Personal Feelings Of The Holocaust

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Holocaust Journal Entries Makayla Zonfrilli June 29, 2011 through August 4, 2011 Personal feelings of the Holocaust The Holocaust is most likely the most devastating event to have occurred throughout the world’s history. An estimate of six million Jews perished in the Holocaust along with fourteen million more other people. However this catastrophic disaster is not renown. Countries such as the Philippines, India and Thailand along with parts of Germany itself know nothing of the Holocaust and others have been convinced that it never took place. I learned this fact from three of foreign exchange students that had attended Chestnut Ridge high school alongside me this past year. Rassle Mamasubuayan one of my very best friends,…show more content…
Price selected twenty of us to accompany her to see this museum and I just happened to be one of them. When we arrived I was given a small booklet and inside was the picture of a story of a Holocaust victim. My victim was a little girl of three. She never made it. Her body was cast into a crematorium at Auschwitz. I could not wrap my head around the fact that someone could do that to an innocent small child. I felt much hatred toward Hitler and his German followers. The Holocaust museum had much to offer. We went on a tour through the museum and I had the privilege to walk with my friend Margaret Hess who speaks fluent German. This was helpful in understanding all of the signs and articles in the museum. The first exhibit we approached was an actual cattle car from Germany. When I stepped inside the cold air swept through the car and raised goose bumps on my arms. There were twenty of us in the car and it was crowded. I could not comprehend how one hundred or more people could fit into the car. Standing in the car an overwhelming sense of where I was took hold of me. It made me nauseous to stand there to know that once upon at time hundreds of Jews stood here and fought for survival, some made it and others did not. Death was the name of the feeling that washed over me as well as sadness. As I stepped from the car my sense of unease had faded but eh sense of awe and feel of death that I felt in that car will never leave…show more content…
a) Autumn 1914-Spring 1915: Alfred Hugenberg started a propaganda campaign to counter Socialist agitation. b) The Industrialist Alfred Hugenberg initiated a political Dialogue over German war goals. c) This was a failed attempt by the Conservative German military-industrial complex to gain the support of Labor for the war effort, and to put an end to Socialist anti-war agitation. d) This failed attempt by the Conservatives led to turning towards the Volkish Movement. e) Out of the Volkish Movement came the Thule Society, a Volkish movement that dotted German Landscape. This became useful to the early founders of NSDAP. f) Thus instead of NSDAP being a direct reaction to being betrayed or to the Treaty of Versailles. The NSDAP may be traced to the attempt by German Military and Industrial leadership to manipulate labor in support of the war effort. 2) 1915: Hugenberg established the Petitions of The Six Associations and of the Intellectuals who represent the war
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