Another great example of devaluation of life was "The Night of Broken Glass." ... In Night by Elie Wiesel, he describes the camp and his first night, "Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. ... (Night pg. 46). Wiesel described the horrors of the concentration camps, and how his life had become a long night, waiting to get out of hell. ...

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One night Elie felt someone suffocating him. ... "Too weak to overcome him, he had the idea of calling Meir Katz" (Night 96). ... Eighteen and forty" (Night 28). ... "The deportees were soon forgotten" (Night 4). ... (Night 81-90). ...

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"It refers to the fragments of shattered window glass that littered the sidewalks in front of Jewish shops that had been vandalized during the night." (Steinweis, 1) Kristallnacht, a night most people in the world would rather forget. ... "That night, Goebbels gave the speech at the reception. ... As we distinguish that night many Jewish people were pulled out of their houses in the middle of the night and directed to concentration camps. ...

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One night in 1938, Hitler sent a message out to all police head quarters throughout Germany, stating that terrorizing the Jews would start to take place on a night and burning of all Jewish homes was allowed. That night was called Kristallnacht, which is Night of Broken Glass. ...

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The rats were so bad that if a prisoners died in the middle of the night, the rats would have eaten him to the point where recognition was impossible. ... They also had to bring out the bodies of anyone who had died during the night and hold them up to be counted. ... They had to stand outside for hours at a time in the freezing snow and sleet for roll call every morning and every night. ...

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Jews couldn't compete for Germany nor could they actively support the Germans in the games. 1938 saw Kristallnacht, roughly translated as the Night of Broken Glass, provoked by the assassination of a member of the German Embassy in Paris by a young Jewish man, Kristallnacht was an attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, despite massive losses on the part of the Jews, The German government blamed them for it and demanded that Reparations be paid for damages. ...

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The Holocaust Ann frank History has had a great influence on art, whether it's literature, theatre or cinema. Tragically, the Holocaust has been the subject of many books and movies. The Diary of Anne Frank is the diary of a young girl captured in the time period of the Holocaust. Anne Fran...

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David Novak, a Jewish theologian, once said "The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it." The Holocaust has been described as the largest, most inhumane genocide of all-time. Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 and the rise of the Nazi party ...

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"Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be t...

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Elie Wiesel's novel Night, is about his own family's struggle to survive the terrifying years of the early 1940's. ... At night she would scream that there was a fire, but sure enough, they were always false alarms. ...

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The rise of the Nazi Party and its leader, Adolf Hitler, during the 1920s was no coincidence. The world, especially Germany, was ripe for dictatorship following the Great War. The Treaty of Versailles crippled Germany and laid the foundation for another World War. Germany, ravaged by war, was fac...

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Due to the Enabling Act it allowed Hitler to have the Nazi in charge of the government, banned all trade unions and political parties except for the Nazi, killed all his enemies on the Night of Long Knives, and was the cause of 11 million deaths. ...

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To what extent could Nazi Germany be considered a totalitarian state in the Period 1933-45? Any consideration of the extent to which Nazi Germany could be considered a totalitarian state in the period 1933-45 involves the application and evaluation of political models or "typologies" to Nazi his...

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Propaganda is a biased point of view, which is promoted to influence peoples actions and opinions. Propaganda in Nazi Germany is mainly used for encouraging their ideology and manipulating people forming fear and hatred. In Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. On February 27th 1...

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He ordered the SA leaders, including Ferdinand von Bredow, Georg von Detten, Karl Ernst, Hans Hayn, Edmund Heines, Hans Peter von Heydebreck, Ernst Röhm, Kurt von Schleicher, Gregor Strasser, and Julius Uhl as well as 75 others, to be imprisoned and killed on June 30, 1934 also known as the Night of the Long Knives.9 After the death of the German President Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler declared himself the Führer, ultimate leader. ...

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Robert G. L. Waite The Psychopathic God: Adolph Hitler In Robert G. L. Waite's book, entitled, The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, he delves deep into the mind of one of the world's most notorious and destructive rulers of all time. He examines his words, speeches, and behaviors and attempts...

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The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelba...

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Adolf Hitler did not live a very long life, but during his time he caused such a great deal of death and destruction that his actions still have an effect on the world nearly 50 years later. People ask what could've happen to this small sickly boy during his childhood that would've led him do such h...

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When one hears the name Adolf Hitler, they think of the Holocaust, the Nazi Party of Germany, and his brainwashing of certain young males he called the Aryan race, among other atrocities. Adolf was an Austrian-born German politician who led the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1...

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Andrew Salamon: Surviving as a Child During the Holocaust The Holocaust is easily known to be one of greatest tragedies of the 20th century. Never had the world seen such devastation to not only land but to culture and people. The Nazi movement, not started but encouraged by the strong and hate...

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After the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles was established. Germany was greatly affected by this because under the treaty, they were to follow some major changes financially, politically, militarily and territorially. Because of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany accepted the War Guilt Claus...

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Nazi Germany regulated and controlled the art produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they embodied the values they wished to indoctrinate into the German people. The notion of "volk" (people) and "blut und boden" (soil and blood) was championed in paintings to glorify an idealized rural Germany an...

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When I was first given this assignment, I would have to say that I have never been more uninterested in doing homework in my life. I've never been interested in history of any kind, which would explain my failures to participate in class and so when I first stepped into the Museum of Tolerance I did...

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This essay will attempt to prove that by the end of 1934 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party had begun a campaign, which could have ultimately turned Germany into a totalitarian state. Hitler became Fuhrer in 1934 and from there he continued his policy of Gleischaltung or co-ordination, which had begun, w...

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Propaganda in Nazi Germany Pegah Ghassemi English 1 12/11/00 Propaganda in Nazi Germany In the period of time around the Second World War, the German people's heads were infiltered with Nazi Propaganda.. Little by little the German population was stripped away of their judgement and morality by being brainwashed by Hitler and the Nazi party with propaganda. Propaganda played a very big role in controlling and dictating the German population during the Second World War. Hitler used it "to control the press as well as all other means of expression-radio, film, art, and literat...

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