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Dr. Josef Mengele Josef Mengele was a ruthless man who did not care for humanity. He had no mercy for the people he heartlessly abused. He was a very cruel and pitiless man. He did so many things that physically, mentally, and emotionally affected the lives of Jews. The most common thing that he did was testing on twin children. He often tested their minds or physical features. He was fascinated by twin children. Josef Mengele grew up somewhat normal. He was the oldest of 3 sons. He had a…

Even though the Nazis could get the prisoners into the gas chambers, they had to find out a way to “get rid” of the prisoners. Their solution was a chemical called Zyklon B. To start off, Zyklon B wasn’t just used for prisoners. It was used in Germany before and during World War II. Zyklon B would be used for pest extermination and pest extermination in ships, machinery, and different types of buildings. This chemical was used for these ordinary tasks until the summer of 1941. After the end of…

“Night” by Elie Wiesel is a book that describes the cruel and very harsh treatment in the camps during the Holocaust. In the book “Night” by Elie Wiesel, Elie continues to be a good person despite the atrocities and cruel treatment during the Holocaust. To write “Night” Elie Wiesel would have to relive the gruesome events he witnessed and lived through. When Elie was first forced to move from the ghetto to the first camp he was scared and worried. Elie and his father got separated from his…

Emmy Goering was born in Hamburg, Germany on March 24th 1893. From her youth she was always interested in show business and became an actress at the National Theatre in Weimar. She married actor Karl Köstlin in late 1916, but they later divorced. Through Hitler, Emmy met Hermann Goering in 1931. He was a widower who was still mourning his first wife who had died a year earlier. Emmy was his mistress for four years until they married in April 10, 1935. Their daughter Edda was born in 1938. As…

The main character, Lida, is an 11 year old girl living in Germany in 1942 in the storey making bombs for Hitler. She is also Jewish , so the Nazis take her on a two whole day train ride, to a concentration camp. She is forced to do slave work even though she doesn't want to. Also she only gets served a half a piece of bread a day and has a huge lice problem. In the book she proves herself to be a brave character by doing all of those things. At first Lida was captured by the Nazis and she…

The Mengele Experiments took place in Nazi Germany during World War II, starting in 1943. The main person who conducted the experiments was Dr. Mengele. He did experiments mainly involving identical twins due to the identical genetic material. Many of his experiments were unethical and were seen as crimes against humanity (Muller-Hill, 2001). This experiment that was performed in Nazi Germany was unethical in many ways. A few ways was the lack of informed consent, and protection of the patients.…

Josef Mengele, The Angel of Death Josef Mengele was an important and influential person in history that had a negative impact on the world because he medically experimented on the members of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 in Gunzburg, Germany into a wealthy family. His father, Karl Mengele, owned a local plant that manufactured farming equipment. His mother, Walburga Mengele, was very demanding and had a very short temper (“The Life of Josef…

When autobiographies are too bizarre, readers tend to believe that the story is fiction. The novella Night is an autobiography about Elie Wiesel and his struggle through the world’s largest genocide, the Holocaust. However, some people do not believe that the novella is an autobiography, but rather a fictional story about a fictional character in the Holocaust setting. The novella, Night, by Elie Wiesel should be read as a nonfiction autobiography because of the shocking similarities between the…

The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, (LAMOTH), is a two-fold mission that has publicly received its expatiators free of charge, welcoming the community since 1961 by a group of Survivors who found one another,shared their experiences and contributed their artifacts for public display. Its commemoration and artifacts displays the Jewish culture above all, to commemorate the history of its people and their journey through their suffering and rise to today. The museum focuses on honoring those…

History of how Hitler came to power During the 1930’s, Germany suffered economic hardship because of their lost in World War I (WWI). The Treaty of Versailles ended WWI, and ordered Germany to down size the number of military troops, transfer territory to its neighbors, and pay reparations. The huge amount in reparations paid, caused the economic hardship, and left many Germans unsure in their government. Then, along came Adolf Hitler, and his party, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party,…