Pogrom

promises to make major changes. This is how he was considered a leader of Germany. Therefore, “After the Nazi party rose to power, state-enforced racism resulted in anti-Jewish legislation, boycotts, ‘Aryanization’, and finally the Night of Broken Glass pogrom, all of which aimed to remove the Jews from German society. After the beginning of World War II, anti-Jewish policy evolved into a comprehensive plan to concentrate and eventually annihilate European Jewry.”(“The Final Solution.” United…

Mark Oppenheimer, in his thought-provoking op-ed piece titled, “Reclaiming Jew” surfaces a societal problem. Jews do not feel comfortable introducing themselves as a noun. Instead of “I am a Muslim” or “I am a Christian,” secular Jews say “I am Jewish.” It is as if using the noun is too solid and prideful, whereas the adjective feels slippery and insecure. An adjective can simply describe an aspect about something, but the noun is. The underlying question of this preference in title is: where in…

Origins of Genocide 1. Genocide is exceedingly pervasive in human history. Genocide is present in the book of Genesis of the bible. (Jones 4) It is also present in Greek culture as “...of historical events such as the Assyrian Empire’s root-and-branch depredations …. and the destruction of Melos by Athens during Peloponnesian War...” (Jones 5) Genocides also take place in Crusades in medieval era. The practical obstacles to understanding this aspect of our past are that historical records are…

France and England fought against each other in the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453). In the end, France beat England and won the Hundred Years’ War, as the tide of battle turned in favor of the French by the forces of Joan of Arc. Several reasons on why France may have beaten England were Joan of Arc, who the French attributed their succession of victories to after she repulsed the English from Orléans in 1429, and the unified relationship between France and Burgundy that drove England to an…

Adolf Hitler It doesn’t a matter if the leader is bad or good in person but the leadership was good or bad. Several leaders passed away and today they are history but few of them are still alive due to their leadership skills, achievements, movements and remarkable actions. One of the famous commander and leader in history, Adolf Hitler was born in Austria and raised up in Linz. He moved to Germany in 1931 and then joined the German workers party, forerunner of the NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a…

their surroundings and not blindly comforing to society. He is brought into the realization that the government is “making the decision about what and when to think” when the people should be doing it themselves (McGiveron). Through the vigorous pogroms implanted in the people’s lives, it crushes their ability to think critically , and question society, and replaces them with more materialistic desires and pleasures. Bradbury was able to utlize Montag 's realization of how the majority of people…

The perception of being a beggar nation is a central tenant to the level of which the Rwandan government views the positives and negatives of foreign aim. For most donors, the distribution of foreign aid is often based on good will nature desires to see growth and development in developing nations. Specifically, its focus is for the promotion of economic, social and governance development. The good intentions of foreign aid are sometimes misperceived, because of either different actors having…

The Bubonic plague is caused by a bacterium yersinia pestis that is found on the fleas of rats. The disease spread to Europe from the Far East in the 14th century along the trade routes of the silk road. The East was experiencing a great boom in trade and economics under the Mongolian Empire that Genghis Khan had built. The Silk Road saw much more use do to the Mongol conquests and the subsequent Pax Mongolica. This intracontinental trade resulted in the people of Italy seeing their first…

The Kindertransport was a series of transports that escorted children from Nazi Germany to Great Britain, and it lasted from November 9th 1938 to September 1st 1940. These transports were able to save over 10,000 Jewish children lives from the brutality of the Holocaust. The Jewish children left their homes and families, and took the journey to Great Britain where they were stationed with foster families or in group homes. Amidst these transports, there were various ways that the children were…

devastation to human civilization. Amongst atrocities recorded in human history, the Holocaust initiated by the Nazis Germany and the the Cultural Revolution by the CPC seem the most brutal and irrational. These two mass murders, the former being pogrom, genocide, or ethnic cleansing, the latter being purging of dissenters, or cultural cleansing, took place on two continents as the modern forms of violence They share striking similarities and differences. The following…