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Michael Eppolito

Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust - 1 views

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    This is an excellent site for learning about how children hid from the Nazis
Michael Eppolito

Holocaust Remembrance / Living in Israel helps survivors cope with trauma - Haaretz - I... - 3 views

  • The statistical analysis of the 59 previous studies, however, seems to support an opposing view, which argued that the "national sense of purpose" in Israel and "togetherness" offer a more supportive environment than elsewhere, she says. "The fact that the troubles of war and pressures that come with it are shared by everyone could help reduce trauma and isolation rather than augment it,"
  • "Israel has ceremonies, panels, commemorations. Society is more open to discussing the Holocaust and this could relieve survivors' sense of isolation,"
Rebekah Hamblett

Propaganda in Nazi Germany - 0 views

  • You could only read, see and hear what the Nazis wanted you to read, see and hear. In this way, if you believed what you were told, the Nazi leaders logically assumed that opposition to their rule would be very small and practiced only by those on the very extreme who would be easy to catch.
  • As Minister of Enlightenment, Goebbels  had two main tasks: to ensure nobody in Germany could read or see anything that was hostile or damaging to the Nazi Party. to ensure that the views of the Nazis were put across in the most persuasive manner possible.
  • Propaganda within Nazi Germany was taken to a new and frequently perverse level. Hitler was very aware of the value of good propaganda and he appointed Joseph Goebbels as head of propaganda
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  • Propaganda is the art of persuasion - persuading others that your 'side of the story' is correct.
  • Books that did not match the Nazi ideal was burnt in public - loyal Nazis ransacked libraries to remove the 'offending' books
  • Films released to the public concentrated on certain issues : the Jews; the greatness of Hitler; the way of life for a true Nazi especially children, and as World War Two approached, how badly Germans who lived in countries in Eastern Europe were treated.
  • "Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good.........the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution."  Goebbels
  • "The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it." Goebbels
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    "Hitler was very aware of the value of good propaganda and he appointed Joseph Goebbels as head of propaganda."
Andrew Smith

The first concentration camp. - 1 views

It says that Dachau was ONE of the first concentration camps. I want to know if it was or was not the actual first one. If anyone comes across the FIRST one, not one of, the actual FIRST Nazi conce...

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started by Andrew Smith on 21 May 13 no follow-up yet
Michael Eppolito

Modern Israel & the Diaspora Timeline (1946-1949) - 1 views

  • 4,500 Jewish refugees sails for British-administered Palestine
  • Congress passes the Displaced Persons Act, authorizing 200,000 DPs to enter the United States in 1949 and 1950.
  • Mob attack against Jewish survivors in Kielce, Poland. Following a ritual murder accusation, a Polish mob kill more than 40 Jews and wound dozens of others. This attack sparks a second mass migration of Jews from Poland and Eastern Europe to DP camps in Germany, Austria and Italy.
Carson Hunter

What Most Germans Knew about Concentration Camps - IV - 0 views

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    This article recounts the experiences of American GI's who discovered concentration camps large and small spread through out Germany. They were so horrified and incensed by what they had seen, they rounded up German civilians, men and women, and compelled them to march through the concentration camps, past mass pit graves, and through cemeteries where the victims of the Nazi regime lay.
anonymous

What is Genocide? - 4 views

Michael Eppolito

US during the Holocaust - 1 views

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    Breaks US involvement into 4 clear categories.
Michael Eppolito

About The Holocaust - 0 views

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    Excellent and concise set of primary sources.
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