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famous and cruelest oppressions was the Holocaust. Near the end of World War II, America dropped the first two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought the end of the war. Some historians may argue that the Holocaust was more about liberating the people in concentration camps and giving those people freedom from Hitler and his dictatorship. Other may argue that not much is known about other groups beside the Jews that were affected by the Holocaust. One group was the homosexuals. Due…

The Holocaust: Extermination or simple segregation? The spark that ignited the flame of Adolf Hitler’s hate started in 1918, when he learned of the German surrender to the Allies of World War One. Enraged, he blamed the surrender on the people in Germany, such as the Jews and Slavs, which he considered to be undesirable and sought to build a Germany were no weakness could hold it down. Hitler sent the undesirables of Germany’s occupation to camps where they were exterminated, and the evidence of…

The Holocaust was an incredibly unfortunate event which was caused by the idea of racial superiority. Hitler and the Nazis believed that Aryans were a superior race to all others. Friedrich Nietzsche was a german philosopher who lived in the mid to late 1800s. He was the self proclaimed anti-Christ who believed in the coming of an Übermensch, which would be an all powerful super-race (Kalish). The Üntermensch was an inferior race that was often trying to cause inconveniences for the Übermensch.…

As someone of Polish descent, growing up I often heard vague references to my ancestors and the “hard times during the war.” It was not until I got older that I began to learn about what really happened during those “hard times” to the people of Poland during the war. Through my paper, I intend to answer the historical question, “What happened to the Polish people during World War II, not only at the hands of the Germans, but also the Soviets?” Therefore, my topic will be to compare and…

source was a list of instructions set out by Heydrich to somewhat direct ‘the final aim'. Heydrich was a very anti-semitic person, he was seen as one of the darkest Nazi officers at the time. He was put in charge of some of the key events in the Holocaust including the forming of the Einsatzgruppen and the act of Kristallnacht. His history and his title as ‘the man with the iron heart' would have made his role quite powerful, he was out to get back at the Jews and nothing was going to stop him.…

In 1939 war was beginning for European countries like Germany and Poland. There was a sense of fear that traveled between individuals and families in 1941 when the Holocaust began. As chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler’s goal was to create the Aryan race and rid the world of those he deemed as “undesirable.” As a result of this, Hitler began rounding up inferior individuals such as Jewish people, homosexuals, and the disabled. He forced them into sectioned off towns, known as ghettos, and…

forced to lose their identity as humans for the sake of the Nazi’s protection. There are many facts that support the reasons why the Jews were oppressed. They range from how the Jews were mistreated, to the amount of deaths of Jews by the end of the Holocaust. According to historical documents and journals, it is evident that Jews in concentration…

even those members of the Jewish community that worked with the Germans in hopes of saving themselves, there is a way that an individual from each category could have attempted to rebel against the Final Solution. Research has shown that the individuals who participated in the Holocaust were neither psychopaths or particularly…

The effects of genocides are passed from generation to generation because of the trauma that it causes, which is likely to be passed genetically. A recognized research team, led by Rachel Yehuda, made a study of Holocaust survivors that suggests that trauma has a high probability of being passed on to children´s genes, the study was made on 32 Jewish who had either been interned in a Nazi concentration camp, experienced torture or who had to hide during the second world war. They also analyzed…

in World War II. At the height of the war there were 30-40 main camps and hundreds of mini-camps. In total over two-million innocent people were murdered in these camps. The National Holocaust Memorial Museum is a museum in Washington, D.C. With unique power and authenticity it is a living memorial to the Holocaust. Because of the museum’s stature I believe that this article is truly reliable. I have first-hand knowledge of the museum because I visited it in eighth grade. The museum works with…