Poem Analysis: Elie Wiesel's 'Death Fugue'

The Holocaust was one of the most horrific and dehumanizing occurrences that the human race has ever endured. It evolved around cruelty, hatred, death, destruction and prejudice. Thousands of innocent lives were lost in Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jewish population. He killed thousands of Jews by way of gas chamber, crematorium, and starvation. The people who managed to survive in the concentration camps were those who valued not just their own life but others as well. Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and author of the novel, Night, expressed his experiences very descriptively throughout his book. When Elie was just fifteen years old his family was shipped off

Hitler 's Mein Kampf suggests influence from the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, and we now know that there were many other Nazi writers who were interested in his work. Nietzsche 's philosophy revolved around freedom of the individual and shaping his own destiny; in contrast, Nazism was intensely nationalistic and suppressed human individuality. This investigation will evaluate how these two conflicting ideologies became so associated with each other by comparing the thinking and core principles of Nietzscheanism with those of Nazism. Given the differences and similarities, I will then investigate how the need for the philosophical justification of Nazism made Nietzscheanism so politically attractive. The overall purpose of this investigation is to determine to what extent Friedrich Nietzsche 's philosophy influenced the Nazi party while accounting for any misinterpretation of his work. Research will utilize well-known writing by both Hitler and Nietzsche along with various articles and papers that examine Nietzsche 's views on Judaism and connection to Nazism.

The Holocaust was a time of endless suffering, death, and despair. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, recalls his own journey during the most dreadful and devastating time of the century. Through this massive tragedy, Elie learns that humanity isn’t as beautiful as it seems. In his tragic memoir, Night, author Elie Wiesel demonstrates that no matter how hard we work for something it sometimes doesn’t pay off.

Over the past few weeks I have continued reading the non-fiction book, Behind Hitler’s Lines by Thomas H. Taylor. I am currently on page 172. In this journal I will be predicting, visualizing, and questioning.

The Holocaust survivor Abel Herzberg has said, “ There were not six million Jews murdered; there was one murder, six million times.” The Holocaust is one of the most horrific events in the history of mankind, consisting of the genocide of Jews, homosexuals, gypsies, mentally handicapped and many others during World War II. Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany, and his army of Nazis and SS troops carried out the terrible proceedings of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel is a Jewish survivor of the Nazi death camps, and suffers a relentless “night” of terror and torture in which humans were treated as animals. Wiesel discovers the “Kingdom of Night” (118), in which the history of the Jewish people is altered. This is Wiesel’s “dark time

Hundreds of philosophers and historians possess the concern of how the modern world has come into being. Many issues, from The Great War to World War II have effects society today. This paper will trace the rise of totalitarianism in Italy as well as other European countries between 1918 and 1939, and the contrast to political developments in Great Britain, France, and the United States. In this paper the subject to explain is the Holocaust in the context of World War II and Western ideals, including the roots of anti-Semitism and intolerance of those considered inferior in Germany, a comparison of anti-Semitic actions in

Although the book, Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America, by Annie Jacobsen, and the documentary film, The Last Days in Vietnam both give insight and awareness to different events in history, they both share a political economic theme in reference to the question, “what does it mean to be human?”

Nazism can be considered a subset of fascism, in which the people are subordinated in the interest of the state and absolute obedience is required. Adding on to this basic foundation of fascism, Nazism perpetuated extreme nationalism and a racial hierarchy in which the Aryan race was at the top, building on rational antagonisms that had grown since the nineteenth century. As Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, “That which today all sides have neglected in this area, the volkische state must make up for. It must place race at the center of everyday life. It must guarantee [racial] purity”. This underlying thread of racial politics is largely missing from the USSR’s communist party, which can be considered totalitarian and authoritarian in a similar way. Communism itself was an ideology based on the eradication of the class struggle, with Stalin’s interpretation focusing on rapid industrialization and state terror; yet the USSR lacked the racial undertones that has set Nazism apart from it and other ideologies--“the Soviets explicitly and loudly rejected the ideology of race [...] as opposed to the Nazi and other racial systems that ascribed fixed and eternal identities to population groups”. This opposition between the Nazi exaltation of the “Aryan” race above and against all others, and the Soviet development of a universal

The heinous Nazi idea of mass murder took many smaller, equally significant, steps before it blossomed into one of the greatest atrocities in human history. But the first step, the invasion of Poland in 1939 and the subsequent other steps that follow, owe their origins to two key terms born from strong anti-Semitic rhetoric preached by Hitler: Lebensraum and Germanization. Certainly, Germany and

Elie Wiesel’s autobiography, Night, is an account of Elie’s terrifying experiences and memories of the Holocaust. This autobiography not only reveals many horrifying details and a first-hand account of the Holocaust, but

The associations between Hitler and anti-Semitism are widely known—an evil man responsible for the Holocaust – the killing of 6 million Jews. While the historical impact of the Holocaust cannot be overstated , the years leading up to it are often overlooked. This paper looks to survey the development of Hitler’s anti-Semitism from the moment he took power in 1933 to the prelude of the Holocaust, Kristallnacht in 1938.

Driving from Sacramento, CA to New York City, NY seems merely easy today. The interstate provided that turns the 931 hour walk to a 42 hour drive, is all to thank the Nazis for. The United States is full of German filled root products, but why is it that no one tends to think of the good someone gives instead of all the bad? Assumptions vary greatly when it comes to the term “Nazis”. Though one would be surprised with how greatly they impact the world to this day. Through the evolution of the autobahn, the success of the Volkswagen, and the high marketing- fashion brands of today, the Nazis have proven that their legacy was much more than the striking numbers in death they caused.

Traumatic and scarring events occur on a daily basis; from house fires to war, these memories are almost impossible to forget. The Holocaust is only one of the millions of traumas that have occurred, yet it is known worldwide for sourcing millions of deaths. Elie Wiesel was among the many victims of the Holocaust, and one of the few survivors. In the memoir, “Night”, by Elie Wiesel, Elie, the main character, is forever changed because of his traumatic experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camps.

Released in 2014 by World Media Rights Productions,​ Nazis: Evolution of Evil ​is a ten episode series detailing the life of Hitler and his key collaborators, from their groundings in World War I through to their eventual demise at the close of the Second World War. Targeted towards a more informed and engaged audience, in context, ​Nazis: Evolution of Evil ​succeeds in presenting a historically accurate and compelling account. In this application, however, the miniseries suffers from both the compulsory bias and scope inherent to its production. The following is an exposition on the background and historical veracity of ​Nazis: Evolution of Evil​.

The ideologies of fascism and Nazism are interpreted best by what they opposed as their negative beliefs explain more about how their societies operated, than what their positive principles