Adolf Eichmann

The light hurt Wolfgang’s eyes as he open his eyes and looked up into the sky.His eyes strained because he remembers everything, the beating and his experience at Auschwitz. “Hey Shmuel, we going to work digging out of here?” “I’m sorry Wolfgang I can not, my friend has asked me to has asked me to meet him at the fence. I believe he could help us get out of here, but I will not try to give away my ideas of freedom.” “That is okay,” Wolfgang said, “I’ll do it myself friend.” From a secluded part

Auschwitz is considered by the most the most inhumane concentration camp in world war two. At the beginning of 1940, Auschwitz was created, and it was under the rules of the SS (Concentration Camp). Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp during World War II, where over a million people died. Jews were treated horribly, and many were gassed. Auschwitz was called a death camp, for many reasons which included the deportation and selection process, medical experiments, and gas chambers. Auschwitz

“He cut into me, without anesthetic,...The pain was indescribable. I felt every slice of the knife. Then I saw my kidney pulsating in his hand. I cried like a madman, I cried out the prayer; “Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one...And I prayed to die, that I might not suffer this agony any more.” (Hall). This was said by a ‘patient’ of Dr. Josef Mengele, Mr. Yitzhak Ganon. Mr. Ganon was of the survivors of the inhumane experiments that took place in Auschwitz by the hand of the abominable

If a person of authority ordered you inflict a 15 to 400 volt electrical shock on another innocent human being, would you follow your direct orders? That is the question that Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University tested in the 1960’s. Most people would answer “no,” to imposing pain on innocent human beings but Milgram wanted to go further with his study. Writing and Reading across the Curriculum holds a shortened edition of Stanley Milgram’s “The Perils of Obedience,” where he displays

jurisdiction to try the case. The Eichmann case that Hannah Arendt discusses has many aspects that fit in the sense that Eichmann was not given a proper trial. Arendt provides this information by asking the questions of whether the case she is faced with should have been thought of as solely legal or whether there was a philosophical agenda behind how the trial occurred. This allows for a discussion on the eagerness to think of how consciousness plays in the manner that Eichmann should have been and was judged

Role of memory in decision-making The importance of memory is summarized in a line Quintilian wrote in Book 11.2, “all learning depends on memory, and teaching is in vain if everything we hear slips away”(Quintilian 59). The so-called memory tends to be playing an enormous role in shaping and structuring the thoughts, but what is memory explicitly? The Oxford Dictionary defines memory as the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information. Hence, memory is the reservoir of past information

Bearing witness When we encounter a Holocaust survivor, a lot of questions come to our mind. We start to wonder how did they manage to survive. We tend to assume that once the Holocaust was over, survivors began to reestablish their lives and their pain disappeared. However, Holocaust survivors suffered, and even after 70 years after the liberation, Holocaust survivors still experience difficulties on their day-to-day basis. In the years followed the Holocaust they struggled with their painful memories

The life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s

Death and Humanity in the Holocaust      Within the twentieth century, what event stands out to you as the most inhumane treatment of fellow humans. Without a doubt, most would agree that the Holocaust completely matches this sad frame of reference. The Holocaust in Germany was an unspeakable event in human history. In this terrible act, at its worst in Poland, was the direct cause of the deaths of 62.7% of the Jewish population in Europe (History 1). It is obvious that two

Being ripped away from loved ones only to never see them again is one of the worst things to experience, especially at a young age. This happened all too often during the Holocaust. Many families would ride a train to a death or labor camp. A labor camp is simular to a death camp, but the nazi’s who run the camp make those who are captivated do pointless work. These were excuses used put to the end of lives of innocent human beings whom Hitler needed to put the blame on. A lot of these people put