Nazism

Eventually, after the war, Schindler was in a midlife crisis after the war due to several industry fails, bankruptcy, the verge of being arrested, and several changes in his life that caused him to be unsuccessful. A few years after the war, Schindler fled to Argentina to live on a farm with his wife, Emilie Schindler. “...until 1949, when they immigrated to Argentina. In 1957, permanently separated but not divorced from Emilie, Schindler returned alone to Germany” (Oskar Schindler United States…

“you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future’’. No matter what everything is connected from the music you listen to , too the day Hitler invaded poland. What you do now will change history. The deadliest war in human history with millions of casualties and even more civilians killed, all caused by one man, Adolf Hitler. Hitler got his hatred for the jews during WW1 on the western…

The Führer In 1889 a boy name Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria. The boy wanted to become a great painter, but despite his efforts, he received little to no recognition from his peers, and ended up living in poverty in Vienna. As a man of German descent, he came to dislike Austria referring to it as a “patchwork nation” for it had various ethnic groups. He later moved to the German city of Munich. He drifted from place to place for a while until he eventually joins in…

Following the immense political gains for the rights of women in many countries around the world by 1920, the world was left with the question: what next? Would more, social, rights be granted? Should they be? In the late 1920’s and 1930’s these questions were addressed in the rhetoric of writers as well as prominent political figures. Two separate stances when answering these questions have been exhibited in the works of influential figures at this time. The first, given by Virginia Woolf in…

“Exterminate”: Imperialism and Racial Purity in Doctor Who Remembrance of the Daleks, a four-episode serial in the twenty-fifth season of the classic science fiction show Doctor Who, pits the Doctor against one of his deadliest foes: the Daleks. For the purposes of this response, I will focus on the fourth and final episode, which depicts this alien race, despite having the somewhat comical appearance of oversized pepper shakers, as a hyperbolic analogy for the ideologies of imperialism and…

When there is an intense situation, people normally act however they benefit themselves and be safe. However, learning how to benefit everyone is important to learn. It is possible for many people to be harmed caused by one person. It is necessary for people to be informed how crucial is, to consider others too. During the Holocaust, when the Germans started to discriminate the Jews even more, people needed to where yellow stars, which is known as Star of David, in order to distinguish Jews from…

When most people think of how a political leader came to power they usually think of how that person was able to convince people that their ideas were what’s best for the nation. They will use tactics such as pointing out what the real reason behind a failing economy is and how they plan to fix it, along with saying how they’ll make the country better than before. Every candidate will appeal to the sense of pride that the people of their country have in order to get them emotionally invested. A…

A witch hunt occurs when a person or group is hunted due to accusations targeting them. Personally when hearing about this topic I was highly interested in not only what counted as a witch hunt, but what events in history could be considered as witch hunts. During world war 2 a horrific event was taking place in Europe known as the Holocaust. Families were being stripped of their rights as human beings and harassed simply for being Jewish, gay, having disabilities, etc. These people were not…

Aesop once said “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” Everyone can always do something and make a difference. Oskar Schindler, for example, made a difference in society by saving the lives of many generations to come. Schindler accomplished this by starting a company, he persuaded people to donate money into his company as investments, hiring Jews, and thus keeping them from falling to a graver fate. Granted Schindler did not use his own resources to accomplish so much, but…

Tacitus View on The German Character The author of Germany, more specifically, The German Character, was the Roman orator, Tacitus, also known as Publius Cornelius Tacitus, or Gaius Cornelius Tacitus. This great historian and prose stylist was born in ad 56 and died in c.120. Germany was written as a descriptive piece to explain the Germanic tribes on the Roman frontier of the Rhine. Tacitus uses this writing to historically introduce the Germans, and to show appreciation for the German…