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  • Holocaust Research Essay

    Holocaust Research Essay

    Of all the examples of injustice against humanity in history, the Jewish Holocaust has to be one of the most prominent. In the period of 1933 to 1945, the Nazis waged a vicious war against Jews and other "lesser races". This war came to a head with the "Final Solution" in 1938. One of the end results of the Final Solution was the horrible concentration and death camps of Germany, Poland, and other parts of

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    Submitted: December 1, 2008 By: Jessica
  • Holocaust and Lunatic Fringe

    Holocaust and Lunatic Fringe

    Behrens and Rosen asked, "What sort of people were responsible for the Holocaust, and for the long list of other atrocities that seem to blight the human record in every generation? Is it a lunatic fringe, a few sick but powerful people who are responsible for atrocities?" and the responded with "If so, then we decent folk needn't ever look inside ourselves to understand evil since ever lurks out there." Behrens and Rosen use this

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    Essay Length: 989 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • The Treatment of Homosexuals During the Holocaust

    The Treatment of Homosexuals During the Holocaust

    A. Plan of Investigation To what extent did the Nazi Regime's ideologies and policies influence the treatment of homosexuals after 1933? In Nazi Germany, the Nazis goal to purify the Aryan race and eliminate deviants had an incredible effect on Germans from all walks of life, including prostitutes, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and especially homosexuals. This investigation will aim to determine the Nazis role in the rage against homosexuals during the holocaust, and how the

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    Essay Length: 2,542 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: regina
  • Hilter and the Holocaust

    Hilter and the Holocaust

    The Holocaust has been regarded as one of the most catastrophic incidents throughout world history. There is no coherent justification for the causes of such calamities; however, the human race is responsible to allow such behavior to endure for a period of over three years. The victims of the Holocaust have been estimated to a total of 6 million innocent Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, and other scapegoats of Hitler and his Nazi crew. Hitler maneuvered the

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    Essay Length: 503 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust

    The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust

    This paper addresses one of the holocausts during World War II--the forgotten holocaust. As you will read, this paper briefly describes the atrocities that occurred in Nanjing, China. Not many know or understand what really happened in this city. Hopefully, this paper can give those who do not know about "The Forgotten Holocaust" some knowledge of this sad and historical true story. When someone mentions the word holocaust, most often people will relate that word

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    Essay Length: 1,165 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • My Story in the Holocaust

    My Story in the Holocaust

    On March 19, 1942, I was sent by the Judenrat (the Jewish Council) to build underground storage facilities. Our group was led to a bleak, desolate place outside the city where a tall German with a red, square face told us that if we worked hard we would get extra food rations. After a long day of digging, breaking up large boulders and carting away the dirt in wheelbarrows, I went home with a coupon

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jack
  • Night by Elie Wiesel Relations to the Holocaust

    Night by Elie Wiesel Relations to the Holocaust

    Inhumanity can be defined as an act of cruelty. In my opinion, there is no better explanation for the holocaust. The Holocaust was an extremely demoralizing time for millions of families all over Europe during the period of World War II. Its vast amounts of violence and torture affected not only the people who lived through it, but also affected anyone who were in any way connected to its survivors. These people were lucky to

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    Essay Length: 336 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Children of Holocaust

    Children of Holocaust

    Children of the Camps During the Holocaust, millions of Jews, gypsies, and members of other groups were persecuted and murdered by Nazi occupied Europe. However, many forget to acknowledge that among these were children. It may never be known exactly how many children were murdered but it is said that as many as some 1.5 million children may have fell victim to the Nazi party. Although children were not a main target of the Nazi's

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    Essay Length: 1,216 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Monika
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    In the Holocaust, discrimination was a big thing. It was not the only big thing, there was also prejudice and violence, and people today are casting aside what the affects of the Holocaust had on the people during that time and the people of today. Many people do not see that what is going on with the Mexicans today is basically the same thing like the Holocaust, except for the killing. Many people can learn

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    Essay Length: 854 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Anna
  • Holocaust Survivor Report

    Holocaust Survivor Report

    Holocaust Survivor Report During the Nazi regime the Nazis persecuted and jailed hundreds of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, and political prisoners. In class we have read that millions of people died in the Holocaust but we were never able to truly comprehend, and learn the Holocaust until we have read an individual story such as Raoul Wallenberg’s . kmhIt is amazing what people have done and really makes you think what you would have done if

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    Essay Length: 749 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Holocaust

    The Holocaust

    Prejudice against or the hatred of Jews, also known as antisemitism, has been around for more than 2,000 years. The Holocaust, the state sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany ands its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, also meaning "sacrifice by fire" is history's most extreme example of antisemitism. During World war 2 the Nazi Germany ands its collaborators murdered about six million Jews. Beginning with racially discriminatory laws in Germany, the

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Jack
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Night Chapter 1 In this chapter I felt scared and surprised, because they where taken Jews away from their ordinary lifes. They lived their lives not worrying about what was going on outside their town, thinking that they where safe and that the nothing would happen to them. How could they be so selfish to think that it would never happen to them, how could they not believe Mosche the Beadle when he warned them.

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Yan
  • Examine the Practical and the Morale Constraints upon Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.

    Examine the Practical and the Morale Constraints upon Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.

    Jewish resistance throughout the holocaust has caused much debate among academics historians, and even governments. Historians conclude that resistance was practical and morally constrained throughout the Second World War, for a variety of reasons. Historians such as Rab Bennett, Michael Marrus, Richard L Rubenstein, and John K Roth all have written in detail about the constraints placed upon Jewish resistance throughout this period. Each of these explanations will be examined throughout this paper. Furthermore, this

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Jack
  • The Holocaust: From Survivor of Verdun

    The Holocaust: From Survivor of Verdun

    Hermanns, William. The Holocaust: from a survivor of Verdun. New York: Harper and Row Publishing, 1972. Pp. xi,141. Megan Houck BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: William Hermanns was born on the 23rd of July 1895 in Koblenz, Germany to a merchant family. His parents were Michael and Bertha. Mr. Hermanns was highly educated with a M.A. from the University of Berlin and he continued school to receive s Ph.D. from University of Frankfurt. His career consisted of a

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Victor
  • Films and the Holocaust

    Films and the Holocaust

    "In what ways do films enlarge our understanding of the Holocaust that is gained from historical and other writings? Analyze one episode or case in detail. Make sure you refer to films used in the course to date and to the required books." Within the first week of this class, I learned something that I was astonished to discover. Growing up in a fairly religious household, I had always been taught (like most Jewish children)

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    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions

    The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions

    The Holocaust: In Memory of Millions I have always known the holocaust to be one of the worst events in all of history. I remember learning all about it in history class in the ninth grade and being appalled by all the horrors that were shown to us. We learned all about the intense persecution of the Jews, how they were forced into terrible concentration camps where they either worked or were killed, and how

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    Essay Length: 275 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Holocaust

    The Holocaust

    The Holocaust was a very bad thing in history. Millions died in the concentration camps and when and if they were liberated they would come home to no family. I can imagine how it felt to be a Jew in the Holocaust. The Jews went to their physical and mental limit just to avoid death. If we do not live our lives fully then we are wasting the gift of life. I don't think it's

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    Essay Length: 261 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Holocaust Overview

    The Holocaust Overview

    *The Pages are a little out of Order* Joseph Mengele was notorious in the concentration camps for doing inhumane test and surgeries on prisoners, mostly young twins and the gypsies. Joseph was one of the people at Auchwitz who would decide who dies instantly and who will be forced to perform manual labor, because of this he was nicknamed the angel of death. He was born in Gunzburg, Bavaria March 16, 1911 and studied medicine

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Treatment of Homosexuals During the Holocaust

    The Treatment of Homosexuals During the Holocaust

    A. Plan of Investigation To what extent did the Nazi Regime’s ideologies and policies influence the treatment of homosexuals after 1933? In Nazi Germany, the Nazis goal to purify the Aryan race and eliminate deviants had an incredible effect on Germans from all walks of life, including prostitutes, alcoholics, the mentally ill, and especially homosexuals. This investigation will aim to determine the Nazis role in the rage against homosexuals during the holocaust, and how the

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    Essay Length: 2,545 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Jon
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    Victor Muscia Holocaust Class 8/2/05 Night By: Elie Wiesel I believe "Night" shows the religious view of the Holocaust and how many Jews including Elie lost their faith in God while going through such the nightmare of Auschwitz and the other camps. I think the main reason why Elie stayed alive as long as he did was because he didn't want to leave behind his father not because of his faith in God. Throughout the

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: David
  • The Holocaust

    The Holocaust

    The Holocaust was a tragic event in history which many people believe never happened. Others who survived it thought it should never have been. Not only did this affect the people who lived through it, it also affected everyone who was connected to those lucky individuals who survived. The survivors were lucky to have made it but there are times when their memories and flashbacks have made them wish they were the ones who died

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Top
  • American Holocaust

    American Holocaust

    AMERICAN HOLOCAUST The other side of the story to our great American history is not as pretty as they teach us in grade school. The American Holocaust by David Stannard is a novel full of live excerpts from eyewitnesses to the genocide of the American Indians. He goes as far as to describe what life was most likely like before Europeans came to the Americas and obliterated the “Paradise” so described. Columbus even wrote how

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Tommy
  • How Did Nazism Rise and How Did It Lead to the Holocaust?

    How Did Nazism Rise and How Did It Lead to the Holocaust?

    Adam Phillips 12/7/04 Western Civilization How Did Nazism Rise and How Did It Lead to The Holocaust? The first World War, or the Great War, left lasting effects on the entire world, particularly Germany. During the war, the German people faced many hardships and had to sacrifice much for the war effort. The gaps between social classes widened as the working class was faced with a food shortage and a lower standard of living overall.

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: David
  • Night by Elie Wiesel Relations to the Holocaust

    Night by Elie Wiesel Relations to the Holocaust

    Inhumanity can be defined as an act of atrocious cruelty. In my opinion, there is no better explanation for the holocaust. The Holocaust was an extremely demoralizing time for millions of families all over Europe during the period of World War II. Its vast amounts of violence and torture affected not only the people who lived through it, but also affected anyone who were in any way connected to its survivors. These people were lucky

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    Essay Length: 1,220 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • Holocaust

    Holocaust

    What does the term "propaganda" say, what does one think of, when approached with this term? Would one think it was of a positive of negative connotation? What about the association it had with the holocaust, would it then be considered negative? Did the Nazis use the role of propaganda overtly? Propaganda played an extremely crucial part in the Nazi's rise of power, the brainwashing of the Germans to hating and ultimately killing the Jews.

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Mike

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