Operation Reinhard

Chelmno, the first killing center in Warthegau, Poland, was established. The main targeted group there was the Jews, but gypsies were also gassed. By 1942, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka were also established. These three camps were called the Operation Reinhard camps and were set up to terminate the Jewish population in Poland. At these camps, the SS terminated about 1,526,500 Jews from March 1942 to November 1943 (The National Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2015). In addition to the concentration…

Adolf Hitler was a cruel man that preached a message of hate and violence towards millions of Jews and his enemies. Even though Hitler hated his enemies he never killed them himself. He relied on ruthless organizations like the SS to carry out his vision of racial purity. The SS committed countless crimes against humanity for Hitler and Nazi Germany. Only die hard Hitler supporters, Aryans and cold-blooded killers were accepted into the SS. The SS was almost unavoidable as they were apart of…

The holocaust is one of those topics that is not easy to talk about. The killing of over 6 million Jews? That doesn’t sound like something that would be fun or exciting, does it? I mean think about it, nobody really wants to talk about the chaos that went on throughout those years or the punishment that many innocent people had to go through and the mass killing. Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire”. In 1945 two out of every three Jews had been killed. Most people ask…

Known for his works colloquially called Amis’s “London Trilogy,” his work often focuses on the excesses of Western capitalist society and the banality of modernity. Possibly his most standout work is one that barely fits into the confines of these themes is Time’s Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offensive, where Amis employs a wide variety of literary techniques to convey a story drenched in black humor, irony, and symbolism. Amis’s 1991 novel, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, tells…

BVB followed through with their promise to identify and prosecute the individuals involved in violent acts. Police opened an investigation on approximately thirty BVB supporters and through the use of video; BVB was able to identify about sixty of its fans suspected of being involved with offensive banners. The club announced that these individuals could be subject to stadium bans, club expulsion, cancellation of season tickets and possible civil charges on a case-by-case basis after a club…

After the downfall of the First World War, Germany was hit hard by the economic depression which caused millions of people to be out of work and lacked confidence because of this defeat. Due to these conditions, it allowed for Adolf Hitler to rise and make himself be heard as he was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who promised Germany a better life. Hitler was then appointed chancellor in 1933, guided by racist and authoritarian ideas he removed the basic rights for Germany and sought to…

This was quickly followed by the establishment of three more extermination camps: Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor. They were established under the code-name Operation Reinhard – the starting signal to the extermination of the approximately 3 million Jews who lived in Nazi-occupied Poland. In the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau and Majdanek two further extermination camps were established.The six extermination…

Concentration Camps “Concentration camps are camps which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy.” In this essay it will be talking about how each “detention” or concentration camp was started. It will also be talking about the force of labor and how it affected the organization of the camps, and even extermination camps. Killing methods will also be mentioned…

Civil law originated in the Roman Empire and extended to Europe (Glenn200, 119). When the empire declined so did its legal system. In the 11th to 13th centuries Rome revised the European system. The revision gave key legal codes that influenced Europe and other colonized territories (David and Brierley, 1985). Common law came from the British Isles following the military conquest of England from the Normans (Glenn 2000: Whincup, 1992). The Normans introduced the institution of jury and the…

within the Nazi political structure loyal to Hitler and relatively unopposed by any other organization. The SD proved to be one of the most important expansive elements within the SS. Himmler gradually became more dependent on his right hand man--Reinhard Heydrich. Surveillance and intelligence were of utmost importance to Hitler and Himmler. Heydrich and his SD became their centralized domestic, clandestine organization. By 1935, Hitler began to divert most of his attentions to external…