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“The Holocaust is not only a tragedy of the Jewish people; it is a failure of humanity as a whole.” Moshe Katsaw. The Holocaust was a global tragedy that occurred in the 1940’s, it affected every corner of the world and killed approximately 11 million people. Of the 11 million, 6 million were Jewish people, and of the 6 million Jewish people 1.5 million were children. One might wonder how in modern history something so horrific could take place. The answer is simply ignorance. When the Holocaust…

if most of its troops were fighting in the battle of Stalingrad at the time. He explains that through his research of German court records he had discovered the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The first chapter, Browning describes the Major Wilhelm Trapp, commander of the 101 battalion, ordering his troops on what to do when they arrive in the village. In this chapter, however Browning does not state if anyone decided not to carry out Trapp’s orders. Browning states, “if any of the older men among…

101 had drastically changed from protect and serve to find or kill. These ordinary men were given a choice, while the soldiers were away fighting, it was up to Battalions like this one to carry out such duties. The Battalions commander major Wilhelm Trapp tells his men what they must do and lets the older men know that if they did not want to follow their orders, they could leave. He understood what these orders were and gave his men an option, showing he at least in part had a heart for these…

The greatest challenge to understanding and preventing genocide is comprehending how seemingly normal citizens can murder those they live alongside. How can such transformations possibly be explained? Consider the particular works of Lifton and Browning”. The Holocaust is essentially one of the most horrific and remembered acts of genocide within history, it’s estimated that “between 1941 and 1945, five to six million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime, its allies, and its…

Ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging examinations are recommended to be performed in place of radiologic examinations when pregnancy is of question. Radiologic examinations that use radiation should only be used if a diagnosis cannot be reached (Trapp & Kron, 2008, p. 122). If a radiologic examination must be performed on a pregnant patient, there are some precautionary measures that can be taken and modifications to the procedure that can be done to help protect both the mother and the…

The 1992 book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, written by Christopher R. Browning, seeks to understand the police officers behind the blitzkrieg against Polish Jews during the German military offensive of 1942. Rather than focus on the liquidation of major ghettos in Warsaw and in Lodz, this study focuses on the smaller towns and villages that included significant Jewish populations in Central Poland. By examining indictments and judgements from legal…

The Argument for Ordinary Men and their “Obedience to Authority” While Christopher Browning’s text Ordinary Men may be brief in length, it is robust with narrative content, data, and emotion. Detailing the corrupted Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Order Police, Browning effectively launches an argument that the majority of these men were not innate mass murderers, but instead ordinary men. Browning successfully makes this argument by applying a great deal of focus to the men, as he…

Although the topics of terrorism and self-discovery through adventure are seemingly unrelated, the novels 102 Minutes and Into the Wild are proof that these ideas can be connected. These novels may be distinguishable by their overall topics, but they are actually very similar when considering style, diction, and overarching ideas. Both Into the Wild and 102 Minutes were written with a tone that is unemotional and informational. The level of vocabulary was typically not at a heightened level,…

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), created by Beck, Ward, Mendelson, Mock, and Erbaugh (1961) is one of the most widely used self-report instruments for psychiatric populations that assesses depression through the depth or severity of depressive symptoms. The BDI contains 21 items that are rated on a 4-point scale (0-3) which reflect increasing symptom severity and cover areas of depressive symptomology including affective, cognitive, motivational, and physiological symptoms (Bumberry et al.,…

Spartan lifting record. He looked twice as big now, his neck as thick an oak stump, his shoulders as wide as a door. His biceps and triceps were many times the normal size. His stomach looked like a cobblestone street” (Grisham 167). Even though Jesse Trapp is an enormous person, probably the largest to travel through Rake’s program, he still holds Eddie Rake in extremely high regards, as shown during the prison visit. Jesse states, “I loved Eddie Rake like I’ve loved nobody else in my life. He…