Essays on Nazi Germany

The Holocaust was one of the largest mass killing of humans ever. Millions of Jewish people were killed at the hands of Nazi Germany. For almost 6 years, the Jewish people were persecuted and thrown into work camps called concentration camps. Unknown to the outside...

Children have an aura of innocence and carelessness, unless they are a child of war. No matter which side they’re on, winning or losing, the kids will witness something that’s horrible. Both the movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, and the book, Night, by...

The three major themes that occurred in the story, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, are the desire for friendship, boundaries, and the innocence of childhood. To begin, John Boyne explored the theme of friendship by having Bruno wander to the fence of the camp,...

Religion played a role throughout Elie Wiesel’s life. It shaped him into the man he would later become. His experiences throughout the Holocaust continuously tested his faith in God. He often struggled with the problem of evil in the world and would question: “if God...

Imagine you’re celebrating your sixth birthday with your family. As you are about to blow out your birthday candles, a strange man busts down the door shouting at all of you to go outside. He shoots you, father, when he questions what is happening, you...

The concentration camps are a constant reminder of World War II and the Holocaust. Concentration camps varied in tasks and cruelties inflicted upon the prisoners held there. Auschwitz is the main example of a concentration camp; it was partly owned by the company known as...

The fruition of eugenics began with Francis Galton. The term “good creation” was created to produce an elite group based on genetics. The Nazis viewed the population problem as a biological problem, specifically with the Jewish and Gypsy populations. The Nazi transformation of the medical...

During World War II, prisoners held in German concentration camps were victims to many torturous experiences. The Nazi concentration camps have been historically considered as one of the worst examples that prove how low humanity can fall. Not many circumstances show such overt disregard for...

Throughout World War Two, a number of German physicians, geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists performed torturous and often deadly experiments on thousands of unconsenting concentration camp prisoners. These experiments were primarily conducted to research the survival of military personnel, the testing of treatment and drugs, and...

In 1920 Germany’s economy began to falter. Germany had been blamed for all that went wrong in the war after World War I. The Treaty of Versailles specified that the German army was reduced to 100,000 soldiers, that they were to pay 132 billion losses...

For European Jews, the Holocaust was another link in the historic chain of anti-Semitism. The Holocaust was undoubtedly the most disastrous event in Jewish history, but it continued a pattern of persecution that peaked from the First Crusade of 1096 and persisted after the collapse...

The Holocaust occurred in 1941 and went through 1945. It took place in certain parts of Europe that resulted in the genocide of European Jews. With the popularization and growing sentiments of Anti-Semitic canard, the Nazi Party managed to murder just over six million Jews....

The 20th century stands out as the millennium that witnessed the greatest upheaval in the global social and political landscapes. The many cases of genocides and wars during this era paint a picture of a conflicted world where the elites unleash a wave of violence...

The Holocaust was the World War ll genocide of the European Jews. It was between 1941-1945. Six million Jews were murdered. During the Holocaust, it was a state-sponsored mass murder and millions of Jewish people were killed. On January 27th, it is a remembrance day...

The Holocaust Museum plays many roles in contemporary society, but their main focus is to account for the Holocaust and educate the public to improve their understanding of how the holocaust qualifies as genocide. Both are done through the combined efforts of their guided tour...

The Holocaust was a significant moment in history. It spanned from the 1930s to the 1940s. The holocaust was caused by extreme Nazi beliefs. Which has helped change the world today in both good and bad ways. The first sign of the holocaust is it...

The word “Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning: the ideological and systematic state-sponsored prosecution and mass murder...

During World War 2 (1939-1945) six million Jewish people were murdered at the hands of the German Government. The systematic killing of a large group of people that all share a particular trait is called genocide. In this case, people were murdered on the basis...

“Holocaust,” from the Greek words “holos” (whole) and “kaustos” (burned), was historically used to describe a sacrificial offering burned on an altar. Since 1945, the word has taken on a new and horrible meaning. The Nazis took their ideas from the racial-biological thinking of the...