Hitler's Willing Executioners

Julia Katzman December 4, 2014 History of War Professor Nolan Book Review #2 Evaluating History Bartov, Omer. Germany 's War and the Holocaust: Disputed Histories. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Kindle. For decades, historians and citizens have struggled to grasp the relationship between the German army and the mass murders committed during the Holocaust. These questions have persisted since the concentration camps were liberated and the extent of the atrocities committed during

Imagine yourself being a leading European mathematical scholar. The year is 1942. For almost a decade you have experienced increasing legislation aimed at limiting your rights as a citizen due to your ethnic and religious origins. In a society that places value on the merit of its scholars and workers, you should, for all intents and purposes, be heralded as a champion of said society. Before retiring, you had brought momentous scholarship to the field of mathematics. Teaching alongside the revered

People can commit heinous acts without being heinous people when placed under authority, according to Stanley Milgram’s conclusions from his experiment. In the article “Review of Stanley Milgram’s Experiments on Obedience” written by Diana Baumrind, a psychologist who worked at the Institute of Human Development, she refutes Milgram’s claims by focusing on the ethical issues and the overall relevancy of the trial. Baumrind commences her article by arguing that Milgram mistreated and distressed his

Assess the importance of Nationalism as a cause of the failure of democracy in Germany in the period 1918-1934. Nationalism was an important and fundamental factor in the downfall of the Weimar Republic and in turn, the ensuring failure of democracy in Germany in the period of 1918-1934. Nationalism is a political and social philosophy that aims to emphasise the nation’s virtues above others. It is a principle of a nation’s demand to be more powerful and successful than any other. A sense of

How can ordinary people come to commit atrocities against defenceless victims? Hitler was an evil man, or at least was prepared to employ evil actions to achieve his goals. There is very little in literature to suggest anything contrary to this opinion. Most literature suggests that while Hitler had some level of power over Himmler and the rest of the Nazi Party’s inner circle, they were also well aware of the extent and implications of their actions. Despite this, the atrocities of the Holocaust

police under the Nazi rule before and during World War 2. The Gestapo was created to help the Nazi’s identify Anti-Nazi agents, such as Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and communists. They had their own courts and acted as judge, jury, and executioner effectively. After they identify them, they

commit acts of genocide has been investigated by numerous historians, but unfortunately, no overarching answer for the crimes has yet been decided upon. However, certain theories are more popular than others. Daniel Goldhagen in his book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, has expounded that the nature of the German culture before the Second World War was deeply embedded in anti-Semitic fervor, which in turn, acted as the catalyst for the events that would unfold into the Holocaust. It is at this

‘Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.’ - Primo Levi Compassion- emotion one feels in response to suffering of others that motivates a desire to help, based on cerebral notions such as fairness, justice and interdependence. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink tests the boundaries of compassion by tackling the question of German guilt. The story follows Michal Berg

Dworkin Gets Mack’d Out An Analysis of Ronald Dworkin and Catherine Mackinnon’s Perspectives on Modern (Obscene) Pornography March 7, 2005 Introduction In the coming paragraphs, I will prove that Ronald Dworkin’s criticisms and critiques of Catherine Mackinnon’s views towards pornography and society are largely unfounded and immaterial, and that government intervention via legislation is required in the protection of women’s interests. I will begin by explaining Catherine Mackinnon’s

Diana Baumrind and Ian Parker have each authored a review of Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience experiments. In Milgram’s experiments, he observed the extent of subjects ' obedience to authority when an experimenter commanded them to deliver possibly harmful electric shocks to another person. According to Milgram, an alarming amount of subjects willingly proceeded to the highest voltage shock in the experiment. In Baumrind 's "Review of Stanley Milgram 's Experiments on Obedience," she attempts to