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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah', was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators. Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories. From 1941 to 1945, Jews were systematically murdered in a genocide, one of…

Lies of Labor Many people know about the concentration camps during Hitler’s Third Reich, but what many do not know about are the labor camps that were in the Soviet Union during the same time. While the labor camps, called Gulags, were not meant to exterminate a race of people, the camps did cause a significant number of deaths. While the death total of the Gulags was not as high as those of concentration camps, it is important to remember these camps as well. Gulags, just like concentration…

experimentation, though not well known, was one of the most horrific parts of World War II. The experiments were centered in many concentration camps perform by former healing doctors. Most of of the Nazi experiments happened around the time of the Third Reich during World War II ("Nazi Medical Experiments"). The camps of Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Natzweiler, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Auschwitz, and Ravensbruck were primarily used ("Nazi Medical Experiments"). Some of the major convicted doctors…

This was done by the Reich to ensure that Soviet commissions could not have proof of their crimes. Father Desbois used the testimonies of the requisitioned and information stated in the Soviet, German and American archives to determine that the Nazis did want to remove all traces…

Those with less education are more likely to end up in prison or be a victim of crime. One study that looked at incarceration rates found, “The incidence of institutionalization problems among young high school dropouts was more than 63 times higher than among young four year college graduates” (Sum et al.). To further put education and prison statistics together, a simple number from the Justice Department states, “68% of State prison inmates did not receive a high school diploma”(Bureau of…

Today the difference in the income of distribution of wealth and income is vastly different. The rich have gotten richer, and the working class has gotten poorer. In this essay we will find out why and how this is a problem. One way of looking at measuring inequality is to look at the earnings of people at the top vs. the typical worker in the middle. According to InequalityForAll.com, In 1978 the top people in the United States made $393,682 and the typical worker in the middle made $48,302.”…

place on April 1944 and this was the evacuation of the Majdanek camp. The evacuations of these camps were ordered by a Nazi chief officer named Heinrich Himmler. Death marches were prolonged journeys by foot and train getting to the interior of the Reich with three purposes. These purposes were, so the prisoners would not fall into enemy hands alive, so they could not tell their stories of what happened to them in these camps, to keep production of military supplies, and Himmler believed that…

The Power of Film Propaganda in World War II On September 1, 1939, World War II officially began when the Nazi’s invaded Poland causing France and Britain to declare war on Germany. Soon after, many other countries took sides either with the Allied or Axis powers expanding the conflict and causing tensions to escalate further. The Allies mainly included Russia, the United States, Britian, and China. The Axis powers included Nazi Germany, Japan, and Italy whom all shared beliefs regarding strong…

This was the tipping point when the strategy changed from the Sun Tzu philosophy of the British to the Clausewitzian approach of the American’s. The new plan became one focused on a decisive attack against Germany’s center of gravity; the Third Reich. “Tehran was the decisive conference for the European strategy.” It set the final strategy for an Allied victory in Europe where Germany would be strangled by an Anglo-American advance in the west and a Soviet drive in the…

On the 8th of May, 1945, the bloodiest war in human history, which lasted for 6 years and concluded with 58 million deaths1, officially ended. However, it was the Red Army 's participation since 1941, which played by far the most notable and crucial role in the defeat of the Nazis, nevertheless it would have not been able to accomplish this without the help of the US, and the catalystic miscalculations of Hitler 's Nazi Germany. One of the main reasons for the Allied powers winning the war,…