Schutzstaffel

The film Schindler’s list is set during WWII, and focuses on the horrible atrocities that happened to the Jews. I found it remarkable that the film was not portrayed from neither a German Nazi view, nor Jewish view. Schindler’s list shows the viewer the horror of the war and the suffering of those involved. The movie is based on Oskar Schindler’s role in saving 1.200 Jews during the war. At the start of the movie, Schindler was a member of the Nazi party and was only in Germany for one thing,…

Grese continued on her rampage of torture and death. Dora Szafran testified at the Belsen trail that, “Grese had beaten a girl very severely.” She and the other camp supervisors maintained their daily selections, beatings, and humiliation. She attempted to maintain control in a situation that quickly spiraled out of her control and lead to the complete destruction of the Nazi regime. She extended her reign of terror on to Bergen-Belsen. One victim named Helene Klein stated, “Grese beat them…

Buchenwald The Holocaust is the period of time between 1933 and 1945 when the Nazis persecuted and executed millions of Jews and other people seen as enemies of the state. The Holocaust was one of the most horrific slaughters of human life in the Second World War. Most of loss of life during the Holocaust took place in concentration camps. Concentration camps served different purposes; some camps were slave labor camps, some were transit camps, and others served as death camps. Even though there…

he holocaust was a time in history that would and should never be forgotten,but instead be used to learn from the mistakes of it all. There is an important and great purpose to not let the memorious of six million jews and non jews be forgotten and counted as some statistic number. Also one has to know that all the deaths and tortures that occurred to the jews and many other people that were not even jewish. You could ask” why were those people chosen?’ , it was because they were either disabled…

The U.S. committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I 'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated (George Wald, BrainyQuote). The Nuremberg Trials were a series of trials to punish the Nazis and other people involved in the Holocaust accused of horrible crimes during World War II. The crimes against humanity and war were common crimes to be convicted for at the time.…

While I’m sure we can all agree that Adolf Hitler wasn’t the best human being ever, Hitler may have been one of the best leaders of the twentieth century. Born April 20th, 1889 and died April 30th, 1945, was an Austrian-born German politician who was a leader in the Nazi party, Germanys chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and Fuhrer of Nazi Germany from the year 1934 to 1945, (David 1998.) He can be attributed to be a good leader because of various reasons: He was a leader with visions; he was a…

The Films “Inglourious Basterds” and “Django: Unchained” are both directed by Quentin Tarantino, a director acclaimed for rewriting history to satisfy the audiences vengeance against these historical antagonists and ideologies. Inglourious Basterds closes on a scene where the Nazi party members are being burnt, shot and blown up. This represents the demise of a failed, inhumane ideology which today we have studied to understand and hate and with the violent end we have come to see a satisfying…

“The Lottery:” Submit or Scream According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, prior to World War II Adolf Hitler scapegoated Jews, gypsies, and homosexuals for the economic problems that were facing Germany (Untied States Holocaust Memorial Museum). During the Holocaust, many in Germany, Austria, Poland, France, the Netherlands, and even America turned a blind eye while these individuals were rounded up and murdered. It is all too easy to call this atrocity history as if…

The Holocaust was one of, if not the worst event in world history. Ran by Hitler and his Nazis, this horrific event took place from around 1939 to 1945. During this time period, 6 million Jews, as well as millions of other people, were persecuted by the Nazis, as they were thought to be bad people, even though they did nothing wrong. This event is known as arguably the greatest example of human genocide in history. Because of this tragic event, and all of the bad things that happened during this…

The origin of “Dachau: The Medical Experiments” is that it was written by Franz Blaha in 1946. Franz Blaha was a prisoner at Dachau however, since he was a certified doctor they spared his life so he could be a medical examiner. If he was to not cooperate with the doctors and nazis at the camp, he would be killed. Dachau was the first concentration camp that opened in Germany in 1933. This document is a primary source. Franz Blaha published the document with the intent of it being publicized. We…