The years between 1939 and 1945 marked a historical time known as the Holocaust. This genocide led to the unnecessary death of approximately six million people throughout Europe. A large percentage of the victims were children of all ages. Born to fend off hatred and discrimination, these childre...

How could the United States let millions of innocent people be starved, brutalized, and discriminated like they were in World War II? Easily, they did not want to get involved. The US stayed neutral in WWII until the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was bombed by the Japanese on December 07, 19...

Prejudice was the main factor that led to the holocaust. For some, resisting these forms of oppression was survival. Considering the dehumanizing the Nazis had forced upon the Jews, people took whatever courage and strength they had to get through this period of time. I believe luck also had a par...

The Holocaust was one of the greatest atrocities known to man. This paper will clearly show the cruelty, death destruction that was caused during the Holocaust. In addition, this paper will overview the background and goals of the one man responsible for this great tragedy."Holocaust" is the name ...

"Death seemed to guard all exits." This motto defined the fate of the millions of Europeans between 1941 and 1945. As the Nazi Germany gained control of one country after another in World War 2, the killing of Jews, Gypsies, Slaves, Poles, Homosexuals, and more began. The Nazi's built...

Between 1873 and 1896, Europe, and the world experienced a period of economic stagnation, often referred to as the "Great Depression" of the nineteenth century. Anti-Semitism spread throughout this time in Germany. Jews were blamed for whatever may have been wrong, by public officials, and politicia...

Resistance is futile. I can only imagine that was what the Nazi's were thinking while they were butchering millions of Jews in concentration camps all across Europe. The Jews however, had a different thought. Jewish resistance against the Nazi's sprang up, and helped give hope and ins...

Since the beginning of Christ, Jews have been fated from the mainstream of society. They have often been outcaste and therefore marginalized. Germany\'s defeat in World War 1 and a worldwide depression in the 1930s left the German economy in ruins and made many Germans angry and resentful. Adolf Hit...

Many protesters of "Operation: Iraqi Freedom" claim that it is pre-emptive and unnecessary. Many of the supporters, on the other hand, are stating the exact opposite of these claims. Many are going so far as to say that Saddam Husein and his regime have been committing such atrocities ag...

When the control of Germany was undertaken by Adolph Hitler, the entire world became infected by his Nazi fascism, especially the European Jews. Through Hitler\'s beliefs of \"white skin, blue eyes, light hair\" being the race of God, Jewish people were oppressed, forced into hard labor, and murder...

Almost 3 million Jews of Eastern European and Russian decent settled in New York City's Lower East side between 1890 and 1910. The primary reason for this large migration in such numbers was to escape the harsh persecution of the Russian government. During this time of mass European migration...

Anne Frank and Elizabeth Cassuto were both Jewish girls that lived in Holland. In fact, they went to the same school. They lived in the time in Europe when the Holocaust was happening. Both the girls and their families were scared that they were going to get sent to a concentration or extermination ...

Even the most horrific events, like the Holocaust, teach a lesson or two and present a challenge to meet adversity eye to eye. When it comes to tragedy, the most important thing to concentrate on is the lesson this particular disaster presents. The most significant paradigm of the Holocaust is tha...

The Holocaust is likely one of the most misunderstood historical events of modern times. There are those that underestimate the extent of world knowledge about the German atrocities. There are also those whom are ignorant of the way in which the Jews reacted to their situation. The incredible ex...

The millions of Jews who were taken from their places of residence, ghettos or transit camps did not in any way know that they were being brought to extermination camps nor did they know what fate awaited for them. Most of them had not even heard of the existence of such camps. Rumors about death ...

FREEDOM IS ALL WE HAVE TO LOSE "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose." (Kristofferson) This sounds like a very prophetic statement. But is it? At first glance you may make sense of it, but when you look beneath the surface of this statement, you will realize that...

Snow in August is a good example about the prejudice and racism in the 1940's. Pete Hamill has truly done a marvelous job at depicting the effects of WWII on an anti Jewish town, Brooklyn, New York. Brooklyn was in the midst of religious and racial turmoil. Hamill describes how ripped apart thi...

The stage was being set throughout Europe in the late 19th century with anti-Semitism running in the veins of most Germans and other European nations. This answer to the 'Jewish Question" was to be addressed by Heydrich and Himmler at the Wannsee conference in their 'Final Solution....

R.W.- Hero of a Nation: Wallenberg went to any extent to save a life, "he personally saved the lives of tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews and became a legendary figure."- Holocaust Rescuers At the end of the war Wallenberg had made such an impact on Hungary that "Budapes...

Nationalism In studying nationalism, two selections where read. The first was from the Upshur text: "Nationalism: An Emerging Global Force", and the second was from the Johnson reader: Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. From "Nationalism: An Emerging Global Force" two views ...

Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. He was born in Austria in a town called Braunau. It is on the Inn River along the Bauariun German border. He was the son of a customs official. He went to Realschule a college preparatory school. He did good in school but then he started to failing...

"Auschwitz" the most brutal and horrifying German death camp of them all. Located near a town called "Oswie'cim" in Poland. Ran by Nazis under the control of Adolph Hitler. Auschwitz ran for six long strong years from 1939 to 1945. Nazis ran this camp after World War 1 and through World War 2. ...

Throughout the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror and the Holocaust. The German forces occupying Poland During World War 11 established in May 1940, a concentration camp on the outskirts of the town Oswiecim. The Germans called the town Auschwitz, which also gave its name to the nearby d...

Moral Relativism Moral relativism and Nazism seem to go hand in hand. Moral relativism basically is the idea that morals and ethics do not necessarily reflect the objective or universal moral truth, but instead they relate to societies, culture, and even personal conditions. Thus, as a Nazi, mora...

Survival at Auschwitz Survival in Auschwitz "Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restrain...