Schutzstaffel

captured as a POW and escaped twice. He told me that near the end of the war, he met a young nineteen-year old German that wished to surrender. My Grandfather offered to walk with him back to American lines. However, this young man had the mark of Schutzstaffel (SS) on his uniform, and was shot within a few minutes, even though he surrendered. My grandpa was upset about that, because he was a young kid, but orders for Americans were not to take any SS soldiers because they had received special…

During World War II, countries such as Japan and Germany utilized characteristics of totalitarianism such as control of information, persecution, and ideology, which contributed to atrocities including the Rape of Nanking, concentration camps, and the Bataan Death March. During World War II, Japan’s totalitarian trait of control of information contributed to the war atrocity of the Rape of Nanking. Control of information is the indoctrination of the state’s ideology through censorship, control…

Oskar Schindler was a brave, unlikely hero of World War 2. He was a Nazi who saved Jews. Oskar Schindler had many roles that led him to contribute in a big way and have a big impact on many lives. He saved more lives than any other single man in World War 2. Oskar Schindler was a native German who was born into a privileged family. He was not an academic student and attended trade school instead of college. In 1928 he was called into military service and on return he worked for his father in a…

Josef Mengele: Life and participation in world war II Starving, neglected, brutalized, and mistreated: these descriptors are just a small number of many that could be used to describe the prisoners made to endure the horrific realities of the Nazi death camps quickly taking over Germany during World War II. The treatment of Prisoners was akin to mice in a lab; they came in infinite supply and due to the scientists and doctors little regard for non-Aryan lives they had zero hope of salvation.…

The Holocaust Memorial The definition of holocaust is: destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. Most people associate the word holocaust by the slaughter of jews during World War 2. World War 2 started on September 1, 1939 and after a long fight of 6 years, it ended on September 2, 1945. The war involved multiple countries; on one side were the Axis Powers, including Germany, Italy and Japan. On the other side were the Allies. They included, Britain,…

A government that controls every aspect of life is known as a totalitarian government. The Nazi regime in Germany is a prime example of a totalitarian government. However, even a government that has an abundance of power and influence often fails, just as the Nazi regime failed in the early nineteen hundreds. Additionally, if or when this type of government determines social class and manipulates the language simultaneously, it can truly pose a great threat to the future population and their…

After the unification of Germany, following the Franco-Prussian War, in 1871 many Germans had resounding support for the newfound empire. Nationalism was seeded into almost every German. There was nothing in the world that could stop them, or so they believed. We see that this invulnerable feeling did not last. Following the Great War, also known as World War I, Germany’s seething nationalism had been squelched by the loss of World War I. Devastated by the unthinkable loss of the Great War,…

winner of the Bay Area book reviewer association award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. (Bartholome); the story revolves about concealing the truth and secrecy. Thorough our secret Griffin exploress Heinrich Himmler a Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel; a leader of the Nazi Party (protection squad), and the concealed secrets that he carried. Throughout his childhood Himmler's secrets and thoughts were suppressed and hidden. Griffin explores Himmler’s childhood; his culture and his…

time in prison, Hitler wrote his first volume of “Mein Kampf.” In his book, Hitler claimed that Germans, or Aryans, are the dominant race and that Jews are a “toxin” to German purity. A year after his imprisonment in 1925, Hitler organized the Schutzstaffel, or the SS, to guard him and other Nazi…

On April 20, 1889 in a small Austrian town named Braunau, Adolf Hitler was born to his father, Alois Hitler, and mother, Klara. When Hitler was young he showed signs of potential. He was intelligent and was extremely liked and admired by other classmates. Although Elementary school was a breeze for him, middle school turned out to be a lot tougher; Hitler soon stopped trying at everything he did. As result he lost all popularity. Instead of hanging out with friends he would re-enact battles and…