Adolf Eichmann

The forward movement of history has a way of changing our view of a historical event. Such a case is found in World War I. While WWI was being fought, it was “The Great War” and the “war to end all wars.” So horrific and widespread was the war that no one at the end of the war could contemplate another world war with even greater barbarity and more casualties. Yet within a generation, The Great War had become not a final war, but Part 1 of the terrifying drama of World War. How could the world go

One of the most appalling and prolific examples of this is the genocide know as the Holocaust. All over the world religions usually teach that all of civilization is equal and that we should all be cordial with each other, but monstrosities like Adolf Hitler broke those sacred laws. The Holocaust was a time period where a set of people were persecuted. While they were being persecuted World War Two was used as a smokescreen to conceal the horrors of the Holocaust. What lead to the Holocaust was

stand. By seeing lives come and go throughout his time at the concentration camps, he concludes that the nature of humanity in general, is that people will submit to bad things now, hoping that the future will change for the best. Not long after Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the Nazi’s began establishing concentration camps in Germany as early as 1933. These camps housed people who were against and who were believed to be against Nazi policy. People from all over the areas of Nazi power

abuse the power but the people of Germany themselves. At the same time, there were also some positives in the way that Hitler ran things. He completely abolished unemployment rates, and gave the German people a sense of pride again. The key aspects of Adolf Hitler’s rule on Germany when he came into power were the separation of certain people such as communists, Jews and disable or handicapped people from the “pure” Germans. Hitler’s rule had several effects in the German people and their country. Hitler

Irania De La O Grade 8 The Holocaust Eleven million innocent people died and many did not know what they did or why it was happening to them (Rice 11). The Holocaust happened because of the Germans after World War 2 thought that the reason that their economy was falling down was because of Jewish people. The Holocaust followed the Ladder of Prejudice is a started with speech and moved its way up to “The Final Solution” also known as extermination. Hitler did not start with killing Jews. He killed

The Holocaust (Ancient Greek word for: a sacrifice completely burnt on the altar) also known as the Shoah (Hebrew word for: which specifically denotes the Nazi effort to annihilate the Jew, “catastrophic”), was the methodical, administrative, state-sponsored persecution of the murder of six million Jewish People, between 30th January 1933 to 8th May 1945. This annihilation was initiated by the members of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party and its collaborators who seized power in 1933. The Nazis

Throughout history, one of the most expressive mediums through which humans can convey their thoughts is via art. Whether it is through sculpture, painting, or a print, an artist is capable of making a political statement or endorsing an idea simply by subtly alluding to it in their work. Alternatively, an artist can be forthright with their ideals as would have been the case for people such as the Dadaists. In any case, artists are able to support a lot more than just beauty in their work, and a

German soldiers fought the Führer’s ideological war. Hitler wanted the German race to take over the world. Heinrich Bölls book, And Where Were You, Adam?, describes several soldiers and their lives at the end of World War II. In the chaos of war, they found various reasons to capitulate with the Holocaust and other atrocities, but at the same time, tried to find some normalcy and sanity in an insane situation. Just as other warriors in other wars, they were humans who found themselves in an inhuman

The Great Depression is the worst economic downfall in the history of the modern western world. In this time banks were failing, people were losing jobs more and more each day and investments lost all value, people even burned money for warmth. The Great Depression was felt in nearly every nation around the world, but Europe and the United States was where it mainly took place. This economic downfall lasted for 10 years and changed the entire world, not just with a shortage of money but also a shortage

Millions of people… were murdered because of their race; because they were who they were. This happened in our time; it must not happen again. These were the first lines of the The World at War, Volume 20: Genocide movie that was watch in class. These were the lines that have stuck with me throughout the term, more importantly the ending lines “..it must not happen again.” The last few words, of almost pleading, make the viewer pay attention and learn of what happened because knowledge of these horrible