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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

another factor that Hornett attributes to a lack of leadership. If the principal had "modeled and encouraged helping among staff, ...

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...

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...

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...

Christian Bible. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Rich, 1999). These are considered the Five Books of...

will come to the minds of all who visit the museum after being painfully immersed into the experience is how do people begin to fo...

thirst within days" (Kluger 100). Therefore, the survival skills young Ruth acquired were comparable to those of a petty thief. ...

of these individuals were dispatched into labor camps by the Nazis, where many died shortly thereafter of various causes including...

The Jonestown massacre occurred November 18, 1978 in Jonestown Guyana. This massacre shook...

the Holocaust. This is because one type of people were ousted due to physical characteristics and the prejudice that festered as a...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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