"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...

Schindler's List and Night by Elie Wiesel Night is a horrible story of murder. Elie saw his family, friends, and fellow Jews being murdered. During his crisis he begins to loose faith in God, to who he used to be so devoted to. He believes that God was also murdered by the Nazis. In th...

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 ...

"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...

The film The Pianist (2002) Roman Polanski is an adaptation of the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman a Jewish pianist who lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland during WWII. According to the sources, Roman Polanski supplemented the story with a few anecdotal events that had occurred in his life dur...

The Holocaust was one of if not the worst example of genocide and mass murder. The Nazis did one of the most horrible things imaginable by killing so many people. Some the death camps could be considered the worst places on earth, even worse then Hell. As one survivor put it, "No one can understan...

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...

Night - Summary Note: Although Night is not necessarily a memoir--as discussed in the "Overall Analysis and Themes" section--I will often refer to it as a memoir, since that is the genre which closest approaches the mixture of testimony, deposition and emotional truth-telling that is in Ni...

Escape or Die Imagine a society were your race does not have equal rights as the others. A world were you looked upon as an underling. Well this is what the Jewish community had to face during the Nazi regime of World War II. The Jewish people were singled out and mistreated among the country. ...

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 ...

Schindler's List The nature of man in Schindler's List is straightforward. Schindler's List is an example of a malevolent universe. As the audience, we witness some of the horrible events caused by the Nazi's, and one NAZI member who challenged duty for love. The suffering people he w...

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...

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...

The book, Night, and the movie, "The Pianist," share many thematic similarities. Both stories have themes in which man is evil to man, the will of the main character to survive and overcome evil is present, and the ability of some people to still be compassionate to each other during thes...

Misery The autobiographical novel Night, by Elie Wiesel, describes his horrifying experiences and his physical and mental misery throughout the true event of the Holocaust. The American Heritage Dictionary defines the word "misery" as prolonged or extreme suffering. This word fits th...

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...

The word holocaust is a word that we have heard at one time or another. It means different things to different people. It is a word that brings up negative thoughts. Words like prejudice, death, genocide, and world domination are associated with the Holocaust. The Holocaust is accepted event in w...

Can you imagine yourself living during the time that WWI was going on? I'm pretty sure you'd be terrified to even walk out of your house. Like it wasn't bad enough that the whole world was at each other's throat, but to know that your country may be at the hands of another lea...