The new semester began with a trip to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC. The visit to the museum is always a humbling experience because one suddenly feels overwhelmed by a long list of questions as the tour guide leads us through the hallways while also describing the unimaginable sufferings...

Prior to the Holocaust, there had been an increasing reliance on scientific theory, such as social Darwinism, to explore differences between races and ethnic groups. Although this has now largely been discredited, Hitler and the Nazi party used pseudoscience as a way of classing certain people as Untermenschen, or people...

1). Examine the German and Jewish societies prior to the World War I. What type of social and religious activities and celebrations did they create or embrace? How were the employment stats prior to World War I? Before World War I, the Jews of Germany lived in peace and prosperity...

The historical facticity of the Holocaust[1] is confirmed by all accepted scientific methods of historical inquiry, from eyewitness testimony to archaeology. The facts clearly underscore that hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of people, were murdered in an organized and systematic manner by Nazi Germany. Specifically targeted ethnic, religious, political and social...

The Jewish Holocaust is believed to be one of the worst aspects of the Second World War. However, it has always been the commonly held opinion that most Germans, while could be held guilt of being silent, were not aware of the worst activities such as genocide, tortures, and the...