Kristallnacht

Sobibór Trial: Persecution of Karl Frenzel and Gustav Wagner Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Is it just to allow men to kill tens of thousands of men, women, and children because they were following “orders”? According to Karl Frenzel and Gustav Wagner, erstwhile SS soldiers of the concentration camp Sobibór, their butchering is vindicated by the fact they were following instructions. Many of the several horrifying atrocities were witnessed by Selma Engel, a young jewish adult. Selma was…

Throughout this class, and other history classes I have taken, there has always been little to no mention of women and the specific roles they have played in the Holocaust compared to the plethora of information about men. For this paper, I am going to compare three different stories about the experiences of women during the Third Reich and the Holocaust. Each woman comes from a different background faced varying degrees of misfortune and terror throughout their lives in Nazi Germany. The first…

History has repeated itself once again. This nation has witnessed atrocious acts from neighboring countries throughout its past and to this day it observes many disasters that are taking place. Not too long ago, hundreds of thousands of Jews faced the mass genocide of the Nazis, which in comparison to today’s crisis, Syrians are facing persecution from ISIL. Although the events took place in different time periods and have distinctive qualities, the American responses over refugees and…

World War II was arguably the most outstanding event that has occurred over the course of history because of Hitler’s objectives to exterminate jews and imperialize Europe. His objective to obliterate the Jews from their existence has allowed us to learn from this prominent event and to never repeat the same mistakes. The Nazis Officer’s wife written by Edith Hahn Beer and Susan Dworkin demonstrates that the Jewish culture ultimately restricts the protagonist and makes one live in harsh…

People should not be treated differently just because of their skin color, are skin color is what makes us unique and different than everyone else we wouldn’t want to all look the same. It was unfair how blacks had to sit in the back of the bus and whites got to sit in the front, you should be able to sit where ever you want and blacks should not have to move there seat if a white person wants to sit there. I also feel that it was unfair that blacks and whites had different bathrooms and water…

People are known for many things. There are those who are major sports players and are extremely successful in their careers. There are some who are highly renowned musicians, and others who have made great discoveries in science, and many others. There is also a category of people who are known for being heroes in a dangerous period of history. Sir Nicholas Winton is a man who is known for being the savior of now thousands of lives across the world. Very little is known about Nicholas…

A mass of devastating events took place throughout World War II. One of the biggest was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a mass genocide of European Jews, gypsies and homosexuals. The Holocaust took place over the course of twelve years. Although the exact number is not known and estimated eleven million people died as a result of the Holocaust, six million of those people being Jewish. The Holocaust started in 1933 when Hitler came to power in Germany. It ended in 1945 when the Nazis were…

all Jews to carry around a passport with a red “J” stamped on it so they could be easily identified. From here things only got worse as Nazis, or the people who followed Hitler's believes, began joining Hitler's movement. On November 9th, 1938 Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass” occurred throughout Germany and Austria, when the Nazis viciously attacked Jewish communities” (Lehnardt). Over one thousand synagogues, or communities centered on prayer and the study of the Torah, were burnt down…

Germany’s plan to rid their country of anything or anyone that did not fit into the idea of an Aryan race. A lot of events and tribulations lead up to Holocaust’s occurrence. People paid attention to the violent acts against the Jewish people such as Kristallnacht and their placement into concentration camps, but what they do not seem to notice were the people who stood by as these things happened. These people who were there and did not to help or stop the continuance of eliminating the Jews…

Talk about Holocaust and how the American people viewed it. Talk about Roosevelt’s views. Roosevelt felt sympathetic towards the Jewish people, and he tried to help the refugees, but unfortunately his efforts were hindered by the anti-Semitic views that the American population and the national government held. This anti-Semitic attitude manifested itself in the minds of Americans in many ways, and although there was no legal discrimination, these beliefs made it more difficult to gain support…