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Two different perspectives surrounding the holocaust
Two different perspectives surrounding the holocaust
Two different perspectives surrounding the holocaust
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Paul Grueninger, a Swiss hero of the Holocaust
The Holocaust was a twentieth century massacre which led to the deaths of
approximately six million Jews, who were killed by the Nazi regime, and its allies. Five
million citizens who were not Jewish were killed by the Nazi Party, due to assisting the
Jews, which makes a total of eleven-million deaths in German land.
Paul Grueninger, a Swiss man living during the dark times of World War II, spent
his life as a border police commander at the edge of Austria and Germany. The officer
was forty-seven, when he started seeing the famous capital letter “J” stamped in the
passports of the Jewish. As the border police commander, he controls who comes into
the country, and who gets
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Although he was told to
reject the Jewish people, he did not comply with his orders, and was able to allow the
escapers out of the country, and into Switzerland. To let the desperate Jewish people,
he would also need to falsely change their registrations, so that it would look as if they
had escaped before March in 1938. Since these dates were changed, it had made the
Jewish people who had left the country legal citizens. Therefore, Grueninger had to
turn in false reports on who had entered or exited the country, and how many people
there were who did enter or exit. Grueninger also helped the refugees in need by
buying them winter clothing, due to the fact that they had to leave all of their belongings
behind, and he even payed for it with his own money.
In January, 1939, the Germans had found out about Paul Grueninger’s actions in
helping the Jewish people, and because of them, he was put on trial. The trial ended up
lasting over two years, ending in March of 1941. Although what he did was the right
thing to do, he was determined guilty of breach of duty. His punishment, forced him to
forfeit his retirement funds, his benefits were suspended, and he was fined the
they did somehow find out it was him then they would definitley punish him until he
sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case against him was largely
At a time of loss, the German people needed a reason to rebuild their spirits. The Jews became a national target even though Hitler’s theory could not be proven. Even as a Jew, he accused the Jews people for Germany’s defeat in order to rally the people against a group of people Hitler despised. The story-telling of the Jews’ wickedness distracts the Germans from realizing the terror Holocaust. Millions of Jewish people died because Hitler said they caused the downfall of Germany. Innocent lives were taken. The death of millions mark the rise of Hitler. He sets the stage for the largest massacre in
There are also a few dates where a huge amount of Jews died. This is important to the topic because it shows the devastation killing squads can cause. During the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the killing squads followed the German Army. Their orders were to destroy all Jews, Communist, and Gypsies. “By the end of 1942, over a million Soviet Jews died” (USHMM). This is a very large amount of people to die in only half a year. During the summer of 1942, 137,346 Jews are killed according to S.S Karl Jaegers report. Almost all Jews in small towns in Lithuania are killed. 35,000 survivors are put into forced labor (USHMM). There was no good outcome for the Jews. It was either die or be put into labor. The facts and figures show the massive number of killed Jews. The killings would even be bigger if the time span was to increase.
Bonhoeffer was almost killed, but was lucky as his life was spared, because he had a relative who stood high in the government; but then this relative was himself implicated in anti-Nazi plots. On Sunday 8
Dec 7, 1941, until his resignation from the government on July 19, 1944, as a result of the
because he used the Jews for his own good. The Jews ran his business, and
At the start of World War II, his father was sent away, captured by Germans, and didn’t return until the war’s end.
them they must leave the country for their own safety and the safety of others. All the
They were set free from the camps, but whether they actually received their freedom is
... the regime began to make concrete plans to overthrow it. Stalingrad was the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.
6 million Jews by the Nazi regime from the years 1933 to 1945. It took
... was before the Supreme Court, the final appeal. He'd been sentenced to five years in prison for refusing to kill "slopes.” This statement illustrates the moral decay of the society. A criminal was likely to get a shorter jail term than a person who had refused to join the military and aid in killings. What is right is considered a serious offence.
It is estimated that approximately eleven-million people were murdered during the holocaust. Of these eleven-million people around six million of them were Jewish. Jewish people were not the only ones Adolf Hitler was targeting; Hitler persecuted Jehovah 's Witnesses, Gypsies, homosexuals, and the mentally challenged. Hitler wanted to achieve absolute ethnic and racial purity in the country, so if you were anything other than what he considered to be perfect(blonde hair and blue eyed) you were not accepted by him and faced the chance of being killed. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Party and of Germany, from 1921-1945. He also was a soldier in World War One and joined the German Workers Party. Mass shootings were
in the war in between 1939 and the end of 1941, was largely based on a