The Holocaust was a mass murder of about six million Jews by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany that took place over a span of 12 years. The purpose was to wipe out what were considered “inferior” races and social groups‚ meaning they were not as common or normal to the Nazis. Beginning in 1933‚ the feeling of anti-semitism‚ or hatred of Jews‚ was very immense for Hitler and his Nazis‚ so the practice of persecution was put into effect. The title Holocaust was given to this event because it means “destruction
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like the League of Nations united the world‚ yet extremely divided as the new ideologies of fascism and communism took hold in powerful European states.
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In Nazi Germany everything from information and entertainment to posters in store windows was designed to brainwash the people of Germany into believing what they’re government wanted them too‚ for example Hitler’s face was placed in pictures all over Germany showing him as the saviour of Germany who would lead them to a brighter future. Seeing these images everywhere you went would get into your head and could slowly turn you into believing them‚ but that wasn’t the only propaganda used by Germany
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It might be argued that the 1939-1945 war in Britain was one of the greatest collective experiences that the nation had undergone‚ with every family affected; loved ones in the armed services and families separated. Children were evacuated to the country towns and villages in a bid to keep them safe during the Blitz bombing (Lynch‚ p.152). Rationing‚ industrial unrest and financial and economic burdens added to the terror felt by the people of Britain. However‚ there was a glimmer of hope. The
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redeploying forces and thereby from sending reinforcements to seal breaches in the front. German forces could in turn encircle opposing troops and force surrender. Germany successfully used the Blitzkrieg tactic against Poland (attacked in September 1939)‚ Denmark (April 1940)‚ Norway (April 1940)‚ Belgium (May 1940)‚ the Netherlands (May 1940)‚ Luxembourg (May 1940)‚ France (May 1940)‚ Yugoslavia (April 1941)‚ and Greece (April 1941). Germany did not defeat Great Britain‚ which was protected from
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relationship between crimes against humans and the state State crimes are crimes committed by‚ on behalf‚ or with the complicity of governments or state agencies such as the police‚ armed forces or secret services. Sociologists have looked into state crime and some have gone as far as to say it breaks human rights e.g. - the right to life‚ the right to reproduce. Although not all sociologists see breaking human rights as a crime‚ some do. Some sociologists who look into the how the state has committed
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Life during the Nazi Regime Era had many stages. There were times when people felt safe and then chaos exploded in front of them. People could be living a life of luxury and the next day everything could be taken from them including their loved ones. One of the major steps the Nazi Regime did to organize their control and start the seclusion of the non-Aryan people were the use of the ghettos. One of the most famous ghettos was the Warsaw ghetto in Poland. Warsaw was the capital of Poland and
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Education was important to the Nazis as they understood that they would be able to easily influence children to follow the Nazi ideology and saw it as a way to control the role of women. They targeted girls with two groups‚ the Jungmadel which consisted of 10 to 13 year olds and the Bund Deutscher Madel which consisted of girls from the age of 14 to 18 year olds. "As soon as the Nazis came to power‚ they set about eliminating all other rival youth organisations‚ just as they Nazified the rest of
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Rage Against the Nazi Machine Societal norms dictate that violence is wrong‚ but sometimes it might just be right. For Jewish people living in Europe during the Holocaust‚ this was the case and engaging in violence against those who wished them harm often meant the difference between living to see the next day or not. During the early 20th century from about 1939 to 1945‚ the Nazis carried out their draconian orders by systematically killing off much of the Jewish population from Denmark to Romania
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Nazi Extermination Camps Anti-Semitism reached to extreme levels beginning in 1939‚ when Polish Jews were regularly rounded up and shot by members of the SS. Though some of these SS men saw the arbitrary killing of Jews as a sport‚ many had to be lubricated with large quantities of alcohol before committing these atrocious acts. Mental trauma was not uncommon amongst those men who were ordered to murder Jews. The establishment of extermination camps therefore became the "Final Solution" to the
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