Kristallnacht

would block out the stars. This has happened before, years before I existed. But the shadows tell stories, when we’re all shapeless in the dark. I thought it was a legend. They say the dark ones were there during the Second World War. Kristallnacht. The stars went out, and glass was broken. Now it is happening again, and I don’t know why. There is someone at the door. Scraping, scratching. Carson’s breathing hitches and he freezes. The door is pushed open softly, and a woman’s…

During the late 1800s and early 1900s race theory was used to justify the actions of European leaders. Race theory, the idea that human beings were divided into superior and inferior races, can be derived from Social Darwinism. Herbert Spencer, an English philosopher, applied the idea from before the 1850s that human beings were divided into different races with biological superiority to develop the idea of Social Darwinism (McKay, p. 697). This theory states that races that were the best…

The Hidden Evil Every single person in this world right now has been indifferent during their lifetime. No one, however, has been as indifferent as the United States, Jewish prisoners, Nazis, Germany citizens, and the rest of the world during the Holocaust. On the brink of World War Two, many nations were only focused on the battlefront, but the true horror lied within the walls of German control. Concentration camps, otherwise known as death camps, or hell, “housed” millions of Jews,…

For the United States the WWII wasn’t only fought in Europe it was also fought at home. Many different ethnicities in the U.S were fighting for their identity, jobs and their freedom. Among the different ethnicities, there were the Japanese Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Chinese Americans, African American, and the Jewish American. All these groups made immense contributions to the war effort and without a doubt helped win the war a lot sooner. The minority groups above helped…

Surprisingly, one political party was the cause of death for 11 million people. The Nazi party was a horrible organization. The Nazis had placed their men all over the territory they controlled. In addition, their beliefs were simple, hatred for everything that was not the German race. Although the organization is evil, the people behind the scenes controlling everything were the leaders of their party. Together the Nazi party did many horrible things and eliminated everything in their way to…

Imagine the electromagnetic waves from phones, computers and radios that surround all around us. No one see them but people know that they are there and that they affect everyone. Society has the same power on everyone. It 's not something that people can see but something that is felt. The feeling in the atmosphere quickly changed in the book All The Light We Cannot See when World War II broke out. People did what they had to in order to survive. All The Light We Cannot see is a book about a…

German youth of the 1930’s and 1940’s were heavily influenced by German culture and historic norms of German society. Adults in their roles as parents and teachers were the main influencers of children and their behavior at home and at school. They taught children about the greatness of Germany prior to World War I (WWI). Over time though, many parents and teachers began to use the same message as the Nazi party for fear that if they didn’t they would lose their jobs or be penalized in other…

reports that after the Muslims were evacuated “looters quickly emptied the area of valuable materials and destroyed the mosque” (United States Memorial Museum). This cast an eerie resemblance to the night of November 9, 1938, otherwise known as Kristallnacht, where along with robbery, vandalism of Jewish property, synagogues were burned. Josie Ensor wrote in the article, Ban Ki-moon Warns of Rwandan Genocide Repeat in Central African Republic, that “Forces from neighboring Chad, a predominantly…

overpopulation, hunger, poverty, unemployment, which led up to disease such as typhus. When S.S officers would break into the Jewish homes they would demand for all of their goods and if they would refuse they would be shot which was known as “Kristallnacht” or the “night of the broken glass”. On the other hand the Cambodian government had been overthrown by the Khmer Rouge, from there it was all downhill for the Cambodians. The Khmer Rouge had forced people out of their homes to go on a journey…

“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…