"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...

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...

Adolf Hitler was the Führer of Nazi Germany and the driving force behind the attempt to exterminate European Jewry. By the end of 1941, Hitler was, almost certainly, committed to a plan to murder all the Jews living in territory, either directly controlled by Germany or in the German sphere of ...

The Treaty of Versailles: Prelude to WWII The Treaty of Versailles was not a justified treaty, which created German feelings of revenge and dislike towards the victorious countries. This feeling of revenge felt by Germany, in addition with the social atmosphere of Europe, led to a Second World Wa...

"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. ...

The years 1933 through 1945 are most commonly referred to as the Holocaust, which was the destruction of some six million Jews by the Nazis and their followers in Europe. "The general meaning of Holocaust is the great or total destruction of life." Anther word for Holocaust is genocide, ...

Nazi Germany was plagued with nearly a decade or more of arrests, imprisonments, executions, and concentration camps. German citizens lost all their civic rights and a wave of Anti-Semitism swept through the country. The justice system lost all fairness; judges and courts acted in interest of Nazi...

Devils in Disguise "Under idealism nothing exists except the mind. Whoever controls the mind controls everything. Therein lies the secret of absolute power" (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? The answer is most definitely...

During the years 1933-1939, the German Nazi party began the invasion of the Jewish people. Prior to the outbreak of World War II, Hitler had addressed that the Jews would have to be destroyed if war should come. The will to kill the Jews was embedded in their beliefs not infused by external conditio...

The Holocaust was an event that has changed many people's lives. The Holocaust was an event that resulted in a death for many Jews and a few Catholics. Hitler and the Nazis believed that the world would be a better place without Jewish people. He sent many Jews to concentration camps to have...

The easiest way to escape any type of trouble is the shift the blame to another. This is demonstrated in every day life, and has formed a pattern in history. In World War II, not only were the Japanese, African Americans, and Jewish people fighting for their countries, but they were also struggling ...

Thesis Statement: Racism in Germany during the 1930's and 1940's was mainly caused by Adolf Hitler's obsession with a pure Arian race and the annihilation of the Jewish race. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the National Socialist German Worker's Party (Nazi Party). After Hindenburg's death he beca...

From 1929 to 1933 one of the most well-known events in the history of the world occurred, Hitler's rise to power. It tokk him a mere 4 years to go from being the leader of the NAZI party with no real power to being the dictator of a totalitarian state. At first he tried to overthrow the government,...

The Holocaust, what is the true depth of the word? As sad as it may seem, it affected the lives of millions because of the hate inside of one certain group of people, the Nazi's. Dehumanization is to deprive human qualities such as individuality or compassion. Victims of the Holocaust wen...

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...

Adolf Hitler was a powerful leader, demanding personality, and extremely persuasive. After the First World War, in 1933, Adolf Hitler began his reign over Germany. His stay in power was one of the most controversial and destructive reigns in history. Hitler's main objective was to seize Germ...

The Nazi party ruled Germany for twelve years. During their rule they had a central belief that was that in society there are certain people that are dangerous and need to be eliminated so that German society could flourish and survive. The Nazis believed that they were racially superior. They targ...

NIGHT ESSAY Night, Elie weisel's harrowing first-person account of the Holocaust demonstrates the murder of his family and his own survival in the hell of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. His account reaches a person at the most elemental level and shows them light and also unforgett...

Introduction Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. He was an important part of German history, but led one of the most well known massacres of the German country. In all, he killed about six million people of the Jewish community. He was insanely psychopathic, for he wanted a "perfect&q...

Throughout grade school every student is required to take an history course each year. The reason for this is so that students can learn what happened years back before they were born; to learn from the mistakes people made. These mistakes can be related to political, social, or religious factors; e...

Holocaust EssayThe term Holocaust refers to the effort of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party to exterminate the Jews and others considered to be inferior in order to purify Germany and its citizens from what they considered to be unclean. As a result, 12,000,000 people, about half of them Jews, were mu...

Causes of the Holocaust The rise of the nazi's and the hatred of the Jews became known as the holocaust. Adolf Hitler being one of the biggest names that is known with the holocaust isn't the only person that contributed to this massacre of Jews. People where held in ghetto camps and later sent t...

Often reading the blurb on the back cover of a novel is a good indication of whether or not you will enjoy the book. This is very much the case when I picked up "Parallel Journeys" by Eleanor Ayer. The front cover features Adolf Hitler with thousands of his young supporters hailing him dur...

There are many people that say it never happened but there is no room for denial in a topic like this. The holocaust did happen and it was a terrible thing. There are so many wrong things that happened during the holocaust. One of the worst things I believe that happened were the murders and kill...

Holocaust What is the Holocaust? Why did it happen? What happened to people during the Holocaust? These are the questions everyone asks. Webster's dictionary defines the Holocaust as, 1: a sacrifice consumed by fire, 2: a thorough destruction especially by fire (i. E. a nuclear Holocaust), 3 ...