Undisclosed Victims of the Holocaust - 774 Words

Undisclosed Victims of the Holocaust When Germany was defeated in World War I by Britain and France they were forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which proclaims Germany to be responsible for all reparations of the War. It was easy for Hitler and his Nazi party to blame the wealthy Jews for not offering enough money to the country, but his anti-Semitism was completely aimed towards the Jews. By the end of 1920, the Nazi party had about 3,000 members according to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust. With an army this large Hitler felt confident enough to attempt to overthrow the government in Munich. However he failed in his endeavor and was thrown in jail by Munich authorities. While imprisoned he wrote about his ideas on racism - not only against Jews, but other groups such as homosexuals, the disabled, Gypsies, and the courageous resistors- in a book he titled â€Å"Mein Kampf,† meaning â€Å"My Struggle.† (â€Å"Nazification of Germany†) Hitler was a very sick man who believed his ideas about these people justified his mass killings. Homosexuals were a group of people singled out by the Nazi party for simply being who they were. The Holocaust Encyclopedia says homosexuality was illegal in Germany under paragraph 175 of criminal code. That is until June 28, 1935 when the Ministry of Justice revised the code allowing Nazi persecution of homosexuals. Hitler believed homosexuals were very weak and incapable of fighting for Germany. Nazis viewed them as a racial danger by claiming theyShow MoreRelatedThe Birthday Party By Harold Pinter1215 Words   |  5 PagesBirthday Party is a play which sheds light on the pathology of abjection and violence both physical and verbal and its effect on its victim - Stanley- the protagonist of the play. Stanley is an artist who has isolated himself from a totalitarian state or organization for reasons left undisclosed in the play by Pinter. Since Pinter as a Jew grew up during the time of the Holo caust and the Second World War, Stanley seems to represent the author’s existential anxiety. It can be assumed that the fear of theRead MoreThe Abjection Stage And The Narcissistic Stage1685 Words   |  7 PagesBirthday Party is a play which sheds light on the pathology of abjection and violence both physical and verbal and its effect on its victim - Stanley- the protagonist of the play. Stanley is an artist who has isolated himself from a totalitarian state or organization for reasons left undisclosed in the play by Pinter. Since Pinter as a Jew grew up during the time of the Holocaust and the Second World War, Stanley seems to represent the author’s existential anxiety. It can be assumed that the fear of theRead MoreHiv/Aids in Nigeria6960 Words   |  28 Pagesrural areas in some African countries have not heard of HIV/AIDS and a very high percentage of our sexually potent population between the dangerously ignorant about it (Nuhu 2002). Laura (2002) opined that HIV/AIDS as potentially global biological holocaust which is yet to attract the full sustained through a recent research concluded that most people still doubt the true existence of HIV/AIDS virus. Others claim that God has already destined the ways of every one’s death, epidemic which has alreadyRead MoreRhetorical Analysis Of Harold Pinter s The Room 9709 Words   |  39 Pageshe uses familiar surroundings such as a room in a flat or a boarding house or a basement, an interrogation room, a prison room etc. Pinter is also able to maintain an element of realism or accuracy in the portrayal of the suffering of the tortured victims. But when it comes to portraying the objective facts, which is the doctrine of realism, Pinter disappoints us because he neither gives us accurate information of the character’s past or identity nor the causes of the characters’ motivations and actions