Nazism

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…

Adolf Hitler was a troubled youth that grew up to become a powerful and ruthless leader. First, Hitler had a troubled childhood. Some of his siblings died, his family moved many times, he didn’t get along with parents, and his parents died when he was young. Hitler also loved art, and when he got rejected from art school twice he didn’t take it very well. The school was run by Jews, which could have started some of the hatred he had for them. After being rejected from school he was broke…

A man that was known for saving Jews, and showed an extraordinary amount of humanity in one of the bloodiest wars the wars the world has seen. Oskar Schindler lived a complicated life had being a Nazi and had saved the lives of many Jews. Not all people know the acclaimed hero. Schindler was an unlikely war time hero being a business man, womanizer, and belonging to the Nazi party (Biogrphy.comEditors). Oskar Schindler was born April 28, 1908, in Zwittau Austria-Hungary .Schindler married Emilie…

Eoin Colfer’s, Hangman's Revolution, is a thrilling novel which is full of action and suspense and had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. Hangman's Revolution is an exciting science fiction novel and the second and last book in the Warp series. There are five main characters, Chevron Savano, Riley, Otto Malarkey, Lunka Whitmeyer and Clover Valliocose. First, Chevron Savano or “Chevie” is an ex special ops FBI agent with high skill in combat and many weapons. Second, Riley is an…

We may question how so many people actually survived the tough conditions of the Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred during World War II, where the Nazis rose to power in Germany. During the Holocaust the Nazis invaded several parts of Europe and murdered millions of Jewish people. Many Jews died during the Holocaust, but many others survived. During this time period, a young girl named Anne Frank and her family went into hiding on the top floor of a warehouse office building, owned by a family…

Dehumanization too is one of the major themes employed by the Jewish Authors in their writing. In Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ after Gregor’s metamorphosis his parents treat him very rudely. Grete starts shoved the platter of food with her leg. He is locked inside the room with no chance of communicating with anyone in any way. His mother and sister were trying to take away the furniture from his room which he had loved so much and had kept all his tools and papers. He feels alienated as each piece…

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it . The reason I said that quoit is because of the Diary of Anne Frank and The Holocaust . If you don’t learn what happened then you are doomed to repeat it. There are many reasons why people should study the Diary of Anne Frank and The Holocaust. So I am going to tell you why you should study about the Holocaust and The Diary of Anne Frank. People should study about the Holocaust and The Diary of Anne Frank to understand the history…

Compensation Life is not easy, it’s like a roller-coaster, problems take you down and successes take you up. My family and I faced the roller-coaster going down when we immigrated to the US 18 years ago. I remembered my brother, sister and I refusing to come. But we had no control over that, my dad had taken the decision to bring us here for a better opportunity in life. Like most people say, to live the “American dream.” Definitely did not felt like a nice dream; it was more like a nightmare.…

Hitler and Mussolini were more similar than dissimilar because of the way in which they garnered support for their parties and the methods that they used to control their countries. Mussolini first gained support for his party by calling for land for Italy, and Hitler’s idealistic speeches swayed many people to join the Nazi party. Mussolini’s appeals for land for Italy, which the Italians saw as their right, caused many people to support him and flock to his party. Similarly, “Hitler, in…

There are many complex and controversial issues around the globe – with the number seemingly increasing on a yearly basis. While these issues frequently make the headlines, it is not very often that we are presented with a raw, emotional and human perspective on the way that these issues can impact people’s lives. Though the work is fictional, Susan Abulhawa’s “Mornings in Jenin” provides just that – a moving insight into the human toll that refugee conflicts can exact. “Mornings in Jenin”…