How the Holocaust Could Have Been Prevented Essay

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    those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We 've been taught that silence would save us, but it won 't.” Lorde never stopped being an activist though she had every reason to be silenced. These reasons included being black, female, and gay. This quote can be applied directly to “Night”, a memoir by Elie Wiesel at the time of the Holocaust. Unlike Lorde, who spoke out to make a…

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    The holocaust which occurred more than seventy years ago, an unimaginable place in which became a dystopian world for many Jewish people, and changed the life of those who were left to survive. Today all over the world we have heard many stories of Holocaust survivals and there personal experiences of their survival, and how many had to make hard decisions in their life’s in order to live. Indeed, surviving the holocaust was not an easy task it took a lot of strength and resistance to keep on…

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    “The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.”(ushmm.org). The Holocausts was the world’s most inhumane massacre of Jews by the German Nazis. Adolf Hitler, who firmly believed that Germans were “racially superior”, was supreme power of Europe, due to his proclamation of himself as the Fuhrer. He was a very anti-Semitic man: always plotting atrocious schemes of eradicating the Jews. He…

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    Should Have Never Happened 60 million people are the number of people who died during the Second World War. The fall of colonialism, rise of communism, development of nuclear weapons, and the Holocaust may all have never happened if WWII was prevented. WWI was the reason for WWII. Effects of WWI to Germany, Italy, and Japan include economic crisis, senses of betrayal, and uncertain futures were all reasons that led to the autocratic powers of the Axis (Germany, Japan, and Italy). WWII could…

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    Raphael Lemkin's Genocide

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    phenomenon. The term itself had only recently been included in the modern English language since 1944, when it was coined by Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin as a reaction to the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. As a relatively new concept, genocide is always in an urgent need of understanding from the public, since the masses plays an important role in both the prevention and, unfortunately, the execution of genocide. Considering that the killers in the Nazi holocaust were ordinary German…

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    action, or involve themselves in the situation in some way. An upstander will take action and include themselves in a certain circumstance. Because of this, the Bystander Effect has been developed over time from casual everyday situations to big events in history. The act of bystanding was a major part of the Holocaust and made significant impacts on the lives of many, by determining the lives and deaths of those targeted for the camps. The terms bystander and upstander closely relate in…

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    “Every moment counts. Every second matters”-Elie Wiesel. During WWII and the Holocaust, American politicians avoided and actively ignored the harm caused to Jews in Europe, delaying help. Instead of allowing more immigrants and creating plans for refugees, the State Department, supported by the majority of Americans, ignored the problem and made it harder for immigrants and refugees to enter America. They were unable to escape persecution through quotas and excessive screening just because of…

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    little about the most infamous case of genocide in the world, the Holocaust. Altogether, the Holocaust was the mass murder of over six million Jews and other persecuted groups under the German Nazi direction in the 1940’s. Jews were led into camps where they died in horrific, inhuman ways. Between the number of people killed, methodology of the killing, and the premeditated destruction that was allowed by the entire world, the Holocaust is one of the most important genocides in the history of…

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    from the Holocaust, but the following three causes and lessons are the most central. The causes that were most central to the Holocaust were Hitler’s persecution of the Jews, ignorance and indifference from the German people, and the Industrial Revolution. We should learn from the Holocaust not to blindly follow authority, to search for knowledge to help others, and to not use new technologies to support genocide. These were the most central causes and lessons to be taken from the Holocaust.…

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    breakfast club stereotyping has prevented the characters from creating friendships, they have been held apart by the idea the differences should not be accepted. Bender, the criminal, and Clair, the princess, have been kept separate through these social classifications, this has prevented them from having any kind of relationship. In the film, Bender and Claire find that they are romantically compatible. Bender, Claire and the rest of the breakfast club come to realise how the are affected by…

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