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    Causes Of The Holocaust

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    A tear, that is, a salty drop of liquid secreted from the eye. Leaves a trail of sorrows. Burning grief. Desolation. From 1933 until 1945, Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Germany kill millions of European Jews, in the Holocaust. These acts are committed because of Hitler’s pure hatred for the Jewish, viewing them as a race rather than a religion. He blames them for all of Germany’s troubles and unsuccessful outcome of World War I. And in order to enforce his beliefs, Hitler creates a ‘Final Solution’

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    "The first time I went to use the latrine located at the end of the children's barrack, I was greeted by the scattered corpses of several children lying on the ground ... It was there that I made a silent pledge - a vow to make sure that Miriam and I didn't end up on that filthy floor." (Eva Mozes, The twins Eva and Miriam Mozes survived Auschwitz) During World War 2, A power hungry leader called Hitler started taking many places and countries. Hitler was trying to make a master of blued eyed blonde

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    The Holocaust is a catastrophe in history, yet it provides us with many lessons from the repercussions of hate. Following this, the Sikh temple shooting is another example of a tragic event with hate as a motive. We can learn many lessons from tragedies caused by hate. By recognizing the tragedies you can use them to educate for further prevention. During the Holocaust, prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp were victims of the practice of tattooing; this treatment resembles the branding

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    My family story is not about someone who is blood-related, but rather a family friend of my great grandmother. Her name is Eva Mozes Kor, a twin of her sister Miriam, born in nineteen thirty-four. They were born into a family of three other children. They resided a tiny town in Transylvania, Romania. In May of nineteen forty-four, Eva and her family arrived by train car at the concentration camp, Auschwitz. They got down from the train car, where people were chosen to live or die. People were crying

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    all the experiments being studied at the camp. Working at a gypsy camp (Birkenau's), Mengele took the position of Chief Camp Physician of Auschwitz II (I.e., Birkenau) still under Wirths' responsibility. In Auschwitz, about thirty physicians worked at the same time Mengele was serving in the camp. They used to do rounds to select the best specimens for their experiments when the Jews arrived at the camp. Dr. Mengele was known to look out for prisoners even off duty in look of twins. Because of his

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    the experiments. (The Experiments) Josef Mengele, a Nazi doctor stationed at Auschwitz, was called the “Angel of Death”. Many times he would be the one who was in charge of “selection”. He had the power to decide the fate of the prisoner; he had the power of life and death over them. He was in charge of the many experiments conducted at Auschwitz. The experiments he is most known for are genetic experiments, and the experimentations on twins. (Josef Mengele) Many of those who were experimented on

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    Here, he studied medicine. In 1935 he wrote his dissertation on racial differences in the structure of the lower jaw (Angel of Death). Josef Mengele obtained his doctorate degree and published scientific articles on genetic abnormalities and racial variations in primary features (Astor 11). In 1937, Dr. Mengele became an official member of the Nazi party, which was led by Adolf Hitler (Angel of Death). One year later, he joined the Schutzstaffel branch of the German army.

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    ranges of power. The effect of this power is that some people lose control and allow power to corrupt them. Some prime examples of how power corrupts can be seen through the following people: Brutus in the play The tragedy of Julius Caesar, Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician from the Holocaust, and North Korea's political leader, Kim Jong Un. These three people have either let power corrupt them even more then they have already been corrupted, or they have allowed power to completely change their character

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    Auschwitz: A Doctor’s Eye­wit­ness Account by Dr. Mik­lós Nyis­zlI is a non-fiction mem­oir of a Jew­ish Hun­gar­ian med­ical doc­tor who per­formed alongside Dr. Josef Mengele in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz from 1944-45 to conduct “research” on Jews. This book is a lot to swallow and doesn’t beat around the bush, it’s straight to the point. Despite Dr Nyiszli being a German Jew at the time the Nazi party rose, he avoided the hard labor of the death camp. How’d he do that at Auschwitz In 1944

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    The Holocaust was one of the most tragic events in history. Although, many may deny the horrifying events that took innocent lives away evidence of the medical experiments are able to prove that it did. On January 19 ,1933 The Nazi’s invaded Germany. When dictator Adolf Hitler came to power he took many innocent lives by discriminating against the Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah 's witness, Polish, socialist, Russians, and homosexuals. During the World War II, numerous German Doctors conducted inhumane and

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