewish Collective Values

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    In spite of the efforts of many nations to suppress the Jewish people and our collective values, both have had a profound effect on democracy. Jewish traditions and values permeated the creation of the United States, which has since effected the creation of democratic governments in all the furthest reaches of the globe. Judaism has always been dedicated to democracy. From our earliest days, the Jewish people have stressed a covenant between the powerful and the masses. This relationship is not…

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    (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…

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    The involvement the United States had with the Holocaust, and more specifically with the Jewish refugees, has been a very controversial subject throughout the years. This is due to the fact that very few Americans wish to acknowledge and take responsibility for the part the US played in the atrocities that occurred. World War II began in 1939, but the oppression of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, communists, and other political enemies to the Nazis had begun quite some time before war broke out. In…

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