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2006). They were seen as "a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, unworthy of life" (The Murder of the Handicapped, 200...

this premise had become a common notion and it persisted for centuries, something that would create more areas of persecution ("Pe...

and so there had been a religious bias after the advent of Christianity. Social animosity would grow as these two religious groups...

in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most ...

is important. It suggests that Jews were victims of a campaign based solely on prejudice. Yet, it is not just during the World War...

people taking days to die of their wounds, but no one in the village believes him; their reaction is: "Hes just trying to make us ...

of German-occupied lands (Aharoni and Dietl 29). Organized deportation of Jewish peoples to the East began that summer. There is s...

need for eugenics based on the application of racial segmentation and views of humans considered biological inferior by the medica...

shes a mother, she and the toddler will be gassed together (Scherr). The child is stumbling after her, arms out, crying "mamma, ma...

one of the first times that technology was harnessed to serve an ideology in this way. Many sources tell us that one of the German...

course, there are people throughout history who did not hide their sexual preference. Also, the targeting of the gay population di...

ignored, lest genocide should reoccur. 2. Response to Eliezers first hours in Auschwitz : It is difficult to imagine the horror t...

a social ill that grows worse with each passing generation as children are exposed to cleverly marketed television commercials foc...

at one point (Lemarchand, 2002). This isnt too different from the directives of the Nazis, who were convinced that Jews needed to ...

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

honest. He not only explores the evil of the Holocaust from the victims perspective, but also from the viewpoint of the ordinary G...

Holocaust revisionists argue is that there was a specifically designed genocidal policy enacted by the Germany government. Sack ...

This paper discusses the Holocaust, The Third Reich, and the concept of history repeating itself if people do not stay vigilant. ...

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

the peaceful nature of the German revolution" (Bessel, 2001; 1). Clearly, in retrospect, we understand that a great deal of pr...

maintained the actions of the Third Reich. In researching this argument, then, it is necessary to consider way in which Hitler ac...

as the mentally and physically challenged; African Germans and others considered inferior were included under the law as well (Bai...

1997; 9). His work focuses on explaining why these people, these ordinary people, were often a part of the horrific realities. ...

Hiemer managed to use their political influence to largely overcome those advances and to call back into play the age old hatred o...

leadership into a new discussion, "a theology of pluralism." "It is not enough that we live together as faith communities; rather...

positive and joyful. Although some of his work deals with his horrific experiences at the hands of the Nazi, the emphasis in Janka...

lived, who died, who had a decent job, or was worked to death depended largely on luck and on not panicking when confronted by the...

In five pages this paper applies the self justification theory articulated by Elliot Aronson's The Social Animal to Holocaust acti...

to ultimately become the holocaust. The year of nineteen fifteen was witness to one of the bloodiest episodes in Armenian history...