to bribe on of the officers. The Nazis would start their final solution (date) . The final solution to the Jewish problem for the Nazis was the mass killing of all remaining Jews. For the Warsaw Ghetto this would bring mass deportations to Treblinka. Treblinka was of the most notorious death camps because it killed between 870‚000 to 925‚000 Jews from July of 1942 to November of 1943 . By this time there were rumors and whispers about what the mass deportations were actually all about had made their
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Police Battalion executed at least 6‚500 Jews at the Polish cities and villages of Jozefow‚ Lomazy‚ Serokomla‚ Lukow‚ Konskowola‚ Parczew‚ Radzyn‚ Kock‚ and Miedzyrzec and participated in the deportation of at least 42‚000 Jews to the gas chambers in Treblinka (Browning‚ chapter 14‚ page 121). There were most likely even more killings that were never documented and much less remembered by the members of the 101st. These men had their first taste of death at Jozefow where they massacred 1‚500 Polish Jews
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flags – a red and white Polish flag and a blue and white Zionist flag. Tomorrow at this time everything will already be over. I am calculating coldly. Now it is 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon. I am looking at the clear April sky. They will take us to Treblinka tonight. When the dawn breaks I will no longer be alive. The calculation is simple – for the last time I am seeing the blue sky between the clouds.” Source C: Bibliography Adet‚ O. (2013‚ January 17). ’When the dawn breaks I will no longer be alive
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Life in Auschwitz Elie Wiesel‚ a former prisoner of Auschwitz‚ once said‚ “The opposite of love is not hate‚ it’s indifference.” Auschwitz was a camp set up by Nazis in the early 1940s and more than 12‚000 people died a day there. Who did Auschwitz affect? What happened there? How did it start? Auschwitz was a camp for many more than just Jewish people. The Holocaust started when Adolf Hitler lead Nazis to make a perfect race when the economy crashed. They wanted blonde-haired and blue-eyed Germans
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Tragedy‚ defined as “a lamentable‚ dreadful‚ or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster‚” (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tragedy) was prominent between 1939 and 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
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The Holocaust‚ a systematic‚ state-sponsored execution of more than nine million people‚ the majority of which were the five billion ‘racially inferior’ Jews‚ as an era of terror‚ misery‚ and death‚ and was resolved through a number of efforts by the Allies after World War II‚ the primary resolution being the Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials played the greatest role in resolving the Holocaust through their effective dispensing of justice‚ successful attempt at neutralizing as much remaining
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Imagine waking up everyday in fear that you might be stolen away from your home; away from the people you loved‚ away from the only scarce bit of hope you held on to. That’s how the residents in the Warsaw ghetto lived. Always in fear‚ always fighting for freedom‚ but never giving up. Their homes became rooms packed with other Jewish families. Three course meals got reduced to mere bread crumbs a day. Clothes were tarnished‚ living conditions were harsh‚ and yet the Warsaw residents never gave up
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The arguments that Christopher Browning emphasizes in Ordinary Men are based on his beliefs about the Holocaust. His argument touches base on the idea that regular citizens of Germany could commit such horrible acts without being coerced into doing so. He examines the side of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 and tries to figure out just why these gentlemen participated in the mass shootings and deportations of the Holocaust. In fact should these "gentlemen" even be called gentlemen enlight of
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Moishe Felman Moishe was born in 1926‚ he started to attended school in 1933 and at the time his parents had a Grain shop. Moishe was raised in a religious Jewish home in Sokołów Podlaski‚ Poland and he spoke Yiddish. Sokolow Podlaski at the time was home to a large population of Jews before World War 2. In 1939 Moishe was 13 and he was going to attend another year of Elementary but everything changed when the Germans attacked on September 1‚ 1939. First the germans started to bomb all the
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started to go after the Jewish people for a mass genocide. On March 17‚ 1942‚ the first mass gas killing started at the concentration camp at Belzec‚ Poland. Following that‚ 5 more mass killing concentration camps were opened: Chelmno‚ Sobibor‚ Treblinka‚ Majdanek‚ and the most famous‚ largest‚ and deadliest: Auschwitz-Birkenau. For the next 3 years (1942-1945)‚ the killings got more horrific‚ larger‚ and finally known worldwide. The Allied forces were not unaware of the horrors happening across
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