To make this argument, they reject all the evidence submitted at Nuremberg. They denounce as fabrications the genocidal intention of the Nazi state and the thousands of orders, memos, notes, and other records that document the process of destruction. When they cannot sustain arguments that documents are forged, they argue that the language in the documents has been deliberately misinterpreted. Furthermore, some Holocaust deniers insist that the Allies tortured the perpetrators into testifying about their role in the killing process and that the survivors who testified about Nazi crimes against Jews were all lying out of
The Holocaust was the result of Hitler's long held grand design to peruse a programme of annihilation against the Jews'. How Valid is this assessment of the Holocaust The validity of statements such as this has sparked great debate among historians and academics alike. Centering around the ongoing discussion of whether the Nazi government were fulfilling a long standing scheme in eradicating European Jewry, or that the Holocaust was in fact the result of unplanned incidental events This clear divide in ideology stands between two groups Intentionalists and Structuralists. While extremities of each interpretation can vary among historians, the general principles of each argument remain compatible Intentionalits are those convinced that from a relatively early period his rise To power, Adolf Hitler had schemed to kill the Jewish population in Europe. Intentionalists believe that the eradication of the Jews and ultimately the holocaust was all part of Adolf Hitler’s grand design, and that he would stop at nothing until his design was completed.
The Holocaust: Dehumanization of Innocence LaLa229 July 4, 2011 The Holocaust represents one moment in the history of the world where dehumanization is displayed. The Holocaust should have never occurred due to bigotry and hatred of Jews and other “inferior” groups and races of people, who were looked down upon by the Nazis. The Nazis deemed themselves “superior” and were cruel and heartless. The Jews, Poles, Soviet P.O.W.S., homosexual, Gypsies, disabled, mentally ill people (some German), and others were an alien threat to the so-called German community. All races and groups hated by the Nazis endured pure torture, while the Nazis were in the effect of exterminating the people.
Name Professor Course Date America Views on the Holocaust According to Abzug, many people are wondering whether Americans were heroic Nazi concentration camp liberators or pathetic bystanders to holocaust brutality and annihilation during the period 1933-45. This has been the subject of long debates on what the Americans knew about Hitler’s Final Solution to Jews Question. Nevertheless, there have been debates on what could have been the reaction of US if it had known the truth about the Nazi plan in advance and the reasons for them. Using primary sources from journalists of that time in Abzug’s America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History, this discussion explores the real context of the Holocaust situation
Many people, especially Americans, believe that Germany killed the passengers on the Lusitania for no apparent reason. Now, the government of America tries to call the incident a horrible mistake. Germany did not, however, completely act in error. Surprisingly, the Lusitania had many dark secrets. Germany sunk the Lusitania because
After World War Two (WW2) had ended and the dust began to settle over the Nazi regime, historians began to try and analyse the monstrosities that had occurred in Nazi Germany. The two first interpretations of the Holocaust that came about were intentionalism. This was the belief that without Hitler as Führer the Holocaust would never have happened. Therefore it’s no coincidence that Michael Marrus was an intentionalist historian. The other interpretation was structuralism.
The World: One Quarter Terrorist The article “Don’t Fear Islamic Law in America” by Eliyahu Ster is a short, general article about how a high percentage of people in America believe that at least some, if not all, of the Shariah Law should be prohibited in the United States because it poses a threat to the American people. Ster, an assistant professor of religious studies and history at Yale, also compares the treatment of American Muslims to that of Jews in the 19th century Europe throughout the article. The author is definitely against discrimination of any kind toward Muslims and thinks taking away their religious rights “ignores our country’s successful history of religious tolerance and assimilation.” When reading the article, I could not stop thinking to myself, “are there really that many people out there in the United States that do not have the same stand on this issue as this author?” The fact that people are
A reader with even slight knowledge of the Holocaust or of Nazi Germany, would understand that sciences practiced during the Holocaust on prisoners was inhumane and as a whole un-scientific. The fact that some of the same procedures used in a time of moral darkness, were being used in America, is unnerving. The idea that Nazis were eugenically sterilizing thousands of people for the same reasons as Americans should unsettle the reader, making them uncomfortable to condone this behavior. The text “Carrie Buck’s Daughter” by Stephen Jay Gould is a successful persuasive text because Gould uses allusions, intellectual language, comparisons, sarcasm and statistics to provoke the reader’s thoughts and make them want to agree with
The Holocaust is a very sensitive topic to talk about to this day and people still have difficulty talking about the subject due to what happened in this time period. The Holocaust is a serious part of America’s history. Although, we weren’t a part of it exactly, it was a big part of World War II. If it never happened, World War II wouldn’t be the same.
Hitler deliberately expressed his hate toward Jews and gave ample warnings, as it was all written down in his autobiography “Mein Kampf”. In 1935, the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights. Jewish rights were steadily restricted, as in many cases Jewish political and intellectual leaders were the first to be sent to concentration camps. The Night of Broken Glass, on November 9, 1938 lead to the death of approximately 100 Jews, while other 30,000 were sent to concentration camps. Jewish businesses along with almost every synagogue in Germany were damaged or completely destroyed.