Carly Underkoffler Dr. Brendon Corcoran English 338-401 April 19‚ 2011 The Holocaust: Death by Lost Hope "If you lose hope‚ somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving‚ you lose that courage to be‚ that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all." - Martin Luther King The Holocaust was a horrific genocide in which the Nazi party systematically exterminated millions of Jews‚ homosexuals‚ mentally retarded persons‚ and others‚ on the pretense of ‘purifying’ the German race. The Nazis
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The Holocaust was a horrifying and devastating time. Hitler and the Nazis had taken over many countries and had planned for world domination. When people think about the Holocaust they think that Hitler and the Nazis were the only ones to blame‚ but Hitler could not have pulled off the Holocaust without the unwitting help of residents‚ Europeans‚ and leaders of other countries. The least responsible of these groups are the residents who denied the existence of the Holocaust or knew about it and did
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Children of the Holocaust The Holocaust was a terrible genocide in which Adolf Hitler and his army of Nazis killed millions of the Jewish community and others that they believed to be inferior to themselves. Jews were sent to concentration camps and killing camps because of their race. This slaughtering of innocent people lasted from 1933 to 1945. Among these deaths‚ some of the worst were those of children. Those Killed During the Holocaust‚ over 1.2 million Jewish children were killed. There
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Life in the Ghetto In 1939‚ Hitler was unsure of what he was going to do with the Jews; the Nazis were tossing around options and ideas with the goal of removing Jews from the population. The German invasion into Poland‚ allowed for the first ghetto‚ regarded as a provisional measure to control and segregate Jews. Ghettos were enclosed‚ isolated urban areas designated for Jews. Living under strict regulations‚ with unthinkable living conditions‚ and crammed into small areas‚ the ghettos
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When reading about history‚ one comes across a rather unfortunate number of mass killings. From the slow destruction of the Native American peoples‚ to the brief but devastating Holocaust‚ to modern terrorist attacks‚ history books tell of atrocity after atrocity. If one were to ask a random person on the street‚ he or she could probably provide a decent explanation of any of these events. After all‚ humanity has a fascination with violent and horrific acts‚ so if people remember anything from high
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The Holocaust (1933 – 1955) is‚ with no doubt‚ one of the most horrific occurrences in modern history in which millions of Jews and other groups perceived as “inferior” by the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) were persecuted. A question that surrounds the holocaust is whether or not the extermination of the Jews had been intended from the start. The structuralist argument states that there was no long-term plan from the Nazis to exterminate the Jewish people‚ but that it was
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and tactics made by leaders swayed people’s opinions in order for them to stay in power and control their citizens. Hitler used propaganda to convey that Jews were subhuman and used it to cover up murders‚ greatly manipulating the Germans’ opinions about the Jews in World War II. The Nazis promoted a virulent form of racial antisemitism‚ the foundation for them to target the Jews. They believed‚ and insisted to others‚ that the Jewish race is dangerous‚ and that it will corrupt and destroy the German
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“Night of November 9–10‚ 1938‚ when German Nazis attacked the Jewish population and there homes. The name Kristallnacht comes from the litter of broken glass left on the streets after the war. The violence continued on November 10‚ and in some places acts of violence continued on for more and more days to pass. Although the events of the Night of Broken Glass only took place on the 9th of November 1938 and the number of assaults against the Jews had increased throughout the autumn season in 1938
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1945. An alternate definition‚ “a disastrous event‚ especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life‚” was also prominent during these 6 long years‚ due to the Holocaust’s estimated death toll being that of 9 to 11 million. The Holocaust‚ (Holocaust derived from the Greek word “holos‚” meaning completely‚ and “kaustos‚” meaning burnt)‚ refers to Germany’s NAZI (National Socialist political party) regimes deliberate extermination of 9 to 11 million Jews‚ Poles‚ Slavs‚ Soviet POW’s‚ Romans
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Randolph L Braham describes the Holocaust in Hungary as being “replete with paradoxes.” Explain and evaluate this statement in relation to both the German policy towards the Jews in Hungary in March to July 1944 and the Hungarian Jewish response. The Holocaust in Hungary represents its own late‚ brutal‚ chapter in the full‚ appalling story of the Nazi genocide of the Jews of Europe. Conducted with an alliance of diplomacy and cold-blooded‚ ruthless efficiency‚ it was in some respects‚ the apotheosis
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