Schutzstaffel

Argument Essay RD Are people really good at heart? No, it was ironic how Anne, in “The Diary of Anne Frank” stated “In spite of everything, people are good at the heart.” She said that when she didn’t actually know what was going on outside of the annex, millions of jews were being killed, because of Hitler and the Germans. People are bad at heart. While some people are good at heart, no amount of good, can overcome the amount of evil in this world. People are selfish, people are treated…

“Bent,” a play written by Martin Sherman, focused on the LGBTQ community’s perspective of their lives during the Holocaust. The play is about the lives of gay men who are living in a homophobic era under the rule of Hitler in Berlin, Germany in 1934. These homosexuals were being tormented, hated, and forced to live on concentration camps because of their sexuality. This hatred of gays or homosexuals was highly expected because during this time period of Nazi Germany, Hitler would persecute…

The Holocaust and Skewed Minds The Holocaust and the events that occurred in Nazi Germany are very popular topics of discussion. Today’s society views the actions that occurred during this time to be inhumane and horrific events that should never be repeated or replicated. Therefore, certain aspects of the events are often “played-up,” or exaggerated, while others are ignored resulting in skewed and sometimes naive people. However, the acts of “deadly medicine” that occurred during the Holocaust…

Evan Olson Period: 6 Mr. Lone/ Mr.Paulin Book Report: Inside the Vicious Heart One quote I found that really grabbed my attention was, “It was though we had penetrated at last to the center of the black, to the very crawling inside of the vicious heart. I had found this interesting because it really sums up the entire book in a few lines. It shows how the American’s felt toward the Nazi’s and the horrible acts they did. It also explains how the Nazi’s were viewed as “heartless” or that they…

The year is 1931, the place, Berlin, and here we see the entrance of a young American writer, Clifford Bradshaw. Later we see the entrance of his love interest, and main attraction of the Kit Kat Club, Sally Bowles. Throughout the play we follow the romance between the two as it grows and develops, and finally fails. We also follow the tragically doomed romance of German Boarding House owner, Fraulein Schneider, and her Jewish suitor Herr Schultz. At intervals every so often we see the Emcee…

Prior to entering this class, my knowledge of the Holocaust was limited to only certain major points of the Holocaust. My knowledge was more based on the concentration camps and the gas chambers. One major point that I had learned about in history class was that Hitler came to power in 1933. I was not taught that he had come into power legally. The ways that the teacher taught it was that Hitler had friends in Parliament and those friends were the ones that helped him become chancellor. So I…

Millions of innocent people died in the Holocaust, people of different religion, skin color, and age groups. the ashes of your loved one in the air, the screams, and the smell is truly a horrible thought. The Holocaust was started by Adolf Hitler and ran by the SS Nazis. The Holocaust was a plan that Hitler had, where he would kill anyone that he didn’t like. The Holocaust was mainly in Europe. Hitler was elected in 1933, right after the great depression hit Germany, Hitler started to blame Jews…

Threat is defined as a declaration of inflicting punishment onto a being by physical means or by psychological means. Elie Wiesel’s autobiography Night uses real life events to depict what it was like to be a prisoner of the Nazis during the holocaust. The novel shows the various threats faced by the prisoners and how the prisoners coped with the threats in different ways. Wiesel and his father were both held in the same camp and they were constantly being deprived of necessities, being watched…

Forced Labour: Geneva 3rd convention concerning POWs Unit 731: Geneva 3rd convention concerning POWs Unit 731 was a unit of the Japanese army used for lethal human experiments used from 1939-1945 located in Pingping. The subjects were mostly Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian POWs (Kristof). Between 3,000 and 250,000 died as subjects of experiments (Kristof). The experiments included vivisection without anesthesia after infecting subjects with diseases like typhus and cholera (Kristof) locking up…

1. The book Prisoner B-3087 was based on the time period during the holocaust. An example of this in the book was in chapter nine. “ The Nazis snatched me up one day when I was at work .I was still working at the tailor shop in Krakow ,hoping that it would save me from deportation.” Another example of this book being written during the holocaust was in chapter 16, “In a large empty room we were ordered to undress and pile our striped uniforms in a corner.” and “They whipped us and beat us again…