Resistance during World War II

rape, war, death and disasters. I myself cannot remember a single day without a news report of something bad happening somewhere in the world. Imagine all these issues and times it by 10,000, all of this, was going to be confronted by the Jewish people of Europe, when the Nazi party took power in Germany and Adolf Hitler became the chancellor or in other words the Prime minister of Germany in 1933. Good Morning teacher and fellow classmates, today I’ll be discussing and explaining Resistance in…

ground, an order executed in the cultural capitals of Warsaw and later by the Allied forces in Berlin, was not realized and French troops loyal to the resistance fought off German forces and reclaimed the city without the use of urban warfare. On the same day that Paris was liberated General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French resistance movement and the future President of the Fourth French Republic, addressed the newly freed nation for the first time: Why do you wish us to hide the…

country through the Spanish Flanque or Phalange Party with an iron fist at the end of the Spanish civil war which took place in the 1930s, he was the first to form such kind of party, he established close relationships with fascism and Nazism during World War II. The man was subjected to international isolation after the war in which he emerged, taking advantage of the climate of the Cold War. Francisco Franco was born on December 4- 1892, in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain, to a middle-class family, his…

Although those conscripted into forced labor had to endure many hardships, those who beared the brunt of the trauma were the persecuted. Those who were monotonously hunted by the Nazis faced the most arduous challenges of any group during the war. For them, the occupation was not a slight alteration to daily life, it was a complete transformation of their very existence. The ultimate goal of nazification of the Netherlands couldn’t be completed without the total extermination of the gypsies,…

Czeslaw Milosz was the most inspirational and courageous man alive. He saved lives, stood up to Nazism and went through all odds to regain diverse literature. Czeslaw Milosz was born in Lithuania in 1911. He and his family had to flee Lithuania during the Stalin reign and Hitler’s invasions on Russia. He then moved on to other activities such as writing and poetry. He moved to Paris to see his distant cousin. Many things changed when he moved there. He joined “The Zagary”; a poetic group that…

Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, it can be shown that if a culture shows a lack of sympathy towards another when colliding, then the society will crumble and fall apart. This is also shown through the Nazi control of Germany in World War II, and the Nigerian Civil War during the 1960’s. Achebe’s novel clearly shows the devastation when one shows no sympathy through the Christian missionaries arrival in the village of Umuofia. When the missionaries first came…

going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success." D-Day was a plot to liberate France from the Nazis during World War II. Things had not been going well for the Allies, but with D-Day, that was going to change. During World War II, the events of D-Day had a significant impact on the war and the world. Before D-Day happened, the Nazis controlled most of Europe, including Northern France. Then, the Allies planned to gain a strong foothold in…

sympathizer, she was not. She secretly danced for, “groups of people to collect money for the Dutch resistance”(Dobre). She also occasionally acted as a courier for the resistance, delivering messages and packages. Her war-time experiences fostered an appreciation for UNICEF, an international humanitarian organization. Later in her life she contributed generously to this charitable organization. After World War II ended in 1945, Audrey and her mother moved to Amsterdam. While she was in…

Nazi Germany tested this tactic in the Spanish Civil War; they launch bombing raids on Spanish cities and killed a lot of Spanish citizens in these raids. But Germany saw that this new tactic worked in Spain ("The Concept of Blitzkrieg"). So they used the same tactic in their invasions of other nations. Poland was the first victim to fall to the German War Machine; the Polish armies weren’t ready, and they were devastated from the heavy bombing. After the…

World War II was occurring in Europe in the early 1940’s, and many European nations were either at war or under occupation. American film companies were taking notice of the conflict prior to U.S. involvement, and a number of companies decided to use their films as an implicit way to urge their fellow Americans to enter into the war; Michael Curtiz’s film Casablanca (1942) was no exception. In this film, Rick Blaine, an American expatriate, is a heartbroken casino owner in Morocco who fled…