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    The world was silent during the Holocaust. The people that were involved in the Holocaust were Adolf Hitler, Nazis, and the victims Jews, Soviets, and many other groups of people. The Holocaust took place from 1933 to 1945 in Europe and northern Africa. It happened because Adolf Hitler wanted a "pure race" and he chose to blame and use the Jews as a scapegoat since they were not well liked at the time anyways. He also wanted to eradicate the Jews for many other reasons, such as land, bankruptcy…

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    Imagine the common race of the people being slaughtered on a mass scale and living in fear 24/7. The Jewish people in The Holocaust did not just imagine that, but lived it. The holocaust was the mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II (Merriam-Webster np). In the Holocaust, Jewish women had it the worst. Many events during the Holocaust led to the oppression of Jewish women such as concentration camps, sexual violence, and unethical…

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    With a mass of accounts from victims and witnesses of the Holocaust in both fiction and nonfiction literature, the representation of a Perpetrator first person perspective is rare. Littell constructs a character that allows this perspective to be fully exploited whilst Binet avoids giving his characters free speech and sticks to a more traditional omniscient narrator. Perpetrator narrative may be uncomfortable to read, however it is arguably required to fully understand Nazi power and give an…

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    Two and the Holocaust, the world had no official term for the practices of ethnic cleansing or genocide. Before World War Two and the Holocaust, the world had no international court system, capable of holding people accountable for crimes against humanity. Before World War Two and the Holocaust, the world community was more or less in a state of anarchy as defined by Thomas Hobbes, as no major power claimed the world that Britain left for it. While the Second World War and the Holocaust occurred…

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    Nazi party. In contrast, many Americans have heard of other people who protected the Jews in the holocaust like Oskar Schindler, who only protected about 1,200 Jews by making them work in his factories. Artifacts that can be traced back to Sugihara and other people who protected Jews in the Holocaust will be put on display in the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in order for the survivors and their descendants to remember this forgotten…

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    Lord Of The Flies Research Paper By: Sarita Pattisam William Lowenberg an Auschwitz survivor tells a story of something he witnessed. He said “He had a pistol in his hand and anything he saw moving, human beings, he shot, he used you for target practice.Life was absolutly,totally worthless to these people. That I remember.”(Lowenberg) Lowenberg was one of the millions of Jews who witnessed the horrific costs of war. He and many others will have to live with the memories, regrets, and loss for…

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    legitimate scientific purposes, though the methods that were used violated the canons of medical ethics” (medical experiments of the holocaust). “The medical experiments were carried out to advance German medicine” (medical experiments of the holocaust). Other “medical experiments were racial in nature designed to advance Nazi racial theories” (medical experiments of the holocaust). Another reason was “in pursuit of their personal interest or to advance their academic careers” (medical…

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    What I Know and Want to Know I already know that Adolf Hitler was the leader of the holocaust, He had a lot to do with the camps and how it all came to happen. I also know that he was apart of both World Wars. He was the one that made everyone believe that the Jews were to be punished and other minorities of the time. If it weren’t for his success in public speaking, the holocaust wouldn’t been as devastating as it was. I would like to know how he was able to keep the camps going for so long…

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    who escape from the Nazi’s and live in the forest where they end up making a Camp for other Jews who escaped. They fought in what they believed in, however never took recognition of their achievements. It is valuable for a historian studying the Holocaust to a certain extent. However, as it is a feature film in the genre thriller the reliability is questionable, as it exaggerates many parts of the movie for cinematic purposes and action. Whilst history is about the accurate record of a whole…

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    Refugees of the Holocaust Many people know about the Holocaust, but do they know about all the refugees in the Holocaust. Knowing a well known Refugee, and whether they were successful at surviving the Holocaust, and where they went to escape will give us some insight into their lives. Jews were forced to live in Ghettos. Ghettos are specific areas of the city that Jews were forced to stay during the Holocaust. They stayed in the Ghettos for a long time usually. After that they got sent to…

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