Schutzstaffel

The text Nazi Ideology and Ethics from Cambridge University states that, “Individuals were reduced to being members of a race who jointly were either doomed to destruction if they happened to be Jews or destined to rule the world if they were members of the Nordic race such as the Germans.” The way in which the Nazi Party treated those whom they considered other caused Germans to perpetuate the belief that they were better than those who were different, and this was aided not only by propaganda,…

Adolf Eichmann was the right hand man to Adolf Hitler, the leader of the SS or the Nazi’s. Adolf Eichmann was responsible for the deaths of over 6 million Jews. A team of spies were determined to bring in Adolf Eichmann to justice, and that’s what happens in the novel The Nazi Hunters. Throughout the novel a team of spices go to Argentina to Adolf Eichmann and bringing him to justice. The team finds different way to get into Argentina by foregoing their passports to who they really were. Agents…

Intro- During the Holocaust concentration camps were created in an attempt to try and kill out the entire race of Jews. The officers of the concentration camps would be popular for dehumanizing its prisoners. The officers of the camps treated the prisoners like they were worthless and did many experiments on ways to kill the prisoners. German officers used many unthinkable, inhumane tactics to murder thousands of prisoners a day. There were many ways that german officers murdered the prisoners…

In the 1930’s, Hitler Youth was a youth organization developed by Adolf Hitler to form children into good Nazis by manipulating their education. In “Hitler Youth: Growing up in Hitler’s Shadow,” author Susan Campbell Bartoletti discusses the ways Adolf Hitler used education to further Nazi ideals. Hitler implemented only Nazi approved ideas for students to be taught, used teachers to pressure the students into joining, and did not allow students to express their own ideas. One way Hitler used…

The Holocaust, known as the extermination of the Jewish race, is marked in history as one of the most inhumane and unthinkable acts to ever exist. With over five million Jews murdered, this mass Final Solution has caused many to wonder how some survived. One of the most common words associated with the Holocaust is Concentration Camps, otherwise known as death or work camps. The final resting place for the majority of the five million Jews murdered were located at one of the many…

In “Respecting the Holocaust” by Howard Zinn, he argued against “the Uniqueness of the Jewish Holocaust”. In his essay, he provides positive and critical responses to the significance of the Holocaust in history. First, he starts by recalling “while he was teaching in Boston University and he was asked to talk about the event of the Holocaust, but he chooses to recall some events that happened in America and the death of hundreds of thousands of peasants in Guatemala and El Salvador.” Zinn’s…

1. The author of this novel is Elie Wiesel, A Jewish man that has roots in Romania. There are many unique things about his story and past. For example, he is a holocaust survivor. He is also wrote a book describing the horrors of the holocaust in great detail and he does this by creating a fictional character that resembles him. Creating a fictional character to represent himself helps him revisit these tragic events that happened to him. 2. The main point of the novel is to bring understanding…

In 1933, Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor, which led him to adding many in concentration camps or death camps including in the camp "Dachau". The camp Dachau was the first concentration camp to open. When this camp opened for its 1st year it occupied around 4,800 prisoners or more. In Dachau, German physicians performed medical experiments on prisoners. While the experiments continued, prisoners also died for different reasons. As I said a lot of people died but a few survived this tragedy. Years…

The Angel of Death Josef Mengele was not just any doctor. He was a sick, twisted man who was infatuated with the genetics of twins, and other genetically deformed people. He did most of his experiments on Jews during the Holocaust. Mengele was the reason for many of the murders to the Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals. In 1935 Josef Mengele got his Doctor of Philosophy Degree in physical anthropology from the University of Munich. He then became the assistant of Dr. Otmor Von Verschuer. Von…

Bloodied Snow of the Fallen October 10th, 1943 , near the forest off of a Nazi controlled town of Warsaw...it should have been easy... Life, such a fickle thing to live with, sometimes it goes well and others...this time, it went terribly wrong. The cold October night was a beautiful sight to see, stars peppered the sky as the moon’s light bathed the forest. I felt a cold shiver go through my body as I slumped against a tree, holding my abdomen in pain, wondering if this was it, if my life…