The And The Nazi Occupation Of Kiev During The World War II Essay

In the early 1930s, the residents of the picturesque city of Dachau, Germany, were completely unaware of the horrific events about to unfold that would overshadow their city still today. The citizens of Dachau were oblivious that their city was going to become the origin of concentration camps and of the Holocaust, the mass murder committed by the Nazi s in World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp, which would soon be placed on the edge of their community, would serve as a model for all Nazi extermination camps. This perfect prototype of a Nazi killing machine has come to represent the start of the horror-filled Holocaust and the Nazi's determination to achieve a perfect society during World War II.

During World War II, non-Jewish Poles had to decide whether to obey the new laws in German occupied Poland. These new laws greatly affected how people would act in German occupied Poland. The consequences for breaking the laws were very severe and would often result in harm to your family. But people still broke them for no other reason for the fact that the laws were wrong. They helped Jews even though it wasn't allowed by the government. Citizens responded to the laws passed by the state during the German occupation of Poland in many different ways this impacting history.

When World War II and the Holocaust is thought about the tragedies that occurred are primarily the death camps and gas chambers. However, prior to this “off-hands” killing, large firing squads went through the towns, identified, gathered, and executed millions of Jews. This process was called Einsatzgruppen, and while the act itself was well known to historians, the numbers of those killed are still unknown. Father Desbois, author of The Holocaust by Bullets, traveled to Ukraine on a personal trip to uncover the camp in which his grandfather was a prisoner and forced to work at; however, his journey turned into an exploration of mass graves of Jews who fell victim to the Germans and those they requisitioned.

The Nazi-occupation of the Soviet Union poorly effected the vast majority of those living in the Soviet Union. Not only were Jews targeted, but other minorities within the Soviet Union, as well as those who did not comply with Nazi rulings. However, often when studying the Holocaust, often the focus has been centered around what happened in Western Europe. Perhaps this was a result of the fact that publication within the Soviet Union was immensely restricted by the government. Until recently, it was prohibited to put in print the full, uncensored extent to which things happened in occupied Kiev. By the time publication was allowed, many of the survivors had likely died as well. Furthermore, those who were found alive in Nazi concentration camps

Jews were innocent people trying to live their lives like everyone else was. They departed Kiev before they were Germany's community so they could find a more desirable place to live. They had to escape Kiev to have a quality life. If they were caught escaping there would be dire consequences. Their lives were extremely unjustifiable. Whenever there were explosions at the German headquarters, they blamed the Jews for the explosions. They were innocent and they got blamed for something that they didn’t do. The Jews had a terrible, wistful, and remarkable life. They were obligated to follow the Nazis rules.

In November of 1944, John McCloy, the United States Assistant Secretary of War, responded by letter to John Pehle, United States Executive Director of the War Refugee Board, in opposition and briefly supported as to why the War Department of the United States was against and why it would not go through with the bombing operation of the concentration camp and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the brief McCloy laid out five specific reasons as to why the department would not be carried out the military plan at that point in time during the war. The five reasons that made up McCloy’s argument were: first, “Positive destruction of these camps would necessitate precision bombing, employing heavy or medium bombardment, or attack by low-flying or dive-bombing aircraft, preferably the latter. Second, the target is beyond the maximum range of medium bombardment, dive bombers and fighter bombers located in United Kingdom, France or Italy. Third, use of heavy bombardment from United Kingdom bases would necessitate a hazardous round trip flight unescorted of approximately 2,000 miles over enemy territory. Fourth, At the present critical stage of the war in Europe, our strategic air forces are engaged in the destruction of industrial target systems vital to the dwindling war potential of the enemy, from which they should not be diverted. The positive solution to this problem is the earliest possible victory over Germany, to which end we should exert our entire means. Fifth,

In 1941, the Germans launched a The Babi Yar was ravine in Keiv Ukraine was the site of over 100,000 and quite possibly 200,000 Jewish Russians that were captured following the invasion. On 26 September 1941 the German 637th propaganda company issued an announcement in Kiev, ordering the Jews to report within the next three days at Lukianovska, Degtiarska, Lagerna, and Melnikova Streets.

Altshuler’s purpose of writing this book is to display the Religion and change of identity the of Jewish people in USSR. The author wants to describe the social, political, and economic condition of Jews from 1941 to 1964. Mordechai Altshuler (2012) mentioned that one of the governments’ goal was to isolate the component members of Jews by atomizing the Jewish public (p 81). Decent Jews were persecuted and compelled to live under the threat of losing their identity. They were threatened and forced to leave their original identity and adopt new identity which altered their identity along with lives. According to the author, “In Babi Yar, on the outskirts of town, more than 30,000 Jews were murdered around Yom Kippur 1941 (September 29 – 30),

4. Three problems Odessa has faced during it's history were the plagues “ Weren't enough men well enough to dig the graves of those who had died “. Also his college was competing with a similar institution that the sister city had built. Another one was the first murder in odessa occurred late in the nineteenth century when a cowboy rode into a water-drilling camp one afternoon.

My prompt is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The warsaw ghetto uprising is a very tragic event that shouldn’t have happened but do to, too many people being scared of hitler they couldn’t help the people that lived in the warsaw ghetto. The warsaw ghetto uprising was said to be one of the worst things to happen in history not only because hitler was getting more people to turn them into his soldiers but because the death count that dad was 5,500-6,000 and not only adults. It was everybody babies, children, adults it was just a bad day for the jewish people. “Every doorstep in the ghetto has become a stronghold and shall remain a fortress until the end.” My quote supports my reasoning because like I said earlier in my paper if the rest of the people

Throughout history, there have been many events that have caused death among certain people, but few events match up to the horrible and evil events that happened during the Holocaust. The Jews of the Holocaust were persecuted and murdered for no reason at all and some Jews, even though their attempts were mostly unsuccessful, rose up against the Nazis. Although the odds were greatly stacked against the Warsaw fighters, they still kept fighting the Nazis for the cause of freedom and humanity.

The battle of Stalingrad lasted from August 22, 1942 to February 2, 1943 and resulted in Germany’s defeat (Limbach 2017). In 1941 Operation Barbarossa failed as Germany failed to take Moscow and was forced to fall back and to dig in. This is not considered as a turning point of the war like Stalingrad is. Battle of Stalingrad had long term effects on Germany: the battle was costly in terms of manpower, they failed to secure resources of the east and Red Army learned valuable lessons. Germany and its allies lost a lot of soldiers in the battle.

MMy area of focus for this semester’s Major Project is the Battle of Stalingrad from the Second World War. The two works I have chosen, which are set during this battle, are Stalingrad (2013), a movie directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and War of the Rats, a novel written by David L Robbins. I have a strong interest in history – especially warfare - and had decided to look into the battles of the Second World War when I came upon the Battle of Stalingrad. I never learned about this battle during grade ten History, so I decided to read more about it and became extremely interested. Its reputation being one of history’s bloodiest battles, as well as one of the most important battles during World War Two sparked my interest. (“Battle of Stalingrad”)

On September 1, 1939 Germany invaded Poland to start the biggest war all mankind has ever seen. A man named Adolf Hitler led a group called the Nazi's. He convinced those men that Jewish people had ruined the world and caused Germany's downfall after World War One. They were also against people like gypsies, criminals, or anyone they thought were undesirable. Soon after the Germans started, Japan and Italy joined to help their cause. As the war went on the Nazi party grew bigger and stronger and countries started fighting back, but the Nazi's were to strong. Then one day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and just like that Americans were in the war. That day we became mortal enemies with all of Japan, and we weren't going to hold back on them.

The Holodomor is an event that represents perhaps the darkest chapter in Ukrainian history. Holodomor is a Ukrainian word that translates into English as “death by hunger.” In 1932-33, there was a great famine in the Soviet Union that killed millions. Ukrainians remember the famine as the Holodomor. In this tragic event millions of Ukrainians perished from hunger. As a result of this event, older Ukrainians such as my grandfather still retain a deep impressionthe memory of the Holodomor deep in their minds. For Ukrainians, it was a policy of genocide launched by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to undermine the Ukrainian independence movement. His intention was to starve the Ukrainians into submission. Russia, to this day, downplays the genocidal