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- 121: NAZISM
- ... took power in Germany, the Nazis issued a degree, ordering the compulsory retirement of "non-Aryans" from the civil service. This edict, petty in itself, was the first spark in what was to become the Holocaust, one of the most ghastly episodes in the modern history of mankind. Before he campaign against the Jews was halted by the defeat of Germany, something like 11 million people had been slaughtered in the name of Nazi racial purity. The Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust. Millions of Russians, Poles, gypsies and other "subhumans" were also murdered. But Jews were the favored targets--first and foremost. It took the Nazis some time to work up to the full fury of their ...
- 122: Night
- ... to the teenage boy who left Sighet almost a year earlier. Night is a memoir exquisitely written. Wiesels eloquence makes his descriptions seem terrifyingly real and repulsive. It is a book about what the Holocaust did, not just to the Jews, but to humanity. People all over the world found themselves affected by this atrocious act. Even today, there are a number of survivors who are tormented by their experience ... is a spokesperson for all those who cannot bear to speak and to pass the message on to us, the next generation. We are the ones who are obliged to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. We must take advantage of his eloquence and its importance, which is never to forget, in order never to let this happen again.
- 123: Did The Western World Do Enoug
- ... Jew. When they came for the Catholics, I did not speak, for I am not a Catholic. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak." -On the Wall at the Holocaust Museum in Washington It is impossible to learn about the Holocaust and the Second World War without the question of how it possibly could have happened arising, and along with that question comes another. The question of whether or not the Western World did enough to ...
- 124: Anne Frank
- ... Jews went through. By remembering, it is hoped something like this will never happen again. As Anne said in her diary, "In spite of everything, I still believe, people are truly good at heart". The Holocaust was the almost complete destruction of European Jews by Nazi Germany. When Nazi regime came to power in Germany in 1933, it immediately began to take systematic measures against Jews. The Nazi Party, government agencies ... By the end of the war in 1945, millions of Jews-as wee as Slavs, Roma, homosexuals, Jehovahs Witnesses, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazis-had been killed or had died in the Holocaust. In my opinion Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl is a very sad, distressing book. It revels the life of a young innocent girl who is forced into hiding from the Nazis because ...
- 125: Irish Potato Famine
- ... average size fell to less than 15 acres." The potato became the staple of the peasant's existence, because it was easy to plant, and required little attention. The Irish viewed the situation as a holocaust, yet had no power to do anything about it. "There was no famine. There can be no famine in a country overflowing with food." Such was the thoughts of thousands of Irish throughout this time ... the Irish have still not regained the population which they were once at. "The English administration of Ireland during the famine was a colossal crime against the human race." The English covered up a gross holocaust, and to this day the truth is not known to many. British apologists would do well to ponder the words of the great British writer William Makepiece Thackeray who characterized British colonialism in Ireland as ...
- 126: The War of Freedom of Expression
- The War of Freedom of Expression "Taking on anti-Semites and Holocaust deniers in the sanctified courtroom environment is like responding to someone who calls your mother a prostitute. By defending you raise the question that maybe she really was" Anonymous source drawn from Weiman and Win ... it. If we are debating it that means that society recognizes the potential problems. As long as society recognizes the potential problems we will never be subject to the same conditions that led to the holocaust in World War Two Germany.
- 127: Genocide
- ... many times in recorded history. The best known example in this century was the attempt by Nazi Germany during the 1930's and 1940's to destroy the Jewish population of Europe, known as the Holocaust. By the end of World War II, 6 million Jews had been killed in Nazi concentration camps. The known objective of the Nazi rule was Jewish extinction. In November 1938, shortly after the assassination of ... In 1944 the camp was photographed by Allied reconnaissance aircraft in search of industrial targets. It's factories, but not it's gas chambers, were bombed. When the war ended, the Jewish dead in the Holocaust were more than 5 million: about 3 million in killing centers and other camps, 1.4 million in shooting operations, and more than 600,000 in ghettos. The most common form of discrimination in the ...
- 128: Adolf Hitler
- ... Germany. Part of his goal had been accomplished though. He had killed two-thirds of all the Jews in Europe. Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, committed suicide on April 30th, 1945. ____________________ 1. http://www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/adolf-hitler.shtml Who Was Adolf Hitler? A Speech By Adolf Hitler "My first and foremost task..." "Once I really am in power, my first and foremost task will be the ... hitler.html 3. http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/index.htm 4. http://www.chesco.com/~artman/hitler.html 5. http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/h/hitler-adolf/hitler-1922.html 6. http://www.holocaust-history.org/short-essays/adolf-hitler.shtml Word Count: 1432
- 129: The Nazis and Their Rise to Power and Downfall
- ... took power in Germany, the Nazis issued a degree, ordering the compulsory retirement of "non-Aryans" from the civil service. This edict, petty in itself, was the first spark in what was to become the Holocaust, one of the most ghastly episodes in the modern history of mankind. Before he campaign against the Jews was halted by the defeat of Germany, something like 11 million people had been slaughtered in the name of Nazi racial purity. The Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust. Millions of Russians, Poles, gypsies and other "subhumans" were also murdered. But Jews were the favored targets--first and foremost. It took the Nazis some time to work up to the full fury of their ...
- 130: Hitler, Nazis, and The National Socialist German Workers' Party
- ... took power in Germany, the Nazis issued a degree, ordering the compulsory retirement of "non-Aryans" from the civil service. This edict, petty in itself, was the first spark in what was to become the Holocaust, one of the most ghastly episodes in the modern history of mankind. Before he campaign against the Jews was halted by the defeat of Germany, something like 11 million people had been slaughtered in the name of Nazi racial purity. The Jews were not the only victims of the Holocaust. Millions of Russians, Poles, gypsies and other "subhumans" were also murdered. But Jews were the favored targets--first and foremost. It took the Nazis some time to work up to the full fury of their ...
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