Category: Nazi Germany

In 1945, after six devastating years of war, Europe’s major cities such as Warsaw, Poland, and Berlin, Germany, were left in ruins from the assaults of World War II bombardments. If cities had not been leveled, they were certainly damaged quite badly. Immediately following the war, the European economy had declined so much due to…

The Holocaust was a terrible event that killed many people. Led by Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust was an event that persecuted and killed many Jewish people. Some of these Jewish people were able to hide and survive the Holocaust. Some of them were able to make it through concentration camps and live and be freed…

World War II was the single most destructive war in the history of people. It was caused by many countries and was a direct result of the Treaty of Versailles. The Great Depression was such a troubling time and that people were willing to give up their individual rights to regain economic stability. Nations including…

Without the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact there would have been no war in Europe. To what extent is this statement accurate? Within Europe leading up to World War II, the Nazis and Soviets made the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression pacts which negligible of the pact it seems inevitable that the war would have existed as there were many…

Set against the backdrop of World War II, “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” unfolds through the innocent eyes of Bruno, an eight-year-old whose father is the commandant of a concentration camp. The forbidden friendship between Bruno and a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence serves as a poignant narrative that…

What took place in Germany more than 50 years ago that made Holocaust perpetually imprinted in the history of man? What made an entire country support and commit planned, strategic, and state-sponsored acts of genocide during this time? The extermination of approximately six million Jews during the time of Hitler happened more than half a…

Educated minds have long been puzzled by the perplexing Nazi racial ideology following the atrocities of WWII. Despite the well-known horrors suffered by Jews and other groups during this regime, the mentality that allowed such acts to occur remains a mystery to many. Maxine Kumin effectively communicates this oppressive mindset in her seemingly simple poem…

The Diary of Anne Frank stands as a poignant testament to the tumultuous life of a young girl and her family during the Holocaust. A period marked by unimaginable suffering, the Holocaust unfolded as a harrowing chapter in the history of Jewish people, with Anne Frank’s clandestine diary shedding light on the profound horrors that…

During World War II, Adolf Hitler, the dictator of Germany, oversaw a genocide that resulted in the deaths of more than 10 million people, nearly 6 million of whom were Jews. Despite his well-known anti-Semitic views, Hitler did not work alone in implementing the Holocaust. He was instrumental in organizing Nazi persecution, with figures such…

The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen describes the strategies that the Nazi party used in order to build support for their politics in a single German town in the valley of the Leine River, Northheim. The basic thesis presented by Allen presents the notion that through identifying a target audience, lower and…