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Evil and Sadistic SS Women When people think of sadistic killers during the Holocaust they think of men; What about their female counterparts? Many of these women were stationed in concentration camps. Some of the female members of the SS were more sadistic than male members. Herta Bothe is one of the three sadistic women spoken of in the Bergen Belsen trials. Bothe was born on January 3rd 1921 (Source Bergen Belsen Trial Transcript) in Tete, Mecklenburg. Bothe had done house work until…

Josef Mengele The Holocaust was a tragic event that brought about many interesting people, one being the infamous “Angel Of Death,” Josef Mengele. Mengele is most famously known for his experiments on twins during the Holocaust, However, there is more to the Nazi doctor’s story.In his younger years Mengele was remembered as an exceptional student,in his adult life Mengele is best known for his experiments in Auschwitz concentration camp,even in mengeles later life there are still conspiracys…

Imagery of Dehumanization in Night Over the course of almost two millennia, anti-Semitism has constantly presented itself in European conflicts in the form of blaming, scapegoating, and prejudice against the Jews. During the Holocaust, this incessant hatred led to the identification and deportation of millions of people from their homes, the concentration in the camps, and extermination of entire families and Jewish communities at once. For nearly a decade, Jews, prisoners-of-war, homosexuals,…

“Have we ever thought about the consequence of a horror that, though less apparent, less striking than the other outrages, is yet the worst of all to those of us who have faith: the death of a God in the soul of a child who suddenly discovers absolute evil?” (Francois Mauriac ix) In other words, the worst thing that can happen to a faithful person is the death of their faith due to the unearthing of sinful reality. In the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel a young boy is taken away from his family and…

The Holocaust inspired many works of art such as the memoir Night and the poem “Mercy and Grace,” which both show how faith and religion declined with the Jewish people, with the more suffering, and torture they endured. For example, in the memoir Night, by Elie Wiesel, a Jewish citizen of Sighet, and a Holocaust survivor, is watching the world slowly drip into chaos. Often times in his society, people are being dragged to concentration camps, and their families are separated. Then, as Wiesel…

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which nearly six million European Jews were killed by the great dictator Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and the World War II associated with the Nazis. In other words Holocaust also means Ethnic cleansing, Deportation or Mass murder, where innocent people were killed and executed. The Holocaust was the organized, officious, the state-sponsored hounding and murder of over six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.…

Analysis of: “Their Finest Hour” by Winston Churchill A. 10 forms of rhetoric in the speech i) Metonymy: “We have under arms at the present time in this Island over a million and a quarter men.” Winston Churchill substitutes the Island of Great Britain with the word Island, acting as a figure of speech that means the same thing. ii) Connotation: “If Hitler can bring under his despotic control the industries of the countries he has conquered...” By referring to Hitler's control as being…

Doctor Josef Mengele’s actions were immoral. The Nazi doctors performed brutal experiments on the helpless concentrations inmates. Their acts of torture were characterized by many features including individuals that ere forced to become subjects in dangerous research studies against their will, the experiments were often intentionally designed to kill the prisoners, and almost all of the subject were forced to endure mutilation, indescribable pain and incredible suffering. Mengele shunned his…

This topic is analyzed as it greatly fit within the movie concept. It will explain how it correlates with move The Stanford Prison experiment, another similar examples and comparison with Milgram Experiment. To start analyzing obedience to authority it is good to give first example of relation between cooks and the chef. The location is in the kitchen where cooks are preparing food and chef gave them an order to put big amount of salt in the dishes. Cooks are aware that that amount of salt will…

Konrad Edmund Schweser was born in 1899, in Sulzfeld. Schweser was a mature father to three children. He took the job as an urban construction engineer at Ochsenfurt. He was mobilized by the Todt Organization, where he then served as a track-construction engineer. Konrad Edmund Schweser was a hero to many children during the hardships of the holocaust. The Jews were recruited by the Todt Organization, where they were managed by the SS and the Ukrainian auxiliaries in road…