Resistance during World War II

in the army in 1918. Although he never saw any action, he later became known as a hero due to his work in the French Resistance during World War II. After going to college to study law Moulin's was extremely passionate about politics. Due to his passion it was not a surprise when he was arrested by the occupying Gestapo and tortured as a suspected communist in June of 1940. During his time in confinement Moulin tried to commit suicide by cutting his own throat but a guard found him and he was…

with the rise of Adolf Hitler and the start of World War II in 1939, Jewish people, along with others deemed “undesirable” by the Nazi Party, were persecuted and punished throughout Germany and rest of Europe. Many were forced into ghettos or sent to concentration camps where they were forced to perform labor or were instantly killed. Though the Nazi party kept a tight hold on their power through the use of the military and secret police, many resistance movements were formed across Europe.…

and Mr. Summers brought out the black box, all as per tradition. During this lottery, each head of the households within the town goes up one by one to the black box to draw out a slip of paper. The person who drew the marked paper, Bill Hutchinson, was the one whose household had to draw from the black box, which was emptied until there were…

Jewish Women during the Holocaust The Holocaust was one of the darkest eras in world history. It was an extermination of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. Every Jew, regardless of gender, was equally a victim in the Holocaust. Men, women and children suffered slow and painful deaths of starvation and cruelty. Though men and children suffered similar experiences, women suffer the worst for survival. According to Memorial Museum, Nazi ideology targeted Roma (Gypsy) women,…

they starved and froze and died in the snow, their arms frozen outward, still begging. The children who lived were all scraps and eyes. This was the ghetto: where children grew down instead of up,” (Spinelli, 153). Warsaw is a city located in Poland. During and around the 1930’s, Warsaw had the largest population of Jewish citizens. Then, one day, when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, heavy artillery and air…

life has felt betrayed. During and shortly after World War II Poland had felt a sense of western betrayed. Poland felt betrayed by many people. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill agreed to give Stalin part of Poland after the war was over. Poland didn’t receive any sort of help during the Warsaw uprising. After the war Russia and Stalin established a communist government in Poland, Stalin also murdered 22,000 people of Poland in the Katyn massacre. During the war Franklin D. Roosevelt…

believe both the novel and the film are biased towards communism. Malraux fought for the rights of communism in Spain and the French Resistance during World War II. Beginning of the Great Revival was made to mark the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China. Both the film and the novel are used to personalize larger political problems and social movements going on during…

It was built and operated by the Third Reich in Poland. It consisted of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz. Polish political prisoners were held in Auschwitz I they arrived in May 1940. September 1941 the first extermination of prisoners took place in Auschwitz II Birkenau which became a major site the Nazi “Final solution of the Jewish question”. Jews were delivered to the camp’s gas chambers via train from 1942…

in order to overthrow their government (“Merriam Webster”). The Holocaust took place during World War II. While the Holocaust occurred six million people were treated inhumanely and killed no matter their age, by the Nazis following orders from Adolf Hitler. During the Holocaust, not only freedom fighters were resisting, people fought back in violent and nonviolent ways to keep their humanity. Unarmed resistance was a way for the people Hitler decided were not worth treating as people kept…

priest, Monsignor O’Flaherty, as he hides Jews and escaped POWs in Germany occupied Rome in 1943 during World War II. Priest O’Flaherty’s main adversary is SS Head of Police for Rome, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Kappler. Hundreds of Allied POW soldiers are stealing into the city in hopes of finding refuge within the Vatican walls. When Germany entered Rome, the Vatican declared it’s neutrality in the war with the promise that it would remain untouched and unharmed by the SS Police and German…