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?The War Against the Jews?, 2002.
Discusses Lucy S. Dawidowicz's book, "The War Against the Jews, 1933-1945".
1,071 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 37.95
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The paper shows that over a quarter of a century ago after it was written, Dawidowicz?s "The War Against the Jews" remains a seminal work exploring how a modern, industrial country like Germany could support and enact a policy of race-based genocide and murder. Dawidowicz also sets out to explain how the Jews responded as a people to these attacks against their rights and later, their very lives.
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"Dawidowicz further writes about the limited options of many Judenrat officials, who were forced to comply in the face of an impossible situation. By this stage of the war, the Nazi-dominated Germany had amassed enough power to coerce Jewish leaders into doing as they were told. Faced with death or the destruction of their entire community, many Judenrat officials were thus forced into leading their populace to the annihilation camps."
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?Night?, 2002.
Discusses loss of selfhood in Elie Wiesel's novel on the holocaust.
1,730 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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This paper focuses on how the Nazis stripped Jews and other victims in the concentration camp of their individuality and personalities. Using Elie Wiesel's classic novel on the holocaust, "Night", the paper describes how the autobiographical protagonist is forced to become a number among millions of other victims. It traces this loss of selfhood from the first chapter when he has to live away from the rest of humanity in a ghetto and until the final chapter when he physically survives Auschwitz but feels his soul has been slaughtered in the process.
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"The camps not only succeeded in stripping away the outward social signs of personhood, they also succeeded in stripping away the inner sanctums of humanity. In the camps, the individuals slowly change from being objectified humans to actually becoming like beasts. They are described as eventually behaving like ?wild beasts of prey, with animal hatred in their eyes; an extraordinary vitality had seized them, sharpening their teeth and nails.? (Chapter 7) The inmates no longer care about the trappings of morality and civilization. When pressed, they become even more brutal than the guards themselves. For example, in Chapter 7 one boy kills his own father over a scrap of bread. This change from civilized beings into brutal monsters begins as early as Chapter Two. Here the captives have not even been taken all the way to the death camps when the first blood is spilt among them."
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Anti-Semitism of the Nazi Party, 2002.
Introduces, discusses and analyzes the topic of anti-Semitism by the Nazi party.
1,436 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines and describes the focus of National Socialism on anti-Semitism and the Nazis' hatred of the Jews. It addresses how the Nazis tried to prove that anti-Semitism responded to Germany's problems, how the Nazis justified the persecution of the Jews, and what Hitler's personal role was in all of this?
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"Anti-Semitism is probably one of the most infamous platforms of Hitler and his Nazis, and the Holocaust was its horrific instrument of destruction. While anti-Semitism was not the only plank in Hitler's Nazi platform, it was an important part of his theology, and appealed to the German people for a variety of reasons. Many authors are not surprised so many Germans found this view "admirable," as they were searching for a way to blame someone else for their failures, and Hitler's ideas were the perfect solution to their search. After the First World War, Germany was a defeated and depressed nation."
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"Thanks to My Mother", 2002.
A review of the book "Thanks to my Mother" by Schoschana Rabinovici.
3,104 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 90.95
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This paper examines the book "Thanks to my Mother," by Schoschana Rabinovici, the story of one girl and her mother's survival of the Holocaust. Specifically it contains a critical review of the book, including a summary of the contents, a comparison to other studies from the class and a reaction to the reading. It looks at how what singles this story out from other Holocaust survival stories is the simple language the author uses to tell her story and the aura of hope that surrounds it. It discusses how it is a story of survival in its basest form. It shows how Susie's mother is undeniably wise and quick to understand their plight. She does just about anything necessary to shelter Susie, from lying about them being mother and daughter, to lying about Susie's age and sheltering her from the prying eyes of the Nazis so they would not discover she was just a child.
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"In 1943, Susie and her family leave the Vilnius ghetto; the entire ghetto is being liquidated. Most of her family is exterminated as soon as they leave the ghetto, but Susie and her mother make it out alive, and are sent to the concentration camp called "Kaiserwald." Incredibly, the concentration camp was a resort before the war. "Before the war Kaiserwald had been a holiday resort. Well-to-do families rented cottages and passed the warm-weather days here. There had been all kinds of colorful flowers here, wide lawns, rivers and beaches, and wonderful walking paths in the forests" (118). When the Jews arrived, the resort was gone, but they felt they had " left the worst behind us "(101), but they would soon discover this was of course not the case. They meet the "blitz maidens," SS women who wear "black, shiny boots" (102), and carry whips, which they use often. Four women have to sleep in one bed, and the food is barely edible. The days blend together into hours spent standing at roll call at 5 a.m. in any type of weather, to grueling hard labor building railroads, also in any weather, from rain to snow and wind."
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The Great Escape, 2002.
A description of the event that took place during World War II, known as "The Great Escape."
2,719 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper reviews the story of Stalag Luft III, more commonly known as "The Great Escape." The paper presents the events of that courageous escape in terms of the strategic and operational setting, tactical situation, threat of discovery by the Germans and finally the allied strategy. The paper then gives a detailed description of the actual escape event, in March 1944.
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"?The Great Escape? is remembered as one of the most significant events in the history of Allied POWs (Prisoners of War). It was 24th March 1944 when 76 captured Allied airmen at a German war camp named ?Stalag Luft III? tried to escape by means of their own hand-dug tunnel that was over 300 feet long and about 30 feet deep down the ground level (Rafmuseum.on.ca). Stalag Luft got its name from ?Stammlager Luft? that means ?Permanent Camps for Airmen?. As the name suggests, the prison facility was especially utilized to keep the enemy air crew whose planes were shot down."
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Theology Resulting From Personal Experience, 2002.
This essay considers the larger issues of historical context and theology. It examines the relationship between personal experience and individual theological reflection.
2,850 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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This paper deals with the individual and collective experience of suffering, and the relationship of suffering to Christian theological reflection on Christology. It begins by looking broadly at the issue of suffering as expressed by African-American Christians, and how this suffering influences theology.
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"An individual theologian?s reflection about the nature of God is not strictly about God alone. Rather, it is intimately bound-up with the theologian?s own way of viewing the world. One fairly recent example of this comes from Elie Weisel, a Nobel-prize winning writer. Weisel is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who has written about how his experiences in the concentration camps have caused him to think differently about God. His experience of seeing people killed and tortured has caused him seriously to question his previous ways of thinking about God."
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