Nazi eugenics

The Tragedy of Kristallnacht Kristallnacht was a very tragic night during the Holocaust. Nothing was ever the same between the millions of Jews getting killed, their homes getting destroyed, and their race being slowly eradicated by Hitler. The aftermath led to even more severe damage. However, the death of one person started it all. The Night of Broken Glass was an intensely devastating occurrence which took place due to the assassination of Ernst Vom Rath and brought upon various consequences to

What would it take to get you to steal a plane, fly alone over to another country that was at war with your own, parachute out of the plane, and then try to make peace with that country that was your enemy? Well, that is exactly what Rudolf Hess did. So, what happened in his life that caused him act the way he did, and what happened afterward? Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (also spelled Heß) was born on April 26, 1894 in Alexandria, Egypt. His parents, Fritz and Clara Hess, were simple merchants and

Literary Themes and Symbols of the Holocaust Although Holocaust literature focuses on a specific period in world history, it also contains some common themes and symbols that help to define this era. The butterfly, for instance, is a symbol for the ephemeral lives of Holocaust children. A child, Pavel Friedman, wrote a poem titled "The Butterfly" during his time in a concentration camp. Since then, the butterfly has been a Holocaust theme for the large number of children who did not survive. A

Adversity is a large factor in the shaping process of one’s character development, but it always varies from person to person. In his novel The Book Thief, Markus Zusak integrates adversity into the lives of his characters through the political struggles during the era of World War II, to ultimately shape their personal character and identity. The development by adversity is demonstrated largely through three different characters: Liesel Meminger, Hans Hubermann, and Max Vandenberg. Liesel Meminger

Introduction This Flyer is based on WWII, and the Ten Boom family. Corrie Ten Boom is one of the family members. Her family and her, helped many people in WWII, and risked their lives to save other people. They helped other people because the Nazis were looking for them. The Family were Christians, and would help anyone no mater what. Early Life Corrie Ten Boom was born on April 15, 1892, in Haarlem, Netherlands. In her family, Corrie was the youngest child. She had one brother, Willem, and two

highlight the hypocrisy of the Americans fighting for freedom at that time because there was still a lot of segregation and discrimination in the United States and in it’s military. During the WWII era, American music was banned throughout Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe. This is because in

their own difficulties to avert harming their own interests. During the Holocaust, the outside world does not seem to be interfering for an extensive period. Wiesel is puzzled by how the Nazis could “burn people, children, and for the world to keep silent” (Wiesel 30). The outer world avoids interfering with the Nazis because meddling would mean a danger to their own wellbeing and security. Countries and people that the Holocaust was not affecting sought only their own protection. In multiple circumstances

was born deaf and is growing up in a small city in Germany at the same time Adolf Hitler came into power and then later into dictatorship. T4 (Tiergartenstrasse 4) is a law in which the Nazi maintained order to the “doctors” to kill anyone who is disabled and/or mentally ill. In order for T4 to succeed, the Nazis had to hide the facts. Meaning, they simply would keep the truth from the patients in the institutions and keep

and the agent responsible for many of the anti-Semitic publications (Mills), helped dramatically initiate the German resistance toward Jews early on in a child’s life. It is important to understand the severity of anti-Semitism taught to the future Nazi generation in order to maintain the National Socialist state and further it’s agenda. By examining the ideas, and publications aimed towards children that express those ideals, it is clear that the National Socialist state wanted to indoctrinate a

World War II the Nazi party took over in Germany. At its head was a man named Adolf Hitler. For some reason Hitler hated the Jews, we see this in World War II with the Holocaust. The Holocaust started in 1933 when Hitler rose to power; he made a plan in 1941 which was to eradicate the whole Jewish population. Hitler called this plan the “Final Solution” (An Introductory History of The Holocaust). Why did Hitler and the Nazis single out the Jews for genocide? And in what ways did the Nazis single them