Hitler's Willing Executioners

The Holocaust. A subject most people would like to forget but shouldn't. People must find out as much as possible about it so history won't repeat itself. Millions of Jewish men, women, and children , of all strata were persecuted because of what? Nothing besides the fact that they were Jewish. Most Jews living in Germany, Austria, Poland, France or practically anywhere else in Europe were sent to concentration camps. There they were either tortured or killed. In The book Devil in Vienna, by

occurrence is the only way to prevent similar atrocities in the future. A popular answer to this question depends on absolving the German population of any sort of collective guilt, on the assumption that they simply could not have predicted the scope of Hitler's plans. Walter Laqueur argues that "there was no precedent in recent European history for the murderous character of German National Socialism," and as such it would be "ahistorical" to suggest "that everyone should have known what would happen once

Epicurus poses a trilemma in order to refute the notion of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God. He first argues that if God is unable to prevent evil, he is not omnipotent. If, alternatively, God is not willing to prevent evil, he is not good. How then, Epicurus asks, can evil exists if God is both willing and able to prevent evil? Epicurus' trilemma exposes a logical contradiction in the Judeo-Christian conception of God and his creation of the world. He attempts to force his opponents to either admit

were an alien threat to German racial purity and community. “After years of Nazi rule in Germany, during which Jews were consistently persecuted, Hitler’s “final solution”–now known as the Holocaust–came to fruition under the cover of world war, with mass killing centers constructed in the concentration camps of occupied Poland “ (History 2009). Hitler’s symbol used to murder millions of people was the swastika. The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning

Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany from the period of 1939-45 could be seen to be the most significant period in the 20th century, and perhaps human history particularly as it led to the holocaust, which saw the extermination of 5.4 million Jews and the creation of the new state of Israel in 1945. Although the Jews had experienced persecution throughout history, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, when large numbers of Jews were persecuted in Europe, and the crusades, where mass killings of Jews

The book,"Lord of the Flies" parallels exactly to the horrible accounts of the Holocaust. It took place during the same time, and many ideas and events are very similar. The Holocaust was a huge inspiration on Golding's book, and like the Holocaust, Golding creates a setting, that's in a sense, secret. They also both took place during World War II. Just like in the beginning, when the boys first landed on the island, before the Holocaust even began, the boys were unified as one tribe. However

one of the most malicious deceptions in the psychiatric field. He crafted what basically turned out to be an electric chair. To test his theory that obedience wasn’t in one’s personality but rather in the situation of the matter, Milgram gathered willing test subjects and instructed them to administer what they assumed were deadly shocks of electricity to another person who faked, pain and perhaps death (31). The experiment was set up with one test subject being a teacher and the actor being the learner

complying weather. In terms of the Holocaust, these three factors are the deeply seated antisemitism, Hitler and Nazism, and a public of compliant bystanders and collaborators. As opposed to common belief, the stem of anti-semitism began before Hitler’s time. There had been a long time of hostility and hatred toward Jewish people. Originating as far back as the ancient times, Roman authorities forced the Jewish people out of Palestine and destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. The United States

questions about the Holocaust is why did common Germans take part? It is difficult to formulate an exact answer to the question because it deals with a whole nation, but many historians have hypothesized explanations related to the German’s unwilling and willing participation (Goldhagen 375). First of

20 July 1944, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg placed his briefcase beside the Fuhrer and left for a phone call. Moments later an explosion rocked the compound but the Fuhrer was alive and Stauffenberg paid with his life later that very same day. Although Hans Hubermann is just a character in Marcus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, he too resisted the Fuhrer and his party. Hans was an anti-Nazi much the same as Stauffenberg, although they went about their resistance in radically different ways, they