Fdsfsadf sdWHEREAS the media uses the historically erroneous terms "Polish concentration camp" and "Polish death camp" to describe Auschwitz and other Nazi extermination camps built by the Germans during World War II, which confuses impressionable and undereducated readers, leading them to believe that the Holocaust was executed by Poland, rather than Nazi Germany, WHEREAS these phrases are Holocaust revisionism that desecrate the memories of six million Jews from 27 countries who were murdered by Nazi Germany, WHEREAS Poland was the first country invaded by Germany, and the only country whose citizens suffered the death penalty for rescuing Jews, yet never surrendered during six years of German occupation, even though one-sixth of its population was killed in the war, approximately half of which was Christian,
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.
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.
Joshua Murgatroyd Assess the view that the holocaust was the result of a predetermined plan by the Nazi regime When discussing the Holocaust we must first define what is meant by the term holocaust. Traditionally the Holocaust usually refers to the period of the final solution, were millions of people were killed, roughly between 1942-1945 but to understand the question of whether the Holocaust was a predetermined plan one must consider anti-Semitism across the whole Nazi era, this essay will focus on the treatment of the Jewish population. There are two main schools of thought on the question which are the intentionalist who believe the Nazi’s fostered an intention to kill the Jews from an early point in time with their being a straight road to Auschwitz, this school includes historians such as Gerald Felming and Lucy Dawidowicz. The other main school is the functionalist view that there was a twisted path to Auschwitz and that the war was a key turning point in starting the Daniel Goldhagen takes the view that elimination of the Jews was a long term plan he says that “Hitler and the Nazi’s eliminationist desire was clear.” and “Nazi policy towards the Jews was eminently coherent and goal directed.”{1}The opposite view is taken by VR Berghahn who cites the circumstances of the war as the main cause for the final solution. He says “The military victories in the east and west suddenly added several millions of Jews to the number who had been unable to leave the Reich before September 1939.
Name: Anna-Maria Metodieva Session Number: 001441-001 Subject: Historical investigation Session: May 2013 Word Count: 1713 Supervisor: Boris Todorov To what extent did the Leipzig process hurt the interest of the Nazi propaganda? Plan of investigation. The question that this historical investigation tries to answer is to what extent the Leipzig process hurt the interests of Nazi propaganda. The aim is to focus on the role of Georgi Dimitrov (1882-1949) who was the main protagonist in the Leipzig process. The investigation will be based on the analysis of both primary and secondary sources, so as to be as comprehensible as possible.
“Hitler was totally to blame for World War II. Do you agree?” World War Two began in September 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany following Germany's invasion of Poland. Although the outbreak of war was triggered by Germany's invasion of Poland, the causes of the war were more complex. In 1919, Lloyd George of England, Orlando of Italy, Clemenceau of France and Woodrow Wilson from the US met to discuss how Germany was to be made to pay for the damage world war one had caused. Woodrow Wilson wanted a treaty based on his 14-point plan which he believed would bring peace to Europe.
For many, the serial number (located on the forearm) is the most unforgettable image of the Holocaust. Having come to symbolize the brutality, and dehumanization attempt of the Nazis, most of what is known about them stem from personal accounts of Jewish survivors. Initially, the main method of identifying the Jewish population was through the use badges. Reinhard Heydrich was the first to recommend that Jews be forced to wear badges following the Kristallnacht in November 1938. The German government made badges mandatory in Poland in November 1939.
From John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939), to movies today like American History X (1999), and South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (1999), racism seems to be drawing audiences to the movie theatre. These movies push the limit as far as they can be pushed. Racism is a part of everyone’s lives, whether anyone will admit or not, that is still the question. We learn in high school about our country’s problems with slavery, and how the African-Americans overcome and are treated equal under the United States Constitution. We learn the hardships of the Jewish religion through Adolf Hitler and the holocaust in Germany during World War II.
Chaz Stouffer Professor Herlihy Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Milgram Experiment Essay Milgram Experiment After WWII a major experiment was tended to for the reason to study how someone would obey orders under certain circumstances. There were many actors, interests, institutions, and events which went along with the experiment and with the war. The actors that the historical situation Milgram is responding to are: Nazis, Germans, and the Jews. The Nazis’ interests are to exterminate the Jews and to respond to their supervisors orders. The Germans’ interests are to obey Nazis orders so they would not have to be at fault for being against the laws of Hitler.
So it all goes back to helping not hurting the people of Germany. The Soviets have had many attempts to take practical control over the entire city of Berlin, but this only helped the British and United States make clever plans like the Marshall Plan and the decision of the Airlift. The Berlin Blockade lasted from June 24th, 1948 to May 12, 1949, but still long enough to have killed many starving civilians. The Marshall plan in my opinion helped the most because $13 billion in economic and technical assistance were given to help the recovery of the European countries that had joined in the Organization for European Economic Co-operation. After all this happened in result to the Berlin Blockade, the Soviets started limiting their efforts to take control because they knew that other dominate forces like the United States and the Soviet Union and its