The first reason for success is one man, Hitler.  Hitler single handedly formed the Nazi party.  He was all that they had.  In a time when people were thought to follow, he chose instead to lead.  He used all of his abilities to his advantage, and hid his weaknesses expertly.  He used his wits, charms, and interpersonal skills to his full advantage; He realized the power of the people, and of propaganda.  Never before and never since has any country ever seen someone so polluted be accepted, and even loved by so many people.  Hitler was a great man for sure, but not a good man.  He demands respect at the very least.

The second reason for Germanys success was World War I.  The people were hurt deeply by the war, and they took it personally.  They came up with the what ifs.  What if I had have done more?  What if I had have fought?  They were offered a scapegoat, the Jewish people, and so they took it.  Germany was not a happy place for anyone and the only way out was to fight their way out so they did.  You could even argue that the war was inevitable do to the circumstances.

Why did the Germans ultimately fail?  When people decide to resist, and fight for what they know is right, although poorly portrayed by the media, good always will triumph over evil.  It may seem like a bit fluffy, but never has evil been able to control the good will of people and that is why it never will triumph over good.

Racism, and hatred are no longer acceptable in our society, and when things start to lean away we need to give ourselves a reality check and say what are you doing.  We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right; it’s the meaning for everyone’s existence.  May the day never come were our children don’t know that these are the ways that we need to act.

May the day never come when we are completely desensitized to the feelings of others.  I feel now more complete for having done this project.  Holocaust timeline It truly has been a life altering experience.  I have already seen changes in my life.  Judging others is futile, because they are judging you right back.  Look apon their differences and celebrate that they might rejoice in your differences as well.

The accounts depict the Nazis for the sadistic group they truly were.  They talk about the beatings they endured, the pain they suffered, but above all else, how they survived.

I find they found their strength to go on in their knowledge that the Nazis cannot break them.  The Nazis took the Jewish people bodies, but what’s inside, what truly counts is their sole which no one can take away.  The Jewish people know this and so they press on.

Then the happy ending, the people survive, and they get their old lives back.  They do the only thing they can, suppress the horrible memories, and try to forget the horrifying saga they have just been through.

The thing that we cannot forget when we read powerful stories like these is the difference between these people and those who lost their lives, and have no happy ending to write about.

I know personally that these accounts have been another life changing experience in this book.  These accounts are something that I will take with me always, and will remind me that there is hope in standing up for people even if many times you fail, the times when success is archive pay for all the sacrifice.  facts about holocaust

Really, for whoever is guilty of these crimes, which almost everyone at the time was in some way, there is no adequate punishment.  I suppose you could take their families out in the street and kill them slowly, but then we would be as bad as them.  There is no plausible way to punish these people for these crimes, so all we can do is protect the memories of the Jewish people who lost their lives in the war, and never let any atrocities like these happen again.

But how can we protest visible minorities from these sorts of things.  We have proven ourselves un-productive in protecting the Muslim, and Arab people from such persecution in light of September 11.  The Americans themselves have implemented strict guidelines reducing freedoms of people of Middle Eastern decent.  What is the world coming to?  We must prevent a second Holocaust from occurring by standing up against the strong to protect the weak.  We cannot allow people to be pushed around because of their beliefs or the actions of a few.  The more and more governments restrict the freedoms of specific groups of people the closer we come to a second Holocaust.

Hate crimes will continue until we make it unacceptable in our society to see any difference in people of different backgrounds other then our own.  Holocaust timeline A second holocaust can be prevented but only we can do it, and we must do it.
Blame.  It’s easy to pass, difficult to give, and near imposable to accept.

We are told of many heroic attempts by the Jewish people to escape from the work camps.  One woman in particular who, when told to disrobe, wiped off her garment hitting and S.S.  officer in the eyes.  She then snatched his revolver and shot him and another S.S.  officer.  Many more of these heroic stories were poping up all over, but I doubt any lived to tell the stories themselves.

The Jewish people in the ghettos also rebelled in three of the five ghettos mentioned.  The ghettos did well to do any damage to the Germans as they were armed with just handguns, machine guns, and Molotov Cocktails.  The Jewish people killed a few Nazis and managed to hold out, for a little while at least.  In the fight a handful of Jewish people managed to escape to the woods and to secret rebellious groups.

The Germans had a few major tools in these conflicts.  They could shell the Jewish people from a distance using mortars to demolish buildings.  The Nazis also would burn the homes of the Jewish people forcing them into the open.  Also, the Jewish people had no way of getting food from the outside, because the Germans could cut off the supply lines, which they controlled anyway.

In the prison camps few rebellions took place due to the power of the Nazis and also to the weakened state of the Jewish people, but in on one occasion in 1943 a group of Jewish people teamed up against their German oppressors and fought back.  They were successful in killing the S.S.  guards, and they destroyed the compound.  By the end of the war 40 of the 600 who escaped remained alive. holocaust timeline

I know I’d rather die fighting than lying down.  To have loved and lost is better than to have never loved at all.  In the same respect, to have fought and died is better than to have never fought at all.

Even before World War I the Jewish people faced hardship. Since the death of Jesus Christ they have been prosecuted, especially in Europe. Prejudice and immoral acts had been committed against the Jewish people for over 1900 years before the time of Hitler.

During the first stages of World War I the suffering for the Jewish people grew even greater. The Nazis forced them into small ghettos, where the Jewish people were crowded in small houses and given just enough food to survive. It was a routine thing for S.S. soldiers to march into these ghettos and open fire on any of the Jewish people they saw. If you think this is bad the Jewish people were just here to wait until they were brought to the Nazi prison camps.

Everything about the prison camps was horrible, even the trip there. The Nazis would come to the ghettos and round up a large group of Jewish people. The Jewish people would be packed into a truck and anyone not in the truck was forced to run behind it. If anyone running fell no one could help them p, and the soldiers would shoot them on sight. When the truck reached it destination, the train station, the Jewish people would be packed, standing up into a boxcar, there was not even any room to sit. The train ride would last for days and many people died on the ride because we were not fed or given water. When we got off the train the terror really began.

The Jewish people were divided into two groups. One group was the young fit men, and the other was the women, children, old, and sick. The later group was immediately brought to the gas chamber and killed, but they were the lucky ones. The men were forced to work in awful conditions, and were poorly fed. The men worked just long enough, about three months, for them to become weak, and thus useless. They then joined the women and children to be gassed. The men that did the particularly awful jobs like cremating the bodies of their dead brothers were promised more food and their lives, but the Nazis were deceiving them.

Some of the most heinous crimes known to man were committed in these holocaust concentration camps. The Nazis showed here that they were truly a disgusting, evil race. What an awful life it must have been for the Jewish people.

How are people so evil? Everyone that isn’t evil seems to be clueless to what they are doing.

Hitler an the Nazis believed that the Jewish people were a weaker race then the Arians, and that they were holding Germany back from achieving its full potential. He said that they were parasites preying on the good will of the Germans, and that the Germans actually had to stand up to them.

Hitler also said that the Jewish people were a plague. Fearing this plague required extermination for the survival of their families. If a group of people were endangering the life of my family I think I would respond the same way as the everyday German people.

“The Jewish people are plotting behind our backs” was another excuse why the elimination of the Jewish people was necessary. “They are out to ruin us.” The Germans actually thought that the Jewish people were out to get them for no reason.

The final reason Hitler gave for the extermination of the Jewish people was that they forced Germany to go to war. No one really wanted to go to war and if your husbands, brothers, sons and friends were being killed because of something someone else did I would too be enraged.

All of the reasons come down to one; the Germans were scared of the Jewish people. That’s how all racism starts, it is with fear. Fear of being different. Fear of being an outcast. Fear of losing everything. When people get theses fears they have a need and a tendency to pass that blame on to someone weaker then themselves and try to justify it. holocaust timeline

When it all comes down to it the Jewish people did nothing wrong than be different and follow their beliefs, but Hitler and the Nazis used propaganda to its full capability and made it seem like the Jewish people had wronged the Germans.

People are all different. It’s the common bonds that we have that make us truly unique though. A smart white male, is completely different that a smart black male. They are so different yet so the same.

Hitler’s weakened state also hurt the Nazi morale.  He was always considered the backbone of the party, after all ha made it what it was.  Hitler knew that he could not let on that anything was wrong though.  No, he had to keep a tough face on and show that he was still going strong. 

We are particularly shown the state of the party with the attempt on Hitler life.  Some of his Generals planted a bomb in Hitler’s conference room; although the attack fails it certainly must have had a somewhat detrimental effect on Hitler’s health.  We can also see here just why the Nazis have begun to lose the war.  When you cant kill one person with a bomb there’s something wrong.  Hitler must have been doing all the thinking himself.

With the Americans growing more and more heavily involved, Britton’s air force pounding German cities, and the Russians tightening their stranglehold on Stalingrad.  The final blow came to the Nazis at the hour of Hitler’s death.  Without Hitler to lead and keep the party going the Generals surrendered.  The great Nazi party had fallen, and yet again the feeling after the defeat in World War I must have been present. facts about holocaust

One gust of wind can topple an entire house of cards.  Thanks God for miscalculation and human error.  Some people make the biggest mistakes because they are looking for such small problems.

Hitler knew that all he needed to do to conquer Europe is take England, the only real power at the time. He knew also that they would join the war almost immediately. He didn’t want to divide his forces by fighting on two fronts so he aligned himself with Stalin and Russia to protect his back. Once he conquered the weaker European countries he planned on mobilizing against France and once he had taken that he would move on England. Finally his last real adversary in Europe was Russia, who he didn’t expect to hold out for very long. He then would have conquered all of Europe, and effectively the entire world.

To his enemies he showed no mercy and gave them no quarter. Since he had the complete loyalty of his troops there was really no threat from within, although his paranoia often kicked in and he felt the need to have a commanding officer shot.

The real loss to Hitler’s reign came in two parts. First his loss to the Allies came in Great Britain when his air force was decimated, giving the Allies the new advantage in the air, but he still have the most powerful army in the war. His second and probably most foolish loss was to the “weak” Soviets. He miscalculated terribly and sent his troops into Russia not realizing that they had a great advantage, the winter. Hitler’s men froze to death, food was scarce, and morale was low. After these events the war was not looking so good for the Germans, so Hitler did what he has always done best pass the blame. He blamed the Jewish people and foreigners for the loss and went after them with a renewed passion.

Smart people do dumb things. Napoleon did it as did Hitler. One miscalculation can holocaust concentration camps throw off the whole picture no matter how clear it is. History also does repeat itself. Like a caring mother, it keeps telling us things until we learn.

Peace. What a wonderful thought, we’ve been striving for it for millions of years now, but has it come? No! We need to stop thinking of peace as the only choice. With every act of submission we make towards Germany peace doesn’t come closer, it becomes less obtainable.

Germany is trying to once again take control of the world; we cannot stand idly by and let this happen. We must fight the tyranny. We must fight the oppression. We must fight Hitler. The Nazis cannot win, they must not. We must not yield to them. Violence is rarely the answer, but here it is the only choice.

Peace will come when one of two things happen, when we beat the Germans into the ground and don’t let them up, or when they do the same to us. It’s a dog eat dog world. Only one can survive, will it be them or us?

If Germany is allowed to enter Czechoslovakia untouched then nothing will stop them from trying their luck with France, and then England, and then the world will be theirs, this is something we cannot allow to happen, we will not allow to happen. We have two choices stand and fight, maybe die, or we can run and live, for a while at least, but one day when your sitting at home do you want to be teaching your grandchildren that their parents were killed standing up to Nazis. Perhaps though you would rather have your children tell them you died saving them from the Nazis like a hero. I know what I will choose.

God bless,

Justin

When people stand by and watch things happen they are helping weather they think so or not. I just now had an epiphany that that was the real problem with Canada’s stand in Iraq. I have never supported the war in Iraq, and never will, but by standing on the sidelines we are almost standing with Iraq. holocaust concentration camps

Churchill and Hitler both saw many things about the war in common. They both knew it would be a hard fought battle and a struggle. They both agreed that Germany was very powerful. Now the fact they didn’t both agree on, which no one ever agrees on in war, is who is on the morale side. Hitler thought he was right and Churchill thought he was a madman. Churchill thought that Hitler was being unfair by breaking the treaty, but Hitler saw the treaty as unfair in the first place.

Most people weren’t threatened by Germany probably because of World War I. Germany was defeated then, and they will be now. Many people were also naive to the actual size of the German Army. People assumed that Germany had kept its word in the treaty of Versailles, keeping its men down, and not acquiring an air force. We know this was not the case.

Churchill was right about everything, he knew Hitler was no fool, and wouldn’t invade Poland without sufficient forces to fight of Poland’s Big Brothers. Churchill refused to underestimate the power of the Nazis, but really I don’t think even he could see them for the power they truly had.

Although not underestimating the Germans Churchill dint get that confused with respecting them, he saw them as less then the English, much like Hitler’s opinions on other races. Churchill thought the Germans were being foolish in their demands, but he didn’t see the determination in the faces of the men willing to fight and die for Germany, and Hitler.

Once again we are going into a world war with both sides assured of victory, and this one is truly impossible to call. If the countries wish to defeat Germany they will have to band together, and stand up against Germany. One thing is for sure the Germans weren’t prepared to accept the terms of the treaty any long, and were willing to fight against it holocaust timeline.

Churchill is a refreshing reminder that not everyone is to pig headed to see what the truth in something really is. Thanks God there are people who can think for themselves.