things are required. The timber must be dry and combustible‚ there needs to be a spark that ignites it‚ and external conditions have to be favorable—not too damp‚ perhaps some wind” (Bergen 1). What conditions could have led to such atrocities? The Holocaust was an event of global proportions; it involved people from all areas of life and was the result of complex social‚ political‚ and economic conditions that stemmed from the legacies of antisemitism throughout Europe‚ European imperialism‚ and World
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hardships they were presented with. In “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “Resistance During the Holocaust”‚ it explains how individuals would use different methods to passively resist. As a response to conflict‚ people passively resisted by maintaining hope‚ preserving culture‚ and providing safety. Many Jews in ghettos and death camps would passively resist by maintaining
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To whom this may concern‚ Being a part of the Cultural Committee that is in charge of putting on an event for Holocaust Remembrance Day‚ I believe we should not put on the production of Albert Hackett’s The Diary of Anne Frank. Although it may be the most well known Holocaust story‚ it does not exemplify the severity of the Holocaust and concentration camp experiences are not mentioned. We should put on a production that portrays the horrors of World War II and the terror of what it meant to be
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movement towards new ones. The purpose of The Great Gatsby was to show how traditional American values were abandoned and how the pursuit and desire for wealth could lead to the downfall of one’s dreams and goals in life. Happiness obtained from money is only an illusion‚ money has the power to corrupt and obscure one’s mind and lead one down the path of failure and misery. By using symbolism‚ imagery‚ and character personalities and traits‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald manipulates language to fulfill the
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To find out if Hitler’s ideas were responsible for the Holocaust one needs to understand why Hitler expressed such a detrimental hatred towards the Jews. Hitler stated that his views were first developed in Vienna between1908-1913. Hitler blamed Jews for all negative aspect in his life like his failure to attend the Vienna art academy which shows Hitler was controlled by a deep and mental hatred for Jews. Hitler started to associate Jews with Bolshevism and Socialism where he combined his hatred
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he wanted the world to have the Aryan race with the Holocaust‚ and America did this to the Japanese during the Japanese internment. The Holocaust and the Japanese internment are very different from one another yet they are both very similar to each other. The Holocaust was the systematic mass slaughter of Jews and other groups deemed inferior by the Nazis. The Holocaust began when Adolf Hitler‚ the fascist leader of Germany that would lead the world into World War II. He and his followers proclaimed
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Who do you think the Holocaust is truly to blame for? As many people would say‚ the true guilty one is Adolf Hitler‚ the man who commanded the death of millions. However‚ bystanders were just as guilty as the perpetrators for not helping the victims in times of need. This is because the moment you become a bystander‚ you are immediately taking responsibility for what the perpetrators do. As Elie Wiesel himself said‚ “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” As you may
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1. What happened? The holocaust was the systematic extermination of over six million Jews‚ along with many black‚ gypsy‚ homosexual‚ and disabled people. It is considered one of the largest cases of genocide from modern history. Even though it started as simple discrimination‚ before long it had escalated to full blown organized murder. From 1933 all the way through 1945‚ anyone that Hitler deemed as ‘undesirable’ was annihilated. In 1933‚ there were roughly nine million Jews in Europe‚ with the
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altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed” -Elie Wiesel. Millions of heads were enforced in the Holocaust‚ Elie Wiesel was one of the few survivors. Mr. Wiesel survived through the genocide known as the Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred from 1939 to 1945 in Europe. The mass annihilation was lead by Adolf Hitler. Hitler had one capital goal‚ to be the ultimate ruler. While Germany was experiencing difficult times‚ Hitler took the opportunity to
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AMERICAN HOLOCAUST The other side of the story to our great American history is not as pretty as they teach us in grade school. The American Holocaust by David Stannard is a novel full of live excerpts from eyewitnesses to the genocide of the American Indians. He goes as far as to describe what life was most likely like before Europeans came to the Americas and obliterated the "Paradise" so described. Columbus even wrote how beautiful the places were in which he committed acts against the Natives
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