Do you think there was any influence of Americans on the rise of Nazi Germany? One can say, America was the reason why the Nazi Party gained its power. America has had a past with discrimination. And the Nazi Party didn’t gain its power out of anywhere. Americans/America had a great influence on the Growth […]
It has been a while since World War II, but the atrocities committed against humans in Germany and Japan are still vivid: human trials, massacres, racial discrimination, bacterial weapons, etc. are all unforgivable crimes committed against the world. So what is it that made Germany and Japan do such a terrible act? What horrible things […]
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Get startedWorld War 2 was a war marked by great levels of devastation and anguish, taking 17 million soldiers and even more civilians. The war began in 1939 on September 1st with the Nazi invasion of Poland. In total, more than fifty nations were involved, with the Axis powers consisted of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan […]
Pride is a high opinion of one’s own importance and is often considered to be the motivation to strive for success. However, pride can also be considered dangerous, since it can lead to arrogance and evoke the need to preserve self-worth, which results in regrettable decisions. One of the most common hazards of pride is […]
Black History month is very important when it comes to honoring African Americans who have made a difference in society and in history. There are many African Americans that have played a major role in making a difference. Many have also influenced and encouraged others to speak up for what they believe in and what […]
Sixty-three percent of Russians believe so-called “gay propaganda” is destroying “the spiritual values” of their country. This was the result of a survey released last month by a Russian pollster. About a week earlier, a Russian court fined Maxim Neverov, a sixteen-year-old boy, 50,000 rubles (around $700) under a 2013 law banning gay propaganda. He […]
Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl who was a victim of WW2. The Germans took the freedom away from the Jewish because of what they believed in. The Jewish couldn’t do anything fun such as theaters, cinemas, and other stuff such as entertainment. I’m going to be answering a few questions about the Holocaust. […]
Deception and persuasion, two things that come to mind when thinking of the word propaganda. In times of great distress such as war, where emotions are running high, manipulation is made easier by taking into consideration the state of mind a country’s citizens are in. Propaganda can be thought of as using mass persuasion to […]
The Holocaust was a tragic time. There were people who made a positive impact and people who made a negative impact. My topics have both the positive and negative sides to them. They are Adolf Hitler, Anne Frank, Irena Sendler, Daily Life in the Camps, and the Gestapo. You will learn about courageous hearts and […]
As expected, going to the Holocaust Museum was a very emotional experience. I learned about the Holocaust throughout my middle and high school years and it makes me angry and disgusted, but once I saw all the artifacts and pictures of what the Jewish people and their families had to go through I have this […]
The Holocaust was a genocide caused by Nazi Germany and the result is the murder of 6 million Jjews. This event destroyed the Jjewish population, two thirds of the Jjewish population in Eeurope was killed. We will be looking at the stories of three people that were affected by the Hholocaust. Leon Kusmirek was born […]
The Holocaust was a time in history that will never be forgotten. It was a time of sorrow and pain. The historical fiction novel Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly demonstrates how the Holocaust affected the lives of very different people. The three characters Caroline Ferriday, Kasia Kuzmerick, and Herta Oberheuser all live disparate lives […]
Upon different generations we have seen numerous genocides occur in all areas around the world. One of the most famous genocides was the Holocaust. Though the Holocaust was made aware to the public and caught the eye of people all over the globe, it still fell through the cracks for many years just like a […]
Queensborough Community College(QCC) located in Bayside,Queens provides a Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust center that is free to all and as an art & design student I have been in the holocaust center several times over the past Two years. However, I never took into accountability how tragic these events were until I had to do paper […]
People commonly underestimate the severity of the holocaust. Many people do not see and understand the real struggles of what happened during this time. In this period of time there were 17.5 million Jewish people in the world and 6 million of them died due to German dictator, Adolf Hitler’s wishes. He believed that many […]
There is currently so much turmoil in the world. People are once again being divided into groups that seem to hate each other for no apparent reason. Monuments are being destroyed, movies are being removed from view, and history is practically being erased. We should not be trying to erase history, we should be studying […]
“Churchill knew, we all knew, and we couldn’t do anything about it—except winning the war ” (Mazanski). While many may think that the Allies had done much to help the Jews during World War II, they actually did not do anything at all. During July of 1941, the Allies intercepted messages from the Germans that […]
Adolf Hitler was born in Austria-Hungry and moved to Germany in 1913 to join the efforts of World War I. Hitler decided to try to take power through a government coup after the war in 1923 and failed. His failure led to his imprisonment where he spent his time writing his book called Mein Kampf. […]
Closely Watched Trains captures the zeitgeist of Czechoslovakia while it was occupied by Germany during World War II. The film’s comedic yet melodramtic mood creates an image of the Czech people as having lost their spirit. The focus on the young protagonist Milos parallels the wartime experience of Eastern Europeans during the german occupation a […]
Aachen, the city that was notoriously known for being turned into a fortress by the Germans during World War II due to the rich, sentimental value Hitler saw in it; it is heavily guarded and protected by its vast array of barbed wiring, pillboxes, anti-tank obstacles, and other barriers, was penetrated by American forces. Also […]
What if crime during wartime is viewed the same as a crime in normal times? In Nazi Germany, crime during wartime is seen through a different lens in comparison to crime not during wartime. In The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, Hitler is ruling the Germans with propaganda during World War II, from 1939-1945. During […]
National Socialism, commonly called Nazism, German political movement initiated in 1920 with the organization of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, also called the Nazi Party. The movement culminated in the establishment of the Third Reich, the totalitarian German state led by dictator Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. National Socialism emerged from consequences of […]
World War 1 has several different titles whether it be the first war or the great war. It was very helpful to Germany despite their defeat in batter. This is true because the rise of Nazism is directly related to this war for several reasons. According to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM): “In the […]
Today, the problem of studying the Holocaust is the problem of recognition of its uniqueness as a historical phenomenon on a universal scale. Before World War II, all conflicts in the history of genocide were based on religious conflicts: mass extermination of people took place on religious grounds. In the twentieth century, religious motives ceased […]
The Holocaust changed the course of history when two-thirds of the Jewish population was obliterated. This genocide took place over the course of about ten years. Events such as the Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, and forced emigration, lead to ghettoization which lead to the concentration camps. Each step played a crucial role in perpetuating hate and […]
What is the Holocaust / who started it all Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was the founder and leader of the Nazi Party and the most influential voice in the organization, implementation, and execution of the Holocaust, the systematic extermination and ethnic cleansing of six million European Jews and millions of other non-arynes. On January 30, 1993, […]
Background-World war lI Some people believe World War II started in 1937 when Japan invaded China. Others think it started in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The War officially started in 1939. Hitler was a brave soldier in World War I, he was awarded the iron cross which stood for bravery in the war. In […]
During the brutal times of the Holocaust, there was “killing of millions of Jews and other people by the Nazis during World War II” (Merriam Webster Dictionary), many devastating events happened. During these times of war and anti-semitism some people stood up to the injustice of these events. The situation of this could not have […]
Rozsa Heisler. Almost 75 years ago, Hungarian Policeman forced her and her family onto a train. Not a doubled decored train with velvet seats, air conditioning, and a cafe that serves coup’ o noodles, but a smelly boxcar packed to the brim with confused, sad people. Rozsa Heisler says, “We were crammed together for five […]
I believe Oskar Schindler was a person of concrete and righteous morals. During the savage takeover of Poland by the German Nazis, Schindler used what power he had to protect as many Jews as he could. He risked his life business and possibly his families for a bunch of people who he had never met. […]
