Nazi human experimentation

The Nazis believed that when they created the Lebensborn Program they were building a perfect society, but in reality, they were destroying the lives of thousands of people. The purpose of the program was to allow young women who met the standards of being “racially pure” an opportunity to deliver a child in secrecy (“Nazi”). The SS thought by fusing Norwegian and German blood an Aryan master race would form. Therefor, Himmler encouraged the German soldiers to produce a child with a Norwegian…

whom ten percent would die before being transported to the concentration camps. From the moment they stepped off the buses, some would be shot on the spot if they were seen as weak, old, or too young. Not only did they kill any Jewish infants, the Nazis found it amusing to toss the babies in the air as if they were a stone, and shoot them to fulfill their humour. Once they entered the camps, they were separated from their families, men from women, losing some of the hope they had. Then they…

During the Holocaust, the Jews were kept and tortured by Nazi soldiers in concentration camps, also known as death camps because very few came out alive. “Physical punishment consisted of whipping, frequent kicking (abdomen or groin), slaps in the face, shooting, or wounding with the bayonet.” (Source 4) These…

million victims. These cases made World War Two the deadliest conflict in history. On the year 1933 was when all of the conflicts started; Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and started planning his projects for war. During mid 1933, the Nazis in Germany opened the first concentration camp and started the killing of the Jews. Everyone was convinced that it was for a good purpose. Since Hitler main purpose of the expansion was for the Aryan race (a racial grouping commonly used in the…

very murky as some people participated in the slaughters either willingly or by force. This has created a weird dichotomy with history of wanting to show the victimization but also not wanting to reveal their complicity in such crimes. As a result of Nazi force, may Jews and Poles were forced to help execute other Jews and Poles. This can clearly be seen in Son of Saul whose whole storyline revolves around the Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz. The Sonderkommandos were Jewish and Polish prisoners…

experience worlds that—otherwise—would not exist. The incorporation of visual imaging further strengthens the nature of storytelling and offers insight into human imagination. Directors Claude Lanzmann and Steven Spielberg exemplify such qualities in Shoah, a documentary about Holocaust witnesses, and Schindler’s List, a historical drama about a Nazi officer and his transition to hero. Both films offer perspective into life during and after extreme genocide through use of themes, portrayal of…

The final form of resistance that was practiced was the act of resisting death through hiding and escape. These three ideas were gathered from the two readings, Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning and Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany by Marion A. Kaplan. Through the combination and analysis of these two books I will explain the extent…

genocide was a side effect of totalitarianism, when even in Nazi Germany that was in fact the case, she describes a totalitarianism government similar to Stalinism, an ideology generated by Joseph Stalin with a principle of communism characterized by the extreme suppression of political and ideological views by the concentration of power in one person aggressively. Totalitarianism is similar to several other forms of dictatorships like…

War & Genocide a Concise History: Review Pages 90-100 & Chapter 4. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime had and were a very well organized machine. Hitler used well thought out methods and implemented them as the push and pull back depending the popularity of society. He had many treaty’s and pacts that he made knowing full well he would eventually break to gain his ultimate plan of race and space. I find it interesting that a man with not real high intelligence, unpopular, and a politician made by…

being presented. First off, the first comparison the two films have is the portrayal of World War Two. Throughout both films, the Nazis are seen as the bad evil type characters, which they certainly were in real life. Ivan’s Childhood showed this by Nazis taking over Ivan’s village and killing his family and sending him to a German prison camp. Another way the Nazis were portrayed…