Schutzstaffel

Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1903 in Zwittau located in the Sudetenland now the Czech Republic along with a younger sister named Elfriede. His father Hans Schindler worked as a farm-equipment manufacturer and his mother Louisa was a homemaker. Oskar attended a German-language school where he was a very popular student and had many friends. He then attended an array of turn colleges in Brno where he married to Emilie Pelzl in 1928. After college, he worked numerous amounts of jobs…

Upon reading the information that is presented within the book, I was unaware of all the genocides that have occurred throughout the essence of time. Before reading the text, I truly did not have a complete understanding of what the term “Genocide” meant. I always thought the term used in areas involving experimentation, but I quickly realized that the term means the ultimate destruction through mass killings of those within a country that are thought of as inferior or as threat to the abiding…

I hope you had a relaxing summer. This summer I read The Boys in the Boat, and I enjoyed the author’s details about the lives of people in both America and Germany in the 1930’s. As I was reading, I thought of your U.S. History class and how Daniel James Brown’s descriptions of how Adolf Hitler had more help in realizing his dreams of perfecting the Aryan race than many thought as well as how bad the Great Depression really was and how it affected the war related to our classes discussions about…

All of Hitler’s opponents were then arrested and sent to labour camps. A secret police force was set up called Gestapo and they were given major power. All major institutions were then forced under Nazi control including the media, the boy scouts, education departments and the police. This process of coordination was called the Gleichschaltung. Following this was the Night of Long Knives in June 1934 where all of Hitler’s rivals were killed including Ernst Rohm. Shortly after Hindenburg dies and…

In these camps “the death rates were so high, from malnutrition, typhus and exhaustion that the disposal of corpses became a serious problem.” (THE CAMPS) The treatment in transporting and caring for the victims is probably one of the main factors in the dehumanization of people during Holocaust. The victims were treated inferior simply because of their nationality. The Nazi’s made it a point to degrade these people in every way possible by taking away their rights and free will.…

“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions,” a relevant quote by Primo Levi (Primo Levi 1). Primo Levi was an Italian scientist, and a Jewish Holocaust survivor of Auschwitz. He experienced many hardships of the concentration camps, and was a witness to the atrocities committed by Holocaust criminals. Franz Stangl, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner, were sentenced…

Genocide, the mass slaughter of a group of people based on who they are, can inflict unimaginable harm on the victimized people in many ways. One can not possibly quantify the grotesque, inhumane treatment witnessed in many genocides. Simultaneously, however, many victims are vulnerable to their identities being destroyed and only their will to survive being left intact. One whose identity is altered, even those fortunate enough to survive, still suffer immortally. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust…

Paul Bauer from the novel All Quiet on the Western Front and Adolf Eichmann were both guilty of a lot, granted one character is a piece of historical fiction while the other is real, but how similar are they, really? Paul Bauer and other German soldiers committed atrocities upon the opposing armies during World War 1 such as the use chlorine gas. Adolf Eichmann is responsible for sending millions of Jewish people to what were essentially death camps, where some were worked to nigh death and…

“Nazis”, another word for terror which refreshes all the wounds in the history of humanity. Everyone in the world connect Nazis to holocaust which is absolutely true, but they aren’t aware of all the steps they took in order to reach to that position where they can get enough trust of people who will not fight back against them. Well, we all know that it didn’t work out well for them and ended up losing their lives as well. Nazis was a group made of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and some…

"Rethinking Pesticides" by Scott Hoffman Black touches on the issues that pesticides have forced upon the ecosystem for millennia. Black mentions that even the Romans burned sulfur to kill insects and pests, and in the 1600s, people were even using a mixture of honey and arsenic to kill ants. Black’s overall goal in this article is to make people realize we need to study the effects of these chemicals on the whole environment before we simply use them for the “next quick fix.” He mentions that…