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

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’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.

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.

Men in the factories could refuse to pledge allegiance and then they would lose their jobs and their families would starve, or they could be “good Germans” and keep their jobs, at the cost of their integrity. When weighed integrity against your family your integrity has little meaning. Sure there was a possibility that others would stand with you but who is willing to risk their life thinking that maybe someone else will risk theirs along with you.

The women also had little choice, after all they were women. They had few decisions and there is nothing that a woman considers more when she makes a decision than her children. No woman would take a risk of her child’s life for freedom for someone else, that would be foolish.

If there was any group with less choices then women it was children, they could not join the little Hitler fan club, but that was more a decision by their parents than their own. Children could speak out all they wanted, they were still just children.

With Germany set up the way it was it was inevitable for someone like Hitler, with a party like the Nazis to come along and make a disturbance, there was no way for the people to stop it. Everyone had something to lose, and no one was willing to take the first step in opposition of Hitler. If one person had stepped forward maybe their family would have been killed, but two more men would step forward in their place until all of German rose up, but that’s the problem with us, no on is ever willing to go first.

I imagine this was a very hard place for some people to be, but they were there holocaust timeline. It’s easy to criticize these men for not stepping forward but I doubt any man would sacrifice his family for anything.

Sometimes people realize thing, but often too late to change anything, or so they think. Sometimes people need to put their foot down and say stop if they get rolled over, then they get rolled over. It is a chance people need to take to do what’s right.

People outside his party he dealt with accordingly. He wasn’t stupid, and knew he couldn’t just go around killing everyone, so I would expect he had less upfront ways, not necessarily any nicer, but different.

Hitler showed clear retaliation against the Jewish people when a Jewish boy shot The Third-Secretary of Germany in Paris. The Nazis had waited for their chance and leapt at this one by destroying synagogues and shops of the Jewish people. Now how many ambassadors were assassinated after that? Hitler was a political genius and this was one of the ways he showed that fact off.

You also have to take this attack on the Jewish people in context. Anti-Semitism was at an extreme high; this act further alienated the Jewish people from the rest of Germany, and when you make one group feel like that the group that isn’t alienated feels like more of the group. Hitler also forced the group closer together; by killing off important people within the party he forced the people under them to turn to him instead.

Through all of these acts Hitler once again demonstrated his political savvy. Even though he was a murderer, racist and cheat, no one can accuse Hitler of being a bad politician. He did almost everything right. He gave the people what they wanted, demanded respect, and was a great public speaker, what else can you ask for?

I can only imagine how the person who shot the ambassador of Germany must have felt. He gave the Nazis a good excuse to lash out at the Jewish people. It goes to show you how any little thing can have a great effect.

The Nazis were very modern with their use of the media in that they used radio, posters, and used planes to transport their message. These new methods appealed to people, as they hadn’t been used a lot before this. These also appealed especially to the youth because of the modern forums that the Nazi’s techniques were taking.

Germany is a big place with a lot of people, and a radical party, like the Nazis for example, needed the backing of the majority of the people. They did their best to reach and appeal to everyone of German blood.

The Nazis had a lot of things going for them. The economy was thriving, unemployment was almost nonexistent, and everyone was happy. Holocaust time What more do people want from a government, the Nazis had it all covered. People wanted the Nazis and that’s why they were so strong. The Nazis didn’t take the power from the people. The people gave it to them.

First your place in the nation.  The Nazis made it clear that men needed to work and fight for the glory of Germany.  If you weren’t in the army, then you should be in a factory slaving away.  You should do both things to the best of your ability, and strive to be better at all things you do.  Since the men all weighed their honor on their contribution to their country they did this.

Women were told that their place was to serve men and make babies.  The Germans supported the stereotypical housewife, with many children, a neat house, and dinner ready for her husband when he got home from work.

Children were told that they need to learn about what was right and what is wrong.  An emphasis was placed on being stronger and standing out among the other children.  A good child was good to his parents and loved the Fuhrer.

Secondly the Nazis said that Hitler under all circumstances was right.  No ifs ands or buts.  The people accepted this because they liked, trusted, and believed in Hitler canadian currency.  Hitler essentially established an absolute monarchy with many of the regulations his government implemented.

The Nazis taught people what to think and how to act, creating a group of cold hearted, almost robotic people.  Holocaust timeline There is no question that these rules will bring about something big, good or bad something will inevitably happen.

Most people are sheep.  When Hitler or someone like him is put at the head of the flock it is disastrous.  One day I hope people might make decisions on their own.