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The SS and the Gestapo: Instruments of Destruction A few questions many researchers ask during study of WWII is, “How did we let this happen? What instruments could carry out such atrocities?” Even before the war started, there was persecution and maleficent intentions towards people that were deemed unfit to reproduce. Who would carry out these crimes against humanity? What extent of damage did the dark acts of the Geheime Staats Polizei (literal translation, Secret State Police or, best known…

The Reasoning Behind Seriousness or Playfulness As a nation, the people weren’t prepared for the effects of warfare. Eleven million people being brutally murdered is certainly a surprise. Eliezer Wiesel and Guido both suffered through the Holocaust, where they both were deprived of their freedom. Guido is a positive character in the film, Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni. His son Joshua didn’t have much of a luicid Eliezer Wiesel is an actual survivor of the horrific event and…

The perception of myself is very subjective, it is never concrete, but rather develops as my experiences and biases change. The one book I have read explore the concept of the loss of an identity. Set pre to post 9/11, The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid explores, the engaging narrative of Changez, who is a Pakistani living in the terrorism altered America. He recounts his life story to the reader, who is presumed to be an American agent or a business man. On the other hand, Schindler’s…

Angelina Akopyan Professor Balthazar Becker English 126 10 March 2016 A Remembrance of Horror The essays in discussion for this assignment are “Philosophers and the Animals” by J. M. Coetzee and "Can the Treatment of Nonhuman Animals Be Compared to the Holocaust?" by David Sztybel. The first essay, “Philosophers and the Animals” is from J. M. Coetzee’s book The Lives of Animals. The essay introduces the readers to an author of many novels, Elizabeth Costello, her son John…

Holocaust Ghettos Ghetto - A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships (Dictionary.com). Ghettos were just one of the things that made the Holocaust miserable for Jews. They were very important to the Nazis during the Holocaust. They helped them in many ways, and the Nazis probably couldn’t have succeeded; well, partly…

During the Holocaust, more than 6 million Jews were persecuted by the Nazis in Germany and its surrounding nations. Following World War 1, Adolf Hitler came into power in Germany and formed one of the most powerful fascist totalitarian states at the time. Hitler blamed the economic depression on the Jews and others he believed to be inferior. He wanted to eradicate the people who were seen as a threat to the German people. The book The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a fictional representation of…

This paper will consider the philosophical question “Did the Nazi’s have Law?” by drawing off of H.L.A Hart’s conception of law. Hart, being a positivist, believes that law and morality are conceptually separate; law is simply what undergoes the judiciary installment and is enacted by the law-making agency of a society. He concludes that morality is a statement of values which are subjective, hence the reason they can’t be compared to the law which is a statement of facts. I shall argue that the…

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific events in history. The Holocaust consisted of the torture and mass murder against the Jewish population. The Jews were transported to the railroad from the ghetto communities to then be deported to Nazi concentration camps. Jews were deported to the concentration camps to work as slave labor, to be tortured, and humiliated in a variety of ways. Over six million Jews died during the Holocaust and a great number of that six million died before arriving to…

During the Holocaust, the Nazi Party was able to successfully convince all the Germans of the idea of eliminating all Jews. The mass murder of the Jews requires lots of strategic manipulation by the Nazis, in order for the Jews to be eliminated without much protest. In the reading Night , we have a glimpse of the both physical and psychological techniques used by the Nazis to influence the Jew 's behavior and reasoning, while they were imprisoned in Auschwitz. Ultimately, the Nazis wanted to…

To many, the Holocaust is the first thing that comes to mind when discussing or remembering World War II. I feel that this alone is an argument for the Holocaust being a defining factor for the war; however, there were occurrences during this time that stand out above the others. Not only was there a mass genocide on a particular grouping of people, there were also a vast number of concentration camps and medical testing that occurred during this period. When we are taught about the Holocaust,…