Interdisciplinary Project

    From small random acts of kindness to large charities and organizations who aim to help and aid others, humanity has been able to thrive and flourish showing all that we can achieve and accomplish. Sadly things are never as good as they seem because we can also infer that humanity is very much capable of horrific things. Throughout the long and violent course of mankind, there have been many genocides and atrocities that have occurred. The crusades, world wars, and some government enforced genocides are some examples of the horrid events that have taken place in our history, each event being accountable for millions and millions of lives. Out of all them, the most discussed and taught about atrocity is World War II, which took place mainly in Europe from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945. Led by the infamous Adolf Hitler, one of the goals of Nazi Germany was to rid Europe of Jews. Hitler's perspective on the Jews was that they caused all of Germany’s problems and even held them responsible for the loss the country had in World War I. By doing so, Hitler made a big enemy.

The tragic events that occurred during world war two and the holocaust were not only horrific but also morally wrong. The Jewish culture was targeted for mass genocide, by the hand of a mad-man bent on world domination, and the only way to prevent another incident like this from happening again, is to thoroughly educate the public. The actions and events that Hitler and his followers proposed not only helped the world realize the extent of his destruction but also how horrible it would be if the events were to happen again. The aftermath of the war and holocaust left half of Europe in ruins, and more than six million Jews, Homosexuals, Gypsies, and Africans dead, not including

One major, controversial event that occurred during the WWII was the Holocaust. There has been much debate about the causes of the Holocaust, as many factors have been discussed. Therefore, this investigation will assess to what extent was Hitler the cause of the Holocaust. The four factors that will be assessed will be the widespread anti-Semitism, the role of Hitler himself, the demonizing of Jews made by the state churches and the Treaty of Versailles.

The Holocaust was the systematic killing and extermination of millions of Jews and other Europeans by the German Nazi state between 1939 and 1945. Innocent Europeans were forced from their homes into concentration camps, executed violently, and used for medical experiments. The Nazis believed their acts against this innocent society were justified when hate was the motivating factor. The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping on a society. It forces societies to examine the responsibility and role of citizenship, in addition to approaching the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction. (Holden Congressional Record). Despite the adverse treatment of the Jews, there are lessons that can be learned from the Holocaust: The Nazi’s rise to power could have been prevented, the act of genocide was influenced by hate, and the remembrance of the Holocaust is of the utmost importance for humanity.

Throughout the course of humanity, we have experienced terrible transgressions in our society. Although they took place sixty-one years apart, similar horrific events from the Holocaust (1933-1945) and the Rwandan Genocide (1994) occurred. In Night, the Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state sponsored persecution and murder of approximately 6 million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The Nazis believed they were “racially superior” so they killed the Jews because they were deemed “inferior” and needed to be eliminated.

In the United States both scholars and the general public have been conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the vast expansion of

German narratives on the holocaust have changed since 1945 propelled by debates during that time along with political developments and distance from historical events. The German population tends to focus on their fate as to idolize their society’s behavior during the holocaust era. Germany’s students have trouble connecting German history to the holocaust.

The Nazi slaughter of European Jews during World War II, commonly referred to as the Holocaust, occupies a special place in our history. The genocide of innocent people by one of the world's most advanced nations is opposite of what we think about the human race, the human reason, and progress. It raises doubts about our ability to live together on the same planet with people of other cultures and persuasions.

During the Holocaust something interesting began to happen without many people noticing: the unfair treatment towards minorities in, particular the jewish . At the time, it didn’t attract much attention because no one really noticed. The nazis referred to the Jews as rats and people who did not have human-like characteristics. More than six million lost their lives through the government supported torture and the destruction of both men and women. In Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, Lower’s Hitler’s Furies, and Miller’s “What Can The Milgram Obedience Experiments Tell Us About The Holocaust?” one can see that dehumanization played a big component in the dreadfulness like the Holocaust. Most of us believe that we have all have basic human rights and those should not be violated. Dehumanization means that someone treats another individual as not having human-like qualities. In terms of Social Psychology says

The Holocaust was a miserable event that we want to prevent from happening again in the future.

During the first part of Hitler’s Regime, the government established concentration camps to confine and detain anyone the Nazi’s though as political, cultural and ideological opponents. The first Concentration camp was built in January, 1933, right after Hitler came into power. Hitler gained further support for his ideas by propaganda, which filled the media of Germany with pro-nazi material. All forms of communication; newspapers, radio, books, TV, art, music and movies were controlled by the Nazis. This way, nonother than what the Nazi’s wanted published could only be distributed to its society, and preventing news about the Holocaust from getting anywhere outside of Germany. This propaganda identified the Jews as an inferior ‘race’, and the source of Germany’s defeat and economic depression in world war one on them.

In 1936 Germany was set to hold the summer Olympic Games in Berlin. Since Hitler did not want the other countries to criticize the way he ran his country, he put the Nuremburg Race Laws on hold. However once the games were over the laws went back into place and the treatment of Jews went back to how it had been before. Also after the Olympics between the years 1937 and 1938 Jewish people lost their jobs and were no longer able to own businesses. Looking back on all this now, we see how difficult it was for the Jews. It makes us realize that there is good and evil everywhere. In the future we need to be able to recognize when things are out of hand and when it is time to step in and stop the issues.

Some things that I learned are, for example. 1,The nazis destroyed homes and killed people. 2, But there were some ways people could get out of it at that time,like the rescue boat, they would hide in the boats and sail off. 3, The nazis and Hitler put jewish people in concentration camps, and took everything they had away from them. 4, To the people who were in concentration camps saw the butterfly as a symbol of freedom, because they would rarely see butterflies and butterflies are beautiful. 5,Also children were taken from their parents and may have never seen them again. I got these facts from the posters and poster questions. Another source was secret annex.com.Also from what I have learned in school and from listening to the teacher and from watching the clips of videos about the Holocaust in class. I got information from all these sources and I have learned a lot more facts than what I have

In the past, examples of intolerance are everywhere. Almost all throughout American history, African Americans have been treated as inferiors by some people. Slavery used to be the case in America, where some white people couldn’t tolerate African Americans, so they treated them like animals and put them to work. Even today, racial intolerance still exists and we are trying to solve it, but it feels like the problem is only getting worse. Another example is that over in Europe throughout 1939-1945, Hitler and his Nazi regime were trying to banish all people who were not of the “perfect” race. They were intolerant of these people, killing them even though most of them

The holocaust was a bleak and unrecoverable part of the history of the twentieth century that will always be remembered. Millions died for no reason except for one man’s madness. Although many people know why this war happened many don’t know when and what events lead up to this: the way Hitler came into power, or when the first concentration camp was established, and what city it was in, why Jews were hated so much by Hitler, and why the rest of the country also hated them as well as, and what the chronology of the Holocaust. These are some of the things I will explain in my paper.