World War II: The Freud Museum

The Maus books are award-winning comics written by Art Spiegelman. They are the non-fictional stories of Art and his father, Vladek. In the book, Art Spiegelman is a writer, planning to portray Vladek’s life as a Jewish man during WWII Europe in comic book form. While Art gathers information for his story through visits to his father’s house, much is learned about their relationship and individual personalities. Through this analysis, Maus becomes an example of how the Holocaust has effected the lives of survivors and their children for decades. Survivors suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which impairs their ability to live normal lives and raise their children. By

During World War II propaganda posters where used to influence many peoples value, beliefs and behavior. The use of propaganda had a huge impact on the allied and axis power during this time. Both enemy’s used posters to get support from there government and families back home. Creating these posters encouraged people to save their materials so that most of the weapons could be used during the war. Propaganda it was a smart way to get people to degrade the enemy. Furthermore it was a great financial investment for America and its allies during the war. The poster I will address are what I found to be the most interesting and significant during this time.

In order to commit an act of torture, it s said you must have three traits. You must have authorization, routinization, and dehumanization. Authorization is the act of following an order without moral question. Routinization is blindly obeying an order without ethics or guilt. The act of making a person seen as subhuman, or an object, is dehumanization. These traits are seen as manipulative and a way to free your subconscious of murder. More specifically, dehumanization was represented in Abu Ghraib as well as the My Lai Massacre, and throughout the entire Holocaust. There are two types of dehumanization; animalistic and mechanistic. Animalistic dehumanization is defined by psychologist as human characteristics denied to an outgroup; such

Dehumanization is a big part of World war II, it is the reason why World War II is the deadliest war in human history, it is also the reason why the soldiers were willing to point their gun at another human being and to end “its” life without a blink. Not only was dehumanizing a big part of this, racism also played a big role as well. Racism is very powerful; it enlarges the hate towards the differences and made people treat their enemies as subhuman. Just as John Dower had mentioned in his book War Without Mercy, “Race hate fed atrocities, and atrocities in turn fanned the fires of the race hate. The dehumanization of the Other contributed immeasurably to the psychological distancing that facilitates killing, not only on the battlefield but also in the plans adopted by strategists far removed from the actual scene of combat” (11).

The National World War II Memorial was created when President Clinton enabled the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a World War II Memorial. Leo A. Daly was in charge of the entire building process. He was also responsible for many other projects for the U.S government. The monument was designed by Friedrich St. Florian. He was chosen to design it from over four hundred entries in the national competition. Raymond J. Kaskey, a sculpture who’s an architect, constructed all of the sculpture in and for the memorial. James A. Van Sweden, a landscaper, was in charge of all the landscape for the memorial. Nicholas Benson was the stone carver and letterer for the entire project. There were

The date was September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany had just invaded Poland, and World War II had officially begun. Now, most people know at least generally about the holocaust: a mass slaughter of other races, mainly Jewish people, by the Nazis during World War II. Most people have heard of concentration camps, and know that many Jews were killed in gas chambers, killed by forced labor, or starved to death. These are typical deaths that people hear about in concentration camps, however most people have no idea about the experiments that were conducted during the holocaust. These cruel experiments were performed on concentration camp prisoners during World War II, and have since been lost in history. Well it is time for these inhumane acts to be

The Ephemeral Glory George S. Patton Jr said “For over a thousand years’ Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories… A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.” Patton, who himself famously experienced colossal glory in World War II, explains from the beginning of time glory was yearned for but when found it only lasts for a minute. On the other hand, if you give God all the glory, it lasts forever.

This 1945 documentary reveals horrifying truths of World War II Nazi concentration camps and the evidence of war crimes committed to the European Jews. The entire Documentary depicts remains of what used to be humans that were starved and worked to death until their bodies did not resemble a human's. The film goes in depth through inhumane living conditions of camp members and their everyday life which included beatings, public whippings, forced labor, and execution. Additionally, the documentary shows the liberation of some camos and the examination of some liberated camp members. These freed camp members resembled carcasses and were on the brink of death.

Beyond the strictly physical implications of genocide, the Holocaust spawned a plethora of lasting mental and psychological repercussions among its survivors. Fisherman explores these derivations of mental illness through descriptive analysis, citing the wide majority of post-Holocaust illnesses as those of “psychiatric disorders by trauma (718).” Further, Biermann employs an empirical study, noting a significantly high percentage of psychiatric illnesses found among survivors with one year of liberation (715). Although extensive research has been pursued to study the effects of mental and psychiatric illness among survivors after the Holocaust, little research has focused primarily on the prevalence of mental illness during the Holocaust.

World War II differed from the Great War in its use of bigger and more devastating weapons and bombs, which placed our service members more at risk. Additionally, service members were put into smaller combat groups (fire teams, squads, platoons), which reduced the social interaction which may have been a protective factor for psychological afflictions during the first war. Indeed, the war took a tremendous psychological toll on service members, despite the new and approved extensive use of psychiatric screening for selection. Medical personnel were puzzled that although over one million military applicants were screened out and disqualified for different psychological reasons, there continued to be staggering numbers of psychiatric casualties

Even though Freud's family had limited finances and were forced to live in a crowded apartment, his parents made every effort to foster his obvious intellectual capacities. In 1881 Freud received his doctorate and started work under Jean-Martin Charcot (Rana 97). Freud practiced and observed hypnosis as a clinical technique, and began to formulate the beginnings of his theory on the mind. There were no unusual aspects to Freuds childhood that seem to guide him in his rationing of thinking for his theories. Freuds parents realized that he would be a scholarly child and tried to accommodate him with a solid education.

What was the holocaust and how did the Nazis get away with killing 6 million Jewish people?The holocaust was a traumatic and bloody event for the Jewish people. The psychological techniques used by the SS themselves were very effective in controlling the Jewish people themselves. Some techniques that were used were starvation,death, terror/fear, mental/emotional abuse, authority abuse and separation of families. The Nazis got away with this mass murder by using these techniques within the concentration camps. Starvation was the most effective technique because it had made the Jewish people hysterical and very insane.

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 Brücke. Later, in 1885, Freud had the chance to travel to train in Paris for several months beneath Jean-Martin Charcot, a recognized neurologist who focused in the study of emotion and weakness to hypnosis. Not too long after traveling back home, he established his psychoanalytic practice and shaped the many theoretic ideas that made him notorious throughout Europe and the United States. In
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World War II was a war that was forever etched in history as a result of it destruction and overwhelming body count. But who would have thought that this war would have found a way to impact art before it’s time. Before Hitler rose to power, he used the civil war in Spain around 1936 as his personal field test. In response, arts took to their trade to cope with their frustration and express their opinions. Then as war was on the verge of beginning, Hitler stole modern art from Jewish artists and put them in his own show. His show was titled “Degenerate Art,” and it portrayed the artist as demented people who were a hindrance to society. He felt sane people were incapable of producing such abstract art. He went on to sponsor another

Sigmund Freud was born on the sixth of May in 1856 in what is now Pribor in the Czech Republic, or at the time, Freiberg, a rural town in Moravia. The firstborn son of a merchant, Freud’s parents made an effort to foster his intellectual capacities despite being faced with financial difficulties. From an early age Freud had many interests and talents, but his career choices were limited away from his passion of medical research due to his family’s Jewish background, even though he was non-practicing, and his limited funds.