After days of travel the train came to a sudden stop. We stopped at the Czechoslovakian border; we were not simply being relocated like we had thought. They took all of my valuables, everything I had. The German army threatened to shoot every one of us if anyone escaped.
Ordinary Men Summary When most people think and learn about the holocaust they are only taught from the Jewish peoples point of view. They learn about the mass murder committed by Hitler and the Nazis. A group that is usually overlooked is the German people that were forced to take part of Hitler’s “ethnic cleansing.” The book Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning goes into detail about the men that were forced into killing innocent people and coerced Jewish people into concentration camps. In this insightful book Browning reveals the background, emotions, and thoughts of a group of men called the Reserve Police Battalion 101.
The Hungarian police were screaming. That was when I began to hate them . . . They were our first oppressors. They were our first faces of hell and death.” (pg. 19,
In the beginning before the jews were sent to the concentration camp the hungarian police were very violent towards the jews they were forcing them out the house treated them like they were in the military. Elie stated “They were our first oppressors. They were the first face of fell and death”(Wiesel
On the day of July 16th, 1942 , a horrible event took place. The Vel’d’Hiv Roundup. 4,500 French policemen arrested over 11,000 Jews. Within the short time frame of a week 13,000 Jews had were being held in the Vel’d’Hiv , the winter stadium , more then 4,000 children were with them. Children two years to sixteen years of age were arrested alongside their parent or guardian.
June 11, 1941, a new shipment of Jews arrived in Auschwitz today from Minsk Mazowiecki, a ghetto in Poland. Among the people who arrived was 13 year old Jakob Frenkiel and his brother Chaim. All who arrive in Auschwitz have to give the officers everything that was on them at that time. Frenkiel shares with reporters about his valuable possession he had to give away. “I had with me the locket my parents had given me for my birthday with their pictures in it.
The people of Sighet did not believe Moishe the Beadle. He warned them to escape while they could, but they did not listen; and a year later the Hungarian police led the Jews to their end. As they marched to the small ghetto Elie noticed people watching, “From behind their windows, from behind their shutters, our fellow citizens watched as we passed” (Wiesel
The following signifies how the Jewish people were not allowed to keep any of their prized possessions, the Hungarian police barged in and said, “A Jew no longer had the right to keep in his house gold, jewels, or any objects of value” (Wiesel
Have you ever had this nightmare that felt real and all you could do is wake up so it will go away. Well My nightmare didn’t feel real it was real and every time i would go to sleep i would wish i didn’t wake because that's the only place i felt safe. My name is Leon Kusmirek, my life wasn’t all that bad I’ve always wondered why they felt the need to take away the life of my loved ones we were all the same but yet we were treated different my story is not to make you feel pity for me it's to make you know to never lose hope. It was Friday, September 1st, 1939 My mom noticed that there was no bread in the house
“(Wiesel 22) The Hungarian police made us climb into the cars,
In 1933, George was standing with his father under the Brandenburg Gate where there was a victory parade for the Nazi party. They had music, drumming and marching. George’s dad stared crying. When George saw his father crying he asked his father, “why are you crying?”
Then came the ghettos.” Elie Wiesel wrote. The separation of jews started and the racism starts but nobody realizes it. “Three days later, a new decree: every jew had to wear a yellow star. Some prominent members of the community came to consult with my father, who had connections at the upper levels of the Hungarian police; they wanted to know what he thought of the situation.
Martin Luther King and Adolph Hitler were alluring speakers but with different desires. Both had the extreme ability to attract to the masses through the spoken word, this being obvious in some of their famous speeches. Putting aside Hitler 's ghastly desires and outcomes and just examining the interesting and well- liked delivery of his speeches I feel that today he would have been worthy of the trainers trainer certification. The persuasion that he learned and developed in handling crowds, even large crowds of thousands, involved pacing the objections he knew that they would have against his argument and using them in the service of persuasion. He did that by pacing and leading.
Martin Luther stood up for his beliefs and changed the world forever. Martin grew up thinking of God as a strict judge which made Martin feel that he would never be good enough or go to heaven. Martin Luther grew up to become a German monk who did not agree with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Because of this, Martin wrote the 95 theses and started the Protestant Reformation, and fought bravely till the end of his days to legalize protestantism. Martin Luther was born November 10, 1483 in Eisleben, Germany.
The penetration of Hungarian troops by German armies was the next step in the stairway of madness. “The Germans won’t make it this far.” (Wiesel, 9) Although edicts
