In our podcast we compared our beliefs with other people's belief. We have to accept that many people believe hitler killed himself. We believe our podcast and research demostrated this skill because we covered both sides of the mystery. We covered how he commited suicide, and the world was shocked. But we also covered how he escaped death and lived his life. We felt that was the stronger argument]
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Not many historical works have achieved more success and have generated more heated debate than Daniel Goldhagen's book Hitler's Willing Executioners. Goldhagen’s thesis relies on the idea that since medieval times, a specific kind of eliminationist anti-Semitism had developed in Germany. According to Goldhagen, the German population was already open to the idea of eliminating the Jews. He also claims that when Hitler came to Power in 1933, rather than slowly convincing the Germans to commit mass murder, he merely gave them the opportunity to do what they have wanted to do for years. Goldhagen also inflated the number of people involved, suggesting that hundreds of thousands were participating in the killing and that millions more would have willingly joined in, given the opportunity. Despite the rejection of the book by many German and non-German historians, the German version of the book, published in August 1996, sold very well. Eighty thousand copies of the German edition sold in the first month of the book’s release. By the time of Goldhagen's tour in September, three thousand copies were being sold every single day. Facts like these show how important communication is with the public. Hitler’s Willing Executioners was successful in Germany because of the accessibility of the book to the German population, the social context in which the book was produced, and the powerful marketing campaign that preceded the book itself.
In the article, “The Boys Who Fought the Nazis” by Kristen Lewis, three teenage boys named Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi risked everything to fight the Nazis with the power of writing because they knew that Hitler was cruel and wrong. In July of 1941, Helmuth found an illegal short-wave radio that picked up foreign channels that would speak about Hitler and his terrible actions. Listening to the stations were “forbidden, and the penalties were severe” for anyone who did so in Germany (8). Karl, Helmuth, and Rudi would get together to listen to the Britain station that told what no one else in the country had the courage to say. Hitler was lying and putting his soldiers into battles that couldn’t be won. Although the boys now knew the truth about
The criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent, and punish those who are guilty of a crime. However, no system is perfect, and as a result, sometimes the innocent become victims of the system that was meant to protect them. How exactly do these innocent people become victims of the system? Sometimes the person gets framed, and the crime scene is staged to point a finger at them. Sometimes, there is no strong physical evidence against them, yet circumstantial evidence is used by the crown to put them away. This happened to a 17 year old boy named Adnan Syed in Baltimore, Maryland, who was imprisoned for life, for the alleged murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Lee. Throughout the Serial podcast, Sarah Koenig is able to critically analyze information which proves Adnan’s innocence. Firstly, Asia’s letters gave Adnan an alibi for the time of the murder. Secondly, Adnan’s innocence can be demonstrated through the lack of any strong evidence and the prosecution’s use of circumstantial evidence which can be disproved. Thirdly, Jay’s constantly changing testimony is not credible evidence of Adnan’s guilt, making him innocent.
Adolf Hitler is considered one of the most influential speakers in history, and was able to brainwash many people into believing every word he spoke. Hitler’s Book Mein Kampf, expresses his belief system, and the events that led up to his reign over Germany. Despite how persuasive the book was, it was littered with logical fallacies throughout, but one of the most prominent was the fallacy known as “Begging the Question” referring to an author that assumes something as truth although it is yet be proven.
In the last few years, some publications have appeared that treats one group or another, yet the state of our knowledge about the perpetrators remains incomplete. We know little about many of the institutions of killing, little about many aspects of the perpetration of the genocide, and still less about the perpetrators themselves. As a consequence, popular and scholarly myths and misconceptions about the perpetrators abound, including the following. It is commonly believed that the Germans slaughtered Jews by and large in the gas chambers, and that without gas chambers, modern means of transportation, and efficient bureaucracies, the Germans would have been unable to kill millions of Jews. The belief persists that somehow only technology made horror on this scale possible. It is generally believed that gas chambers, because of their efficiency, were a necessary instrument for the genocidal slaughter, and that the Germans chose to construct the gas chambers in the first place because they needed more efficient means of killing the Jews. It has been generally believed that the perpetrators were primarily, overwhelmingly SS men, the most devoted and brutal Nazis. It has been held that had a German refused to kill Jews, then he himself would have been killed, sent to a concentration camp, or severely punished. All of these views, views that fundamentally shape people's understanding of the Holocaust, have been believed as though they were
Wiesel is effective with his speech by blending forensic rhetoric within his discourse. He questions the guilt and responsibility for past massacres, pointing specifically at the Nazi’s while using historical facts, such as bloodbaths in Cambodian and
Ancient Greeks predominantly lived in on island archipelagos or on the coast of nearby mainland because mainland Greece is one of Europe’s most mountainous countries, which complicates animal and crop husbandry. Correspondingly, seafaring has always been paramount in the Aegean, especially for the Greeks, due to ease of transportation, trade networks, and defensive needs. Mainland Greeks utilized seafaring to bring in necessities cheaper than they could produce them at home, and they saved time traveling by land, rather than trek the long way through the mountains. When living on islands, sea travel is a necessity to contact outsiders and participate in extensive trade. Even Greeks in Homer’s epics appear to know the sea well (Mark 2005, 145). Despite Greek seafaring’s prominence, archeological and textual evidence for seafaring in the Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean is relatively sparse, with a near-lack of physical boat remains. Filling in holes, such as with literary sources, in the timeline of Aegean seafaring provides a greater understanding of the development of Greek ships, as well as the cultural implications of the technology invoked. The most extensive textual source of this era’s seafaring is Homer’s epics, but they are epic poetry of the eighth or early seventh century BCE concerning Greece’s heroic, mythical past. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are set in the Bronze Age, yet include Iron Age elements (Mark 2005,
News of the millions of people that had been slaughtered were the headlines on newspapers all over the world. Photos of the starved dead bodies of Holocaust victims were released for all to see. Trials were held by the Allied countries against Nazi Party officials for “crimes against humanity.” Many of the officers were executed, including some of Hitler’s right-hand men. Many Nazi soldiers were never caught and put on trial, and the search for those tied to doing such barbaric things still continues on today. However, the lead man in this terrible plan escaped. Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, had allegedly committed suicide on April 30, 1945. Germany had been left without a leader, having freshly lost World War II, with the atrocities of what their fascistic government had done exposed. The Germans themselves were speechless and ashamed when they found out the truth of what their Führer (Hitler’s title) and his government had done. Museums, books, and films have been made to help spread the word of the Holocaust. Monuments have been constructed so that we never forget the atrocities that these innocent human beings suffered. But sadly as the years go by, more and more people don’t know about the Holocaust. Even worse, many are pretending like it didn’t happen. But it did happen and eleven million people died because of it. Some victims of the Holocaust, like Anne Frank,
The podcast, Invisibilia: The Culture Inside, explore several aspects regarding race, culture, and human behaviour. The podcast beginnings much like a short story, describing the events that occurred to a woman after a brain surgery, which resulted in alien hand syndrome (Spiegel & Rosin, 2017). This subject is used as a comparison for future subjects, and acts as a way for people to understand that something, humans do not have full control other what they think or feel. The podcast features several guests from various backgrounds who share their all own experiences regarding racism and the culture that they live in as well as other subjects that are based on these concepts.
The recent merger between Clear Channel Communications Inc. and AMFM has presented a rare opportunity for Radio One, Inc. The proposed divestiture of Clear Channel will be the largest in the history of the industry. Radio One, Inc. can acquire 12 established urban stations in the top 50 markets, which rarely become available. Market analyst have already speculated on the possible acquisition, causing Radio One’s stock price to rise from the mid-$40s to $97 a share! The trading multiple is at around 30x’s the forward BCF, which is substantially larger than the typical
The suspense in a horror story is everything. It's what want’s the viewer or reader want to continue the horror story without stopping because they eagerly want to find out what is going to happen. When reading or seeing a horror story what makes you want to continue it is the suspense the writer adds to it. To some, it's the sound, the actions, or because they bought a ticket to watch it, but he best way to create a horror story that people would actually want to read or watch is to add suspense for amusement .
I chose this topic because I wanted to understand how the Nazis were able to persuade Germany. The holocaust teaches us about how easily we can harm others. Learning from our past and our mistakes forms a better future. Even though the Holocaust is a complicated subject, we can all agree that taking the lives of others is unethical. The victims should be commemorated, and we should all educate ourselves about the truth. The truth that leads to
In the short story by John Cheever called "The Enormous Radio" it begins with Jim and Irene Westcotts appearing like the perfect American family. Cheever describes them as "the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability" (Cheever 1). What is ironic about this story is the Westcotts are far from being the perfect family and the community they try to conform to is just as imperfect as the Westcotts themselves. A way the Westcotts try to live up to their society is by keeping secret the fact that they listen to the radio and attend musical events. This is because these activities were not something members of their community did. For example, Cheever says the "Westcotts differed
Communism. Communism can only be fathomed through the concept that sacrifices have to be made. In order to implement that, then there must be an equal distribution of power. In Orwell’s depiction, Animal Farm illustrates the concept that through administrative power there must be a leader or representative to reinforce stabilization. In other words, it is impossible to restrain power when one has all the necessary components to take advantage of those who are intellectually inferior. Going with the idea that the intellectually inferior can be manipulated, Orwell demonstrates that with a sufficient amount of dreams, hopes, and plans drilled into the animal's (people), clear thinking can be thwarted.