1. Long-Term Consequences of World War II
The third terrible father-son relationship Eliezer saw was near the end when everybody was packed into the train leaving Gleiwitz they stopped in a German township and somebody on the road threw a piece of bread into the train and one son, named Meir, beat his own father to death over the piece of bread. ...
As Germany searched the world for band-aids and tissues to heal her national wounds after a brutalizing treaty of Versailles, a young man was lurking in the shadows plotting his rise to power. This young man by the name of Hitler planned to bring Germany wealth and world power. Soon he would lead...
During the reign of Nazi Germany between the years of 1942 and 1944 a widespread system of coastal defense and fortifications known as the Atlantic Wall was built beside the shoreline of Scandinavia as well as central Europe as a form of protection against a foreseen attack from the Allies on Nazi-c...
Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau-am-Inn along the Bavarian-German border. His father, Alois, was an Austrian customs official who had come from a poor peasant background. Hitler's early youth was spent in the city of Linz in upper Austria that lies beside the Danube River. Hitle...
Oskar Schindler Oskar Schindler was a wealthy German industrialist, who made much of his wealth by employing Jewish men and women in his various factories. In the Movie "Schindler's List" it starts off with Schindler is a restaurant with many high ranking Nazi officers eating there. He starts off ...
In the book Night, by Elie Wiesel, life is precious and worth fighting for, under any conditions. While Eliezer and his father went through the torture of the Nazi concentration camps, they never gave up hope that they were going to get out of there alive. If one of them every thought that they we...
Schindler's List Oskar Schindler was a wealthy German industrialist, who made much of his wealth by employing Jewish men and women in his various factories. In the movie Schindler's List,? it starts off with Schindler in a restaurant with many high ranking Nazi officers eating there. He start...
The events that occurred before and during the time of Adolf Hitler's political career played a huge role in his rise to power. There are speculations as to whether or not he would have come into power without these particular circumstances. The economics and sentiments that were brewing during the ...
The holocaust during the early 1940's caused much destruction. The film The Pianist is a historically based film that captivates the audience with its intense, riveting scenes. The film outlines Hitler's policies against the Jewish race during the holocaust. It focuses on one particular Jewish famil...
The name Adolph Hitler sends a chill down any person's spine, no matter what religion or ethnicity. A household name, Hitler led the genocide, or mass killing of a specific group of people, in a movement known as the Holocaust. How did Hitler gain the support of so many Germans and turn a liberal democratic government into a totalitarian dictatorship? How did Hitler convince people that he was the right man to lead Germany to victory? Germany's chaotic period worked to Hitler's benefit and allowed him to make severe changes, which was virtually most of the reason that Hitler cam...
Courageous and a fighter for freedom, Nancy Wake was one of the most extraordinary people of the 20th Century. She was a key figure in the French resistance movement and risked her life to undermine the Nazi occupation of France during World War II. Yet, it has only been in the last 20 years or so,...
"All the roads of the Gestapo lead to Ponar. And Ponar is death. Let us not go like "sheep to the slaughter. "Brothers! Better to fall as free fighters than to live at the mercy of murderers."- Abba Kovner, leader of Nakam The Holocaust was the deliberate, bureaucratic, state-supported oppression a...