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Gypsies in the Holocaust, 2004.
A discussion of the suffering experienced by the Gypsy population in Europe at the hands of the Nazis.
2,108 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This eight-page paper presents a detailed examination about the Gypsies in the Holocaust. The writer explores the genocide of the Gypsies and the fact that schools and others rarely teach or examine the plight of the Gypsies during that time as the Jewish plight is taught or explored. The writer argues that the Gypsies self-imposed lifestyle and distancing from society in general was the foundational reason for the "blind eye" when it came to what happened to them during the Holocaust.
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"The Gypsies of the world were also targeted by the Holocaust and were also the subject of rounding up and being killed. For the most part, classrooms rarely mention this fact as they look into the events of the time and the horrors that occurred. Experts have a hard time agreeing on a reason for the passing over of the genocide of the Gypsies in most classroom settings. When one begins to study the situation however, a pattern begins to form. Gypsies, by and large, shut themselves off from the rest of the world. Their very culture is about seclusion and withdrawal, and when one studies the treatment of the Gypsies during that time one can see how the current attitude of withdrawal came about."
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"Albert Speer: His Battle with Truth", 2004.
Review of Gitta Sereny's biographical account of the life of Albert Speer.
1,195 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper presents a positive review of Gitta Sereney's book about Adolph Hitler's personal architect and close friend, Albert Speer. The paper looks at the quality of the source material Sereny uses for her book, how Sereny is able to get into the psyche of Speer and adeptly depict his character, and what Sereny's objectives were in writing the book.
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"Steeped in controversy and tainted by his legacy as Hitler?s personal architect and close friend, Albert Speer is a difficult historical figure to portray and to pinpoint. Gitta Sereny explores the life and the mind of this complex man with brilliant insight, historical awareness, and sensitivity, as she examines the surprising moral conflicts that Speer faced later in his life, especially after the Nuremberg trials. As the only member of Hitler?s inner circle to be spared from the death penalty, Speer had ample time before his death in 1981 to reflect on his role in Nazi atrocities. Although Speer ostensibly never killed a soul, nor did he outwardly perform any act of violence or hatred, he nevertheless supported and loved the man who ordered the brutal deaths of millions of Jews as well as Catholics, gypsies, and homosexuals."
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Pope Pius XII: A Man of Peace?, 2004.
This paper describes the life of Pope Pius XII (Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli) and questions his motivation in not stopping the atrocities associated with WWII.
3,225 words (approx. 12.9 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper explains that journalists, statesmen, and historians claim that, during World War II, the Pope remained impassive and silent, despite the fact that he knew about the atrocities committed by the Germans. The author reports that, years after he died, it was discovered that the Pope was close to publishing a major encyclical on racism; but the question remains if it was just lost within the bureaucracies, or if it was purposely lost by Pacelli or someone else who did not want to rock the boat. The paper stresses that, finally, on Christmas Eve 1944, when the outcome of the war was decided, the Pope made a statement condemning the war, but not the atrocities.
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"When he assumed the highest office, Pope XII had to decide what to do with the prior pope?s encyclical. ?The decision was momentous, because Humani Generis Unitas would finally, and publicly, have the church defend the hounded Jews by explicitly condemning the Nazis? anti-Semitism and calling for the cessation of the German prosecution of the Jews?. Within the report, Pope Pius XI said, ?It becomes clear that the struggle of racial purity ends by uniquely the struggle against the Jews. Save for its systemic cruelty, this struggle is no different in true motives and methods from prosecutions everywhere carried out against the Jews since antiquity."
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Genocide, 2002.
A look at the definition of genocide and its use under Hitler in Europe and Suharto in Indonesia.
1,836 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper explores the notion of genocide and offers different historical examples outlining the nature of genocide and how it affects the world and different communities. It specifically analyzes the genocide that took place in Indonesia under Suharto's rule and compares and contrasts Suharto with Hitler. It tries to offer explanations as to why genocide occurs, especially after the Holocaust in World War II.
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"Indonesia is a country that has suffered through a series of tragic mass killings ever since the rebellion of 1965. Indonesia is made up of several islands that form one nation. The national composition of Indonesia is severely diverse and is made up of people from over 300 ethnic groups who speak over 250 languages that cover 13, 700 islands. With so much instability and almost no national unification, Indonesia is a difficult country to have any authority over. Indonesia gained independence in 1949 from the Dutch East India Company and from that emerged two great political parties: the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the Indonesian National Party (PNI)."
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State-Sponsored Mass Murder, 2003.
Compares and contrasts two cases of state-sponsored genocide.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, $ 71.95
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The paper compares the Holocaust of the Nazi regime and the Stalinist purge in the U.S.S.R. It compares the extreme form of Fascism under Hitler and the extreme form of Bolshevism under Stalin.
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"This research compares and contrasts two cases of state-sponsored mass murder in the 20th century: the Holocaust, which refers to the state-sponsored murder in Europe of some 12 million people, 6 million of whom were Jews, during the Nazi regime; and the ..."
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"The Reader", 2003.
Analyzes Bernhard Schlink's novel.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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Examines the issue of German guilt for the Holocaust and how that guilt affected subsequent generations. Discusses the protagonist, Michael, as inheritor of collective guilt and examines his guilt over his relationship with Hanna.
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"In the novel The Reader, author Bernhard Schlink explores the issue of German guilt for the Holocaust and how that guilt affects subsequent generations who ask who is responsible, who participate in the guilt even though they were not there, and who in ..."
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Inflation and Nazism, 2003.
Examines the German economy from 1919-1939.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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Discusses the post-World War I German economy, the continuation of a wartime inflationary trend, the economic revival in the later 1920s, the impact of the 1929 American stock market crash, and the resulting economic decline. Considers economic crisis in Germany.
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"World War I was essentially a contest of mutual exhaustion: moral, human, and economic. France had been come close to the breaking point in 1917, and Russia had been driven past it, leading to the ...."
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"Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl", 2003.
Considers the book as a document of the Holocaust and of adolescence.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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Discusses the development of a young Jewish girl under traumatic circumstances, how she came to know herself as a daughter, a sister, a maturing woman, and a romantic and sexual being.
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"Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl has long been considered a remarkable document for two distinct reasons: one the one hand, the Diary is an intimate portrait of the Holocaust seen from the eyes of a young ..."
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"Night" vs. "One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich", 2003.
A critical analysis of comparisons and contrasts in works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Elie Wiesel.
1,488 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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In this paper, the oppressive regimes that reached their apogee during the Second World War are brought to light with personal anecdotes from two individuals who were reduced to prisoners. Ivan Denisovich, who was sent to a Soviet gulag for a crime he didn't commit, and Elie Wiesel, whose only crime was his race, have very similar stories taking place in two regimes that were mortal enemies. The all-too-familiar similarities between Stalin and Hitler's regimes are showcased in this work.
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"One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Night, by Elie Wiesel, are two works that have moved many people for half a century. These two books are very lean and concise works that utilize emotional and powerful words strung together to weave a story of triumph over adversity. In less than two-hundred pages, the reader gains a greater perspective on how the human spirit can survive during tough times; the influence of these two works is so powerful that the two authors had received Nobel prizes. However, even with the many similarities, there are many differences as well, and through analysis of the conditions of both stories, the worlds of these two individual authors can be better understood."
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American Support of the Holocaust, 2002.
An examination of U.S. involvement in the Holocaust during World War II.
3,870 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 10 sources, APA, $ 105.95
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This paper discusses how, at a time when the American government refused to open immigration up to the fleeing European Jews, many of the country?s most influential men were actively supporting Hitler. It looks at how American anti-Semitism at the time dominated everything from government agencies to Olympic athletics. It attempts to show how the government of a country, which hosted a network of powerful, anti-Semitic men, would fail to change its own anti-Semitic ways by looking at the some CEOs and major politicians involved with the U.S. side of the German Nazi movement.
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"The U.S. Government, IBM, Ford Motor Company, colleges and universities, the Catholic Church and the 1936 U.S. Olympic Team all had influential leaders that manipulated power in a way that not only allowed the Holocaust, but also supported it. Without these men and other Americans, the scale of Hitler?s final solution would not have been possible. Because of personal beliefs and actions, powerful organizations played influential roles in the United States, but often what they were doing was contrary to the pro-Allied and pro-Jew stance America was believed to have taken. These men and their organizations sometimes remained neutral to Hitler, but were more often actively supporting his final solution."
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The Mind of "Ordinary" Men, 2003.
The paper considers the origins of the Holocaust in terms of the men who carried out the "final solution."
4,841 words (approx. 19.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 123.95
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Using Browning's "Ordinary Men" and Rhode's "Masters of Death", the author explores the origins of the men who were responsible for the Holocaust, the SS-Einsatzgruppen and Reserve Police Battalion 101. The author believes that two different dynamics that drove these men to kill millions. Peer pressure and the situation drove some, but ultimately, an active decision to kill was required of every man.
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"In an unfortunate relationship, the most intriguing events throughout the course of humanity are the most brutal and horrific. The Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis and Hitler?s Aryan race was quite certainly the most appalling event in modern history and the question of ?how did it happen? still stands today. Two recent works, Masters of Death and Ordinary Men, by Richard Rhodes and Christopher Browning, respectively, attempt to answer this query. Though both authors discuss the physical actualization of the mass murders, the more important topic between both is the work of Hitler?s most dastardly henchmen: the unlikely Heinrich Himmler?s pet SS-Einsatzgruppen and Reserve Police Battalion 101. However, the question is by no means of a single man?Hitler was quite obviously insane?but rather of the men who acted directly as the hand of God to cleanse the Reich. The Wehrmacht invaded territory after territory with devastating effect, but the Reichsf?hrer?s (Himmler?s) Einsatzkommandos and the Police Battalions followed with a single mission: stability through purification. The fundamental difference between Rhodes?s account and Browning?s is whether or not these men made any active decision to embody their orders and become pure executioners. Rhodes believes that the common soldiers?the men who actually dispatched the victims of the cleansing?at one point or another believed what they were doing was justified in some manner and thereby made a positive decision to take steps against civilians and accept execution as their profession. Browning asserts that the men of the Reserve Police Battalion were simply thrust into their acts of violence and lacked the time to consider their orders as heinous, a position that allowed many of them to continue the atrocities after being propelled into the fray. Essentially the Einsatzgruppen were bred for and accepted the role of slaughterers while the Reserve Police Battalion simply found themselves caught-up in a frenzy of death and continued on."
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Nazi Medicine, 2003.
An examination of how the Nazis did horrendous and unspeakable experiments on their prisoners for the sole purpose of advancing medical technology of their SS military.
1,134 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper looks at how the Holocaust killed millions of Jews, Gypsies, and other ethnicities that didn?t fit the description of the super-race and how only the blond-haired, blue-eyed Aryans were accepted under Hitler?s order of ethnic cleansing. It examines how one of Adolf Hitler?s orders as leader of all Germany was to corral a large group of Jewish, Gypsy, and Russian prisoners on several different occasions and perform experiments on them as if they were animals or worse. It shows how prisoners were forced into deadly tests for the sole purpose of providing research information for the future technology and training of the Nazi military and how experiments were performed on the basis of high altitudes, extreme temperatures, disease, infection, genetics, battle wounds, and fertility.
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"The freezing experiments performed by the SS doctors were just as disturbing as any other experiment. Men were strapped down to stretchers and lowered in large tubs of ice water or stuck outside in negative-degree weather. They were left until their body was at its limit, and then brought back inside. The experimentation began with the method of reheating the prisoners? bodies. Some were injected with boiling water into their veins. Most died after their internal organs melted over. Some were placed into warm baths and the temperatures were slowly increased. This seemed to be the most successful, though some died of shock if the temperature increased too rapidly."
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Nazi Victory in Germany, 2003.
An analysis of Hitler's rise to power and how the Nazi party gained power in Germany.
3,918 words (approx. 15.7 pages), 27 sources, MLA, $ 106.95
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This paper explains that there are a number of factors that led to the Nazi seizure of power. The paper examines the events leading up to the Nazi party's victory, including: the democratic Weimar Republic had always governed on shaky ground; the Depression of 1929 only gave opposition parties more force with which to crush it and create an authoritarian state. The paper then explores the methods used by Hitler to take advantage of the current situation and gain control of the government. Finally the paper looks at Hitler?s extraordinary use of propaganda to further destroy democracy and sway the disorientated masses toward the Right.
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"Through the use of unprecedented political exploitation, the Nazis were able to seize power in a country shattered by the failure of democracy and in the depths of a national crisis. The deep-seated weaknesses of the Weimar Republic were easily exploited in plunging the country into political crisis, and the Depression provided an essential backdrop for the radicalisation of the people toward extremist fringe parties. Hitler?s clever political manoeuvres both before and after 1929, which included joining the force against the Young Plan, and redirecting his energies toward rural Germany, combined with his unprecedented use of propaganda, however, proved to be the most essential factors in establishing the political force of the Nazis."
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Anti-Semitism in 19th Century Europe, 2003.
An examination of the reasons behind anti-Semitism in France and Russia in the 19th century.
4,301 words (approx. 17.2 pages), 32 sources, APA, $ 113.95
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This paper examines the history of anti-Semitism in Europe during the 19th century. The paper explores the similarities between the anti-Semitic prejudices that engulfed France and Russia in the late nineteenth century and then shows how in France, anti-Semitism was largely a right-wing Catholic movement, peppered with socialist support in the aftermath capitalistic change. The paper also provides a broad definition of anti-Semitism in general.
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"Anti-Semitism is not an ?identical phenomenon? similar to all countries, but rather based on individual national histories. The anti-Semitic prejudices that emerged in France and Russia in the late nineteenth century were both preceded by defeat in war, economic instability, and political change; circumstances exploited by the Judeo-phobic press and literature. However, while French anti-Semitism was derived from traditional religious dogmatism, and encouraged by the potent political force of anti-Republican Catholicism, the Russian experience was based on an ideological imperialism that was promoted by the government, and common to all ?true? Russians."
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"Inferno" and "Night", 2003.
A comparison of Dante's "Inferno" and Elie Wiesel's "Night".
1,767 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses how Dante's "Inferno" and Elie Wiesel's "Night" might seem like two disparate pieces of literature, but the author finds that three main themes unify them. The paper shows how both the characters undergo a long, arduous journey, as told in the first person. The narrations also tell of how they persevered through these hard times. Finally, they tell of how it wasn't necessarily what they did that led to their journey; it was what they didn't do.
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"Night by Elie Wiesel and Inferno by Dante Aligheri can both be described as a journey through Hell. In their own ways, these two pieces of literature involve the main character?s trials and tribulations as they go through an unforeseen situation and how their perseverance ultimately leads them away from certain damnation. The further along they progress, there are many factors that would make the average person succumb to their own fate, but they remain faithful that they will make their way through. The three foremost parallels in Night and Inferno are the main characters journey through hell, the repercussions of not being proactive, and how determination is chief in the quest for freedom."
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"Schindler's List", 2002.
Examines the use of light in this film about the Holocaust.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 26.95
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Uses the artistic elements in "Schindler's List" to show how light and shadow suggest meaning in the film. Schindler begins the story trying to start a factory to make money, but he becomes fond of the Jews he employs and does not want the Jews to die. This is a story of the Holocaust designed into a film.
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"Schindler's List", 2002.
A review of the movie, "Schindler's List", and a discussion of the morality of Schindler's deeds.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper presents an overview of the movie, "Schindler's List", and addresses the question: "Was Schindler ethical?" In addition, it discusses various current groups that act in less than ethical ways, believing it is for the good of the whole.
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Judeo - Christian Dialogue After the Holocaust, 2002.
A discussion on Jewish-Christian relationships after the holocaust through a review of "After Auschwitz" by Richard Rubinstein and "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This undergraduate level paper discusses the issue of whether or not it is possible to be a Judeo - Christian dialogue given the events that took place during the holocaust. Using selections from "After Auschwitz" by Richard Rubinstein, and "Night" by Elie Wiesel, the paper determines that though Christian complicity did not help the Jewish cause during the Nazi era, the events of the past cannot necessarily dictate the dialogues of the future.
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A History of Anti-Semitism, 2002.
An overview of anti-semitism from biblical times to the Nazi Holocaust.
4,900 words (approx. 19.6 pages), 14 sources, $ 178.95
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This paper examines and analyzes anti-Semitism in the New Testament, after Constantine and the Edict, during the Crusades of the Middle Ages, and in the Nazi Holocaust, and then evaluates the consequences for the Jewish people of these policies.
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