The two police officers took me to “Maekelawi” (the central police station). In the way to the station, I was thinking what I did wrong. I could not find anything that would lead to this kind of violence. Once I got there, they took me to the basement where one civil dressed personnel were waiting. This person started interrogating me with the help of the officers who brought me there. He started asking me about my previous arrests with intimidation and force. He told me that I am advocating a false propaganda to provoke resentment against the “Great Renaissance Dam”. He also accused me of defending the “convicted terrorist” Reyeeot Alemu, collecting information about her, and working with foreigners to damage the reputation of EPRDF.…
Kershaw examines Hitler’s reign during the 1930s in his essay “Hitler.” The term “working towards the Fuhrer” is instrumental to Kershaw’s depiction of Hitler during the Third Reich. According to Kershaw, through “‘working towards the Fuhrer’, initiatives were taken, pressures created, legislation instigated- all in ways which fell into line with what were Hitler’s aim, and without the dictator necessarily having to dictate.”1 Kershaw argues that the radical action that leduo222222222222 to policy formation was often times provoked from below, and not by Hitler himself.…
Although our world has seen many events occur which defy explanation and simply boggle the mind, thus far none has matched the Holocaust in the intensity and sheer damage that it caused the world and more significantly the Jewish population of Europe. Yet, to this day who should be blamed for the Holocaust has still been an open question, yes it was Hitler's plan and original idea, but was he the only one behind it? All along it was the idea that the Jews had been the downfall of the German empire and something has to be done about them. A large factor in these ideas was the use of Einzatsgruppen and Police detachments behind the Army Front in clearing out and containing the Jewish populations in Ghettos or simply to eliminate them. Who these men were and what they represented is what Christopher R. Browning discusses in his book "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland." We are shown what kind of men comprised this unit, Party members, members of the SS, which social class did they come from, working or privileged upper higher classes, and so on. The first killings are examined and how individuals reacted to them. None of the members of Police Battalion 101 had any idea that their first shooting of unarmed Jews was to take place, thus when asked by the commander of the Battalion those who wish to step out can, and they will be assigned other jobs, at first one man stepped out and was immediately berated by his commanding officer. After Trapp (the commander of the battalion) "had taken Schmike (the man who stepped out) under his protection, some ten or twelve other men stepped forward as well. They turned in their rifles and were told to await a further assignment from the major (pg. 57)." Later on even more men would step out or at least be asked to be excused after they had shot five or six people while others simply milled about at different junctures of the area trying to avoid being asked to be part of the shooting squads.…
following the rise of the Nazi party prior to the start of the war. This group of men were named…
During the Holocaust many of the Jews had to find several ways so they could hide in order to survive. There for the Belgian underground was created. This underground was to help Jews hide in plain sight or for them to be involved in resistance movements.Several of these ideas ended up helping the Jews survive and some of these ideas killed millions of Jews.…
* Zinns basic criticism of the book is that Morison praises Columbus too much, he goes overboard. According to Zinn, Columbus was a bad guy. Zinn was more on the people’s side, and would have liked to see their view on things.…
One complex conflict in Elie Wiesel’s Night is the conflict between Elie and himself (Man vs. Himself) that over layers the conflict where the Nazis continuously killed and beat Jews with no sympathy (Man vs. Man). The complex conflict helps to convey the theme Hatred and Death. Elie struggles to be the sole supporter for his father, who is constantly being beaten for unnecessary reasons by the Nazis. Along the journey to Gleiwitz, Elie ran with an injured foot willing to just give up and surrender his life for his foot because such great pains. When Elie saw his father veer near him as they continued their run, Eli saw how” out of breath, out of strength, desperate (Wiesel 86)” he was and Elie stated “My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me (Wiesel 86). Elie’s comment provides an indirect characterization for Elie as a caring and loving son that would not leave his father to fight alone for he knew he was his father’s future. Due to the fact that Elie contemplated to whether to kill himself or support his father as he hangs on the thread between life and death. The Nazis were aggressive and unsympathetic for their well-being. Elie’s father was struggling to survive the journey for whosoever slowed down or stopped running at the pace were either shot or trampled. “They had orders to shout anyone who could not sustain the pace. Their finger on the triggers, they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure (Wiesel 85)” exploits the theme Hatred as the Jews hold on for dear life that the Nazis feel amusing, “they did not deprive themselves of the pleasure”. The Nazis in fact hated the Jews for multiple reasons and loved how the Jews memory was slowly fading. Due to Elie’s difficult choices and the hatred that the Nazis act upon through the layering of conflicts, Wiesel precisely shapes the themes of Hatred and Death.…
Red Scare is the term given to the spread of communism that infiltrated the US government. But communists in America were the strange new kids on the block that nobody thought was going to gain popularity in the political…
There has only been one moment in history when jazz was synonymous with popular music in the country of its origin. During the years of, and immediately prior to World War II, a subgenre of jazz commonly referred to as swing was playing on all American radio stations and attracting throngs of young people to dancehalls for live shows. But it wasn't only popular amongst Americans; historian Michael H. Kater, in his book Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany, has turned his eye away from the United States in order to examine the effects jazz had on German culture during the years of swing popularity. In his introduction, Kater explains the state of Jazz in Germany during the Weimar Republic, prior the rise of National Socialism.…
Music during World War 2 was made to help get people through depression and motivate the men and women fighting in Europe and Asia. Everyone was into patriotism at this time including the music they listened to. At this time music has expanded its demographic to younger audiences, before it popular music was mainly appealing for adults. It contained many uplifting styles of music such as swing, be-bop, and country.…
Life in the 1920s in Italy was quite interesting. It was a time in history where new technology was coming into place that was constantly improving by the minute. As technology increased so did the improvements and the findings in medicine. Fads and fashion in Italy also showed an appearance during the 1920s. As new fashions came to be, there was also arts and media who kept the people of this time busy.…
In Red Jacket’s speech he addresses Jacob Cram’s statement that “there is but one religion, and but one way to serve God, and if you do not embrace the right way, you cannot be happy hereafter”(). When Red Jacket responds, he is not only talking to his fellow tribe members, but to future generations as well. And not necessarily about religion, but about life and the flaws and effects an oppressive culture can have upon another.…
In a nut shell this book was about a group of Nazis sent over to sabotage main American transport ways and aluminum plants that produced war time materials. The first couple chapters of the book give pre-operation information, including the creation of the operation and the individual men going on the trip. It begins by describing Hitler’s fortress, also known as the Wolfs’ Lair, stating the five mile route with road blocks “each more intimidating than the last.” Beginning with guards stopping and asking for papers and calling superiors at each stop, ending with a raise of the barrier and the guards arm, Heil Hitler. Where the fortress was located was in a land filled with minefields, electrified barbed wire fence, constant patrolmen, and anti-aircraft guns. While describing the Wolf’s Lair he speaks of two visitors, Admiral Wilhelm Canaris the Chief of Hitler’s Military Intelligence, and Colonel Erwin Von Lahousen-Vivremont Head of Abwehr II. The Abwehr was a military intelligence organization. The book states that Hitler was not impressed with the way Americans fought, as he saw from the trenches during WWII. “American ideas of democracy and free market capitalism filled Hitler with “Hatred and repugnance.”” He also claimed America as a “decayed country with no future.” The one thing Hitler had respect for was the industry, meaning the capabilities for mass production with less labor. With the US now switching its production lines from things like cars to making tanks/airplanes and things to supply the British with, Germany would have to find a way to counter attack the industrial power of America. This is where Admiral Canaris and Colonel Von Lahosen-Vivremont com into action, with Operation Pastorious. Operation Pastorious was an operation that directed attention towards a new enemy across the pacific, America. It focused on sabotaging transport ways and aluminum plants in the US.…
Opioid are derived from opium or synthetic drugs that have similar properties. These drugs possess the ability to reduce pain. Using opioids for extended periods of time causes the body to become adapted to them. As a result, the body becomes physically dependent on the drug (Paulozzi, 287). According to the Pennsylvania Medical Society, Americans consume 80% of the world’s opioid supply (“More White, Middle-aged Women Overdose on Opioids, Study Says.”). This number is should be shocking and should signal a red flag. Having such easy access to opioids in the United States explains why drug overdoses have increased so drastically. Opioids are not the only drugs that have caused an increase in drug overdose rates. Heroin overdose rates have almost…
These labs seem to be spreading from the southwest in a fan pattern to the north, west and east.…