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disposed of. Although the killings could have been accomplished without state of the art technology, it seems that technology did ...

has written that he remembers his father scraping off or painting over the offending symbols (Parmet 79). Considering this backg...

Holocaust revisionists argue is that there was a specifically designed genocidal policy enacted by the Germany government. Sack ...

influence in the life of his father and a contributing factor in the suicide of his mother. Therefore, the reader comes to underst...

honest. He not only explores the evil of the Holocaust from the victims perspective, but also from the viewpoint of the ordinary G...

2006). They were seen as "a threat to Aryan genetic purity, and, ultimately, unworthy of life" (The Murder of the Handicapped, 200...

this premise had become a common notion and it persisted for centuries, something that would create more areas of persecution ("Pe...

and so there had been a religious bias after the advent of Christianity. Social animosity would grow as these two religious groups...

of German-occupied lands (Aharoni and Dietl 29). Organized deportation of Jewish peoples to the East began that summer. There is s...

is important. It suggests that Jews were victims of a campaign based solely on prejudice. Yet, it is not just during the World War...

people taking days to die of their wounds, but no one in the village believes him; their reaction is: "Hes just trying to make us ...

more difficult with each passing month. There is the prospect of starvation, as the food-aid pipeline runs short of supplies. And ...

need for eugenics based on the application of racial segmentation and views of humans considered biological inferior by the medica...

maintained the actions of the Third Reich. In researching this argument, then, it is necessary to consider way in which Hitler ac...

1997; 9). His work focuses on explaining why these people, these ordinary people, were often a part of the horrific realities. ...

Hiemer managed to use their political influence to largely overcome those advances and to call back into play the age old hatred o...

reader, who has the benefit of hindsight, to wonder why German Jews, such as the Oppermanns, did not react earlier to the Nazi thr...

the peaceful nature of the German revolution" (Bessel, 2001; 1). Clearly, in retrospect, we understand that a great deal of pr...

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

who was a Polish Catholic (Adler). He was in Auschwitz and he fell in love with a woman in the camps, Cyla Cybulska who was a Poli...

as the mentally and physically challenged; African Germans and others considered inferior were included under the law as well (Bai...

in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most ...

one of the first times that technology was harnessed to serve an ideology in this way. Many sources tell us that one of the German...

shes a mother, she and the toddler will be gassed together (Scherr). The child is stumbling after her, arms out, crying "mamma, ma...

course, there are people throughout history who did not hide their sexual preference. Also, the targeting of the gay population di...

ignored, lest genocide should reoccur. 2. Response to Eliezers first hours in Auschwitz : It is difficult to imagine the horror t...

will come to the minds of all who visit the museum after being painfully immersed into the experience is how do people begin to fo...

Western expansion. This expansion was regarded by White Americans as Manifest Destiny, while Native Americans viewed it, and right...

Christian Bible. They are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy (Rich, 1999). These are considered the Five Books of...

the United States had a god-given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific; that it was "manifest" (apparent) that it was ...