A few years later a jewish ghetto was built right behind his house. He decided to help them by
A few years later a jewish ghetto was built right behind his house. He decided to help them by
The wars between the Axis Power and the Allied and the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan were usually what come into a discussion about World War II. Besides those events, the most horrific and considerably inhumane time was the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a period time during World War II, when Adolf Hitler launched a “movement” to kill all the Jews and anyone he deemed as lower than him in his territories. Most people now looked back at history around this time and believed that the SS and policemen killed the Jews because of brainwashing and forcing. But, in the book Ordinary Men, Christopher R. Browning argued that it was not the case. He argued that these police officers were ordinary men just like everybody else and they were not forced…
During the Holocaust, there was a man named Frank Foley. He made good choices during the Holocaust. There were some who died during it. But, there were many who survived because of Frank Foley.…
Dr. Carl Matthew Selavka is one of the world renowned forensic toxicologists of today. Dr. Selavka has a strong background in biology, chemistry, and forensics, and illustrated that it would be very helpful in the field of forensic science. His background originated from Indiana University where he received his Bachelor of Arts double major in Chemistry and Forensic Science and at Northeastern University where he received a Master of Science in Forensic Chemistry in 1985 and his Doctor of Philosophy in Forensic Analytical Chemistry in 1987.…
Oskar Schindler is an incredibly brave man. He had the courage to do what no German man had the courage to do. He put the lives of not only his but others in his hands and his plan luckily succeeded. The lives of approximately 1,200 Jews could have been taken. Oskar risked his life to save…
I watched “Valkyrie,” starring Tom Cruise, a movie that depicts the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler during the height of World War II. It brings to light the events leading up to the assassination, as well as its aftermath. The failed July 20th attempt led to the execution of around 5,000 Germans, ordered by Hitler. Although World War II was not impacted very heavily by it, the war certainly would have been had the attempt been successful. Because of the armistice that would have been signed, nine months of war could have been avoided and hundreds of thousands of lives could have been salvaged. The attempt shows the world that not all Nazis were evil; some followed their conscience rather than Hitler’s orders. People should either watch the movie or research about the attempt; they need to know how brave the conspirators were and how much they were willing to sacrifice for the greater good. Of the fifteen assassination attempts made on the Fuhrer, this one came the closest to succeeding.…
_The Death of Ivan Ilyich_ is a complicated novella with many different themes which could be reviewed. As is plainly evident from the title of the work, death is a major concept as well as how Ivan Ilyich handles his journey through the dying process. Ivan Ilyich's family must also traverse his death although they do not react in the same ways. Ivan Ilyich's illness and death are represented in the book through the five stages of grief that Kubler Ross models, which in some ways we can see by the way his family and doctors react both morally and ethically towards Ivan Ilyich.…
The Holocaust was a devastating and unforgettable event. The Holocaust was the mass persecution of six million European Jewish people. This had many impacts on both Europe and other countries around the world. The main impacts were the drop in population of Jewish people and how survivors demanded everything they lost, the emigration of survivors from Germany, and the Nuremberg Trials.…
In the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, one follows the life of Paul Baumer, a private in the German military in World War 1. He and his friends try to survive as the people around them get slaughtered. Slowly one by one his friends die while the others fight for their own lives. This is a war with many inhumane actions that lead to unnecessary death or injury. In the story many inhumane actions spark guilt within a character, causing a humane action to be done in response.…
In today’s society, the consequences of war are infamous. People have seen time and time again the gruesome outcomes of war’s merciless ways, whether it be by seeing mangled friends and family who were injured in battle or witnessing the breakdown of a veteran with PTSD. Unfortunately, the reality of war was not always spread to those going to fight in one. Whether it be the lack of communication technology in the civil war getting information to the public, or the excessive propaganda romanticizing World War 1, the general public has repeatedly been blinded. However, many of these ideas would not be so widespread and known the way they are today without help from literature and films. The World War 1 novel, Johnny Got His Gun, by Dalton Trumbo,…
General Douglas Haig was the commander of the British army during WW1. He was accused of getting soldiers killed, and sacrificing thousands of men just to win the war.…
3) Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974) was an ethnic German industrialist German spy, and a member of the Nazi party who is credited with saving the lives of over 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his ammunition & pot factories.…
If one were to take anything from Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men it is that even the most ordinary, normal men have the capacity to kill. The 101st Reserve 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 (Browning, chapter 8, page 74). It was a brutal and harrowing event where men, women, children, and the elderly were all executed, many in their own homes and even more in the forest surrounding the town. But out of this horror and chaos also came a sliver of hope for the souls of the men of the 101st when Major Trapp offered an interesting option; whoever did not have the stomach to participate in the executions could step out before the massacre was underway. Ten or twelve men accepted his offer (Browning, chapter 7, page 57). This would eventually lead to many men stepping away from executions in coming “actions”. Before the war these men were ordinary lower class workers who no doubt enjoyed many of the simple pleasures that we still enjoy today. These were ordinary men who found themselves in an extraordinary situation. They were ordinary men who became extraordinary killers.…
Jewish organizations were vandalized and constrained bankrupt. As Jews lost their capacity to claim organizations they were getting to be distinctly poor and made to resemble a greater weight on the world. Starting in September 1941, each Jew in German-held region was set apart with a yellow star, making them open targets. The administration chose to move Jews out of their local nations and gathering them together in ranges called Ghettos. When they were compelled to leave their homes they attempted to pack as a lot of their assets as they could convey. Nazis devastated their homes and significant things were stolen and used to bolster the war exertion. Life in the ghetto was difficult. The Germans apportioned out sustenance yet they were small. Starvation and infection spread rapidly. The individuals who were more grounded were given something to do instantly. Several thousands were being extradited to the Polish ghettoes and German-possessed urban communities in the…
The Nazis returned again and told the Jewish people there were more threats and tighter security was needed. Relocation was the best solution. The Jews continued to believe the Nazis were protecting them and boarded trains that were headed to not safer surroundings but to concentration camps.”(Andrews) A great majority of Jews were never heard from again. The townspeople we unaware of what was…
* Wobblies thought they were going to be attacked so they opened fire on a parade that was taking place for Armistice Day. Wobblies kill a few men, all Wobblies come out except for Wesley Everest who came out of the building firing at police killing one and he was eventually killed. (He was thought to be a crazy radical and a hero by some)…