By the beginning of 1939, the gradual and mounting campaign against the Jews was prepared for the achievement of its ultimate violent ends. The German people had been indoctrinated, and the seeds of hatred had been sown. The German state was armed and prepared for conquest and to carry out ...

Remembering the Holocaust Six million Jews and millions of others, including Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, the mentally ill and the infirm were murdered by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. The magnitude of brutality, the remorseless cruelty, and the mass murder during the Holocaust are unique. ...

Between 1873 and 1896, Europe, and the world experienced a period of economic stagnation, often referred to as the "Great Depression" of the nineteenth century. Anti-Semitism spread throughout this time in Germany. Jews were blamed for whatever may have been wrong, by public officials, and...

Since the beginning of Christ, Jews have been fated from the mainstream of society. They have often been outcaste and therefore marginalized. Germany's defeat in World War 1 and a worldwide depression in the 1930s left the German economy in ruins and made many Germans angry and resentful. Adolf Hit...

Based on the ideals of a nationalist German society, extermination of Jewish people was perceived as necessary in order to form a united Germany. A large basis of German political movements was based on anti-Semitism. The need for the extermination of Jews in these movements was based on the changin...

Based on the ideals of a nationalist German society, extermination of Jewish people was perceived as necessary in order to form a united Germany. A large basis of German political movements was based on anti-Semitism. The need for the exterminat...

In history there are events that happen that are good and also dreadful. We hope the more we learn about the past the better chance the brutal actions wont repeat itself. There was a time that Jews were segregated on who they were in religion not what kind of people they could be. People went on ...

The Holocaust is an event that should be studied in school classes across the world. Even though the Holocaust is an event of the past that is very sensitive and tragic it should be studied because it is an example of dehumanization, hatred, prejudice, brutilization, and how not to treat people, ho...

Upon examining the excerpts from the works of Christopher Brownings' Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the final solution in Poland; and Omer Bartov's Murder in our Midst: the Holocaust, Industrial killing, and Modernity; one develops an understanding of the responsibilities t...

The history of the Jewish people is the story of their attempts, mostly unsuccessful, to live up to the high standards of the deceptively simple statements of the Shema. The beginning of the Hebrew prayer, known as the Shema, goes on to say that Adonai, God, is to be revered and worshiped with ever...

Elie Wiesel once said, "More dangerous than anger is indifference. Indifference is not a beginning it is an end and it is always the friend to the enemy." Indifference means not different; a state in which is not at the border of evil or good, but in between cruelty and compassion. I...