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of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

The writer considers the case of the Nazi Party and its plan to march in Skokie, Illinois, a Chicago suburb heavily populated with...

The Second Vatican Council was announced by Pope John XXIII in January 1959. Meetings began in 1962. This was about 60 years after...

First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church was held at Nicea (also referred to as Nicaea) in 325 in order to address the topi...

that is shared by all Christians. At Eucharist, with our sins washed away and clothed with the Spirit, we are led to the banquet ...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

This essay discusses one of Fr. Andrew Greeley's many books. The topic of this essay is: Great Mysteries: Experiencing the Catholi...

of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

who was a Polish Catholic (Adler). He was in Auschwitz and he fell in love with a woman in the camps, Cyla Cybulska who was a Poli...