Sunday, October 19, 2008

Holocaust Link

i think this is a good site about the holocaust even though it only reveals a small part of the actions nazi's did to the people they tried to exterminate. Also it gives a description and shows a photograph of Dr. Mengel who is referred to in the book Night http://www.shoah.dk/doctors/index.htm

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Holocaust Reaction

No doubt there are many websites dedicated to the holocaust. This week I will attempt to write reactions to a few.
The following link is of Polish children at Auschwitz. My first reaction is sorrow obviously but once that is confusion as to why the guards forced them to stay behind the barbed wire and not let them go free.
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blauschwitz8.htm

I like this next link because the first part. The history of The Swastika is actually pretty interesting. Like I didn't know that it became the official symbol for Nazi's in 1920.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Swastika.html

Monday, October 6, 2008

Video Response

What did America do and how did it act to the holocaust?
The answer is not pleasant.
The first thing that should be said is: anti-Semites were wide-spread in the 1940's. one influential anti-Semite was Breckinridge Long who put in more immigration laws limiting the amount of immigrants allowed in. Although i do not have the exact dates of years but because of the barriers put in place by Long immigration was cut in half, then nearly stopped at one point during WW2.