Complete essay. Includes: research, quotes, websites used (sited), and word count. The Horror of Dachau Dachau is a horrific place; an estimated 35,000 prisoners died there. The camp was opened on March 20, 1933 by Henirich Himmler. Five days later, Dachau was exempted from Judicial Authority, and then the Punishments an Administrations Regulations act was passed, which meant that it was removed from judicial oversight and the SS guards would have authority over camp prisoners.
First of all, the book provided me with many, somewhat random out of context, but interesting facts about what went on outside of the fictional story of Liesel Meminger. In chronological order, the facts are as follows— 1899: Adolf Hitler was born, 1933: 90% of Germans supported Hitler, 1936: Jesse Owens won four gold medals in the Summer Olympics, 1942: Around 500 people were killed as a result of a bombing in Cologne, Germany, 1942-1943: Stalingrad, Russia was a huge target, 1943: Another bomb killed around 45,000 people in Hamburg, Germany, and a few German translations, like Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, means My Struggle, “Verzeihung” means forgiveness, “Himmel” means heaven and “Zufreidenheit” means happiness, which brings me to my next point, the vocabulary in this story.
Elie and his family were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II. He had a younger sister and two older sisters. When they got to the camps his mother and youngest sister got sent to the gas chambers. Him and his father were transferred to Buchenwald, and his dad died from starvation and he started to go crazy. Elie did not learn that his two older sisters were alive until after the war.
WHY WAS THERE AN UPRISING IN HUNGARY DURING 1956? (12 MARKS) There was an uprising in Hungary during 1956 due to several factors, starting with the appointment of the Hungarian dictator Martyas Rakoski. He ruled from 1949 – 1956 and described himself as ‘Stalin’s best pupil’, whereas the public nicknamed him ‘the bald butcher’. He was known for developing tactics that were oppressive and brutal, resulting in 2,000 deaths of Hungarian people and 387,000 being imprisoned. Some of the features from his regime included the banning of all other Non-Communist parties, Cominform beginning a reign of terror having executed many political leaders and their supporters and having Russian officials control the government.
Slawa Death March On January 20, 1945, approximately 1,000 Jewish prisoners were evacuated from Slawa camp in upper Silesia, western Poland, a region annexed to Germany. They were forced to march Southwest, and they went trough other camps adding more women to the group. On May 5, 1945, after covering 800 km the march ended in Vobary. 106 days marching through the bitter cold and snowy, with little to no food. Of the approximately 1,300 women 350 survived.
The Holocaust (from the Greek holókaustos meaning “burnt whole”) was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, lasting from 1939-1945. It was a systematic killing programme overseen by the ruling German Nazi party throughout the lands they occupied. Of the nine million Jews who had lived in Europe before the Holocaust, approximately two-thirds died. The question so often asked is: what caused this atrocity? Discrimination against Jews In the year 70 AD the Romans banished the original Jews from their homeland, Israel.
On 7 November 1938, Grynszpan a Jew who had escaped to France shot Von Rath a secretary of the German Embassy in France for denying help to Grynszpan's parents who were deported to Poland. Von Rath died on November 9th because of the injuries. What happened on Kristallnatch?. The murder of von Rath by a Jewish served as the pretext for the Nazis to begin what would end up in the Holocaust, on the night from 9th to November 10th 1938, the nazis people destroyed almost all synagogues in Germany and Austria, all businesses Jews were attacked and Jewish cemeteries were dishonored, 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps, 91 jews were killed and the rest of them tormented. The consequences of Kristallnatch, the event in Germany was rejected by various and praised by others, many governments cut off relations with Germany in protest.
Dealing on the black market, he lived in high style. In 1942 and early 1943, the Germans decimated the ghetto’s population of some 20,000 Jews through shootings and deportations. Several thousand Jews who survived the ghetto’s liquidation were taken to Plaszow, a forced labor camp run by the sadistic SS commandant Amon Leopold Goeth. Moved by the cruelties he witnessed, Schindler contrived to transfer his Jewish workers to barracks at his factory. In late summer 1944, through negotiations and bribes from his war profits, Schindler secured permission from German army and SS officers to move his workers and other endangered Jews to Bruennlitz, near his hometown of Zwittau.
* Stolypin met the terror with terror, 1144 death sentences were handed out in the period between October 1906 and May 1907. * Between 1906 and 1912 a thousand newspapers ceased publication and six hundred trade unions were forced to close. * During 1908 and 1909 the courts convicted 16,500 of political crimes of which 3600 were sentenced to death and 4,500 to hard labour in prison camps. * In 1908 political assassinations by revolutionaries had fallen to 365. Reform: * How and why did Stolypin try to reform agriculture?
It became their watchword and their legacy. Rose spent five years in various concentration camps, narrowly escaping death time after time from the hand of her tormentors. Everyone in her family was killed in the death camps except for one of her sisters and an aunt. After the war was over, she was able to find the exact place where her family was killed. Her mother, brother and her little six year old sister were buried in Treblinka under piles of sand they had to shovel