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    First Year Experience 100 B 8 November 2015 Paper #3 The Holocaust When you think about the Holocaust you think of Adolf Hitler, the Jewish, and millions of deaths. Now I am going to tell you about the rest. The definition of Holocaust is “destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.” According to Adolf Hitler the Jews were an inferior race that threatened the German racial purity. However, the Holocaust was not the beginning of racial discrimination for…

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    taught them that they weren't who they really were, raped and even neglected. Just like the Holocaust, The Lost Generation has been a tragic time period in the history of the world, however, these events differ in the goals of the perpetrators, in their impact on the world, and in how they were both resolved. Although the Holocaust and The Lost generations…

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    I propose to conduct a comparative study on the Holocaust and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (the Cultural Revolution on the second mention) mainly in terms of their backgrounds, motifs and historical influences, and conclude by evaluating the degree these two caused devastation to human civilization. Amongst atrocities recorded in human history, the Holocaust initiated by the Nazis Germany and the the Cultural Revolution by the CPC seem the most brutal and irrational. These two…

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    about the events that have happened in our past. I am a German woman, whose ancestors were apart of the terrible holocaust. I want to make sure everyone knows how grateful we should be, knowing that we don’t have to go through the same tough times that many of our ancestors did. We should all try to make a positive impact on this world, making sure nothing as tragic as the holocaust happens again. My great grandmother, whom I never met, was apart of the Terezin Concentration Camp during WW2.…

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    Hatred and the Holocaust I believe that people begin to dislike others, as well as treat them badly, because of the practices other people follow. For example religion. Whether you have a religion or not you still have your own beliefs to back up your statement. Another example is sexuality. People dislike others for things they can’t control, such as sexuality, I don’t think that is fair. The example of sexuality is similar to the Jews during the Holocaust. During the Holocaust the dictator,…

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    In Elie Wiesel’s address to the German Bundestage on Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2000 he says, “I am not sure that I have the answer to the Holocaust, but surerly education is major component of that answer. So emphasize education so that the children who want to know, are able to know,” (Wiesel, 23). Fifteen years since Wiesel’s address, Germany continues to see the importance of Holocaust education, and more recently have increasingly recognized the need for improvements as problems of…

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    children) are responsible for keeping the stories of this time period alive. a. Purpose: to inform my audience about the Jewish Holocaust and its subsequent effects on survivor’s children and their psychological composition; to inform why these long lasting effects are relevant to human psychology and our world b. The complex and traumatic series of events during the Jewish Holocaust resulted in almost two thirds of the population being killed. c. Of those who survived, there were many pretenses…

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    Schlinder, a businessman of Germany who employed more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust in efforts to keep the Nazi party from taking them to concentration camps, than they have heard about a Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who broke his country’s laws in order to let more than 6000 Jews avoid territories in Japan that had been occupied by the Nazi party. On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Holocaust survivors and their descendants remember this forgotten soul and their…

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    endured and witnessed. We are the youngest survivors of the Holocaust. We eluded the Nazi's plan for the annihilation of all Jewish children by hiding in convents and orphanages, in hay lofts and attics, in cellars and sewers, on farms and in woods, in villages and cities far from our homes. We are the “lucky” ones—the last…

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    Experiments of the Holocaust Did you know that doctors were the backbone of the Nazi genocide? The doctors experimented on anyone deemed undesirable, such Jews, homosexuals and the disabled. They mercilessly experimented on thousands of people and few ever paid for their crimes. The experiments hurt and killed thousands of people and showed the most vile of science and medicine. The experiments were divided into three categories, military experiments, pharmaceutical and racially motivated. The…

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