Holocaust Guilt
World War II profoundly affected American society and culture, not least because of the Nazi genocide of European Jews. In his 1993 speech at the dedication of the United States Holoca...
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Holocaust
Over the span of four nights, between April 16 and 19, 1978, approximately 120 million Americans watched at least some of an NBC miniseries that graphically portrayed the genocide of six mil...
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Holocaust
The word holocaust is derived from the biblical Greek term holocauston, meaning a "burnt offering" made in sacrifice to God. The term came to be widely used in the early 1970s ...
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Holocaust
A number of philosophical issues arise relating to the destruction of most of the Jewish community in Europe in the twentieth century by the Nazis and their allies. This event has been label...
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Should the Holocaust be taught in schools? Yes, I think that that they should teach it in schools because they need to know what the Jews went through. They need to know what the Holocaust is ab...
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The holocaust was a very horrific and tragic event. I thought that my seminar was very interesting to the audience for this reason. It allowed the audience to hear recounts from the survivors of this...
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There are many reasons behind why the Holocaust happened. First of all, Germany was in a state of depression. They had lost the war, inflation was huge, cities were in shambles, and people everywhere ...
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There were the purges of Stalin. There were the killing fields of Pol Pot. There was the "Cultural Revolution" of Mao Zedong. All of these occurrences significantly affected their respective countries...
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Six million Jews died during the Holocaust. Despite the number of Jews that were killed thousands were saved by men and women in Europe. The Holocaust lasted from 1938-1945, during World War II...
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In Europe between 1939 and 1945, Hitler and the Nazis proposed the "Final Solution," which was to systematically exterminate all the Jews in Europe because they felt that the Jews were genetically...
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Many times in history it is evident that with something inhumane comes something humane. An archetypal example is the Holocaust, its immediate aftermath showed not only the worst in humanity, but also...
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The sheer scale of the Holocaust disaster is very difficult for historians to comment on because of the inconceivable brutality of the event. It is such a sensitive issue for historians because many p...
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The Holocaust, just the title makes people automatically think of Hitler. But what is the Holocaust? Basically, the holocaust was the killing of about 4.1 to 6.0 million Jews. Why the Jews? Exactly w...
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Differences among groups have often led to conflict, one so terrible that millions of innocent people were forced out of their homes and thrown into camps. They were treated as things not huma...
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The youths of nations have always rebelled against their elders. German-Jewish youth in the Weinmar Republic were no different. While many Jewish adults in Germany were going about their dail...
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The Holocaust was a systematic and state organized persecution of Jews and other targeted groups by the Nazi state during World War II. Hitler's purpose of aborting this large group of people wa...
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The Holocaust as a testament to the power of persuasion..
Through utilizing various techniques of persuasion, Hitler convinced a nation of ordinary people to assist in committing the greatest genocid...
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Although not ever body would agree, I want to argue that it is important to study the holocaust in school.
I have several reasons for arguing this point of view. My first reason is that if we know t...
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Jewish Resistance during the Shoah
From early 1930s to middle 1940s, Jews in Germany, Poland, and other parts of Europe faced discrimination from Hitler and the Nazis. They were sent to ghettos a...
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The holocaust seems like an even more inhumane thing to me at this point in time. There was no compassion shown by the Nazi troops toward the Jews. The fear and sense of hopelessness must have been ov...
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The treatment of inmates in the camps is a striking issue concerning the Nazi Treatment of Jews. The overall dehumanization of the inmates inflicted through several ongoing practices undertook by the ...
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During the Holocaust, Jews and Russians were used in experiments performed by
Nazi doctors. These experiments are extremely disturbing. In my opinion,
these `doctors' are not really doctor...
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Propaganda was an elaborate and essential tool used extensively by Hitler and the Nazi's as well as the Hutu's during their terrorizing reign of Germany and throughout Europe and the Hutu's horrific a...
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For the vast majority of the population, the word Holocaust calls upon a scene of massive loss of human life, in particular the ludicrous murder of six million Jews in the Nazi death camps of World Wa...
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During World War II, Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were in power. They persecuted lots of innocent men, women and children in an event called the Holocaust, or Shoah. Many people in the world suffered, b...
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