prisoners were either worked to death‚ executed by gun‚ or died from natural causes. In September 1941‚ the camp officials first started experimenting with Zyklon B‚ a poison gas. However‚ because of the camp’s small size‚ it was impossible to mass exterminate prisoners by gas and not have the prisoner labor force find out. Another function of the camp was to use selected prisoners for medical experiments. The team of doctors was led by Josef Mengele. “Mengele had become interested in utilizing twins
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group were the main killers or death squads. Executioners like Anwar Congo carried out murders of the suspected communists. Military groups were stationed in every village to control the people; death squads were comprised of military soldiers to exterminate “communists”. During the September 30th Movement‚ every person who was a member of the Cabinet was either arrested or in case of 3 members‚ killed‚ on the charge of speculation of participating in the communist
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“Daddy” A Love Lost “Daddy” was written by poet Sylvia Plath who graduated summa cum laude Plath began her writing at the early age of 11 when she began to keep diaries after the passing of her father Otto Plath‚ who died from complications from surgery stemming from diabetes in 1940. “Daddy” is one of Plath’s poems written in 1962 about her father. In “Daddy” it is clear that the feelings and emotions Plath expresses for her father are unhealthy and possibly the relationship she had with him
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society. In addition‚ Voltaire infuses the theme in L’Ingénu with the importance of the idea of being a human and the path one takes in becoming human. One can see this transformation when the Child of Nature states‚ “I have been transformed from a brute into a man” (Voltaire‚ pg. 148). In accordance to this statement‚
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And indeed nothing is easier for a man who has‚ as the phrase goes‚ "followed the sea" with reverence and affection‚ than to evoke the great spirit of the past upon the lower reaches of the Thames...It had known and served all the men of whom the nation is proud‚ from Sir Francis Drake to Sir John Franklin‚ knights all‚ titled and untitled--the great knights-errant of the sea. (302) The unnamed narrator sits aboard a pleasure ship called the Nellie‚ along with four other men‚ including Marlow. The
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From The Damned Human Race by Mark Twain Mark Twain is a central figure in American literature. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ his finest work‚ is the story of a journey down the Mississippi by two memorable figures‚ a white boy and a black slave. Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835 and was raised in Hannibal‚ Missouri. During his early years‚ he worked as a riverboat pilot‚ newspaper reporter‚ printer‚ and gold prospector. Although his popular image is as the author of such
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Sylvia Plath was known for not having a good relationship with her father Otto Plath. Otto died when Sylvia was eight years old (“Daddy”). She spent most of her life trying to come to terms with his influence on her life and her work (“Daddy”). The memory of her father haunted her for most of her life. Since she didn’t know much about him‚ he was a constant search in her mind. The purpose of this paper is to show and explain the idea that “Daddy” is Sylvia Plath’s way of killing the memory of her
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superior to those found in the Aktion Reinhard camps. New methods of extermination also became practiced at Auschwitz. Zyklon-B‚ a poisonous gas made up of Prussic acid and originally used for pest control‚ was used in place of carbon monoxide to exterminate Jews. Zyklon-B was manufactured by the German corporation Tesch and Stabenow and originally tested on Russian POWs. Unlike the camps of Aktion Reinhard‚ where victims’ corpses were buried in surrounding meadows‚ Auschwitz possessed two large crematoriums
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equivalent to the Germans. With these two animals in the same area is bound to create a disturbance of the peace within the community. Just like in real life‚ cats prey on mice‚ in comparison‚ the Germans were only doing what was instinctive to them‚ exterminate the Jews. It might sound harsh‚ but Spiegelman wants to make it clear that Germans were ruthless and careless in their actions during this time. Not only did Spiegelman creatively used animals in his comic to show the instinctive behavior of
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Functionalism (or structuralism) versus intentionalism is a historiographical debate about the origins of the Holocaust as well as most aspects of the Third Reich‚ such as foreign policy. The debate on the origins of the Holocaust centers on essentially two questions: Was there a master plan on the part of Adolf Hitler to launch the Holocaust? Intentionalists argue there was such a plan‚ while functionalists argue there was not. Did the initiative for the Holocaust come from above with orders from
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