Essays on Nazi Germany

The people of the United States have a different understanding of what happened in Germany during the 1920’s and to the 1940’s. The perspective U.S. citizens have is from films that were in black, white and came to understand that the holocaust was life without...

Throughout Maus and The Book Thief, both Vladek and Hans display different ways of affection and in the way that they engage with their children, however, they both have one thing in common which are their good intentions. Despite going through similar times, Vladek seems...

“Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it’s directed at something you never asked for and something you can’t change.” – Paolo Nutini. This describes the feelings of Jews and gypsies during World War II. Markus Zusak’s novel, The Book Thief, he...

In the story Night by Elie Wiesel there were many themes. A theme is a story underlying message or big idea. There were two themes that really stuck out and those were Eliezer’s loss of faith and his guilt/ lack of inaction. Guilt is the...

Eighty years after Kristallnacht, Jewish life returned to Berlin. More than 30,000 Jews currently live in the city, despite anti-Semitism and police protection. ‘It’s very important to me that I grew up in Berlin,’ says Deborah Levine. ‘In terms of Judaism, this is the German...

This story starts with Bruno a nine year old boy and his family moving because of his dad’s job. His dad is the commandant in the German army. The new house that they moved into is smaller compared to the old house and it is...

Authors have a tendency of using the most familiar aspects of life to attract the attention of readers and to make their stories worth reading. For instance, John Boyne, in his work “The Boy in Striped Pajamas”, extensively used food to further develop the plot...

History is written in blood. Wars are formed from human nature, a nature that requires ruthless acts to assert dominance. This unconscious action is perpetually pointless and inevitably achieves nothing. These acts of pure violence born from the hearts and minds of humans have been...

John Boyne is an Irish writer born in port. He wrote seventy short stories and plenty of novels targeted on adults and young readers. The Boy in patterned Pyjamas could be a novel targeted on a younger audience. Many film variations were done to the...

History has always been my favorite subject out of every other subject that I’ve experienced. Learning about the different topics within different events in history is what makes me learn a lot more about what other people have gone through. People have gone from a...