SS Central America

June 22, 1941, a new stage of the holocaust began. A new special action squad, or Einsatzgruppen, was formed. It was made up of Nazi SS units and police. They were also aided by residents of regions the Nazis had previously taken over. Einsatzgruppen (which means deployment groups in German) was a unit of the Nazi special forces. It was composed of members of the SS, the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police), and the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police). They acted as mobile killing units during the…

Imagine being a German citizen living in the same era as one of the most notorious and high ranking officers in Nazi Germany’s history. This was the case for many citizens of their proud Nazi Germany and the prisoners, POWs (Prisoners of War) , and criminals that had to face the wrath of Heinrich Himmler. Heinrich grew up in a Roman-Catholic conservative family, where he experienced difficulties in life, and eventually became a political activist. He grew up to become one of the most…

outlawed intermarriage with Jews and others who were deemed inferior. For decades, Germany's birthrate was decreasing. In the beginning, the Lebensborn were SS nurseries. In order to create a "super-race," the SS transformed these nurseries in "meeting places" for "racially pure" German women who wanted to meet and make children with SS officers. SS stands for Schutzstaffel or Protection Squadrons. Between 1935 and 1945, there were born some 10,000 children in Germany and an estimated…

Unsere Mütter, Unsere Väter or Our Mothers, Our Fathers is a good movie because it provides a new perspective on an old subject. Literally meaning Our Mothers, Our Fathers, marketed as Generation War outside of Germany, was a very controversial series when it came out in Europe. Generation War is a phenomenal series because it has great acting, a thought provoking story with grueling decisions, and shows the Axis side of World War 2. A German made Hollywood grade film marketed and made for the…

The SS men were some of the most ruthless people of Hitler’s army. They were highly trained and swore loyalty to Hitler above all. They started as something small but rose to destructive terror with the help of some key individuals. In this paper I will describe to you the rise, duties, and fall of the SS men. I will also tell you of some of the people that were linked to the involvement of the SS. The SS were not always known as the SS. Before they were known for their terror and brutality…

Stanley Milgram performed a study, done at Yale University, that concluded, “Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an authority figure, even to the extent of killing an innocent human being.” While this may be true for some of the SS members, Irma Grese never claimed to be following…

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…

In the autobiography” If this is a man” written by Primo Levi, it described the experience of Levi during his journey in the notorious concentration camp of Auschwitz from 1944 to 1945. This book act as a bibliography and a reminder of what we as human are capable. In the concentration camp, Levi had suffered a lot, both physical and mentally as the concentration camp exercises Levi’s body and spirit for survival. Not only did Levi faces hunger every day from the insufficient supply of water…

Sandinista-Contra conflict in Nicaragua was “all such a pathetic poverty-ridden sight that it’s too bad that we have been adding to the misery by promoting, if not insisting upon, war.” Sanford’s negative view of America’s realist strategy in Central America pushed him to find alternative solutions. Looking to the past for inspiration, he viewed the liberal structure set up during the 1940s as a source of inspiration. Specifically, he thought that a plan modeled…

adult studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. He then moved to Berlin at a young age. Sadly, On March 2, 1943, he was one of approximately 1,000 Jews deported to Auschwitz. Olère began to draw at Auschwitz during the last days of the camp, when the SS became less attentive. The importance of Olère’s work lies in it’s exceptional documentary value, as there are no photos of what happened in the gas chambers and crematoria. He was also the first witness to draw plans and cross-sections to…