Luftwaffe

It was just more than one year after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact that the directive for Operation Barbarossa was issued. Signed by Hitler on December 18, 1940, the secret document demanded the Wehrmacht to crush Russia in a rapid campaign, undoing the agreement for spheres of influence throughout Eastern Europe. It remains a point of contention whether Berlin wooed Moscow into benign rapprochement in a series of deceptions stemming from the directive or Stalin, throughout it all,…

The holocaust was the mass slaughter of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, and Jehovah Witnesses by a German organization called Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi) from 1941 to 1945. The Nazis believed they were a superior race of people, and anyone they thought was inferior or believed something different should be killed. In the time span of four years the Nazis are believed to have killed 11 million people, 6 million are believed to be Jewish. (Rosenberg 1) Many citizens of…

The darkest era known to man, the Holocaust officially ended on the 8th of May, 1945. The genocide which began on the 30th of January, 1933 lasted for over a decade, and has taken away millions of innocent lives. The genocide had ended due to the efforts taken by the allied forces. These forces consisted of four nations: Great Britain, France, The Soviet Union, and the United States. After the death of Adolf Hitler and the end of World War II, the allied forces needed to react to this horrific…

One of America’s most popular war correspondent in history was Ernie Pyle, an American journalist, who told stories of residents living in rural America. Later on, during World War II, Pyle shared insights into lives of the brave ordinary men fighting in the European and Pacific theatres. He would report from all branches of the military, from foot-soldiers to pilots. At the time, his convincing and vivid descriptions of war were talked about across the country. Pyle described the hardships and…

A mother, that glorious creature, that carries in her womb, unconditional love. Nature grants her the ability to embrace with her heartbeat, the life that nurtures off her. Undoubtedly, the mother-child relationship is indispensable for the child prosperity; nonetheless, the father-child relationship is as important. He symbolizes that rational yet sensitive embrace that every daughter needs to evolve healthily. However, a father is human; a man that struggles and isn’t immune to an…

The Atrocities of the Holocaust The Holocaust was the systematic killing of people of Jewish culture. That does not mean that everyone else was safe. They also targeted homosexuals, the mentally ill, gypsies (people of Romanian culture) slavic people (Polish and Lithuanians) and communists. There were many people the Nazi party targeted. The word Holocaust comes from two greek words, holos (whole) and kaustos (burned) (Holocaust encyclopedia). In early 1933, the Jewish…

“Ariel” Sylvia Plath’s Ariel is one of the most renowned collections of poetry from the twentieth century. These poems were written during the last years of Plath’s life before she committed suicide and gives us a unique insight into the inner workings of her mind. Her estranged husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, published Ariel in 1965 after Plath’s suicide. In these poems Plath transcends to become her true self; the tone is cool, amused, bitter, and unnervingly charming. This collection is…

First the German air force, the Luftwaffe sent dive-bombers, bombers, and fighter planes to weaken the enemy defenses. The main targets were the enemy air force, tanks, defenses, and then the infantry ("The Concept of Blitzkrieg"). But these bombings caused the enemy to shatter into small…

Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” Sylvia Plath faced many obstacles in her life, including the death of her mother, father troubles, an identity crisis and a failed marriage. Throughout Sylvia Plath’s work, she revealed this troublesome life, as well as her true emotions. Plath wrote “Daddy” before her final suicide attempt and really expressed her state of mind about people in her life during this time. Sylvia Plath’s life experiences and relationships combined with historical references impacted her…

resistance groups throughout the former Soviet Union. First of all, the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were dropped from Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, not intercontinental ballistic missiles. With the redeployment of the German Luftwaffe (air force) to the Western Front, it’s improbable that the United States would risk dropping “Fat Man” or “Little Boy” on the German Reich. Especially after Albert Speer revived the research and development of Wunderwaffe…