Nikolaus “Klaus” Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg, a district of Bonn, on October 25, 1913 (JVL). Both of his parents were teachers at the school he had attended for most of his life. His father was a very abusive alcoholic who had served in the First World War. Shot in the neck at Verdun, the elder Nikolaus Barbie had come home a broken man. He was very harsh and demanding of his children and wife. After the death of his father in 1933, Klaus was drafted into the Reichsarbeitsdienst, or Nazi Labor Service, because he had no money to continue his studies. Klaus volunteered for a six month stint in Schleswig-Holstein at a work camp.
Barbie joined the Nazi Party on September 26, 1935. He joined the SS soon thereafter and underwent rigorous training to join the Sicherbeitsdienst, the Security Detail of the SS. Life was very fast-paced in the SS and left little time for anything else. His first assignment in Berlin was as an assistant in one of the departments of the SD headquarters. In just a few weeks he was sent to the Police headquarters in Alexanderplatz to undergo training. In 1937 he graduated from the SD school in Bernau and was then sent to complete his special leadership training in Berlin Charlottenburg (HRP).
A rising star in the SD, Barbie was promoted to SS-Untersturmfuhrer on April 20, 1940 and married Regine Willms five days later (HRP). Less than a week after his marriage he was on the move with his SD attachment again. May 29, 1940, his attachment was officially posted to Holland to serve under Willy Lages in the arrest of Jews and German political refugees. They were soon transferred to Amsterdam where the first glimpses of the monster that was Klaus Barbie began to shine through.
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...he was the man who betrayed Resistance leader Jean Moulin, however, strangely two weeks after the arrest of Hardy, Jean Moulin was captured during a resistance meeting held in a Doctor’s private surgery in Caluire. (HRP)
Barbie tortured Moulin for days before sending him back to the heart of Germany as directed by the . The SS officers shoved hot needles under his fingernails, slammed his knuckles in doors until they broke, handcuffed him so tightly that the bones in his wrists were crushed, and beat him until he went until a coma. After that, Barbie would display Moulin’s body in his office whenever he knew other resistance members would be drug in for questioning. It was an important step for him to crush their morale. Seeing the face of their resistance broken and bruised as they were led into Barbie’s hell would be enough to make any man talk. Following
...saw the image as artistic, subsequent events compel us to try and see the image of the Polish girl with Nazis as journalism. In this endeavor, we must uncover as much as possible about the surrounding context. As much as we can, we need to know this girl's particular story. Without a name, date, place, or relevant data, this girl would fall even further backwards into the chapters of unrecorded history.
In The Barbie Doll, the author writes about a girl' s life. The author starts off by describing her childhood. She was given dolls and toys like any other girl and she also wore hints of lipstick. This girl was healthy and rather intelligent. Even though she had possessed many good traits she was still looked at by others as "the girl with a big nose and fat legs". She exercised, dieted and smiled as much as possible to please those around her. She became tired of pleasing everyone else and decided to commit suicide. During her funeral those who she had tried to please in the past were the ones to comment about how beautiful she looked. Finally she had received the praise she was longing for.
In Marge Piercy’s, “Barbie Doll,” we see the effect that society has on the expectations of women. A woman, like the girl described in ‘Barbie Doll’, should be perfect. She should know how to cook and clean, but most importantly be attractive according to the impossible stereotypes of womanly beauty. Many women in today’s society are compared to the unrealistic life and form of the doll. The doll, throughout many years, has transformed itself from a popular toy to a role model for actual women. The extremes to which women take this role model are implicated in this short, yet truthful poem.
In 1941, the Germans had their first round-up of Jews in Amsterdam. 5 months later, the Germans summonded 16-year-old Margot Frank to report for deportation. Otto Frank, however, had contact with Dutch friends, and were able to hide out in the attic of a house. The morning after Margot was summonded they left Amsterdam and went to the attic of the house called the Secret Annexe.
Barbie has many different career paths but does she bungee jump? Well, in Ms. Hahn’s class she does. Ms. Hahn’s class has experimented to find the right amount of rubber bands to bungee Barbie without her “dying” on not going very far. This paper will discuss the description of project and choices, a justification for the model, an outcome description, an outcome explanation, and the final analysis.
Such a mastermind behind the Nazis force was once a child with a difficult life. During most of his childhood, he lived a very reserved and different life from others. On April 20, 1889, Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, a town located near the borders of Austria-Hungary. As a son of fifty-two year old Alois Schickelgruber Hitler and his third wife, Klara Hitler, a twenty-eight year old peasant girl, Adolf Hitler was a resentful and disgruntled child. Growing up with lack of affection from his strictly father, Hitler’s hostility became deeply toward him over the years. However, he was very attached to his mother, who was a kind and hardworking woman. Even though Hitler’s grades in elementary school were good, he did not satisfy his harsh father with poor m...
Imagine being a 5 year old girl playing with baby dolls and brushing your Barbie doll’s hair and feeling fat. A 5 year old feeling fat sounds crazy, right? Well with the influence Barbie has had for years is causing girls younger and younger to feel that their body is not “perfect”. Eating disorders, unrealistic expectations, and self-confidence are all at jeopardy once a young girl is rewarded with her first Barbie doll.
In “Barbie-Q,” Sandra Cisneros chooses a particular point of view in order to communicate the central points of this story. The story is narrated by one of the two young girls who are the main characters. The story begins with the following: “Yours is the one with mean eyes and a ponytail.” “Mine is the one with bubble hair.” (Cisneros 576) This clearly shows that the narrator is indeed one of the girls. Another part of the story reads, “Every time the same story. Your Barbie is roommates with my Barbie, and my Barbie’s boyfriend comes over and your Barbie steals him,” (576) This again shows that the narrator is one of the young girls because she uses words like mine and yours. There are also many other instances throughout the story that prove she is the narrator.
On April 20, 1889 at 6:30 PM little Adolf Hitler drew his first breath. He was born to Alois and Kara Hitler. Alois was a civil servant and Kara stayed at home. In 1895 Adolf stayed six months in front of a Benedictine monastery. The monasteries coat of arms was the swastika, which Hitler eventually adopted as the Nazis sign (Adolf Hitler’s Childhood). The monastery intrigued and influenced his desire to become a priest. When Hitler started secondary school in 1900 he wanted to become an artist, but his dad wanted him to be a civil servant (Reams). In 1903 Hitler’s father died of pleural hemorrhage removing the pressure to become a civil Servant (Adolf Hitler’s Childhood). He quit school at the age of sixteen and moved to Vienna in 1906. He lived off his fathers’ inheritance and an orphan’s pension, but was broke by 1909. He wandered Vienna as a homeless person, sleeping somewhere new each night (Adolf Hitler’s Childhood). It was this time when he began harboring his hatred for Jews. Surprisingly enough, two of his best friends were Jewish and he was jealous of Jewish art dealers and performers (Reams). Hitler’s childhood is crucial to understanding why he was such a hateful man in his adulthood.
“Mengele began his career at Auschwitz in the spring of 1943 as the medical officer responsible for Birenau’s ‘Gypsy Camp’ “. (Josef Mengele) Within the next couple of weeks, ...
Barbie is a fashion doll manufactured by the American toy-company Mattel, Inc. and launched in March 1959. American businesswoman Ruth Handler is credited with the creation of the doll using a German doll called Bild Lilli as her inspiration.
Rudolf Hoss was one of the three commandants of Auschwitz. Hoss was born on November 25, 1900. When Hoss was younger he wanted to become a Priest; however, after his father died in World War I, he decided that he did not want to be a Priest anymore ("Rudolf Höss"). Since Hoss ended his plans to become a Priest, in 1916 he joined the German Army. While apart of the German Army, Hoss was “wounded three times and was twice awarded the Iron Cross” (Bulow, Louis). It was not until 1922, Hoss met Adolf Hitler in which he immediately joined the Nazi Party. Shortly after joining the Nazi Party, Hoss was sentenced to ten years in prison for helping with the assassination of Walter Kadow (Höss, Rudolf). Hoss was released early as part of the general amnesty. Shortly after being released from prison in 1928, Hoss joined the Schutzstaffel (SS) and on “August 1, 1938, Hoss was appointed as adjutant of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp until his appointment as commandant of the newly-built camp in Auschwitz in early 1940” ("Rudolf Höss").
In essence, Barbie teaches girls not only that their options are endless, but also that it’s very possible to pursue a career and not give up your individual identity. “Through their [her children’s] play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.” Ruth Handler had big plans for this little doll when she came up with the idea, and has since provided a creative outlet for little girls everywhere to act out their hopes and dreams.
She loved to play sports, she was fascinated by animals and nature, and she was interested in romance (7). She stayed in Munich for most of her childhood, where she studied medicine at Lyceum University(3). Her first job, in fact, was at a medical office, but soon after she left there, she obtained a job at Heinrich Hoffman’s Photo Studio, where she worked as a personal assistant for him. It was here that she met Hitler. After she met Hitler, her love and affection for him only seemed to grow each day.