Schutzstaffel

The holocaust was one of the worst genocides taken place in history. Eleven million innocents lives were taken by a mass murder, Adolf Hitler. He deliberately killed millions of people just because they were Jewish. With today’s society, it will be impossible for something like that to reoccur. Today’s massive access to the internet and social media will make it impossible to hide and not take action on what was occurring, we also no longer have a dictatorship like they had back in the day, and…

Throughout history, there have been many wars and much oppression of certain groups worldwide. One of the world’s most famous and cruelest oppressions was the Holocaust. Near the end of World War II, America dropped the first two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki which brought the end of the war. Some historians may argue that the Holocaust was more about liberating the people in concentration camps and giving those people freedom from Hitler and his dictatorship. Other may argue that not…

Nurses in the Holocaust Nurses during the Holocaust made history with the crimes they have done which they were forced to commit or be punished. Nurses and physicians have taken millions of innocent Jews lives away from them too soon. “In 1939, only nine percent of the nurses were members of the Nazi sisterhood,” (“Euthanasia Nurses”). Someone, anyone could have stopped Hitler from doing these crimes; Hitler knew he could not be stopped. Unfortunately, during the…

Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter or Our Mothers, Our Fathers is a good movie because it provides a new perspective on an old subject. Literally meaning Our Mothers, Our Fathers, marketed as Generation War outside of Germany, was a very controversial series when it came out in Europe. Generation War is a phenomenal series because it has great acting, a thought provoking story with grueling decisions, and shows the Axis side of World War 2. A German made Hollywood grade film marketed and made for the…

What is revenge? How does one get revenge? These are some of the questions that people ask themselves every day. Some people take the approach of forgiveness, while others live by the motto “an eye for an eye.” Throughout the world, people of all different cultures and backgrounds will always have a different response when asked how they deal with being wronged. One of the most horrific events in history was the Holocaust. The crimes that the Nazis committed in Germany were some of the…

On July 2015, Oskar Groening was sentenced to four years imprisonment with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder. In Auschwitz, he was responsible for handling the money and personal items that the Jewish “prisoners” had arrived with. Nazi accountants were essential in increasing the profitability of concentration camps. They are responsible for keeping the Nazi movement alive for as long as it did. The Nazi accountants are referred to as “desk-killers” even though they were not precisely…

Dehumanization in Night One of the world’s darkest periods, known as the Holocaust, was initiated and lead by Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a malicious man who over the course of his reign ultimately killed about six million Jews. Many of them were deported and distributed to concentration camps where German Nazis used numerous methods to torture innocent people. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night documents the atrocities he experienced during World War II. Not only were these victims starved, beaten and…

The last words of Liesel’s novel are: “I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” (528). Words are an essential piece of Liesel’s life, which she shares both good and bad memories with and hopes to use for good, not evil. To exemplify this theme, Markus Zusak, the author, picks and apt setting: “She was a girl. In Nazi Germany. How fitting that she was discovering the power of words.” (147). This quote is significant as it connects the power of words to one…

In this movie review I will be comparing Conspiracy and Downfall. Both films showing such crucial determining factors of World War II within one setting. While having the ability to tell the story of Nazi Germany from the highs, and lows of the Third Reich, before and after the gruesome events of the Holocaust. Several SS Generals that were in attendance at the Wannsee Conference in Conspiracy, are later represented in a different aspect in the film Downfall. These two films help the…

Nazi Doctors: Nazi doctors’ motivation to participate in this medical experimentation program was driven by three major factors. These major factors included fear, ambition and ideology. There were also three additional minor factors which included sadism, altruism and revenge. Irrespective of the particular inducing factor, the common motivation was the pursuit of power. There are many examples where fear induced the Nazi doctor to participate. First, refusal to join the program could lead to…