Summary Of Teenagers Against Hitler

In retaliation to Jews for killing a German policeman in self defense on July 31, 1940 the nazis carried out a public mass execution(“Holocaust”). This day was later named “Bloody Wednesday”. They were tortured by anxiety, were insecure of the present, torn between hope and despair, and felt helpless. There were many people who were persecuted during the Holocaust that weren’t Jewish: spouses of Jews, Roma Gypsies, resisters, priests and pastor, Jehovah Witnesses, political enemies, homosexuals, the disabled, and African-German descent. Spouses of Jews had to choose between getting a divorce or being sent to concentration camps along with their Jewish Spouse.

The famous Polish ghetto of Warsaw uprising was cited by Jack Fischel and other Holocaust historians as one of the many armed Jewish resistance. The inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto took up arms against a superior German army, and were able to hold off this superior army at bay for at least a month. Although they were defeated, their action inspired other ghettos and death camps like Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor to rebel . Jack Fischel cites Elise Wiesel who said “ The question is not why all Jews did not fight, but how so many of them did. Tormented, beaten starved, where did they find the strength –spiritual and physical- to resist” (Fischel 1998) .

An evil disgusting dictator named Adolf Hitler built concentration camps and tortured and killed millions and millions of innocent people including men, women, and children. Jewish People were told that they would be living in a better place. But it was the opposite. In concentration camps, Jewish people were kept in small crowded cells filled with strangers and very little room for sleep and privacy.

Because of Hitler 's actions over 11 million were killed, 1 million of them being children. I think that the Holocaust was horrible and wrong and hopefully we will not have to experience anything like this again. I learned a lot from the books Night and The Book Thief. They made me realize how horrible the Holocaust was and what it was like to experience it. The Holocaust was a gruesome time where millions were killed, people were tortured, they were used in experiments and families were separated.

The Nazis killed millions of innocent children only because they were Jews. Additionally, The SS hanged a young boy, a pipel, because he and other men sabotaged a factory machine, “But the third rope was still moving: the child, too light, was still breathing… And so remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and death, writhing before our eyes. And we were forced to look at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp The Nazis thought concentration camps were a good way to detain individuals, one of the largest and most outrageous concentration camps was known as Auschwitz, millions of people died and few survived. Auschwitz had three major death camps, Auschwitz I was where medical and chemical experiments were done. Poland’s first and largest concentration camp, established in 1940 by SS authorities was known as Auschwitz. It was a detention center used by the Nazi Regimes as a way to keep political prisoners, suspected enemies and others not supportive of Nazi Germany together. People sent to Auschwitz were used as forced laborers for the war and other jobs.

The book Night by Elie Wiesel portrays him as a young boy living and surviving through one of the most horrific moments in history, the Nazis and all the concentration camps including Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald. As a young boy Elie grew up in Sighet, a small town in Romania. Elie and the rest of the town, including his father mother and siblings were captured by the Germans and were taken to many of the concentration camps. While at the camps Elie was left with his father and experienced many of the horrors of the camps. Throughout the book Elie and his father saw some of the awful things that happened at the camps including people burned, hanged, murdered, beaten, starved, and put to work under terrible conditions.

This means that a leader must have no mercy and punish hard to keep their people in line. This philosophy applies quite a lot to Hitler, for example, Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass). On the night of November 9, 1938, violence and hatred against Jews broke out across the German Reich and thousands of Jews were captured and killed. The morning after the massacres, 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, which was a harsh punishment. De Nacht der langen Messer (The night of the long knives) is another example and was a purge that took place in Germany in which Nazi soldiers carried out numerous political homicides on 77 leading figures of the left-wing Strasserist faction of the Nazi Party.

The paradox of being half ugly is shown all throughout Hitler 's actions. In WWII the entire Jewish population was the target for Hitler and his Nazis party. This led to millions of jews being persecuted and killed. One example of the ugliness of the war would be the discrimination and the hatred of other races. While in power Hitler created concentration camps to contain Jews and people not of German background.

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Matt Ford, an associate news editor at The Atlantic, in his article “The Ethics of Baby Hitler” (2015) contends that even if he were given permission, he would not kill Hitler as a baby, maintaining that eradication of Hitler not only would violate his morals but also might change the course of history. He begins with The New York Times Magazine poll surveying whether its readers would kill Hitler as a baby to then start developing his stance that he would not; in following paragraphs, Ford compares this question to a similar ethical dilemma, “the trolley problem,” and provides other, more ethical solutions to prevent Hitler’s ascendancy to power; finally, he discusses that it is likely that the German political ideologies would have generated

Hitler’s Reasons and Motives for the Holocaust The most devastating time this world has ever seen happened in 1940. Throughout the 1920s to the 1930s is when Hitler decided he was going to kill and traumatize all the Jewish people. He continued planning until the 1940s, he gathered together with a large group that agreed with killing Jewish people. During this time of misery a lot of people were wondering what was going on in Adolf Hitler’s head, and some to this day still wonder why he did this treacherous thing. When his mother had terminal breast cancer her doctor was Jewish and she ended up dying, numerous people questioned if he still had anger.

On January 30, 1933, darkness roamed all over in Germany. The world’s massive genocide occurred: the Holocaust. The Holocaust, led by the great Nazi party, frightened the sight of many people. Although, many events contributed towards the Holocaust, the Nazis prejudice ways, powerful government, and persuasive mouths lead to the Holocaust because persuasion by the powerful Nazi regime created enmity in Germany, towards the people that the Nazis disregarded.

A Day in a Nazi Concentration Camp Soon after Adolf Hitler’s appointment to chancellor in 1933, the construction of concentration camps began in Germany (“Introduction to the Holocaust”). The Nazis then began to build detention facilities to house those who they believed were lesser than them, such as Jews, homosexuals, Socialists, and Gypsies (“Concentration Camps”). Dachau was the first concentration camp set up by the Nazies. Twenty two main concentration camps had been built by the end of World War II along with 1,200 affiliate camps (“Nazi Camps”). Arrival at concentration camps was brutal.