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This book takes place sometime during the 1960s after the Second World War. Some Germans would rather forget it ever happened than acknowledge the disgraceful events that took place during World War II “Adolf Eichmann's trial began on April 11, 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel. Eichmann was

This article goes over the heinous crime Gerard and Charlene Gallego committed. How the match made in hell met, became dependent on each other, and started their killing spree. It goes over the complete lack of empathy they had for their victims. It also shows the gendered sentencing as Gerard was sentenced to death. While Charlene was sentenced to only 16 years in prison.

Erika Riemann was a teenager living in East Germany at the end of World War II. Her oral testimony describes her experiences as a political prisoner during the cold war. She was arrested in 1945 for drawing a bow on a portrait of Stalin that hung in her school classroom. At the time of her arrest she was only 14 years old.

watch the hanging of other prisoners, one time the Gestapo even hangs and kills a small child

In his essay “A Victim,” Bruno Bettelheim claims that a “victim and [his] persecutor are inseparably interlocked” (Bettelheim 11). If a victim’s behavior corresponds to what the oppressor expects, Bettelheim warns, then the victim will activate the prepared anxieties that go with his stereotype. In other words, the oppressor’s “delusional creation […will] become real” (13). Bettelheim, a psychiatrist, defines his ideas of a victim and oppressor from his experience at a clinic in a German concentration camp. In the winter of 1938, the Gestapo used an event to step up anti-Semitic actions.

Jews have perished because of their beliefs since the beginning of time but never have so many Jews been persecuted worldwide as they were in World War II. Anne Frank’s diary reaches a place within all of our hearts because it reminds us how easily the innocents can suffer. Sometimes we may choose to close our eyes or look the other way when unjustifiable things happen in our society and Anne’s tale reminds us that ignorance, in part, claimed her life. Sadly, her story is but one of many of those who died in the Holocaust and as with other Jews, her fate was determined by the country she lived in, her sex and her age.

People can only imagine the terrors that the Jews and other ethnic groups had to go through during the Holocaust in World War II. With Anne Frank’s diary, people can finally put themselves into the scene and captivate all the feelings and sentiments that Anne Frank has poured onto the pages. Anne Frank, her family, and their friends were known for hiding from the German Nazis in the Secret Annex for two years from 1942-1944. Innocent and naive,

With essentially nothing to live for and no reason to go on, many of the prisoners gave up

In her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt uses the life and trial of Adolf Eichmann to explore man's responsibility for evils committed under orders or as a result of the law. Due to the fact that she believed that Eichmann was neither anti-Semitic, nor a psychopath, Arendt was widely criticized for treating Eichmann too sympathetically. Still, her work on the Eichmann trial is among the most respected works on the issue to date.

Throughout countless of horrific beatings and killings, the regime made sure to cover it up the best they could. People would recant their statements because the regime would pay them off. If that did not work, they would make a formal apology to the U.S. Consulate and state that the offenders would be punished. Punishment however was rarely the case. Larkin illustrates this time and time again through Dodd’s daughter Martha who is infatuated with the Nazi’s and Germany.

There are many conclusions that can be made after watching this testimony. One of the conclusions that I came to is that it did not matter who you were, if you did not support the nazis you were against them, I knew this before but not to the extent that this testimony explained it to me. Renee Scott was a french worker at the Chamber of Commerce and she was secretly making fake passports to get people out of the country. She knew a person named Semone who was her boss when she worked for the underground. Semone was caught by the Gestapo

Hart, a legal positivist, believes that “law is law,” and argued against Radbrunch’s theory in servings as a solution to fix Germany’s judicial system. He argued against his theory and wanted a separation of law and morality because he thought that it would only “cloak the true nature of the problems,” and encourage a “romantic optimism,” rather than addressing the dilemma that the courts had in deciding on convicting Nazi criminals. Though Hart acknowledges that this case poses a difficult situation for the law, he does propose his own solution to the problem. With his positivist approach to the law, saying that the laws are the rules expected of us, and enforced at a particular time, he proposes that the “grudge informer” should be punished through a different and ‘new’ set of laws. These laws he deems “retrospective laws,” would entail punishing acts such as revenge and duplicity. However, this dilemma between choosing if the “grudge informer” was innocent

The capture and trial of Adolf Eichmann, which evoked legal and moral controversy across all nations, ended in his hanging over four decades ago. The verdict dealing with Eichmann's involvement with the Final Solution has never been in question; this aspect was an open-and-shut case which was put to death with Eichmann in 1962. The deliberation surrounding the issues of Eichmann's motives, however, are still in question, bringing forth in-depth analyses of the aspects of evil.

In “Eichmann in Jerusalem,” Hannah Arendt analyzes Adolph Eichmann while he is on trial in Jerusalem for the crimes that he committed while being a Lieutenant Colonel in the SS during the Nazi Regime. In the book Arendt talks about how Eichmann’s actions were “banal” in the sense that he seemed to be an ordinary person who just committed acts that were evil. Italian-Jewish Writer Primo Levi, a Holocaust Survivor, states that SS officers like Eichmann lived in their own self-deception that made them believe that their actions were caused by just following their orders in the SS. In this paper, I will analyze the views that both Arendt and Levi had about the Eichmann trial and then compare and state the differences of their views. I will then explain the reasons why both Hannah Arendt’s and Primo Levi’s analysis of Adolph Eichmann that show that the actions that he committed were all truly evil actions.

A brutal double murder took place on the evening of 2 February 1933, at the Lancelin home, in the town of Le Mans. The Papin sisters, Christine, 28 and Lea, 21, maids of the Lancelin murdered two middle-class women, Madame Lancelin and her daughter Genevieve. The maids had not simply killed the women, but had gouged their eyes out with their fingers while they were alive and had then used a hammer and knife to reduce both women to a bloody pulp. In both cases, there were no wounds to the body. Apart from some gashes to the daughter 's legs, the full force of the attack was directed at the heads and the victims were left literally unrecognizable. The maids made no attempt to escape and were found together in bed, naked and in each other 's arms. The sisters confessed readily to the crime and the weapons used had been a kitchen knife, a hammer and a pewter pot (Edwards & Reader, n.d).