In the words of Fiona Beck "Connection doesn't care about the laws of the land. Your soul will be pulled to the place it belongs." What Fiona means is that it doesn't matter what you want, you will always be connected to anything at all times. This essay will show you how Adolf Hitler is connected to Happiness.…
The Holocaust is perhaps one of the most gruesome events that has ever taken place. Adolf Hitler was the mastermind behind the systematic, bureaucratic, and barbaric persecution that murdered six million Jews for no reason. When he became leader he had only one mission and that was to have an exceptional race and he would do everything to achieve it. The Nazis who came into power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were racially superior and that the Jews were inferior and posed as a threat to the German community. Adolf and his “loyal” followers managed to instill fear in many Jews causing many to flee to safer havens. Other that weren’t as lucky fell into the hands of that Nazi regime. Those Jews that were persecuted and captured…
Literature can be an extremely powerful tool of persuasion. One man with one idea has the potential to influence hundreds, thousands, or even millions of people through writing. In fact, one particularly influential piece of literature convinced an entire population of people to ostracize, shun, and even murder their fellow citizens. Compelling texts such as Hitler’s Mein kampf allow me to believe that literature could be considered propaganda. These pieces of literature, when written to pacify a specific audience, can strongly appeal to humanity’s “passions”, as Plato suggests. I believe that authors use literature as a vehicle to demonstrate their personal beliefs and influence their audience to share those beliefs.…
World War II remains a point of emphasis for historians to continue research and put together arguments on the specifics behind the events. In Nazi Germany and the Jews, Vol. 1: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939 (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), Saul Friedlander’s overarching explanation for anti-Jewish persecution under Nazi rule from 1933-1939 was an integration and combination of the Adolf Hitler’s, and other Nazi leaders, extreme radical ideology and tactical political decisions within the German borders. I will illustrate how Friedlander uses three instances to highlight the anti-Jewish persecution through the passage of different sets of laws thats link to his overarching explanation together. The first being the Nazi Party being able…
During World War 2, approximately 6 million Jews were killed in Nazi Concentration Camps, and Death Camps. Jews were usually transported to these unjust camps by freight cars, but sometimes they were forced to travel to them by foot. In Concentration Camps, Jews were given meager amounts of food, and if they got sick, or were too weak, they were killed. Concentration and death camps were liberated from 1944-1945 by Soviet forces.…
The decision not to bomb Auschwitz was a hard one, but was ultimately the right decision as it is unlikely that they would have been successful. 3) The Allies were hesitant in pursuing specific rescue policies for the Jewish victims of Nazi Germany who were seeking refuge abroad. Tens of thousands of Jews sought to enter the United States, but they were prevented from doing so by the strict immigration policy.…
In this essay I will be answering the following questions; What group of people were targeted by the Nazis for extermination? Why did they pick this particular ethnic group? What methods did they use in carrying out their goals? What were some of the significant events during this period of time from 1933 to 1945? What other groups did the Nazis persecute as well?…
Everything I have heard, seen, and discussed about the Auschwitz Death Camp and the Holocaust in general has been bone chilling and made me sick to my stomach. One major issue was the conditions the Jews and the “un-American or imperfect” had to face; pictures depict men so bony and skinny that they could die from starvation at any second. Another sickening sight was the sign above the entrance to Auschwitz that read “Arbeit Macht Frei”, which translates to “Work makes you free”. Just think of all the people who got a sense of false hope and never were able to leave the concentration camps alive. While reading the excerpt from Knight, the thought entered my mind of being sent left or right during selection, possibly being split from your…
During World War One, The Jews did not participate in warfare or fight for Germany, instead, they focused on education and cultural development. This inceased Hitler. When Germany lost the war and surrendered to the Allies, Hitler believed that it was because of the Jews that they lost the war because the Jews did not help Germany. He thought that the Jews were a useless race and were not loyal to their country so they should be exterminated as they are only a waste of space, they were no help even in the war when Germany needed them, so Hitler conducted the Holocaust. Not only this, but Hitler believed in the Aryan Race as superior and Jews as a natural enemy of them, adding to the reasons. Hitler also included old and disabled people in the holocaust because he believed that they were too weak to fight for Germany so they were useless and best left to die.…
With the end of World War I, came the down fall of Germany. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles forced Germans to take blame for the war and pay large reparation to the victorious countries. Germany lost everything they owned and spiraled downhill. With the whole country down in the slums, any sight of hope sparked a wild fire; the emergence of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party did just that. Hitler, a German Nationalist, began rising to power due to his promises to fix the corruption and create the rebirth of Germany, which included his idea of a perfect Aryan race. Many groups of people, including the Jewish, Russians, and Slavics, contaminated Hitler’s pure race. With the rise of the “Jewish Question”, what to do with this hated group of people, the only answer was the extermination of the vermin like European Jews. “Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology. It is a matter of cleanliness” (Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Himmler). The mass extermination of the Jews called for thousands of SS officers to run the concentration camps and gas chambers. The Holocaust happened due to the horrific orders that no one dared to break, in order to rebuild the strength of Germany.…
Christina Snyder presents to readers an incredibly articulated diagram of the deep rooted history of slavery and the role Native Americans played in it. Snyder’s discussion is centralized around the economic and culture ties slavery participated to in Native American life before and after European introduction into North America. A vial part in understanding the role of slavery to the natives is being able to distinguish why there was a need for slavery to be implemented and to understand how the slaves would be integrated into the societies of the natives.1 From this discussion Snyder explains how a need for slave labor preexisted the integration of Europeans into the Natives society, but there inclusion ultimately altered the way slavery…
As we know world history is a very broad subject as we know, but as the wars start and end we normally remember the cruel and evil people of those wars. For instance, Adolf Hitler is a household name, to millions of homes all around the globe, because of all the horrible actions he made before and during World War II. One of those terrible remarks, Hitler has made on this world is how many people he killed in World War II. Eleven million people were killed in the holocaust, including six million being Jewish.…
Nazi doctors engaged in a gruesome act against humanity. Any instinctual human being in a grisly situation, like the Holocaust, would find a way to survive. They constructed their own reality through the use of “doubling”, which is known as compartmentalizing different types of realities. There was a separation of themselves into two types of the same person: one to be able to help extinguish the “Jewish Problem” and the other to be a loving member of their family. This would justify their horrid acts since they felt like they had no control of their situation. The root of their commencement of killings is that they, to some degree, believe that the Jewish population needed to be uprooted because they were supposedly evil. Orders given were…
The journey to the Nazi final solution from 1939 to 1945 was the Nazi's gradual ascent into power over Europe. The final solution is the Nazi Policy to murder the Jews of Europe (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2016). The initial journey started from merely eliminating the Jews from the German economy, then isolating Jews from the rest of society, placing them in concentration camps and then finally extended to murdering millions. Prior to world war two, the Nazi's started slowly implementing the journey to the final solution. Hitler's second in command gave orders to take all measures for the elimination of the Jews from the German economy (1938). These were called the Nuremberg Laws. They did this by freezing all Jew's assets and…
Adolf Hitler, the crazy man responsible for the holocaust, was born on April 20th, 1889 in Braunau Am Inn, Austria. Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi party. Adolf Hitler took over Germany in 1933. Hitler wrote his first book in 1925, Mein Kampf, an autobiography. Hitler’s idea of exterminating the jews came before Hitler became the ruler of Germany.…