Holocaust Men

According to the texts and eyewitness accounts, the Holocaust had horrendous effects on the people who lived through it. During this time Jews were being rounded up and put into concentration camps by order of the German government. Writings and testimonies from survivors of the Holocaust are around even to this day. According to these sources, Holocaust survivors suffered tremendously since they were treated as less than human , they lost loved ones, and were constantly abused.

An integral component of the Jewish life in most of the Judenhauser residents was feared spot checks carried out by the Gestapo to look for

Throughout Hitler’s reign over Germany there was an agenda that existed which led to murders of a great number of innocent people. The agenda was the extermination of Jews from Germany so that Germany could become a pure country in terms of ethnicity. It was Hitler’s idea but he only gave the orders while the SS and the Order Police carried out the orders. One group of people that helped carry out this idea of judenfrei or Jew free Germany was the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The men who made up this group were regular men that had come from a variety of careers. Most the men volunteered because the immunity that they would receive from “conscription into the army” once the volunteers had become part of

When the war ended in 1945, millions of Jews had perished. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime had almost entirely wiped out a single race of people in what would become known as the Holocaust. However, the Jews were not the only people who had been stripped of their dignity and killed. There were other groups who the Nazi’s persecuted against. The Roma, homosexuals, the mentally and physically disabled, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Political Prisoners were all systematically gathered up and killed. When the Holocaust gets mentioned, many don't talk about the other millions of innocent people who were murdered alongside the Jews. Many don't see these people as victims at all. The number of people murdered during the Holocaust reaches close to eleven million people. “Contragenics” is the term used to talk about all of the groups who were murdered under the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. These innocent lives were lost in the Holocaust, and while history hasn’t forgotten, humanity has.

Elizabeth Feldman –de Jang and Nathan Nothman are both survivors of the Holocaust, but just like every individual survivor, they share different stories. One of the few things that may unite them is the specific fact that they are both Jewish and despite all odds, they managed to survive and share their stories.

The ‘Weltanschauung' of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 was the same as Hitler's. The men were immersed in racist and anti-Semitic propaganda. When receiving their first assignment in Jozefow, Major Trapp told his men the Jews were involved in the killing of women and children by bombing Germany and were involved with the partisans. The Jews were

Like hitter the top SS was a group that you volunteered to do, “In either case Himmler found means of enlisting all who volunteered”["The SS Himmler's SchutzStaffel -Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." The SS Himmler's SchutzStaffel - Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.].The top SS knew everything that was going on with the Holocaust. The officers in the top SS knew about the unfairness and cruelty of the millions of people being murdered every day. They had the freedom to kill who they wanted for the reason they wanted to kill them. They used scare tactics to scare the Jewish people to leave their belongings behind, “The incarceration of around 30,000 German,Austrian, and Sudeten Jews in concentration camps, where hundreds of them died,was intended to accelerate their will to emigrate and reduce their inhibitions about leaving their assets behind.”["SS and the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 20June 2014. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.].The fact that the top SS had the capability to do something so vile and know what they were doing and choose to do it anyway. The top SS also would test and experiment on the Jews, trying to see if they could change their eye color by adding a dye to the eyes, and other experiments that a mostly ended with the victim dying. The top SS has a big responsibility for the holocaust because of the

It’s about the jews and how and what happened to them after the Holocaust. The Holocaust was the time where about six million jews and one million other people dying. Most people were killed because they belonged to different races and religions. The Nazis wanted to kill people that weren’t from their same religious group. The Nazis also killed people who disrespected Hitler. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party.

The Holocaust, one of humanities most horrendous acts and a large topic in the history of World War II. Led by the German National Socialists, the Holocaust was an attack on innocent people for reasons of race, sexuality, nationality, and religion with their main target being the millions of European Jews who they saw as an ‘inferior race’. Hitler and his higher up stripped Jews of everything. He took their money, their homes, their jobs, their nationality, their dignity, and eventually he took their lives. In Peter Longerich’s Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder of the Jews, Longerich takes an in depth look at Nazi politics and how it eventually led to their Final Solution of the Jewish Question. His research that began in the late 1990s, when he questioned both schools of Holocaust studies, the Intentionalists and the Structuralists. His studies in Europe led to a novel that that outlines the entire history of the Holocaust, the ideas of Judenfrage, and the implementation of Judenpolitik on the Jews of Europe from 1933 to 1945.

In Christopher Browning’s book, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, he explains to us all about his study of German Order Police Reserve Unit 101 and their experiences during the Holocaust. During the time of the Holocaust, Reserve Unit 101 committed many massacres and round-ups of the Jewish population for deportation to the Nazi concentration camps occupied by Germany in Poland. These men of Unit 101 were normal middle-aged men, who were drafted to be Nazi soldiers, but found ineligible for regular military duty. Upon their return to Poland in 1942, they were ordered to terrorize the Jewish population in Poland and

In Christopher Browning’s book, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland tells the story of Battalion 101, a group of 500 policemen in their 30’s and 40’s who were sent into Poland to participate in a ‘special action’ without being told exactly what they are doing. Overtime they realized their mission is to Kill Jews and racially purify Europe. Most of the killing during this period of mass murder took place in Poland. Battalion 101 together with other Order Police battalions contributed to the manpower needed to carry out this enormous task. Browning comments that these men all went through their developmental period before the Nazis came into power. These were men who had known political standards and moral norms other than those of the Nazis. Most men came from Hamburg; one of the least ‘nazified’ cities in Germany and the majority came from a social class that had been anti-Nazi in its political culture. In seems this would not seem to have been a very promising group from which to recruit mass murderers on behalf on the Nazi vision of a racial utopia free of Jews. However, their actions helps us understand not only what they did to make the Holocaust happen, but also how they were transformed psychologically from the ordinary men into active participants in the most horrific offence in human history. In doing so, it aims on the human capacity for extreme evil and leaves this subject matter with the shock of knowledge and the

The children of the holocaust situation is way more extreme than the children dying in the civil war in Syria. The total children that died in the holocaust was 1.5 million in 6 years If a child was born a twin in the concentration camp they were usually used for medical experiments, often they resulted in death. 870 infants were killed instantly when they came to the camp because they were no use.

In Christopher R. Browning’s book Ordinary Men, Browning tells us about who the real perpetrators of the mass killings of the Holocaust were; a group that was called the Order Police. They were, according to him, ordinary men. He referred to them as such because they were simply men who were drawn from everyday German citizens. They most likely, before the Holocaust, were working-class individuals from Poland. Most of them were around the ages of 32 to 42 years old. The majority of these men were not even part of the Nazi party -- only about a quarter were actually members. They, according to Browning, were just regular guys who were chosen for this group.

“How did a battalion of middle-aged reserve policemen find themselves facing the task of shooting some 1,500 Jews in the Polish village of Josefow in the summer of 1942” (Browning, 3)? This question is asked in the beginning of Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 written by Christopher Browning, a historian and famous author. This compelling book tells the real story of the German Order Police throughout the two world wars, specifically World War Two. However, he mainly focuses on one particular group, the Reserve Police Battalion 101. In this group contained lower to middle class middle aged men who were too old to be helpful to the German Army so were put into the Order Police (Browning, 1). He uses this particular battalion to prove his thesis correct. By using the word ordinary,

The SS and the police officers from Reserved Battalions 101 were not strictly trained and exclusively elected soldiers who specialized in killing Jews. Despite that this kind of job did need exclusive soldiers that did not fear of killing, Himmler, the person who was in charge of the Final Solution, just needed enough soldiers to make the mass murders happen. The police officers from the battalions were “middle-aged, mostly working class” (164). Just like everyone else of that time and the modern time, they had jobs like every other men. Majority of the men were known as white-collar, or the working class. Their jobs were ordinary: dock workers, truck drivers, construction workers, machine operators, seamen, and waiters were their pre-war occupations