Kristallnacht

The Holocaust was a tragic event that took the lives of 11 millions Jews, homosexuals, disabled people and gypsies. Although a majority of the Jews killed during the Holocaust came from Germany, a good portion also came from other European countries including Poland, France, Austria and the Netherlands. The appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 began the twelve-year period of torment for Jewish people who lived in Europe. There are many factors that led up to the…

mind, some agreed with him until they saw the horrific things actually happening. “And of course, there was Kristallnacht. After that, even the people who at first wanted to dismiss every incident as local people getting out of control, began to take the problem seriously. There's quite a difference between being socially anti-Semitic and seeing people beaten on the streets.” Kristallnacht was “The night of the broken glass”, when the Nazis destroyed Jewish homes, synagogues, schools, and killed…

Why Didn’t the Jews Leave? When Hitler was elected to be leader he seemed like to the type to make everything better, which everybody was looking for at the time, but within a couple months that all went downhill. As the days got longer the Jews felt more and more APPREHENSIVE knowing something was going to happen but couldn 't do anything about it.Hitler was the type of person who caused pain for pleasure. During the Holocaust, many countries enforced laws towards emigrating citizens out of…

William Golding’s child lunatics competing for power and control in the book Lord of the Flies are not as strange as they seem if the book’s publishing date is taken into account. 1954 was nine years after the end of World War Two, a war in which the Western democracies triumphed over the fascist countries of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Golding must have had the recent war in mind when he penned Lord of the Flies . Many of the book’s events and characters correspond to events and people in World…

Conscience saves Souls Man makes mistakes, man-made law might be a product of mistakes. Disobey the law when your conscience tells you the law is unjust and against humanity. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. writes, “an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law” (King). Authorities always create the unjust law and cover them with beautiful lies to fake them as just laws, then trick the people to obey them. The obedience of unjust laws participated significantly in the…

The Holocaust rightly dominates public consciousness in Europe where the Second World War wreaked havoc across the continent but also puzzlingly pervades modern American consciousness. Peter Novick, in The Holocaust in American Life, resolves to examine the reasons why and how the Holocaust is still extremely relevant in the modern age. Though he poses a number of intriguing questions throughout the monograph, Novick fails to completely answer the motivations lying behind this phenomena of…

this was a solid rhetorical choice, and effective as a persuasion technique. Stronger than his use of examples in his speech is Wiesel’s use of pathos. Throughout the carefully created speech the old man calls on heart-wrenching imagery: Kristallnacht,…

Hitler’s reign terrorized the Jewish people in Europe. People today still talk about the horrible things he did to them. Hitler instilled fear throughout the country with his amount of power and control. Hitler blamed the Jews for many of the economic woes, which occurred in Europe after the First World War. Other Europeans and U.S. citizens believed the Jews had caused some of the economic problems, but they did not punish them in the way Hitler did. Hitler built on this small belief some had…

Adolf Hitler believed that the Aryan race, which is where all ‘true Germans’ belonged to, was the race of gods, and in order to save this race it requires the elimination of opposing threats. This essay covers the rise of the Nazis and Hitler, the ideologies that he put into place and the execution of the final solution. This was all so the Aryan race could be the highest race of all of the races. During 1930 the economic depression hit Germany hard as there was millions out of jobs and many…

have refused the houses and business that weren’t theirs. They could have refused the things given to them by the Third Reich that they witnessed slowly being taken away from Jewish members of the community through things like Nuremburg Laws or Kristallnacht. On the other hand, it would have been a momentous risk for the Jews with a small amount of power to do something, but they could still have tried. The Judenrat was the Jewish council within the ghettos. They were responsible for everything…