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Josef Mengele was a doctor who did experiments on prisoners in concentration camps during the Holocaust. He was born on March 16 of 1911. The majority of his experiments were conducted on twins. His nickname was the Angel of Death. Josef Mengele’s father was Karl Mengele. He owned a business that manufactured farm equipment. His mother was Walburga Hupfauer. She made his family be devoted to Catholicism. He had two younger brothers named Karl and Alois. The citizens of the town he grew up in…

In the autobiography The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal, Simon, who’s the main character went through much heartache and confusion; throughout being separated from his family to being put into concentration/work camps. Simon witnessed many people brutally slaughtered, including close friends. While working one day on the line a nurse pulled Simon aside and took him to a school building that had been turned into a hospital. There he saw a man whose face was completely wrapped in bandages. This…

In 1933, Himmler and Heydrich realized that they had created a strong enough organization to challenge and discredit the SA. Himmler and Heydrich began by trying to manipulate Goring and penetrate the SA's hold on Prussian police activities. Goring was extremely willing to support the SS's counter-SA activity since he had already questioned SA loyalty and believed he could gain political power if the SA was out of the picture. In addition, the SA's police activities were rivals to Goring's…

Gross Rosen My camp gross rosen was established in August 2nd of 1940. It is located in lower Silensia in a satellite camp of sachsenhausen. On May 1st of 1945 Gross Rosen became a self-sufficient camp. Gross Rosen had about 120,000 prisoner that passed through. About 40,000 prisoner vanished. At first, the prisoner were employed primarily as forced laborers in the concentration camps which the ss-owned granite quarry. Gross Rosen had three commanders who were: Arthur roedl,…

It was once said by acclaimed statesman, Edmund Burke, that “Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it”, suggesting that learning history is important because it is the social study of past events and humankind’s accomplishments and times of ignominy. Without history, significant events would not be remembered. One event was the Holocaust, a genocide primarily targeting Jews and later on Slavs, Romans, and the disabled. The Nazi Party and their leader, Adolf Hitler, were responsible…

Do you know any sets of twins? Josef Mengele loved experimenting on twins, he experimented on over 3,000 twins in Auschwitz. Josef Mengele was an SS physician, infamous for his inhumane medical experiments mainly based on twins. He believed twins held the secret to perfect genetic specimens. Josef Mengele was born on March 16,1911 and died of drowning on February 7,1974. He was referred to as “The Angel of Death” for the inhumane experiments performed on Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz…

Heinrich Himmler, Hitler’s right-hand man. The both of them exterminated 6 million Jewish men, women, and even children together. These two men were the most powerful men in Germany during this time period. Although many see Hitler as the protruding figure of Nazism, Himmler is where is all started. When the Nazis came to power, it was just a party like any other, but the country needed someone who could make them stronger. That’s exactly what Himmler had intended to do. He couldn’t do it alone…

The Hitler Youth (commonly referred to as HJ) was a youth organization of the Nazi Party in Germany. By 1939 Hitler Youth had over seven million followers ranking the largest youth organization in the world. Hitler and the organization's leader, Baldur Von Schirach, believed children were the face of our future generations. Furthermore The organization was a gathering of children and teens that were impressed into playing vigorous games to train themselves. The organization was most commonly…

Love Through Hatred “Of course. But one condition: I want to stay with my father.” (48), says Elie Wiesel as he talks to an SS officer, in his book titled Night. The book describes Wiesel’s experience in the Holocaust with his father. The two spend a little over a year in three different concentration camps together. In this book, Elie tells the readers about his physical and emotional struggles. Wiesel goes into detail about the number one thing that kept him going through this…

Unforgivable Crimes Forgiveness is a precious opportunity that can destroy a person, or rebuild a person. Just as the forgiveness is an opportunity, life is a precious gift. These two treasures can cause happiness and contentment, as well as discord and evil. Many factors go hand in hand when talking about life and forgiveness, but there are many instances where forgiveness cannot be granted for the harm caused to life. In light of what I learned about Nazi propaganda and after reading what…