There is nothing good about war, especially for soldiers, civilians and families. People feel the effects long after the war is over, because of the traumatic experiences. The worst acts of dehumanization during wars are the ill-treatment of the soldiers in World War One, the Holocaust in World War Two and the child soldiers of today. World War One was the deadliest conflict in human history with over 35 million military and civilian casualties. The soldiers bared the worst suffering through their experiences living in the trenches.
Anastasia Toth History 295 Holocaust: Final Solution Book Review: Witness to the Holocaust Witness to the Holocaust is an emotional journey, one made even more impactful because section one covers the people who were in the camps. These were the people, who saw the most death and destruction of their families. It is such a vivid description of ugly that I had to put it down on a couple of occasions and reset myself. It was almost too painful to take in, all the horror, that these survivors with stood. Take the works of Sam Bankhalter and what he said, “Once you start fighting for your life, all the ethics were gone.
Bergen-Belsen The United States has had many horrifying accident that ended up costing millions of deaths, but never like the tragic deaths that happened in Bergen-Belsen. Northwest of Celle, in between the villages of Bergen and Belsen established in 1940, Bergen-Belsen was one of the worst concentration camps in history. It was originally a detention camp, where Jews were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas. The prisoners of this concentration camp experienced such dreadful conditions in the camp, including the most primitive sanitary conditions, starvation rations, and virtual lack of medical care contributed to the enormously high mortally rates. Bergen-Belsen was divided into 8
The holocaust was a horrible and devastating time for everyone all over the world. Millions of people were murdered, tortured, and massacred, all for no reason. But these unfavorable actions preformed by the Germans did not go unpunished. In the dramatic film Judgment at Nuremburg the writer Abbey Mann proves his main argument justice should prevail over patriotism, through his dramatic screen play, and his bold characters. Although the movie is a fictional account, Judgment at Nuremburg is based on a real case called the judges trial, held before the U.S. Military Tribunal.
Today we regret the actions that we made in war and so do other countries involved. Most of the time it was all the signs and messages before they had even left. Terrible pictures of propaganda depicting life if the enemy won making everyman feel it would be there fault if they didn’t help. Posters forcing them to join and even more posters dehumanizing the enemy. This happened on both sides and led to an unrelenting hate to each other.
These camps are commonly known for their inhumane treatment of prisoners of war. People usually first hear about concentration camps with some association of Adolf Hitler and the extermination of the Jews. These camps were also called extermination camps because the Nazis mostly just slaughtered the Jews. There are many survivors who are still alive today that can tell horrifying stories of their experience in a concentration camp. Most of them have suffered some kind of physical or emotional damage from lack of food, physical abuse, or being cut off from society for so long.
The holocaust was one of the most damaging events that affected the entire world and is still affecting it today. It started because of a man named Adolf Hitler. He was the supreme power of Germany. Hitler believed that the blonde haired blue eyed Germans were the superior race and everyone else was inferior. He tortured and killed millions of people, but he targeted the Jewish people because he thought of them worthless.
In 1929, Stalin arrested over 5,000 educated Ukrainian people and they were either shot without trail or sent to prison camps in remote areas in Russia. The uneducated people were left in the Ukraine to fend for themselves. They had no one to tell them that Stalin was doing bad things. Stalin then stopped all imported food from getting in to the country and starved all the people of Ukraine. The children and elders were the weakest so they died very easily.
Hard to find job opportunities and increased crime rate. We all have learnt over the past few months, there are different types of migration, thanks to critical assignments. But the one caused due to war, is the most remorseful. No guarantee of the next meal, of a pure drop of water, of shelter. No guarantee of life.
The death camps were mentally inhumane on the prisoners; especially during the first few days because most inmates had some to all of their family taken away and killed. The camps tore families apart and people watched as their loved ones left to be killed. Elie Wiesel talks about the last time he saw his mother and sister and how when he left the train he and the others were forced into groups with, “‘Men to the left! Women to the right’ Eight words spoken quietly in differently, without emotion. Eight simple short words, yet that was the moment when I left my mother… I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever” (Wiesel 29).