Many of the injured individuals were injured by grenades, gaseous agents, bombs, or bullets. These weapons lead to missing limbs, broken bones, and the nurses seen blood every day. Hospitals were developed, medicines were created, surgical procedures, and even the ambulance all were developed during World War One. The individuals hurt severely had to have immediate care or they would die, and most of those hurt eventually died. In the field of medicine, physicians were familiar with Louis Pasteur’s germ theory and knew of Joseph Lister’s discoveries in the fields of bacteriology and antisepsis.
Ghettos were temporary holding places for Jews. The Nazis wanted the concentration camps to exterminate the majority of the Jews, but the ghettos gave more opportunities for natural death (Byers 73). Many Jews were also forced to do labor in the ghettos, which sometimes caused natural death (Byers 73). Most Jews were moved to ghettos in the mid to late 1930’s. Lots of Jews were moved to ghettos in a “single stroke” on February 8, 1940.
Most prisoners died from exhaustion, starvation, or disease and exposure. In some of the forced-labor camps Nazi doctors would experiment on the prisoners ("Forced" 1). Those that were gay would get experimented on in order to hope to find a cure for homosexuality ("Living" 1). From 1939 to 1942 was marked the expansion of concentration camps. In September 1939 the war provided an excuse to ban the release of anyone in the concentration camps ("Labor" 1).
She watched hangings and group suicides that were too graphic to describe. She had to endure the odor of burning and decomposing bodies, gas chambers and crematoriums in full operation. For five long years she eye witnessed unreasonable beatings and starvation. She saw mothers with their dead babies in their arms who were not allowed to bury them. Their little bodies were eventually thrown in a big pile as if they were a piece of garbage.
“ That was a paragraph from my book, “white coolies”. I was a prisoner of war in World War Two, captured by the Japanese Army and held in a camp for 3 years. As a nurse, I was responsible for the treatment of patients with in the camp. Diseases such as malaria, beriberi, Bangka fever were common, many died due to the lack of food and medication. Some events were so horrific that I would never mention them again.
Many of them worked to death or died of starvation. In the last days of the Nazi regime, from 1942 to 1944, the Auschwitz camp was used as an extermination camp. That is run mainly served to prisoners of the Jewish origin. Through processes such as gas chamber, crematorium and shootings, Jewish people were executed. This period was known as the stage of final judgment.
Anja is the mother of Art and the Wife of Vladek. Being a fragile character right from the beginning, when Anja was in the Holocaust, she became increasingly ill, both physically and emotionally. Hence, even if Anja survived through all the insanity in the concentration camps, the depressions and breakdowns might have made her commit suicide. In Maus I, Spiegelman showed the reader that Vladek and Anja already developed a strong bond and this was evident throughout their time together in World War II. The couple hid in a cellar house where there was no food, Vladek said “Here Anja, chew on this.
Frida expressed her deepest feelings and thoughts through her paintings by frequently incorporating symbolic portrayals of the physical and psychological wounds she suffered. At the age of eighteen Frida was involved in a bus accident that left her with numerous injuries and psychological scars for the remainder of her life. An iron handrail impaled her abdomen, piercing her uterus, which seriously damaged her reproductive system. Her self-portraits became a dominant part of her life when she was immobile for three months after her accident. On July 4th, 1932, Frida Kahlo suffered a miscarriage in the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
Although there seemed like no way out of death camps, a few rebellions took place in some famous death camps. The method of killing the prisoners in death camps was typically poison gas. (Wikipedia, 2008) Germans use the poison gas from a chemical company called BASF. The people who were too weak to work were sent to the gas chambers to be killed. (Judaism, 2008) The gas chambers had small windows for Nazis to watch the prisoners die.
José E. Colón Serrano English 3101-2U1 December 04, 2013 In Barbara Huttman’s "A Crime of Compassion”, she develops the conflict undergone by the author, a nurse who performed euthanasia without the approval of her superior. Euthanasia in accordance to “BBC-Ethics” is the termination of life of a very sick person in order to free them from their suffering. In most cases, euthanasia is carried out because the person who is seriously ill asks for it, but there are cases where a person cannot make such request. The author was taken to the Phil Donahue show as if she was taken to court, but in the eyes of the audience she already was guilty of committing a crime. This essay will argue that Huttmann made a wise decision and did not commit a crime.