Kristallnacht

“The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.” - Will Ferguson Throughout Canadian history we’ve discriminated against non-anglo-saxon groups of people on many occasions. Although we are now known as a country that accepts all cultures and races, we haven’t always been deserving of that status. During World War I, World War II, and post-war times we treated other ethnic groups unfairly…

>The Holocaust. A noun. The genocide of European Jews and other groups by the Nazis during World War II. This is one definition of The Holocaust. There may be other definitions between different people. But for Marion Lazan Blumental, it’s a whole other dictionary. In Four Perfect Pebbles, young Marion Blumenthal (age nine) must go through many hardships, along with her Mama, Papa, and her older brother, Albert. Marion faced many challenges and predicaments, including her leg being burned…

“America and the Holocaust” is a documentary detail the plight of the jewish people and how governments and people, specifically America, responded to the outcry. This film is prosecuting America for not doing enough during World War II to help the jewish people as the trail towards their deaths ended. The jewish people and many historians make the claim that there were multiple instances throughout the period of jewish persecution where the United States of America could have stepped in and…

In 1933, a new era of safety and prosperity began for the people of Germany. For the coming years, crime was nearly nonexistent; it was a far cry from the atmosphere they had known in the years following the First World War. Furthermore, they once again had a powerful currency with legitimate value unlike before when the only good use for a Deutsche Mark was as kindling for fires. Likewise. there was a general mood of happiness that overcame the population of the country, and even furthering…

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were dictators in Europe after World War I until the end of World War II. Hitler and Mussolini have similar aspects and ideals, yet they both have their own key differences. Each dictator affected their respective countries through their leadership and heavy influence. Hitler’s and Mussolini’s rise to power can be compared and analyzed by showing their influences of power that affected their economical, political, social changes on society. Hitler and…

The deliberate mass killings of Jews, stemmed specifically from the Anti-Semitism in Europe. Shortly after Hitler’s Nazi Party won the election of 1932, he was in control of all Germany. In order for his country to rise to power, he believed the Jews must be executed. He persuaded his followers through ideas passed upon him, that Jews were responsible for the economic hardships and defeat of the country in 1918; he saw the Jews as an inferior race. Being the dictator of the nation, it was simple…

Holocaust Survivor, Elie Wiesel, in his speech, “The Perils of Indifference” (1999), vouches that having an apathetic attitude to a situation is dangerous a society in need of help. He supports his claim by gaining credibility from his audience and uses imagery to help, then addresses briefly about his past life and an example of when indifference occurred, and finally, shoves everything that transpired in the past and hints what we can do differently in the future. Wiesel’s purpose is to entice…

World War II was a global war that changed many people around the world. It took place from 1939-1945. The countries that were involved were two groups of military alliances; the Allies and the Axis. The Allies were the United States, Britain, and France while the Axis powers were Germany, Italy and Japan. One of the main events that happened during WWII was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the murder of six million European Jews by the Nazi Party. The Nazi Regime believed that they were…

National efforts after WWI to mobilize more civilians in war effort. Country’s had different methods but many included elements of gender, race, and ethnicity. Civilians are attempted to be controlled by a government using fear or a scape goat which single out a single or group relating to gender, race, or ethnicity. In the US social and cultural mobilization by the government was spurred by using fear and the astrocytes Germany committed in Belgium. The American mainland Homefront was never a…

Harald Welzer identifies the divergence between official, public cultures of remembrance in Germany (the history of the Third Reich taught in schools, the establishing of Holocaust memorials, etc.) and private cultures of remembrance in Germany (multigenerational histories situated within family storytelling), evolving from his study of Western and Eastern German families through interviews, individually and collectively, regarding contextual, historical knowledge of the Third Reich and their…