She was sprawled out on the road in front of me; her thick black hair, usually so prim and proper a tangled mess. A strange sound echoed from her throat as she twisted herself around and sat up. Blood trickled from a cut on her knee. Her lip was trembling, her breathing inconsistent. Despite a naturally dark complexion (stereotypically Jewish, Halina always said) her face seemed ashen with fear. When she saw me, she let out a choked sob and scurried backwards like a frightened crab. ‘You,’ I said, showing no signs of warmth. This being Roza Wiesniewski, I expected some snide comment in response. That was along the lines of our usual interchange. A mutual hatred we had for each other had little to do with Halina’s prejudices. It was personal. Roza Wiesniewski wasn't’t just one of the richest girls in the town, she was gifted and talented too. Everything she touched she excelled at. And if that wasn't enough, she was pretty and popular and knew it. The only thing I could beat her at was popularity. We were the class’s famous rivals, and I liked to think I came out top. Whatever, the fact remained that she hated me perhaps even more than I hated her. We were equally rude and bitchy to each other, although Roza was more skilled at saying hurtful things. So now, in the last of the evening sun, I awaited the expected comment. Only it never came. Instead Roza started audibly sobbing. I arched my eyebrows. Her, crying? She was a spoiled, stroppy brat. She didn’t cry. Only now she was. I’d never seen her looking so desperate and pathetic before. Considering, how she’d treated me in the past, there was something sickeningly satisfying about it all. ‘Please,’ she gasped, her voice little more than a pitiful sob. Except I didn’t feel pity. ‘P... ... middle of paper ... ...ar, on returning to the drawing room after a small journey up the hallway. Our previous conversation had drifted to back to me. ‘When you wanted the address, you said it was just a census.’ Oskar hesitated, working out what to say. ‘Yes I did.’ ‘You were lying?’ ‘Not exactly,’ Where anyone else would have squirmed as their falsehood became apparent, Oskar merely raised his eyebrows with the lazy arrogance I had come to adore. ‘Why? Are you complaining?’ I looked at the necklace still in my hand, drank in the fact that I was standing in the Wisniewski’s drawing room and broke into a broad grin. ‘No,’ I laughed. ‘I am certainly not complaining!’ Looking around the beautiful room, I suddenly had a large sense of elation; this feeling that we were on top, that we were superior. At that moment, all I could think was how nice it was to be German, now the Nazis had arrived.
“Well-Well, it was the holidays, which I mentioned.” She gulped a shallow breath and her eyes met the floor again. “I was home alone-Well, Jordan was here, but she hadn’t paid a glance of attention to me. She was in a rush to find her clubs, cigarettes, and some trousers for when her tournament would begin. And, I suppose all the servants were here as well, they play a bit of a key to the story…” Her breath turned shallow again when she finally looked me in the eyes. “I saw a… darker servant walk by, and he held a note in his hand. He rushed by me like he was running from a bee, and I stopped him. I asked ‘what is
“It suddenly occurred to me that my grandmother had walked around here and gazed upon this water many times, and the loneliness and agony that Hudis Shilsky felt as a Jew in the lonely southern town-- far from her mother and sisters in New York, unable to speak English, a disabled Polish immigrant whose husband had no love for her and whose dreams of seeing her children grow up in America vanished as her life drained out of her at the age of forty-six--- suddenly rose up in my blood and washed over me in waves.”
Now that she has spilt blood during the High Holy Days she is sacrificing for God and her religion. She has an epiphany that she must be “a Chosen One” (54) and a “child to lead your tribe” (55) meaning that it is up to her to bring light upon the injustices of Jews. Here the speaker has her awakening, which results in both happiness and pain. She is proud of her religion and culture but at the same time she understands the harsh reality of the outside, Non-Jewish world filled with hate. The attitude of the speaker goes from one of observation and childish thoughts (such as her preoccupation with her wool winter suit that "scratched" and was "a size to large") to realization and overall growth.
When Hitler and the Nazi Party first entered power, they proposed strict and unimaginably radical policies. Their goal as the dominant political power was to create a “pure” German society. The idea of a “pure” German society stemmed from the idea that certain racial groups and ethnicities were undesirable and inferior. With that in mind, they sought to completely eliminate, through annihilation tactics, Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, biracial children, handicapped citizens, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and any other individual(s) who opposed their radical ideologies. However, the most questionable part of these tactics was how and why the Nazis chose them. Of the many ways dictators and corrupt governments had tortured their citizens in the past, why was Hitler determined that the Einsatzgruppen, ghettos, and concentration camps were going to be the methods of choice to mass murder the Jewish people. Robert Payne notes in his book The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler that Hitler was not satisfied with a gruesome murder of the Jewish race. He preferred them to die in agony and complete humiliation. Methods of mass murder such as killing squads (the Einsatzgruppen), ghettos, and concentration camps proved themselves as the perfect final solution. These tactics would exterminate Jews at an increasing rate while removing them of their respectable status.
The warm blood trickled down his chin. It was the first warmth he’d felt in a while. The warmth fell to his hand and he looked at it through his swollen eyes. It was almost brown instead of red because of the dirt on his face. He had finally grown accustomed to the pain he’d endured for so long… In Germany, the Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler tried to establish the German “Master Race” or Aryans, and rid the world of minorities including Jews, Gypsies, the physically and mentally disabled and political opponents with the ultimate goal to conquer the world. When Hitler rose to power in 1933, the Nazis started ripping Jews from their homes and throwing them in concentration camps. With Hitler ruling Germany, the Nazi’s invaded Czechoslovakia,
Support for the Nazi party was due to the growing belief that it was a
...is day. Their lack of resolve, lack of humanity, has become synonymous with the German people of that era, and a black mark on the history of not only these people but of a world. The decisions made by the politicians, the officers, and the soldiers beneath them destroyed families, lives and civilizations. This lack of empathy for another group of people is one of the most disturbing aspects of the Imperialist Era. The German ideals would also lead to the most horrific fighting on a grand scale the world had ever seen or would ever see. An anonymous poem sums up the questions of many in just a few lines:
The Silber Medal winning biography, “Surviving Hitler," written by Andrea Warren paints picture of life for teenagers during the Holocaust, mainly by telling the story of Jack Mandelbaum. Avoiding the use of historical analysis, Warren, along with Mandelbaum’s experiences, explains how Jack, along with a few other Jewish and non-Jewish people survived.
Previously, the narrator has intimated, “She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves. They had never taken the form of struggles. They belonged to her and were her own.” Her thoughts and emotions engulf her, but she does not “struggle” with them. They “belonged to her and were her own.” She does not have to share them with anyone; conversely, she must share her life and her money with her husband and children and with the many social organizations and functions her role demands.
The first character who tells her story is Rayona. Being the last generation, she is in the bottom of the well of loneliness. After her parents separated, Rayona lives with Christine, her mother, who habitually changes her job and moves to the new place. Consequently, she never stays in any schools long enough to make some friends. Her life with Christine is also bitter. In Rayona’s opinion, Christine does not take care of her much. She said “I try to recall what Mom says when she’s sentimental and lonesome: how he was the best one, the only one, because he left her me. How I’m her sterling silver lining, the one who’ll never leave her like he did. Like she did me.” (64) She is disappointed by Christine’s care that exists only in her speech. Lacking of both friends and warm family, Rayona suffered from loneliness.
Heimlich Himmler was one of the main responsible persons for the holocaust. He was born in Munich on October 7, 1900 to a Roman Catholic middle-class family. His father was a teacher and his mother was a devout Roman Catholic. He had two brothers, Gebhard and Ernst. Heimlich was a good student, but struggled in athletics. He had poor health with lifelong stomach complaints as a child.
The main purpose of the book was to emphasize how far fear of Hitler’s power, motivation to create a powerful Germany, and loyalty to the cause took Germany during the Third Reich. During the Third Reich, Germany was able to successfully conquer all of Eastern Europe and many parts of Western Europe, mainly by incentive. Because of the peoples’ desires and aspirations to succeed, civilians and soldiers alike were equally willing to sacrifice luxuries and accept harsh realities for the fate of their country. Without that driving force, the Germans would have given up on Hitler and Nazism, believing their plan of a powerful Germany...
Her family life is depicted with contradictions of order and chaos, love and animosity, conventionality and avant-garde. Although the underlying story of her father’s dark secret was troubling, it lends itself to a better understanding of the family dynamics and what was normal for her family. The author doesn’t seem to suggest that her father’s behavior was acceptable or even tolerable. However, the ending of this excerpt leaves the reader with an undeniable sense that the author felt a connection to her father even if it wasn’t one that was desirable. This is best understood with her reaction to his suicide when she states, “But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb.” (pg. 399)
In the year of 1933 Adolf Hitler seized the position of chancellor of Germany and this power that he received in January 30th is what shaped one of the most bloodlust dictatorships that this world has ever known. Hitler’s desire for power and victory made him one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen but it also made him one of the most cruel and heartless people known to mankind. But how did he do this, how did he become one of the greatest and cruellest dictators? Throughout this essay we will explore the long, short and immediate causes for Hitler’s sudden success.
After years of trying to unify as one nation and countless failures, the German people now believed that they themselves were among the superior races of the world and it was Germany’s destiny to become the greatest nation the world had ever seen. Under Bismarck’s rule the economy boomed. The German Industrial Complex, powered by its heavy war production, made many men and the nation itself very wealthy. This wealth and prosperity led to an intoxicating feeling among its people, a feeling that they were the next great world