The Harsh Treatment of the Jews in the Nazi Concentration Camps The worst treatment to one single race during World War II was towards the Jewish race. These people were stripped of all their rights and then they were not even treated like human beings. The German's forced the J...

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 chang...

Over the centuries, nothing has caused more pain and suffering for man than man himself. Through war, hate crimes, and random acts of violence, the fear of the different and unknown has made itself known in human nature. The novel Night, the movie Schindler's List and the article A Torture...

Oscar Schlinder was a businessman and a German, who owned his own business. Most of his workers were Jewish people and when the war broke out, his were taken and some have to shove snow and if they didn't work or if they were disabled they where shot. When his workers were taken to Concentrati...

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...

In chapters 7-8 of Valhalla, Calvary and Auschwitz, author Giora Shoham examines the social characters and relationship of Jews and Germans prior and leading up to the Holocaust. Shoham believes Jew's participant qualities clash with German separant identities which contributed to the Jew's vicitim...

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 th...

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...

Could it happen to us? Of those not killed, Holocaust victims that could work were only given moldy bread to eat and dirty water to drink, if they were given anything at all. Some would have to drink their urine to keep from getting dehydrated. They also ate their own feces. These millions o...

Films greatly enhance and enrich our understanding of the Holocaust. Besides serving the obvious function of scribing history, film adds a third dimension of understanding that we as humans are programmed to understand and relate to better. Being able to see the looks on the Nazi faces as they try ...

The article that this paper will be based and discussed upon is titled "Berthe'sprison diary," written by Hanna Diamond. "Berthe's prison diary" can be found in theAugust 1999 issue of History Today, volume 49, pages 43-49. During World War II, itwas known that many people suffered. People suffer...

European dictatorshipsMr. OberBritt KritzlerINTRODUCTIONJournal entry *** HITLER'S WILLING EXECUTORSGoldhagen builds up his argument not on proofs but on speculations. "Who doubts that the Argentine or Chilean murderers of who opposed the recent authoritarian regimes thought that their victims deser...

Anti-Semitism had been around in Germany and the whole of Europe for hundreds of years prior to World War One. Many scholars trace German anti-Semitism back to the time of Martin Luther and even farther back into history. So is it a fair assumption to say that World War One was the turning point in ...

"Number the Stars" written by Louis Lowry is a book about a Danish family and their hard life during the war. It takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark during the early 1940's when the German's have invaded their country. The story is about a family named the Johansen's. In the ...

The Pianist The Pianist is a historically based film that captivates the audience with its intense, riveting scenes. The movie outlines Hitler's policies against the Jewish race during the holocaust in the late 1930's. It focuses on the lives of one particular Jewish family during ...

Leon Uris has done an excellent job of presenting the drama covering the events leading up to the German holocaust and the formation of a new Jewish Israel. In Exodus, it is clear to see that Uris sympathizes with the Jewish people. However, he has given an accurate portrayal of the injustices en...

Night Eliezer Wiesel is a Jewish man that lived and went through adolescences during the Holocaust. At age fifteen he was a student of his religion living in Hungary. His family and himself were living quite peacefully in the city when they received the order for everyone to move into the ghetto...

The holocaust was a terrible time period where millions of Jewish people were man slaughtered. Economic and political conditions in Germany between 1918 and 1933 played a major role in the creation of a climate that made Nazism appeal to the German population. There was widespread unemployment. The ...

Fate plays a huge role in Wiesel's survival, as the death of hisparents and sister clearly illustrate. Wiesel struggled to survive, andlearned how to play the game of survival with the Germans, by working hardin the electrical warehouse, and outsmarting them when they send him backto the camp...

The book The Pianist should be put in a time capsule for several reasons. The first reason is the most obvious one, which is that after generations pass people will forget about the Holocaust and the immense devastation caused by the Second World War and fascism. If we keep this book on the dusty s...

"What idea does the author develop regarding the nature or effect of threatening forces?" As human beings, we are often faced with choices, challenges, and threats as we grow and mature. Although how we act in these situations defines who we are, the underlying importance of t...

The Diary of Anne Frank In the early 1940's, World War II had a profound affect on the Jewish community. Men, women and children were prosecuted by German armies (the Nazi's) for practicing and participating in the Jewish faith. In The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne and...

Those who were the destroyers thought of him as a god, those who were his victims thought of him as a demonic symbol. Hitler was and is an unforgettable figure for his undeniable intelligence, analytical annihilation, and religious reasoning. During that time many people felt an aspect of discrimina...

Though this paper had a few punctuation problems, I made a B+ on it and this is a sophmore level class. The Irony of LiberationWhen the liberators came, they came with hope of eliminating the torture and inhumanity the Nazi Germans were imposing on the Jews. Men and women came ...

Sheila Chamovitz, developer of Flares of Memory: Stories of Childhood During the Holocaust, wanted to capture the essence of children during the holocaust during World War II. Since there are very few survivors still alive today she wanted to get their stories on paper so that generations to come w...