Hans Frank served as a personal legal advisor to Adolf Hitler and was former “Generalgouverneur of Poland” a region which soon became the testing ground for the conspirators' program of "Lebensraum." Frank referred the policy which he envisioned to put into effect by declaring: "Poland shall be treated like a colony; the Poles will become the slaves of the Greater German World Empire." Frank can be considered the emblematic ‘desk perpetrator’, never personally drawing the trigger but managerially supporting the smooth organization of the killing operations and deportation of Polish Jews. The area originally contained from 2,500,000 to 3,500,000 Jews. They were forced into ghettoes, subjected to discriminatory laws, deprived of the food …show more content…
Frank’s diary consisted of 38 volumes, which recorded official texts of transcripts speeches, of conferences, minutes of cabinet meetings, etc. The volumes are divided into several concurrent series (Tagebuch, Abteilungsleitersitxungen etc.) covering several aspects of the authorized business of the administration. Frank however had first removed the utmost incriminating passages of the concentration camp system from his diary before handing it over and had burnt official documentation from his office in Cracow. Frank claimed whilst in prison he had experience a profound religious experience, which made him to repent his Nazi past. Frank was not charged with crimes against peace, due to the fact he had not been part of the military circle that had planned the war. Nonetheless, he was charged with count one, the crime of conspiracy, the American Prosecution debated that he had “actively promoted the coming to power of the Nazi leadership through his legal activities.” More significantly Frank was charged with “war crimes and crimes against Humanity.” Robert Jackson on October 18th 1945 gave his legendary opening speech, followed by the presentation of the evidence concerning the conspiracy charge.” The Prosecution conceived that crimes against humanity had merely been a by-product of the conspiracy in order to wage an
The events recounted in Anne Frank’s Diary took place during World War 11. By 1933, the strongest party in Germany had gained ultimate power with Hitler under their command. Hitler was Germany’s dictator who spread his gospel of racial hatred through politics. While poverty and unemployment were at an all time high he launched a campaign of anti-Semitism. Hitler’s main target was the Jews, claiming that they were “racially inferior.” He developed an idea of a Master Aryan Race, the need to rid Germany of “inferior people”, such as Jews and Gypsies, and the need to expand Germany’s borders. In doing this, he caused many Jews to abandoned their homes and go into total isolation. The Frank family
People can only imagine the terrors that the Jews and other ethnic groups had to go through during the Holocaust in World War II. With Anne Frank’s diary, people can finally put themselves into the scene and captivate all the feelings and sentiments that Anne Frank has poured onto the pages. Anne Frank, her family, and their friends were known for hiding from the German Nazis in the Secret Annex for two years from 1942-1944. Innocent and naive,
"The Diary of Anne Frank" tells us a story about how her life as a Jew was drastically changing during the Holocaust and the start of World War II (WWII). She was a very intelligent young woman that had hopes and dreams. Anne was a normal teenager trying to find her way in life. All of that changed when the Nuremburg Race Laws were formed. Her father who was a World War I fighter hid his family and friends in a Secret Annex that was blended in with a normal neighborhood. As she lived for months in the Secret Annex, Frank had written her diary, full of her experiences in the Annex. Everything changed though, when she reached the end of her times in the Annex. Hitler's men had found Anne and her family and friends. This memoir adds in to the
Anne Frank was a Jewish/ German girl who was born in 1929 on June 12th. While in hiding, Anne kept a diary of her time spent in closed quarters trying to survive with seven other people. In the diary, she recorded her growth emotionally and all the stress that was put on her. After two years in hiding they were captured by the Nazis. While they were being captured, the diary was scattered on the floor. The Nazi’s took it and preserved it until the war was over. The pages of the diary were given to Anne’s father, Otto Frank, the only person to
In 1933, the nazi took power in Germany, which cause depression to a lot of people. At the beginning, Nazi defy the Jews, Gypsies, and the disabled. In March 1933, the first concentration camp was built and later on more concentration and death camps were made. A family named the Franks went into hiding with the Van Daans in Amsterdam. In “Anne Frank” the characters face adversity and conflict like man vs self, man vs nature, and man vs man that makes the “Diary of Anne Frank” a wonderful story.
Justice Robert Jackson was faced with a number of difficulties when he was tasked with the job as the US justice at Nuremberg. He faced the daunting task of trying to bring justice to over a decade’s worth of crimes and wars, which spanned and entire continent, in one tribunal. Before the proceedings began he knew many of the challenges he would have to overcome and that he would have a difficult road ahead of him. He had to create a workable procedure for the trail as well as define the laws, rules, and procedures that would be used when conducting the Nuremberg trials.
Adolf Eichmann began planning ways to get rid of the Jewish race. One of his earlier plans was presented in July of 1940. He proposed that all of the Jews should be deported to Madagascar. However, the plan was never implemented. In poland there were 3.5 million Jews. They were all gathered into small ghettos such as Warsaw (The History Place). Warsaw was one of the biggest and overcrowded ghettos in Poland. In 1941 Eichmann was deporting Jews out of Germany and Bohemia, in accordance with Hitler 's orders to make the Third Reich free of Jews as quickly as possible (Wistrich). The ghettos were chosen based on how close they were to railway junctions, which was preparing them to implement their final goal.
Simon Wiesenthal is known for being a survivor of the Nazi death camps and for dedicating his life to documenting the crimes of the Holocaust. He worked diligently to track down all the war criminals connected to the Holocaust. He founded the Jewish Documentation Center in Vienna where he worked to document the Holocaust and prosecuted nearly 1,100 Nazi war criminals. He is also known for his involvement with the case of Karl Silberbauer, the man who arrested Ann Frank. Wiesenthal did truly impressive work in his life to make sure the lives of the millions of Jews killed did not go over looked and not forgotten. In the process, Simon wrote his very own book detailing all his encounters with the criminals of the war and his life inside the
The choices that Frank made, saved many Jews live. Germany send the Jews to the concentration camp. He did the right thing by saving other people.
The Nazis were very cruel to the Jews, and sadly the Frank family experienced torture,starvation,and working too hard.the concentration camps were disgusting, they had disease,lice,and many other effects.
In the modern world we see many examples of obsessions that are productive and have led people to greatness by their single minded focus on their tasks or goals; however, we also see obsessions that are nonproductive or detrimental to the individual in the form of stalking, drug and alcohol use, or the failure to give up obsessions leading to the demise of their life, family or happiness. Obsession has plagued humanity throughout its history. It has been the downfall of many great leaders and also characters in classic books. In Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein was overwhelmed by an obsession that ended up taking over his life. Through Victor’s obsession for knowledge and to create life, which leads to his demise, it is easy to find the same
Over 6 million Jews died once Hitler came to power, an event that came to be known as the Holocaust. Adolf Hitler had grown up learning that Jews were bad. This is where we think he got the idea to blame them for Germany’s loss in World War 2. Anne Frank and 7 other Jewish people went into hiding shortly after Margot, Anne’s sister, got a letter asking her to report to a Jewish work camp. They were hiding for 25 months, until they were discovered on the 4th of August in 1944, everybody was arrested. Anne Frank is believed to have died from Typhus fever on March 12th, 1945, just 34 days before the Bergen-Belsen camp was liberated. The only survivor of the annex was Mr. Otto Frank. He returned to Amsterdam, June 3rd, 1945. Historical events that happened during the Holocaust can be proven to have affected the annex member’s mood and relationships in the drama, “Anne Frank.”
What is a hero? In my opinion, a hero can be a number of things. A person you look up to, or even an ordinary person who does something out of the ordinary. Oskar Schindler was a man of flaws like the rest of us, but also a man of courage, strength, and sacrifice. Schindler spared his own life to save thousands of strangers.
From being an unknown, refugee professor, within five years he had become an influential policy adviser in Washington. His book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe influenced the deliberations at the Nuremberg Tribunal to a greater degree than has hitherto been assumed and his new concept of the crime genocide was slowly establishing itself in international law. In the 12 trials of the United States Military Tribunal of SS commanders, military officers, German doctors and legal figures which followed the proceedings at Nuremberg, the concept of genocide won gradual acceptance. So too, the Polish Supreme National Tribunal convicted the commandant of Auschwitz of genocide, while another accused was charged with ‘genocidal attacks on Polish culture and
The frank family was separated and put into different camps, and after the camps where liberated Otto Frank went on a search for his family. Otto eventually learned that his wife and two children died in the camps. After learning he would never see his family again, Otto was given a gift. One of the people helped hid the Franks kept Anne’s diary safe and gave it to Otto(Linder