Heinrich Schliemann

It was the spring of 1943 in Germany, and inside Hans Albrecht’s pub, the cruel officers of the Gestapo drank and talked with each-other. “You boys seem quite happy. What’s up?” I asked. “Well brother, we are rich! Rich with power!” Karl Albrecht bellowed. Herbert Kappler raised his glass and yelled out, “To the Führer!” They raised their glasses and clinked them together, their grey uniforms shining in the moonlight that seeped through the window. “The Final Solution is almost completed

The Freedom Writers There is a common saying, “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. This means that there should be no stereotypes or standards placed on anyone or anything before all of the information is known about that individual or item. Stereotyping is most commonly associated with people. There are lots of different assumptions that are made about people based on their looks, and most of the time, those assumptions are not true. The black students in this movie are portrayed as up to no good

The Holocaust and Unfairness We’ve all heard the saying, everything is fair in “love and war”. But do the outcomes of all war, have a fair ending. The way innocent people were treated, who had no partake whatsoever, were dragged into this mess. Hitler treated the Jews like they were some sort of animal and not human beings. Who gave Hitler the right to determine which religion is the greater, and what difference do the Jews have, they’re also humans like us. War is not fair because it changes and

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum states, “The denial or distortion of history is an assault on the truth and understanding.” Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews and other groups in the Holocaust during World War II. Common denial and distortions includes that the death of 6 million Jewish people never transpired, that the deaths was an enormous exaggeration, that the diary of Anne Frank is a forgery, and that the results of deaths in the concentration camps were

When discussing the most evil person in history, the name Adolf Hitler is often cited. After the death of his mother when he was eight, Hitler lived in a homeless shelter in Vienna. During this time, he was exposed to political rhetoric from German nationalists. Taking an interest in politics, Hitler began to form his ideologies of his perfect country. To achieve this goal, Hitler associated with groups who shared similar ideologies in order to boost his political influence. Adolf Hitler successfully

Introduction In Heinrich Harrer's autobiography, his companion Peter Aufschnaiter and he escaped a British internment camp in Karachi, India during the early 50’s. They fled to the barren lands of Tibet and trek all the way to Lhasa. Durning their travels they become familiar with the land and its cultures. This book precedes Harrer’s novel Return to Tibet, which was set during the era of Chinese communism and its rule in Tibet. PLOT In the beginning of this story, we encounter young Heinrich, whose

1.) Memorialization of any sort can be a tedious process, but those regarding Holocaust remembrance were particularly challenging given the surrounding social and political controversies that ensued. This is primarily seen through the issue of representation, which consistently played a key role in the creation of both the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C., and the Dachau concentration camp memorial. While the Dachau memorial’s conception stages, the designers were contemplating which victim

The Holocaust In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million by the end of the Nazi regime the number would drop by six million. This was the effect of Hitler’s “Final Solution” basically the Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews, Gypsies the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Despite this horrific event killing millions of people and displacing just as many there

I have chosen these two cycles to analyse because they represent the two side of one story, the masculine and feminine points of views of love. These two song cycles were composed shortly after one another. Frauenliebe und Leben was described by Gerhard Kaiser as: Her daughters of citizenry could find their womanly role in life sketched out for them, from first love, through wedding, motherhood and widowhood, to old age and death. Like Gretchen’s song at the spinning wheel, these poems too involve

Dachau Concentration Camp Throughout the existence of Dachau, over 180,000 people passed through the main camp. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Dachau was built, so that made it the first regular concentration camp built in Germany. Even though Dachau was not very big, there were a lot of people in the camp. There were a ton of people in the camp there was not all the many buildings inside of it. Even though Dachau was the first concentration camp, used as a model for the rest of them, it