Fritz Haber's Accomplishments

The horrific experiments of Dr. Mengele demonstrate the cruelty of the Nazi’s during the holocaust. Most of the world today knows of Dr. Mengele of having been the doctor of death for being responsible for killing more than 6 million Jews.

A 4 foot deep trench was dug into the ground miles wide. Swerving through trees and hills. The smell of worms filled my nose as the fresh earth lay behind the trench. Proper defences were created to give us a better chance at defending the German attack. At 10:00 a.m. the first German soldiers were spotted. I held my rifle at my shoulder and looked through the small cut out in the trench. Thousands of Germans were running through open fields. Red mist coming out of most. A deafening array of gunfire to my left and right. With the rifle’s sight up to my eye, German soldiers were put into picture, and with a squeeze of a trigger, and a loud scream, they would fall over. Flashes of light came from 300 meters away. German snipers were picking out targets from an almost unreachable distance. Helmets were flying off left and right. My friends dying in front of my eyes. A single bullet was forced through the barrel of a Gewehr 98 rifle. Traveling at 878 meters per second, an 8 millimeter cartridge hit my helmet. It continued through into my skull, shredding my brain. Feeling nothing, my body lay on the ground dead. Blood spilling from the side of my head out of the helmet. The rats came running. Dead meat attracted hundreds of them. Crawling in and out of bodies, getting free meals along the way. A funeral wasn’t held for myself and the other casualties until after the war. The Treaty of Versailles was signed 5 years

In many ways, this passage from the book All Quiet on the Western Front depicts war in a way that puts you right into the carnage. It is common knowledge that WWI brought with it new and catastrophic levels of violence, with battles that lasted for months on end and amazing advancements in weaponry, such as the machine gun, flamethrower, and poison gas. With the introduction of the poison gas came the need for masks that could be worn over the face to deter inhalation of what would prove to be fatal air. The soldiers still use caution when breathing with the masks since they have seen the horrors that follow if the mustard gas enters their lungs. "These first minutes with the mask decide between life and death: is it tightly woven? I remember

World War I was one of the greatest tragedies in modern European history. According to History.com, 16 million people were killed – both soldiers and civilians – and many of those killed did not have a quick, painless death. While the majority of the deaths in the film happen off camera, most of those that are shown are quite tragic. Franz Kimmerich's death ends over a day of suffering, an unnamed member of the platoon breathes in mustard gas after dropping his gun in a pit, and Katczinsky, Paul’s platoon leader, dies while Paul carries him to the hospital tents. The horrors of mustard gas and the realities of battle are accurately depicted especially since so many soldiers died, and no one dies in this movie doing anything greatly heroic. However, back home there was a great deal of information that was not shared.

In “Taking Over The Universities”, highly educated and respected teachers showed little to no struggle to Hitler’s attempts to take over the school. University professor at Frankfurt gave his accounts on the takeover, “Everybody waited for the distinguished biochemist-physiologist. The great liberal got up, cleared his throat, and said, “Very interesting, Mr. Commissar, and in some respects very illuminating: but one point I didn’t get too clearly. Will there be more money for research in physiology”(Drucker)? All it takes is one bystander to cause more

 On “The Second Battle of Ypres”, it was reported that 90 men died from gas poisoning in the trenches, out of the 207 near the dressing stations forty six out of the fifty eight died almost immediately. The British expressed their anger they made their own poison gas. The commander of II Corps, Lieutenant General Sir Charles

Because of Fritz Haber this world is a better place. His discoveries helped feed Germany and had many good intentions despite the later events. In order to feed Germany Haber figured out how to make nitrogen out of the air in order to make the soil fertile for food growth. This new discovery helped increase the population and stopped the starvation in Germany. He later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his great accomplishments. His discoveries later led to terrible things done in the war, such as gas and bombs used to kill others. The gas he used to grow food was used to create a “chlorine wall” to kill all soldiers in the trenches. Haber was very proud of what he was able to do for his country, but his sense of nationalism overpowered his

Upon the battlefield of World War One, soldiers huddle in trenches, faces veiled behind gas masks. These bulky facial coverings were designed to protect the soldiers from deadly gases used by the enemy. The use of chemical agents in World War One led to the need for the production of better protection from the deadly effects of the agents. Chlorine gas could be dropped from cylinders above the victims, its high density causing it to flow downwards onto its unsuspecting foe (Fire 121). Also, the British Authorities struggled to decide whether or not to approve the use of gas for offensive use, and whether a large scale chemical war was something to be avoided at all costs (Girard 107).

Reinhard Heydrich known as“The Blond Beast” or “Hangman Heydrich” was born in the German city of Halle, near Leipzig on March 7,1904 he was the second of three children .When Heydrich was six months old he suffered an inflammation of the brain that could’ve killed him, as well as a few other illnesses that were life threatening. In order to overcome this, his father motivated him to take up as many sports as possible such as running, horse-riding, football, swimming, and fencing. Heydrich was raised in a musical background. He had a strong love for the violin. So Heydrich did what any enthusiast would do, he trained seriously and eventually developed an expert skill for it, as well as a life-long passion for the violin. His parents were music Aficionados and because of their love for music, Heydrich’s father, Bruno Richard

Josef Mengele, a hero of the Nazis for his breakthrough discoveries and service as a soldier, was additionally a heartless individual that performed countless experiments on the young victims of the war. To being raised in a wealthy family and succeeding early on in his life, he became such an evil man terrorizing his victims beyond reality. Josef Mengele’s childhood and education contributed to his joining of the Nazi Party. Despite his career and horrific experimentations being disturbing, he delivered valuable knowledge about the scientific world.  Auschwitz was and is recognized as a place where many horrors occurred by Mengele’s barbaric efforts in the name of science. All in all, Josef Mengele was a heartless physician who enjoyed causing

As Owen mentions in his poem, “As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. … He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”, Owen describes the traumatic experience of witnessing a soldier dying from chlorine gas and the pain experienced by the soldier as he wilted away. First used as an asphyxiation gas in the 22nd April of 1915, the Germans employed the chlorine gas on the Algerian and Zouave lines. Effective in the concentration of 1 in 10,000, chlorine proved to be highly effective in the trenches as the denser chlorine molecules lingers within the trenches to affect the soldiers. Easy to manufacture in huge quantities, chlorine gas became a go to choice for both the Central power and allied forces as they started to understand the new weapon. While designed by scientist and employed by strategic commanders, it was usually the grunt on the front lines that suffered from the use of chemical weapons. The chlorine gas when inhaled by the soldiers produced an active secretion by the lachrymal and salivary gland which serves to dilute the contaminant to the body. Concurrently, the introduction of chlorine to the respiratory system results in the spams of the bronchial muscles which blocks the air to the lungs. This results in the suffocation of the soldier which when seen from Owens view reflects the soldier drowning the in a “green sea”. This drowning was usually accompanied by the burning in the glands as the acidic gas mixes with a solution. Should a solider be lucky enough to be evacuated in time, they usually suffer from intense dyspnea which labored their breathing lasting about 36 hours which usually ends with death. If the soldier survives the ordeal, he usually develops acute bronchitis which would render him unfit for battle. This death, excruciating pain while perfectly conscious is

Josef Mengele is one of the world’s most known Auschwitz scientists. Although his experiments were gruesome and evil, we learned much about the human body. We came out of WWII knowing much more about genetics because of Dr. Mengele’s experiments. In WWII, Dr. Mengele, nicknamed “Angel of Death”, used Nazi concentration camps to perform scientific experiments on “undesirables”, through using; children, undesirables, and extermination.

In the campaign Germany lost 60,000 soldiers, and Russia 11,500.” (p. 57). This section of the narration was truly difficult to stomach due to the horrifying images it created in my mind. Even after finishing the chapters the appalling depictions continued to linger in my memory. It was agonizing to imagine the countless bodies piled upon one another, the terrifying shrieks that escaped from them, and rotten smell that they would soon bring about. Moreover, the way Gluckstein elaborated upon the gruesome events and reinforced his accounts with statistical information Gluckstein furthered his horrendous recount of the battle even more and provided me with a mental picture that truly stuck with me. It has been a truly engaging experience that has brought me both exhilaration in regard to learning about the events which occurred in WW2 and anguish in relation to my realization of just how awful the tragedies truly

November 1918 saw the result of WW1 though Germany's eyes. A crumbled economy, revolution and counter-revolution, the flailing of a government, and an angered mass population- searching for scapegoat in which to blame their

In part one of “The Age of Total War”, Hobsbawm (1994) also argues that the war of 1914-1918 was senseless. It is argued that it is difficult to understand “why sensible statemen had not decided to settle the war by some compromise before it destroyed the world of 1914” (Hobsbawm, 1994, p. 29). He claims that the war was brutal and caused more death and destruction than was necessary. The battlefield of the Western Front was as brutal as it got. A field of blood, guts, mud and the abandoned bodies of brothers and friends was surrounded by the sound of never ending a gun fire, shouts of orders and screaming of men, whilst millions stood in trenches on either side and fired weapons at each other to add to the mass of chaos. Landscapes and towns were destroyed, countries lost up to twenty percent of their men, and those who weren’t lost were often mutated and severe haters of war. Moreover, it is argued that the destruction caused by the war did not end purely with the loss of human life, it