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mention) mainly in terms of their backgrounds, motifs and historical influences, and conclude by evaluating the degree these two caused devastation to human civilization. Amongst atrocities recorded in human history, the Holocaust initiated by the Nazis Germany and the the Cultural Revolution by the CPC seem the most brutal and irrational. These two mass murders, the former being pogrom, genocide, or ethnic cleansing, the latter being purging of dissenters, or cultural cleansing, took place…

Mein Kampf is a book written by the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It is an autobiographical manifesto which was originally written in German and published on July 18, 1925; containing about 720 pages by its publisher Eher Verlag. This book which was translated into several languages is followed by its successor ‘Zweites Buch’ which was unpublished. Although the book is thought to have been written by Hitler himself, he never actually sat down and wrote it extensively but rather dictated it…

Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela, Harriet Tubman are all well known heroes around the world. However, one hero catches my eye, Oskar Schindler. Oskar Schindler was a German business man and apart of the Nazi Party for his benefit–not for their beliefs. This proves that anyone can really be a hero. You don’t have to be a saint like person to earn hero status. Oskar Schindler is a perfect example of this. He went from being an anti-hero to a hero with just a change of heart. He became an…

The "Shoah" Ethnic cleansing is the mass killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group in a society. From 1941-1945, the world witnessed one of the most atrocious acts of ethnic cleansing; this cleansing cultivated the infamous name of “The Holocaust”. Adolf Hitler led Germany into the organized extermination of Jews for these four years. In the United States, today, classrooms across the nation spread awareness of this despicable time period in human history. Though, shockingly,…

The Reign of Adolf Hitler Although he dint practice religion openly, Hitler certainly believed in God. He was raised in a catholic setting and even went to a monastery school. His main ambition as a young boy was to become a priest. He got most of his ideas from the Bible, and most certainly, from the Christian Social movement. Even though he opposed certain priests who opposed him for political reasons, he never stopped believing in God and his country. Hitler believed the Christian feeling…

Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler are two different rulers, but to the public eye they are viewed as similar people. The both of them were very strong in their rule. They had no sympathy and they were both dictators. They ruled by terror. Stalin was born into a poor family. His father was a shoemaker and his mother a laundress. He had a rough childhood. First off, his family was poor so there was always a struggle for money and his father was a terrible alcoholic. He continuously beat his son in…

Document 25-3 - The Holocaust: A Journalist Reports on Nazi Massacres on Jews In 1938, Adolf Hitler began his conquest of Europe with the Annexation of Austria (Anschluss) and Western Czechoslovakia in order to justify being dictator of Europe. As time passed Hitler invades the rest of Czechoslovakia and in 1939 the world is struck with another when Hitler decided to invade Poland; marking the beginning of World War II. A couple days later Britain and France responded by declaring war on Germany…

As an individual voice from the millions of children who were raised on the ideologies of the Nazi Party and the powerful image of Hitler, Alfons Heck shares the story of his experience before and during his time in the Hitler Youth. His novel, A Child of Hitler, gives a child’s account of one of the most momentous events in all of history. World War II broke out in 1939, but the Nazi movement began much earlier, persuading German citizens to fight for their country and to have faith in their…

people takes too much pride in themselves that they believe they are better than other people. “The Germans, Hitler claimed, were a ‘master race’, who had the right to rule other people.” ("Life in Nazi Germany." 2015). As the German people suffered from many problems after World War I, when the Nazi party stepped in to “help” the people on a path to a better future people began to…

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” (Edmund Burke). In the book Hitler’s Last Days: The Death of the Nazi Regime and the World’s Most Notorious Dictator, by Bill O’Reilly, details the last days of, conceivably, the most reviled and evil man in history: Adolf Hitler. Most of the book is focused inside the bunker where Hitler spent his last days near the end of World War II. It gave specific details about the last desperate attempt of Hitler to turn…