The Horrors of the Holocaust Eighteen million Europeans went through the Nazi concentration camps. Eleven million of them died, almost half of them at Auschwitz alone.1 Concentration camps are a revolting and embarrassing part of the world’s history. There is no doubt that concentration camps are a dark and depressing topic. Despite this, it is a subject that needs to be brought out into the open. The world needs to be educated on the tragedies of the concentration camps to prevent the
Death and Humanity in the Holocaust Within the twentieth century, what event stands out to you as the most inhumane treatment of fellow humans. Without a doubt, most would agree that the Holocaust completely matches this sad frame of reference. The Holocaust in Germany was an unspeakable event in human history. In this terrible act, at its worst in Poland, was the direct cause of the deaths of 62.7% of the Jewish population in Europe (History 1). It is obvious that two
things you would like to hear if you were mainly a Jew, Pole, Roma, or Soviet prisoner. The name “Operation Reinhard” represents as a code name for the murdering of Jews that were living in the general government by the start of the year of 1942. There were 434 men working in the in the operation when it was active. The operation lasted for about an estimate of one year and nine months. SS Reinhard Heydrich is the person who this operation named after, which died one month after the operation was complete
Life The Secret Annex How did the Holocaust start and why did this occur? The Holocaust happened in Germany and in Eastern Europe. The victims of the Holocaust were gathered from across Europe, but most of the actual killing was done in parts of Eastern, the best-known of the camps that were used to kill Holocaust victims were in Poland. These camps included Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and the most notorious of all the death camps, Auschwitz. Auschwitz was the site of the deaths of
Susan Griffin's "Our Secret" is a study in psychology. It is a look into the human mind to see what makes people do the things they do and in particular what makes people commit acts of violence. She isolates the first half of the twentieth century and in particular the era of the Second World War as a basis for her study. The essay discusses a number of people but they all tie in to Heinrich Himmler. He is the extreme case, he who can be linked directly to every single death in the concentration
and that God always should him. However, all he actually did was destroying the society. But The Second World War did also help us to develop medicines. The final solution was a solution directed to the Jews under the Second World War. SS-general Reinhard Heydrich got an order from Hitler in the ending of 1941 to make the solution. January 20. 1920, he had a plan for the final solution, he had worked together with Adolf Eicmann. They shared their example of the final solution at a conference in Berlin
How many people will I kill in my lifetime? I am not some deranged serial killer with deadly intentions, but I am a person that is aware that my actions could have ramifications that I cannot possibly fathom. Perhaps “kill” is not the right word. How many deaths will I be responsible for by the time I leave this earth? Much better. As Susan Griffin asserts in “Our Secret”, the lives of everyone on this planet are much more intertwined that most like to believe. As are the lives of those who have
The Wannsee Conference Have you ever had a business meeting, a conference? Could you imagine a meeting to draw an outline to exterminate a population, 11 million Jews? The Wannsee Conference was a “meeting” to discuss how they would kill all the Jews. The Wannsee Conference put the Final Solution in motion; the World had lost their opportunity to save 6 million Jews and others. The Beginning Hitler came to power in Germany in 1933, after World War 1 when tensions were high because the Treaty of
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
The holocaust can be regarded as one of the most awful events in history and the swastika continues to be a constant reminder of the horrendous acts of hate that were bestowed onto human lives. More than 1 million people were brutally murdered at the hands of an evil dictator named Adolf Hitler. Some of the vivid events and actions that took place during this time have been highlighted in the poem “The Trains” written by William Heyen. Heyen discusses the trains of Treblinka which carried the prized