Zachary Fedewa Ms. J Williams 5th Period English II 2 April 2013 Holocaust Profit Makers Many companies contributed to the assistance needed for the Nazis throughout the Holocaust but it is no secret that some companies take up more responsibility than others for the attempted extermination of the Jews. While some companies merely provided unharmful supplies others produced specific and dangerous instruments that could be clearly utilized for mass murder. Many questions still remain today such as who was responsible, who benefited, and who gave out compensation to the victims of the Holocaust. Fortunately, thorough research has provided the sufficient information to answer these questions. Primarily, companies that aided the Nazis received
Blockades Both countries used their navies to blockade the enemy ports to stop supplies getting through. Britain relied on other countries to bring in food and supplies and Germany knew if their u-boats stopped this trade then Britain would starve. February 1915 Germany said that all merchant ships entering/leaving Britain would be sunk. This was optimistic as there were 15000 sailings a week to and from British ports and the Germans had only 21 u-boats. However by 1917 the Germans had 200 u-boats and were sinking 1 in 4 of the ships heading to Britain.
There were over 10% of African-Americans below the poverty line. Unemployment was a major factor for the north. The war in 1914-1918 actually helped the north to develop ways in which African-Americans could work, the north was well known for factories developing goods for the war effort. A lot of African-Americans were forced to do ‘slave jobs’ which would have been jobs such as working as servants, carpenters or blacksmiths in the houses. Urban housing shortages were also acute as people were coming to the cities for jobs which would lead to the city being over crowded.
Farben company's establishment of a synthetic rubber plant in 1942 at Auschwitz III (Monowitz). The incarceration of increasing numbers of people in the concentration camps assured at least the quantity of the labor supply even as the brutality of the regimen inside the camps depleted the number of available laborers. The SS used gas chambers and other means to "weed out" prisoners who were no longer able to work.
Born in Poland in 1877, Chaim Rumkowski was a respected businessman and orphanage owner prior to being appointed as head of Judenrat, the Jewish Elder Council, in the Lodz ghetto. Located in central Poland, The Lodz ghetto held one of the largest Jewish communities in Europe. It was established in 1940 and held 230,000 starving and freezing Jews confined to its gated community. Without farming and land to produce food, malnourishment and starvation plagued the ghetto. Something had to be done.
Located in Cracow, Poland, Auschwitz took its new home. Surrounded by barbed wire fences and SS guard towers, Auschwitz was known as the largest camp of all the concentration camps. Unlike most camps, Auschwitz was large in size because it was not only an extermination camp but also a work camp. When entering that gates of Auschwitz, a banner made of iron hung over the entrance that read: “Arbeit Macht Frei” which translates to “Work Will Set You Free”. Prisoners that came to Auschwitz were not only Jewish.
The SS sent around 1,600 female prisoners and 300 male prisoners to their deaths at Bernberg, which was another part of Ravensbrück, in the spring of 1942; around half of these prisoners were Jewish, at least 25 were Gypsies, and at least 13 were Jehovah's Witnesses. Euthanasia literally translates to “good death”. This was the inducement of a painless death for a chronically or terminally ill individual who would otherwise suffer. Many of the experiments they ran at the camps ended in death and or permanent physical damage. Some of the experiments were transplanting bones, sterilization, and treating infections with sulfanilamide.
In the end of Job’s story he is rewarded with double everything he had lost before and had a happy life until his mid 100’s. Holocaust victims suffered everyday with trying to escape the Nazi’s torture. For the majority of inmates the suffering of Auschwitz was soul-destroying. Primo Levi, author of “If this is Man” a memoir of Levi’s 11 month stay at Auschwitz, stated it this way in imagining what the Nazis might say to their victims: “‘We, the master race, are your destroyers, but you are no better than we are; if we so wish and we do wish, we can destroy not only your bodies but also your souls, just as we have destroyed ours’ (Levi 1988, 53–4). Levi’s suicide seemed to demonstrate that the reach of the Nazis was unlimited.
Shadow of Hate Assignment Explain which story or section in the documentary was the most powerful/ shocking and why. Japanese American arrived in the early 1900’s. They did a lot for the country by transforming American agriculture in the west. They worked hard to become successful farmers and businessmen. Envy against these innocent women and men was degrading they were given a week to sell properties and businesses. They were sent to internment camps over 100,000 were ordered by government custody and were announced as disloyal.
* The Jews who were sent to Auschwitz, and then assigned to work at Monowitz, * better chance of survival because the factory workers were considered too valuable to send to the gas chambers * three Auschwitz camps showed a total of 67,012 prisoners * more than half were the workers in the Buna plant at Monowitz * Prisoners worked more slowly than the German construction workers, even with being beaten. This was a source of anger and dissatisfaction to factory management, and lead to repeated requests that camp authorities increase the numbers of SS men and energetic capos to supervise the prisoners * 45 subcamps in the surrounding area * January 18, 1945, all prisoners in Monowitz who were deemed healthy enough to walk were evacuated from the camp and sent on a death march to the Gleiwitz (Gliwice) a subcamp near the Czech border * remaining prisoners were liberated on January 27, 1945 by