She was living in Bielitz, Poland, where she was born, and she reacts with terror as she watches her neighbors meet the invading Nazis with happiness. They were trying to hide the fact of war from Gerda’s father because he was sick and they didn’t want to worry him. When their town was invaded they couldn’t keep it a secret from him any more. Bad things started happening to the Jews, and the Nazis were taking Jewish men. In October, Gerda’s brother Arthur, was forced to leave with a Nazi and all of the other young men in town.
The investigation will address the question from a positivist approach, analyzing various sources, including books, websites and documentaries. The two sources selected for evaluation, The Storm Of War by Andrew Roberts, and How Hitler could have won World War II: The Fatal Errors That Lead To Nazi defeat, by Alexander Bevin, will be evaluated for their origins, purposes, values and limitations. B: Summary of Evidence “The Stalingrad campaign in Russia in 1942 is one of the most poignant examples ever recorded of a ruler engineering his own destruction” (Bevin 145). The campaign started with Operation Blau. Blau was the next step in Operation Barbarossa, created to focus on the invasion of the Caucasus and Southern Russia in the summer and autumn months (Preston 132).
They were then sent to Auschwitz, where the first separation of the family occurred. In October of 1944, Anne and Margot were transferred from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen near Bergen, Germany. The concentration camp was nothing like Auschwitz, where there were gas chambers. People in Bergen-Belsen were commonly killed by getting shot, starving to death, being hung, or died from an untreated disease. Anne and Margot Frank were named deceased in March of 1945, just weeks before the concentration camp was freed.
The German military in Ardennes was beaten after heavy fighting called the Battle of the Bulge. Even though Hitler was faced with defeat, he insisted that every German city, every village, and "every square meter" be defended or left behind as "scorched earth." On April 30, Hitler committed suicide in a Berlin bunker. Berlin fell to the Soviet forces on May 2. About 8 million Germans were dead.
On May seventh 1915 there was a very sad tragic day for 128 Americans and families. A “merchant” ship known as the Lusitania was sailing close to the shore where German U-boats like to hang around and was torpedoed and had many people die from an explosion. The British still to this day blame it all on the Germans. But as I go on in my paper you will realize that Germany was justified to sink the boat. Fist off, the Germans had warned them weeks maybe even months back, that if any ships consulting or flying the British flag will be torpedoed after all passengers are off the ship; and this was published in the NEW YORK TIMES and all newspapers throughout the country.
When most Americans think of World War 2, they usually think of D-Day, or the pacific. When schools teach of it, they teach of the Maginot line, and the British efforts in fighting the Nazis, with a token reference to the Russian resistance in the east. This is ironic, as the eastern front had more casualties then any other country had in both world wars combined. The Eastern Front in World War 2, was one of the bloodiest, worst conflicts in history, both for the soldiers, and innocent civilians. World War 2 started off on September first of 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany.
Who’s to Blame? : An Analytical Look at the U.S/ British Participation in the Destruction of the Lusitania The attack on the cruise liner ship the Lusitania is an event in history that continues to create controversies about its fall to a German U-boat torpedo on May 7th, 1915. The Germans have been single-handedly blamed for the attack and its actions were seen as completely unjustifiable. The day after the attack, The New York Times declared: “From the Department of State must go to Berlin, the demand that Germans will no longer make war like savages drunk with blood and that they should cease to seek the attainment of their ends by the assassination of non-combatants and neutrals…” (War by Assassination). What upset the nation mostly
The Holocaust is one of the most crucial un humane things of all time. Hitler , a guy who wanted to have a pure Aryan race, went to extreme measures to do that. He decided that all mentally ill, gypsies, Jews & non supporters of Nazism should be elimated from the German population. To do this , he created what is called a Concentration Camp. At a meeting in January 1941, it was decided that these people need to be eliminated !
The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler played a main role in the start and fight of World War II. Germany, led by the Nazis invaded many countries but after Poland was invaded, a World War broke out. The War was lost by the Germans in May of 1945; East Europe was occupied by Soviets. Soviets hated the Germans so many people were expelled from their places and fled. This included the Nazis.
Web. 14 Oct. 2012. <http://www.authentichistory.com/1946-1960/1-cworigins/>. This is a Primary Source from Authentic History cite, it explains the Berlin blockade and how Stalin blocked all passage ways to cut food and supplies to the non-soviet sectors of Berlin. This is another one of Stalin’s idea to cause commotion in