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- 101: Agreeing To Disobey
- ... rules for themselves. The personally established rules automatically take precedence over broad rules, since they are the most significant to free human life. An example of how these 'rules' have been confused would be the Holocaust. Hitler wanted the Jews exterminated, and although many of the people (non-Jewish) felt this was inhumane and unjust, they remained silent and inert. The liberation of the Jews did not occur until Russia discovered ... loss of agency with a smile. Perhaps citizens are waiving their freedom because they are unaware of its suppression. An example of this would be Stanley Milgram's experiment in trying to determine why the Holocaust occurred. In the book Reading across the Curriculum, Behrens and Rosen explained Milgram's study, "… under a special set of circumstances the obedience we naturally show authority figures can transform us into agents of terror ... few challenged the authority. The few that did question the "teacher's" motives were dismissed from the testing (Milgram 117). Milgram conducted this experiment to learn how people could become so inhumane upon request, (the Holocaust), even though his ethically challenged experiment remains a roaring debate of morals today. Upon the completion of his experiment, Stanley Milgram debriefed his subjects, and then asked the people in question ('teachers') to evaluate ...
- 102: Night
- Elie Wiesel's Night is a true account of what the holocaust did, not only to the Jews, but to humanity as well. People all over the world were devastated by this horrendous act, and there are still people today who have not overcome its effects. An ... broken the boy's neck does not break and hang there for thirty minutes before he dies. The boy's suffering is one image that can describe the suffering the Jews went through during the Holocaust. Both the boy and the Jews fought for their lives but in the end the result was death. When the war was over and the camps were freed Elie looked in the mirror and saw ... He felt that he was just a body and the Nazis had ripped his soul out of him. People all over the world felt like Elie felt. People that were not directly involved with the Holocaust were emotionally drained by the event. By the end of the war Elie had no faith left in God or his people.
- 103: The Nuremberg Trials
- ... II, numerous war-crimes trials tried and convicted many Axis leaders. Judges from Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States tried twenty-two Nazi leaders for: crimes against humanity (mostly about the Holocaust), violating long-established rules of war, and waging aggressive war. This was known as the “Nuremberg Trials.” Late in 1946, the German defendants were indicted and arraigned before a war crimes tribunal at Nuremberg. Twenty ... were being shipped out of the country. Some of them were put in working camps or at a person’s farm. This was the beginning of the Final Solution of the German’s Problem (the Holocaust). On August 8 the Four Power nation signed the London Agreement. They later named it the International Military Tribunal (IMT), it had 8 judges, one judge and one alternate. This was made so that they ... on a huge scale (Rice 1493). The testimony given at the Nuremberg Trial, the document presented by the prosecution, and the entire record of its proceedings constitute an incomparable source for the study of the Holocaust. The Nuremberg debates may continue for decades. But because of the tribunal’s rulings at Nuremberg, the initiating and waging of aggressive war is now irrefutably criminal under international law. And that in itself ...
- 104: Elli
- ... historical Jewish holiday Chanukah offers, commemorating liberation from foreign oppression" Elli was privileged in that she was able to identify with this significant hope. This dramatically boosted her chance of survival. Ellis survival during the holocaust is partially do to Elli beginning to be proud to be a Jew this originated within the walls of the Nagymagyar ghetto before she was surrounded by massive persecution. It was extremely important to feel ... as luck was in this situation. Elli also received privileges because of her looks in the ghetto, when the young Hungarian soldier rescued her poems, which were destined to be burnt. Even though after the Holocaust she did not attempt to recover these poems, this is another strong example of her looks as well as luck coming in handy. A further incident, which is conclusive evidence behind other factors being more ... critical condition "If mother were to die, I won't be able to maintain my will to survive". This clearly emphasizes that factors other than Ellis Jewish faith were more significant in Elli surviving the holocaust. From compiling the evidence supporting both sides above, it is quite obvious that Ellis Jewish faith was by no means as crucial as other factors namely luck, perseverance and courage. This book teaches readers ...
- 105: Kurt Vonnegut--slaughterhouse
- ... Pilgrim faced such tremendous guilt, that he spent his entire life after Dresden trying to alleviate himself of it. His guilt is in many ways comparable to the guilt felt by the survivors of the Holocaust. Many Holocaust survivors had to face their own "Why me?" question. However, many Holocaust survivors were able to reconcile their feelings of guilt or put it out of their minds. This solution was never viable for Billy Pilgrim. Billy's guilt made life so unbearable that he could ...
- 106: Night
- Night Wiesel's Night is about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but by extension, to humanity. People all over the world were devastated by this atrocious act, and there are still people today who haven't overcome the effects. One ... the young boy's neck does not break when he falls, and he suffers for over a half-hour. The suffering of the child is comparable to the suffering endured by many Jews during the Holocaust. He fought for his life, at times even seeing a bit of hope, only to be destroyed in the end. The Jews fought for everything they had, from their possessions at the beginning, to their ... a corpse." This "corpse" is Elie's body, but it has been robbed of its soul. This is similar to the loss suffered by people all over the world. Those not directly involved with the Holocaust were still alive physically, but their mind and spirit had long been dead. By the end of the war, Elie loses all of his faith in God and his fellow man, and this is ...
- 107: Armenian Genocide
- Armenian genocide If you were to overhear the words "extermination of about 50% of a population" in a conversation you would probably think that they were talking about "the" holocaust in Nazi Germany. You probably would not suspect that they were talking about Turkey and the Armenians. During the First World War, the Turks set out to annihilate the entire population of Armenians living within ... statistic itself is the fact that very few people know it happened. If you type the word genocide into an online search engine you would probably get a couple of thousand results about the Jewish Holocaust in Germany, and only a couple about the Armenian genocide. This is way out of proportion to the actual deaths that each of theses events has accounted for: The proportion is actually less than 6 ...
- 108: Elie Wiesel
- ... a “corpse” staring back at him. Elie Wiesel now lives in the United Stated under the name of Andrew Mellon. He is the Professor of Humanities at Boston University. He is also Chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Council. This organization is a nonpolitical organization that was formed to educate people of the crimes put forth on the Jewish people during the Holocaust (Chaimberlin 14). Works Cited Chamberlin, Brewster, and Marcia Feldman eds. The Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps 1945. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C, 1987. Wiesel, Elie. Night . Bantam Books: New York, 1989 .
- 109: Auschwitz 2
- How could all this have happened? This is one of the many questions associated with the Holocaust. The Third Reich of no doubt on of the world s largest and most feared empires. It could have easily overthrown the Roman Empire and was the most worthy adversary of the British Empire. The ... of the Main Commission for the investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. Deniers acknowledge that some Jews were incarcerated in places such as Auschwitz, but they maintain, as they did at the trial of a Holocaust denier in Canada, it was equipped with "all the luxuries of a country club, including a swimming pool, a dance hall and recreational facilities." Some Jews may have died, they said, but this was the ...
- 110: Benito Mussolini
- ... and redifine Italy's interests drastically. Even his own people had come to hate him. The era of Mussolini has had a profound effect on present views. It involves being a major part in the Holocaust, Taking over the Itailian Government to his Socialistic Views. The Holocaust involved the killing of millions of Jewish people, and the conquering of surrounding countries. It has played an important part of keeping harmful revolutionists from taking over, and has showed the affects of dictatorships. He ...
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