The French SS division, led by General Carl Aldrecht Oberg, was known for being particularly ruthless and unsettlingly efficient. Despite having one of the highest capture rates, approximately 3000 Jews a week, in all of Europe, Oberg’s superior, and the executive officer in charge organizing the capture and deportation of
The beatings and humiliations quickly escalated to bringing large numbers of Jews into the woods to shoot them. In addition to carrying out shootings, the Order Police played a large role in facilitating the deportation of Jews into the concentration camps. The next chapter delves into the specific role the Order Police had in the deportations. It gives a specific example chronicled by Paul Salitter, an Order Police Lieutenant of a time where the Order Police had the task of transporting Jews from Vienna to Sobibór extermination camp. This is the final chapter that gives background knowledge to the reader, at this point the reader should have a level of
It could be argued that such young men, schooled and formed solely under the conditions of the Nazi dictatorship, simply did not know any better. Killing Jews did not conflict with the value system they had grown up with…” The men of Police Battalion 101 could not use Nazi
They were helpless, the SS officers had the dominance they wanted. They enjoyed seeing the Jews as helpless creatures, and the SS officers let all of this power get to their head. They treated the Jews like the subhuman creatures they believed them to be. Like previously stated, losing their identity created a feeling of hopelessness. Throughout the whole story we can feel and invision their hopelessness and inferiority to the
1. “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs. Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks. Infants were tossed into the air and used as targets for the machine guns.”
The system was designed to turn victim against victim, as the prisoner functionaries were pitted against their fellow prisoners in order to maintain the favor of their SS guards. Did one volunteer to become one? Did you beat other prisoners? If so you would have to beat your family and friends just to save yourself from the labor and
When the SS were tired, they were changed. But no one changed us” (Wiesel 87). The Nazis would exceed the limit which soon ended in people dying, they didn't know when to stop. They would replace the people who mattered but made the Jews feel like they didn't when they were told to keep going. Overall, the Nazis neglected the Jews and put them in a position no person should ever have to experience.
When the SS chose to slide away just proved that they were scared. Fear had consumed them to the point where cruelty no longer mattered, the officers wanted to survive just as the victims of the holocaust wanted to. Fear can corrupt someone to be cruel because it is a way to deny vulnerability and mask it with acts of aggression. They feel cruelty is the only thing that can save Them.
In Night one of the ways that the Jews were dehumanized was by abuse. There were beatings, “I never felt anything except the lashes of the whip... Only the first really hurt.” (Wiesel, 57) “They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs.
(source H) The government They were not allowed to interact with Aryans and were instructed to turn Jews in to the SS, Hitler’s private army, if they were breaking any of these laws. This had conflicting effects on the citizens because neighbors who had once been close friends were now ordered to be their enemies. The Nazis were able to dictate who the Germans we friendly with and interacted with on a daily basis. This ultimate control was confusing for the Germans because they were used to being led in war or government situations, however, they were not yet accustomed to having this many restrictions on their personal lives.
Overall, Nazi built the concentration camps to detain the ‘enemies of the state’ and to persecute the
During the Holocaust, the officers did brutal experiments to the Jews. They would perform fatal medical experiments on them, which was torture, just to find cures for their own people. If they found cures they would not help cure the Jews if they were sick. Once the test subject could no longer perform the tasks the scientist wanted them to do, they would kill them. To kill them they would either put them through so much pain their bodies could not take it anymore or they would shoot them.
The tactics used by their perpetrators were purposeful and cruel, and that translates into their inhumane methods of killing. One of the ways each group was murdered was during sporadic ambushes, usually occurring in remote locations like woodlands. Elie Wiesel mentioned one of these ambushes in the beginning of his novel, saying, “The Jews were ordered to get off and onto waiting trucks… They were forced to dig huge trenches. When they had finished their work, the men from the Gestapo began theirs” (Wiesel 6).
KGB Vs Secret Police in V for Vendetta The KGB was the world's largest spy and state-security machine, they are involved in all aspects of life of everyday people in the Soviet Union. The KGB was a secretive and secluded organization and were said to have their doors shut tightly to the public. The secret police in V for Vendetta run by Mr. Creedy also had their doors shut tightly to the public not wanting the people to know about them and what they do. Another similarity between the two was if anyone posted a threat towards the government they'd capture them at night.
“On the night of June 30, 1934, Röhm and many more leaders of the SA were shot by members of Heinrich Himmler’s SS”. Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 6 January 2023. “Fearing that the paramilitary SA had become too powerful, Hitler ordered his elite SS guards to murder the organization’s leaders, including Ernst Rohm Also killed that night were hundreds of other perceived opponents of Hitler.” Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 6 January 2023. That answers the question of what happened Hitler feared that the SA, an abbreviation of Sturmabteilung or Assault Division in English also known as Storm Troopers or Brownshirts, The SA in the Nazi party was a paramilitary organization whose methods of violent
