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the reader to reflect and also sees how indifference always benefits the aggressor. With indifference always benefiting the enemy it is worse than responding in an violent and aggressive way. “It has been suggested, and it was documented, that the Wehrmacht could not have conducted…

would prompt a Russian reprisal. Accordingly, Russia would not only regain their lost land, but conquer the German military in the utmost imperative battle of the war, Stalingrad. Germany would endure such fatalities on the Russian Front, where the Wehrmacht would be incapable of recuperating, and since they exhausted such a copious aggregate of resources on their battle with Russia, and even instigated a two-front war, Russia would inflict upon the Third Reich its paramount defeat. Also,…

From the moment the idea of power was born into existence, mankind and animals alike have fought for the ability to rule and to control; they’ve fought for power. Since the dawn of human organization and civilization, humans, although thinking of themselves as civilized and formal have done nefarious and malicious things to obtain the illustrious control that is power. Throughout history, the ability to rule has enticed mankind to turn on each other and to engage in brutal conflicts often…

through means such as laughing and crying (Burton para 3-4). Humans also are the only living creatures that can have beliefs and reasoning, which in a way helps explain the subject of the Holocaust. In World War II the Nazi party along with the Wehrmacht, or the German armed forces committed horrendous war crimes. However, nothing, absolutely nothing tops the senseless atrocities carried out against people, especially of the Jewish faith through concentration camps. This provoked the execution…

Hitler And Communism Adolph Hitler is usually a name that when mentioned is usually associated with death, hate, and suppressive dictatorship, but it can be surmised that without Hitler, Europe was at a great threat of the spread of communism. It is well known that many European Democratic countries were willing to sell themselves out to Hitler to try and stop the spread of communism. It is also said that if Germany was to fall to communism, the rest of Europe would fall shortly after. In fact…

“In Denying Their Humanity We Betray Our Own”: An Analysis of Elie Wiesel On April 12, 1999, Elie Wiesel, a man who had experienced the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald as a fifteen year old boy, gave “The Perils of Indifference” speech at the 1999 White House Millennium Lecture in front of a large audience, including those such as President Bill Clinton, the then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, and many others. (Andrea M. Wenker 310). Elie’s main purpose in his speech was to create…

Oskar Schindler’s process of saving those Jews wasn’t an easy task. The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides of all time. “Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning ‘sacrifice by fire’” (www.ushmm.org). Which meant that people had to sacrifice by getting burnt and that’s what Adolf Hitler did during the massacre. It was the cause of the death of six million Jewish People. “Before the Second World War, population of Poland was 3.5 million. Today there are between 3,000 and 4,000 left” (www…

The rise to power is not always righteous, and some will do whatever it takes to gain that dominance to do what they please. The novel Lord of The Flies written by William Golding is an allegory between the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the character Jack. Golding portrays Hitler through Jack’s actions and personality. The ability of both of them to gain power and the trust of the people is interpreted throughout the story. When a plane crashed onto a secluded island, Jack was quick to…

The Nazi Holocaust was the systematic slaughter and massacre of the Jewish, homosexual, Polish, disabled, gypsy, and otherwise considered monetary population of Nazi occupied Europe. It 's death toll counts up between 6 to 11 million (6 million being the Jewish deaths, and the other 5 million being the deaths of other miscellaneous minorities living in occupied Europe). The Holocaust was brought on by the hate and prejudice inspired by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the chancellor and president of…

Many books have been written about the WW2 in many perspectives and mainly focusing on Poland. However, this breathtaking and remarkable diary of a young boy at war written by Julian Kulski who describes the life situation and struggles that Poland undertook under the invasion of the Germans and the Soviet Union. In this book Julian Kulski writes about the unfolding war through his eyes and how he witnessed the war at its brutal times. From the age of 10 to the age of 16 Kulski was fighting for…