In The Path to Genocide Christopher Browning examines the Nazi ghettoization policy and the deportation of Jews to German occupied countries. After the invasion of Poland, Jewish ghettos were quarantined from Germans with walls erected around them. Browning’s examination of the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos in Poland shows a logistic mistake was made when the ghettos were sealed off. By sealing off the Jewish ghettos from Poland supplies inside, especially food, were quickly dissolving. This policy was to be reexamined once the use of public funds to feed Jews inside the ghettos was required for their…
Firstly, the man known as Hubert Z needs to be put on trial. During the holocaust, millions of innocent souls were murdered for their differences. Not only those of Jewish descent, but other civilians who did not share the same beliefs as the Nazi party, different cultured citizens, and homosexual citizens as well. In the article, the authors state he is accused of being an accessory to at least 3,681 murders over a…
During the holocaust, Jews were losing their jobs, rights, and property. In 1933, the Nazi leaders began assigning Jews to handle situations to help the jews in the Ghettos, these Jews were known as the Judenrat. The Judenrate weren’t Jewish volunteers, they were assigned and given tasks to perform: “Composed of 24 male jews … prescribed as 1) executing German orders, 2) taking an improvised census of the Jew in their area, 3) executing the Jew from rural to urban locations, 4) furnishing adequate maintenance for the evacuees en route to the cities, 5) providing quarters for the evacuees in the cities ghetto.” (Bernard 27). In many cases, the Judenrat were responsible for distributing food, water, and resources. Some Jewish council joined the Jews to resist the Nazis, such as the Vilna ghetto, where Jews insult and refuse the Ghetto police. The Nazis eventually kill the Jews one way or the other. The Judenrate’s purpose was to help the Jews endure the holocaust conditions, but ultimately the Judenrate leads the Jews to death.…
The video of Conan O’ Brien talks a man name Jack Bennie who was very successful and everyone thought of his success as an inspiration while trying to become like him. Johnny Carson wanted to be like him but he could not. The main Purpose of this video is to tell us that, we should follow our dreams, and know that life is not permanent. At age 25, Conan began to think that his job defined who he was, but end up realizing that it was not true. He wants us to know that our failure is what that defines us and makes us unique. He says through failure, you will be able to gain clarity and originality. Life is not permanent, so work hard, be kind, and amazing things will always happen to…
In “The Torture Myth” by Applebaum, the position in which she stands is that she disagrees with torture. As described in the article she does not agree that torture is the right way of getting information from a person. For instance, she uses some people such as Army Col. Stuart Herrington to support her position on torture. In my point of view, I agree with Applebeum because it my stand point torture only hurts the victim more but you can’t get that much information out of the victim. In addition, torture is not a key way to get information from someone. For example, Applebaum states, “In his experience, nine out of 10 people can be persuaded to talk with no “stress methods” at all”. When she stated his experience she was referring to Col.…
Stanley Milgram, born a Jew, wonders how he was fortunate enough to be born and raised in the United States, however, he was still impacted by the Holocaust. He felt very passionate about the Holocaust and feels guilty that he hadn’t died in the concentration camps with his fellow Jews in Europe (Miller, 2015). Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, sought out the reasoning behind why Nazi soldiers blindly obeyed authority, especially after the Nuremberg War Criminal trials in World War II (McLeod, 2007). The Nuremberg War Criminal trials consisted of thirteen trials against the higher ranked “Nazi war criminals.” The Nazi criminals killed innocent Jews but proceeded to do so anyway during the Holocaust (Nuremberg Trials, 2015). Some of the Nazis knew killing Jews was immoral, but claim they were “just following orders.” The fact that Milgram was a Jew (Miller, 2015) accompanied by the testimonies in…
During the Second World War, Stanley Milgram grew up as a Jew in New York, horrified to learn what was happening in Europe under the Nazi regime. One of Hitler’s best men in the crime against humanity was Adolf Eichmann. Upon his capture and trial, he claimed: ‘ I was one of the many horses pulling the wagon and couldn’t escape left or right because of the will of the driver’ – (Eichmann cited by Marchione, 2002) shifting the blame to Hitler itself and insisted that he was only obeying Hitler’s orders. As an undergraduate student Milgram was working with…
Between Dignity and Despair, a book written by Marion A. Kaplan, published in 1998, gives us a portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany by the astounding memoirs, diaries, interviews with survivors, and letters of Jewish women and men. The book is written in chronological order of events, from the daily life of German Jewish families prior to when the Holocaust began to the days when rights were completely taken away; from the beginning of forced labor and exile to the repercussion of the war. Kaplan tries to include details from each significant event during the time of the Holocaust. Kaplan tells us the story of Jews in Germany not from the perception of the Holocaust, but by focusing on the persecutors from the confused and vague viewpoint of Jews trying to direct their lives on a day to day basis in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Kaplan shows us that the Holocaust was impossible to predict exactly because Nazi oppression occurred in random and impulsive steps until the massive violence of November 1938. Between Dignity and Despair focuses on the destiny of families and mostly women’s experience, taking the reader into neighborhoods, kitchens, shops, schools and it gives us form and consistency. It is giving us the exact impression of what life was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany, except we are sitting behind the book taking it all in.…
O’Brien offers the first commandment for telling a “true” war story: “A true war story is never moral… If a story seems moral, do not believe it… There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil… You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don’t care for obscenity, then you don’t care for the truth” (Pages 68-69). This of course can be disproven, as many actions taken during war can be believed to have some moral value: the saving of a fellow soldier, the restraint from murdering innocents, etc. but in this case, O’Brien, having been to war, gets to make a claim that would otherwise seem facetious to normal people.…
The podcast Cruel and Unusual covers the issue of the death penalty and whether or not it should be allowed in the U.S. It discusses the controversy within this issue, especially the lethal injection and the constitutionality of capital punishment in regards to the ban of cruel and unusual punishment in the 8th amendment. Some of the cases mentioned were Wilkerson v Utah where the Supreme Court initially ruled to allow a firing squad to be used in the death penalty and Baze v Rees (2008) in which the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection was not cruel and unusual punishment, and therefore not unconstitutional. The impact that the issue of the death penalty and the court cases regarding it have on the country is that people are easily outraged…
“…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same…
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Anti-Semitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself…
Freeman, Lauren. "Anti-Semitism in the US during the Holocaust." UCSB Department of History. Dec. 2003. Web. 17 May 2011. <http://www.history.ucsb.edu/faculty/marcuse/classes/33d/projects/usholo/LaurenAntisemPage.htm>.…
The historical narrative style created by Bill O’Reilly allows people who may not enjoy history to be entertained when reading Killing Kennedy. Throughout the story, O’Reilly describes how brave Kennedy was and the decisions he was forced to determine during his presidency. Even though readers know how the book will end, the story is fascinating enough that the reader wants to continue reading. Personally, I struggle with history classes and I do not enjoy reading historical books. Even with a dislike for history, one can benefit from reading Killing Kennedy.…