Holocaust research

Edelheit and Hershel Edelheit are also co-authors that have written in detail about the Nazi party’s influence in Germany, specifically in the 1930’s leading up to the war and their rise to power. Their book titled History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary contains a summary of information in regards to the Nazi party. This books analyzes and outlines the mindset and goals of the Nazi party during the 1930’s. Particular sections of this book titled “the Jewish Problem” and…

the Mengele experiments, fewer than 200 individuals survived.” ( Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) 17 Nov. 2007: Newspaper Source.EBSCO. 12 Mar. 2016.) “Holocaust survivor Susan Vigorito found the use of the word "data" a sterile term. She was 3½ when she and her twin sister, Hannah, arrived at Auschwitz. They were housed for an entire year in Mengele's private lab in a wooden cage a yard and a half wide. Without anesthetic, Mengele would repeatedly scrape at the bone tissue of one of her legs. Her…

the Holocaust Nurses during the Holocaust made history with the crimes they have done which they were forced to commit or be punished. Nurses and physicians have taken millions of innocent Jews lives away from them too soon. “In 1939, only nine percent of the nurses were members of the Nazi sisterhood,” (“Euthanasia Nurses”). Someone, anyone could have stopped Hitler from doing these crimes; Hitler knew he could not be stopped. Unfortunately, during the Holocaust,…

Holocaust Research Paper The survivors of the Holocaust have painted a sympathetic, yet mournful picture in the minds of those who are eager to listen to their stories. The many horrors of the Holocaust have rendered those survivors with forlorn memories that will last a lifetime—but to what extent did the Nazis really go to inflict such terrors? Eliezer Wiesel wrote a powerful memoir called Night that recalled his very own experience throughout World War II with stirring details and emotive…

perspective upon which to look at the effect the Holocaust had on the humanity of the Jews. When evaluating major questions of morality and philosophy such as those If This is a Man prompted, it is important to have a myriad of different viewpoints to come to a well-informed conclusion. By giving the reader these viewpoints, Levi rejected the intolerance for other views that was at the core of the Nazi regime, thus showing that if any good came from the Holocaust, it was the belief that never…

societ, so they have no reason to go against them. Milgram and the Holocaust: A Reexamination explains the correlation between genocide and obedience. George R. Masteroianni looks into Milgram’s research and its account for the blind obedience of Nazi’s during World War II (Masteroianni, p. 159). He explains that many people choose only to follow the direction of a figure in a high position; for example, policemen during the Holocaust only followed the orders of a higher authority member and…

After reading the basic moral concepts and doing further research I would consider myself a Moral Subjectivist. A Moral Subjectivist holds that "rights" and "wrongs" vary among humans and cultures based on individual feelings and social and other circumstances. I believe that humans all over the world have different experiences and cultivation. Not everyone is comparable and every human has a distinct way of viewing and perceiving whether I or others think is right or wrong. For example,…

The Holocaust How Josef Mengele did impact the holocaust? Josef Mengele was a German Schutzstaffel and a physician. Who was also nicknamed the angel of death, the white angel, or Todesengel. The camp Mengele worked at was Auschwitz. He was ranked SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer which was Captain. He was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Bavaria, Germany. His parents are Karl and Walburga Mengele. Mengele was born the eldest of all of his siblings. His siblings are Karl Jr. Mengele and Alois Mengele. He…

weren’t allowed to make any noise during the day and only use the restroom at night? Some people have even experienced this at young ages of 13. This event was called the Holocaust, which took place from 1933 to 1945. During the Holocaust some Jews went into hiding before they were caught to be killed (Introduction to the Holocaust). Specifically, the Van Daans and the Franks, consisting of 8 people, came together to go into hiding in the Secret Annex. One of the people who went into the…

believe in the order only the authority in which gives it. After World War II, psychologists set out to investigate the phenomena of human obedience. Early research attempting to explain the Holocaust focused primarily on German culture. This was because psychologists initially believed German culture was the catalyst and cause for the Holocaust. Researchers debunked this theory after years of focus on obedience. This one influential power was so strong it commanded the authority of an entire…