Josef Mengele

The Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the worst times in history. It is also one of the most remembered times. Hitler murdered so many Jews. The Nazis sent Jews to detention centers, Concentration camps, and extermination camps. Germany Invaded Poland on September 1st 1939.(Types of Camps) The first concentration camp, Dachau, was established in 1933.(Auschwitz) Between 1933 and 1945, there were 40,000, concentration camps.(Nazi camps) The first camps were used as detention centers. (Types of…

Experiments of the Holocaust Did you know that doctors were the backbone of the Nazi genocide? The doctors experimented on anyone deemed undesirable, such Jews, homosexuals and the disabled. They mercilessly experimented on thousands of people and few ever paid for their crimes. The experiments hurt and killed thousands of people and showed the most vile of science and medicine. The experiments were divided into three categories, military experiments, pharmaceutical and racially motivated. The…

People who were involved with the resistance movement risked their lives to hide the Jews. Once her family went into hiding, they had to split up. Eva went with her mother and Heinz went with their father. They had to do this because none of the people within the resistance could hide a family of four. “The Germans really wanted to catch every Jew. At night, knocks would come from the street. They had to let the German soldiers in so they could search the homes.” The betrayal: After two years…

Angelina Akopyan Professor Balthazar Becker English 126 10 March 2016 A Remembrance of Horror The essays in discussion for this assignment are “Philosophers and the Animals” by J. M. Coetzee and "Can the Treatment of Nonhuman Animals Be Compared to the Holocaust?" by David Sztybel. The first essay, “Philosophers and the Animals” is from J. M. Coetzee’s book The Lives of Animals. The essay introduces the readers to an author of many novels, Elizabeth Costello, her son John…

Known for his works colloquially called Amis’s “London Trilogy,” his work often focuses on the excesses of Western capitalist society and the banality of modernity. Possibly his most standout work is one that barely fits into the confines of these themes is Time’s Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offensive, where Amis employs a wide variety of literary techniques to convey a story drenched in black humor, irony, and symbolism. Amis’s 1991 novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, tells…

Human experimentation Since the beginning of mankind we have managed to be the dominate species of the Earth; however, we are far from peaceful with warfare, slavery, starvation, and experimenting on our own kind. Humans have done some pretty twisted and inhuman things such as the Nazi Holocaust Experiment and Project MK-Ultra. Before, during, and after WWII, Nazi’s conducted many medical experiments on the Gypsies, Slavs (Large group of Ethnolinguistic in Europe), and Jews they held in…

In World, War Ⅱthere were many concentration camps but one of the biggest and most populated was Auschwitz. It was built by the Nazis in Poland. Auschwitz It was first constructed to hold polish politicians. The first exterminations of prisoners began in 1941. Adolf Hitler was the German dictator. He ordered that the Polish leadership be destroyed. In addition to the Polish leaders, he also wanted to destroy the Jews, prostitutes Romans, and the mentally ill. At the beginning of World WarⅡ…

In this essay, I will be evaluating an argument from both moral skepticism and ethical objectivism. For clarification purposes, I will define some of the terms which I will be using throughout this essay. The following definitions in this paragraph are taken from the third edition of Shafer-Landau’s ‘The Fundamental of Ethics’ (2015). Ethical objectivism is the view that there exists at least one objective moral standard, and that some moral claims are objectively true. In contrast, moral…

Having lost numerous solders to the dreaded Russian winters, the High Nazi party commanded the study behind frostbite and hypothermia. In these, the experiments were designed to simulate the conditions to which the German soldiers had to face when fighting the Russian enemy at the eastern front. The experiments were conducted under the supervision of Dr. Sigmund Rascher at Birkenau concentration camp, Dachau and Aushcwitz. Dr. Rascher reported their results directly to Himmler, Commander in…

More than 13 million people died during the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. Can you imagine that immense loss of life and the brutality they suffered? It is unfathomable! Both of these events were similar but not the same. Like their similarities, they both had their differences. Most importantly, the dehumanization inflicted on the victims of both mass killings is what makes the events comparable. The twentieth century has demonstrated the true horror that mankind can force upon society.…