Our live stock. How are they treated? They are labeled to be tracked of. They are fed only what they need to survive. While they wait to be slaughtered, we put them to work. There is no compensation for these creatures, what else are they meant for? When a problem arises with one of them, it causes a disruption, an inconvenience. If progress is postponed, and it is too much work to be kept alive, we end its life without a second thought. We cram all of them together into wherever they can fit, with no concern for comfort. We refer to them as, well, them. They have no identities, no individuality. They are nothing more than objects we must keep alive with the bare minimum being provided. This is not a PETA ad or a letter of why you should go vegetarian. This is a direct connection to the methods of which Adolf Hitler took every ounce of humanity away from those affected by the Holocaust. A rare first person account is given by Elie Wiesel of his own dehumanization. Elie and his family were direct victims of the malicious, dictatorship of Hitler. He manipulated people to obey him like a god, convincing them to follow his word as if it were religion. One of his most horrendous conquers was demoting an entire race to the level of nothingness. The first initial step to this was differentiating the Jews from everyone else. “ ‘The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don’t die of it…’ (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?)” (Wiesel pg.9). The star of David represented
If a death is preventable and one fails to prevent its occurrence, is he at fault? During and after the Holocaust, citizens of the United States pondered this question in the context of Jewish refugees murdered in Nazi Germany; ultimately, citizens remember this tragic genocide and promise it will not happen again under any circumstances, not only in America, but in other nations as well. Since the Holocaust, leaders and lawmakers in the United States have analyzed the causes that led to this event and designed laws and documents to prevent such an infraction of human rights from happening again. The long-lasting effects of the Holocaust, which expose the dangers of America’s isolation and conservative immigration policies, contribute to the liberalization of American immigration and increased worldwide instances of United States humanitarian intervention.
Hundreds and thousands of people are shoved into a confined space, very few resources are granted to them. The little money that they have left can barely buy food for a week. The rations that are provided for several days barely can last one. These people are forced to perform backbreaking labor, and those who cannot work, do not get to eat and thus cannot survive. This is what the Jews of Europe experienced in the Ghettos. This stage of the Holocaust is not the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to this period of history. This part of the Jewish Holocaust narrative is arguably one of the most fascinating and beautiful shows of resistance against the Nazi murderers. The Jews lived in over-crowded, dilapidated apartments where sanitation was poor and diseases spread like wildfire. They were forced into labor, oppressed on the streets and starved by the establishment. Yet against all the odds, the Jews were able to cope with the dire situation that they were presented. They maintained a struggle against the Nazi regime. That struggle was the maintenance of some sort of humanity in the Ghettos. Whether it was the physical struggle, like the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, or cultural struggle through the arts, the Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter.
Once hitler was in power he made jews wear the star of david and he started to pass laws against the jews. For an example one of the laws was the Nuremberg Race Law it excluded German Jews from citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having any relations with German or related blood of germans. Soon after the laws were passed the jews were sent to the ghettos and when Elie went there he still had hope. Everyone including him thought that they were going to be taken care of and that this was better for them. They were then made to march to a camp.
The Nazi army dehumanized the Jewish people by depriving them of love. Elie, along with most of the other people in the camps, aren’t really accepted socially by anyone. They weren’t accepted as a person, and no one even knew them by their names; furthermore, they were known by the number they had tattooed on their arms. On page 42, Elie says “I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name.” By having their names taken away, the Jewish people had their social acceptance stripped from them. Also, their families were taken away from them, and they had to do whatever they could to stay with them. As Elie said on page 30, “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him. Not to remain alone.” By separating the Jews from their families, they lost the love from them. By depriving the jews of social acceptance and their families, they hardly felt any
Before WWII started Germany’s new dictator was starting a revolution. That only Adolf Hitler and his army knew about. The Nazis were what hitler’s army was called their job was to collect and kill as many Jewish people as they could. If anyone got in the way they were killed to. Hitler’s reasoning for killing all the jews he says they are the reason why they lost the first world war. How he killed all of these jews hitler and his nazis would force the jews to leave their houses and towns. Then he would get them all on a cattle car and take them to concentration camps. How hitler killed the jews were mostly gas chambers ,but he kept some few thousands to work or do certain things in these concentration camps. Some of those jews survived the holocaust to tell their story of what happened to them and their families.
From 1941 to 1945, Jews were systematically murdered in one of the deadliest genocides in history, which was part of a broader aggregate of acts of oppression and killings of various ethnic and political groups in Europe by the Nazi regime. Every arm of Germany 's bureaucracy was involved in the logistics and the carrying out of the genocide. Other victims of Nazi crimes included Romanians, Ethnic Poles and other Slavs, Soviet POWs, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah 's Witnesses and the mentally and physically disabled. A network of about 42,500 facilities in Germany and German-occupied territories were used to concentrate victims for slave labor, mass murder, and other human rights abuses. Over 200,000 people are estimated to have been Holocaust perpetrators. Beginning in 1941, Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of European Gypsies, were transported to the Polish ghettoes. Every person designated as a Jew in German territory was marked with a yellow star making them open targets. Thousands were soon being deported to the Polish ghettoes and German-occupied cities in the USSR. Since June 1941, experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz and many more. That August, 500 officials gassed 500 Soviet POWs to death with the pesticide Zyklon-B. The SS soon placed a huge order for the gas with a German pest-control firm, an ominous indicator of the coming Holocaust. Beginning in late 1941, the Germans
In Legend the republics goverment was messed up where they kill there own people. In The Holocaust Hitler and the other Nazis killed Jews because they where different. In The Holocaust the citizens had to hide to survive the German goverment. In Legend the Day had to hide from the goverment to survive from being killed. In both books it all depended if you had good or bad genes.
The Holocaust was a system established by the Nazis in World War II as a means to exterminate all of the people which they considered undesirable or subhuman. This included gypsies,minorities,cripples, the mentally ill, homosexuals,communists,and anyone who opposed the Nazi regime. The main target of the Holocaust was however the Jewish people. They were the main target because the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, believed that they were the reason for Germany losing World War 1 and thus was the reason that the German economy was in a bad state. Vladek Spiegelman and Elie Weisel were to people who were both survived their experiences in the Holocaust and both told their story in books. These books are Night by Elie Wiesel and Maus by Vladek Spiegelman.The Holocaust shaped these two different men's lives in the same way. Through their losses and experiences in this horrific point in time they learned what it meant to truly struggle and this ultimately turned them into better people.
The Holocaust was perhaps one of the most gruesome and horrific time period that the world has ever seen. The Holocaust was the time period when the Jews were being horrible treated and were being executed by German forces in World War Two. In several books about the dark and horrible time period, the authors used many different techniques to convey the central idea and the theme. However, the authors uses different techniques in different genres to get shoe the reader the central idea and theme. For instance, there are different techniques in historical fiction and nonfiction, but they both develop the same theme and central idea.
The Holocaust was one of the most despicable acts of crime committed in history. It was the slaughtering of six million Jews along with other minority groups. Anti-semitism was on the rise in Germany due to one man, Adolf Hitler. The Nazi leader is known to be one of the most infamous dictators that were able to rise to power. Leading Germany, Hitler improved the economy, started World War II with the idea of Lebensraum, and exterminated Jews due to youth anti-semitic influences.
People are never evil just for the sake of being evil. They always justify to themselves in some way that all of their actions are for the greater good and that the actions they have committed are not atrocities. This has to be done since normal individuals cannot justify to themselves that they are immoral. Both western imperialism and the Holocaust had their atrocities justified by the illusion of progress. Even though numerous millions of people were slaughtered in these campaigns, many of the people doing the killing, believed that it was for the greater good. Western imperialism used the notion of bettering the native population and expansion in order to justify their mass killings. On the other hand, the Holocaust rationalized its
When referring to the ‘Holocaust’ – defined by (Oxford Dictionary) as ‘Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war:’ – we have to take into account the global awareness and knowledge of that time. We, as a planet, have come to acknowledge the ‘Holocaust’ not as the aforementioned and defined, but as the time in which, between 1939 and 1945, Nazi Germany, lead by Adolf Hitler, persecuted and massacred approximately six million Jews, as well as a plethora of other individuals, including the mentally handicapped, communists, poles, gypsies, homosexuals (just to name a few), as well as attempting to conquer the world. It is estimated that no less than ten million casualties were a result of the Nazi agenda, out of combat (The History Place). Giving reference to the question, in this essay I will outline and counterpoint two keys questions when regarding the approaches of functionalists and intenationalists, firmly rooting them as the crux as my debate, which are: Did Adolf Hitler have a so-called ‘master plan’ in bringing about the Holocaust, and where did the initiative come from? I will now proceed to open the debate, by first giving a brief outline as both approaches and what they encompass.
1945. A single date but an entire compendium of significant events in the course of our world’s history. A mere year, with so much meaning: the end to the second worldwide outbreak of horror and hatred. Additionally, the long belated end to the Holocaust, essentially the mass murder of six million Jews by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army in secret work and killing prisons termed concentration camps. Unknown to some, but known by most which lead us to ask why did the world stay silent? Perhaps the concept was too unbelievable for many to imagine, or maybe the world truly was oblivious for some time, although the most likely guess would be fear. Fear that they would be too persecuted and snatched away from the only life they have ever known to the concentration camps where they would then be separated from their family, next forced to labor and work and starve, and finally die a terrible death as Ellie was, during the World War 2 period. Although, Ellie did not die and was one of the luckiest men in the world to survive this atrocity. Alone and thoroughly deranged, shortly after being liberated by the Americans, he is coerced (I believe out of fear) by an utter stranger with a facade of an angel. Basically, he is convinced to travel to Palestine and join the terrorists and murderers who are battling to create Israel, where Ellie becomes an important factor in these movements. Throughout Night and Dawn, a consistent emotion is fear, which is known to cause people to change, including Ellie. I believe that Ellie has become detached from his humanity, has had his religious and moral beliefs distorted, but has retained his outlook on the future between his experiences in Night and Dawn.
Jewish people were tortured, abused, and subjected through horrific unfathomable situations by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. Despite all of the unpragmatic hardships Jews all over Europe faced, many stayed true to their faith and religion. There are numerous stories in which Jewish people tried to keep the roots of their religion well knowing the risk of torture and death. The never ending fear of Jewish people living in the Ghettos and trying to survive concentration camps was difficult, but not impossible for the Jews to keep religion.
Could one ever imagine a sadistic place where a gargantuan amount of people are being tortured and murdered for doing nothing bad at all? Well that happened more than 70 years ago in a nefarious event called the Holocaust, which is similar to some events occurring today. People are arguing if an event emulating the Holocaust happened in modern society, could it again be ignored. When analyzing the evidence, an event like the Holocaust could happen again, but will definitely not be ignored for the following reasons, social media can spread information quickly, people are educated about horrible past events, and governments are more against genocide and mass atrocities.