Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph Of The Will": Documentaries And Objectivity
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8 pages in length. Documentaries are often assumed to be objective renderings of reality, yet they invariably offer a specific point of view. This point is clearly illustrated in Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will, one of the most morally and legally controversial documentaries ever made. Chronicling the 1934 session of Nazi Party Congress, Triumph of the Will has long been interpreted as propaganda for Hitler's reign, which caused it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power and intimidation that her film was feared by all who experienced it, inasmuch as it presented myriad issues that could not easily be dismissed. For example, was Triumph of the Will truly Nazi propaganda or rather a propaganda film given life by a non-Nazi woman? Indeed, the line was thin with regard to the underlying objective, an element that more than angered hierarchical Nazi propagandists. No additional sources cited.
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Lessons from the Holocaust
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One writer's emotional reaction -- reflecting upon the content of a course entitled "Literature of the Holocaust" and discussing in great detail what various works meant in terms of their contributive value. The writer realizes that the Holocaust must never be forgotten nor underplayed in the pages of history. Mentioned are the writings of Primo Levi, Elie Wiesel, and even a few guest speakers who had survived the Holocaust. No Bibliography.
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Levi & De Bernieres/On War
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A 5 page essay that address two novels. The writer argues that Primo Levi in his novel If Not Now, When? And Louis de Bernieres with his novel Cordelli's Mandolin present two narratives in which the protagonists are engaged in warfare, but are basically opposed to war. In exploring how these two men reconcile their beliefs with their activities, as well as how they maintain their connection to life, these authors each makes a profound statement concerning how humanity can exist within the framework of war. No additional sources cited.
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Mass Society Theory: How much does it affect us?
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This 5 page paper discusses the way mass society mentality affects our society as a whole. We are familiar with the effect it had on the Nazi foothold years ago but is it also seeping into modern cultures? A new system is suggested and outlined. Bibliography lists four sources.
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Maus & Schinder's List
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A 5 page essay that contrasts and compares Art Spiegelman's Maus (volumes I and II) and Steven Spielberg's film Schindler's List, which are both visually representations of the Holocaust. In both cases, the creators of these works employ the specific properties of their medium to better convey their personal vision of the meaning and reality of the horrors of genocide. Spiegelman's visual form is the graphic novel (the generic term of "comic book" seems hardly applicable). He employs text (often in the form of "bubbles" that show what characters think of say), but in addition to images, dialogue boxes and commentary, there are also maps of Poland and the camps, diagrams of hideouts, and real photographs from Spiegelman's family album. Spielberg, of course, employs cinematic tools, using sight, color, sound, music and visual effects to convey his personal sense of the tragedy. No additional sources cited.
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MAUS / A [Holocaust] Surviror's Tale I and II
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A 9 page exploration of the two works of Art Spiegelman ('cartoon book' depictions of Holocaust events) with a particular emphasis on the symbolism of the animal characters the author uses to represent the persecuted and the persecutors in World War II. No other sources are listed.
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Michael Berenbaum's "The World Must Know : The History Of The Holocaust As Told In The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum," Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men : Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution In Poland" And Daniel Jonah Gold
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5 pages in length. The writer discusses German participation in the Holocaust as it relates to these three books. No additional sources cited.
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Moral Indifference, The Holocaust & The Directive for Genocide
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A 6 page paper supporting the thesis that socialization and moral indifference have led to a lack of concentration on the major elements that have underscored the actions of leaders resulting in the Holocaust of Nazi Germany as well as atrocities in Central America and Vietnam. The writer supports the premise that it is possible for such conditions to occur again unless actions are taken to prevent emerging institutionalized complacency. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Museum of Tolerance
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(5pp) What do you think of these days when you hear the word museum? Probably that it is just a place with old stuff in it, in glass cases, with bad lighting? Right? Not! If that is your concept, then get ready to check out the 'Museum of Tolerance,' in Los Angeles. One of the consultants suggest that it be geared to a seventeen year old mind and attention span. That can be a good thing and a bad thing -but lets check it out… Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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NAZI GERMANY AND WORLD WAR II
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This 6 page paper discusses the role of Adolph Hitler in the development of the Nazi party, his use of military tactics and his eventual downfall. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Nazi History -- The Lebensborn & Eugenics
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A 20 page research paper providing an overview of the laws pertaining to eugenics and the Lebensborn program of Nazi Germany. The writer centers on the program and the support mechanisms put into place to underscore the development of the Nazi master race in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Nazi persecution of homosexuals
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A six page paper which looks at the revisionist history work, The Pink Swastika, and other issues surrounding the relationship of the Nazi regime to homosexuality. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: JLpink.rtf

Nazi Policy Against Jews: How Much Did The Allied Powers Know?
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5 pages in length. The writer discusses the extent to which the Allied powers knew of the Nazi's policy against Jews and why they did not intervene. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Nazi Propaganda Inside Germany
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This 4 page paper discusses the way in which the Nazis used propaganda to manipulate the German population into going along with their extreme agenda. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Nazi Warfare: Determining When The Nazi Program Was Conceived
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4 pages in length. The writer discusses how historians might find it difficult to accurately establish the conception of the Nazi Program. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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No Compassion During The Hard Times
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This five-page-paper presents a discussion about novel , "Billiards At Half Past Nine," by HEINRICH BOLL , and the lack of compassion that the era portrayed. Bibliography lists one source.
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Oppression / Anne Frank Compared With Chief Joseph
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A thoughtful, 5 page look at the similarities between the oppressions of Anne Frank and those of Chief Joseph. The writer defines ‘oppression' and then provides illustrative examples of how each individual suffered its persecuting spell. No bibliography.
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Ordinary People and the Holocaust
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A 4 page paper which examines the work of Daniel Goldhagen (“Hitler’s Willing Executioners”) and Jan Gross (“Neighbors”) in relationship to ordinary people playing an important part in the Holocaust and the rise of power in the Holocaust. No additional sources cited.
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Ozick's The Shawl
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When one sits down to read the novella, The Shawl, by Cynthia Ozick, it is difficult to know in advance the amount of emotional investment one is likely to make, however, reader: be warned, this is a story that will grip your heart and not let go. This 5 page paper explores the metaphors and symbols of the story in an effort to understand the greater meaning meant by the author. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Polish Anger & The Holocaust
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A 5 page paper on the writings of Polish Holocaust survivor Tadeusz Borowski in his book 'This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen.' The paper concludes that Borowski's refusal to separate the prisoners and captors into victims and villains has to do with his own sense of shame as a non-Jew as well as his sense of Jews as 'outsiders'. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Pressures Applied To German Jews
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4 pages in length. The pressures applied to German Jews were many and varied; the extent to which they were forced to suffer demands put upon by such entities as Nuremberg, the Evian Conference, Kristallnacht and the SS St. Louis are both grand and far-reaching; that options were also open to them by virtue of going into hiding, Danish Jews and Sobibor speak to some of the opportunities available to them. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Primo Levi's 'Survival in Auschwitz' / Literature of a Witness
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A 6 page essay that explores why Primo Levi chose to write Survival in Auschwitz using literary techniques instead of writing it as a strictly journalistic account.
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Primo Levi/Survival in Auschwitz
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A 6 page analysis of the Primo Levi's autobiographical account of his experience at Auschwitz. With the calm voice of witness, Levi relates what surviving Nazi oppression was like for the inmates of Auschwitz. Also, the writer speculates on how the Holocaust fits into the overall scheme of Western civilization. No additional sources cited.
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Questions and Answers about Postwar Germany
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This 6 page paper provides answers to questions posed by a student regarding the role of Chancellor Adenauer in postwar Germany. His opposition to Naziism is noted as well as many other attributes. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Raul Wallenberg / Saving Jewish Lives
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A 4 page overview of the accomplishments of Raul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives, in World War II. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Reasons for the Holocaust and Jewish Indifference to It
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This 6 page paper discusses some of the reasons for the Holocaust as well as the surprising Jewish indifference to it. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Response to a Study of the Holocaust
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This 14 page paper is a reaction to the study of the Holocaust, and surveys various materials used to describe it. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Richard III, Hitler and Mussolini
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This 8 page paper argues that Richard III, Hitler and Mussolini were all desperately ill, but not delusional; they knew what they were doing and felt no remorse for it. That is, they knew moral right from wrong and chose to act immorally. It also argues that the driving force behind the three was substantially different in each case. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Role of Ordinary Germans in Holocaust
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A 40 page research paper that discusses in detail the theories that have been formulated to explain the participation of the ordinary German soldier in the Holocaust, the extent of this participation and the possible reasons that have been proposed to explain the willingness of ordinary Germans to follow the orders that resulted in genocide. In particular, the writer focuses on the work of Christopher Browning (Ordinary Men,1992) and D.J. Goldhagen (Hitler's Willing Executioners, 1996). Bibliography lists 19 sources.
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Schindler's List
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A 5 page paper. What motivated Oskar Schindler to save so many Jews? This paper explores this question by discussing how Schindler came to be operating a factory and highlights of the events that transpired during the war. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Sereny/Into that Darkness
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A 5 page essay that looks at Gitta Sereny's text Into That Darkness, From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder (1974), which is an account of the life and choices of Franz Stangl, commandant of the Nazi death camps, Sobibor and Treblinka. Told largely in Stangl's own words, this is a highly intimate portrait of a mass murderer. The writer discusses the choices that Stangl made which led him down this path. No additional sources cited.
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SLAVE LABOR DURING THE HOLOCAUST/WORLD WAR II
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This 6 page paper discusses the use of forced labor in the war factories by the Germans during WWII. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Spender's The Temple
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This 8 page paper explores Stephen Spender's reflections of nazi persecution of homosexuals in his book, The Temple. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Spirituality and Compassion in Wiesel and Day
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A five page paper comparing the similar urges on the part of Catholic lay worker Dorothy Day and Jewish Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel to help others. The paper identifies this characteristic, together with achieving a moral center, as fundamental to religious faith. Bibliography lists five sources.
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Survival Strategies For Jewish Youth
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12 pages in length. The Jews have, perhaps, been one of the most persecuted of all peoples throughout history. Their pursuits to survive as both a people and a religion have been paved with pits and valleys from the time they began the struggle to reclaim what has been lost to political and social strife. Jewish youth are no less affected by these survival efforts, forced to often find their own strategies of endurance. The writer discusses various ways Jewish youth have survived throughout the twentieth century, as well as addresses what impediments have fallen in their paths. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Surviving The Holocaust / Book Review
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Author's own 5 page reaction to the book "Surviving the Holocaust : The Kovno Ghetto Diary of Avraham Tory."
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The Anger and Bewilderment of Holocaust Survivors
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A 10 page paper that examines the displacement, mental anguish, and rage against a perceived uncaring world experienced by survivors of the Holocaust after their liberation in the spring of 1945 as well as the years following. Included are the comments of survivors who are grateful to their liberators, but also bewildered and confused regarding a world that allowed such atrocities to continue for such an extended period of time. Also included are survivor reactions to allegations that the Holocaust was an imagined experience. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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The Armenian Genocide
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This 5 page paper argues that the Armenian Genocide (1915-1917) may have served as a model for the Nazi extermination of the Jews three decades later. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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The Bermuda Conference
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5 pages in length. The Bermuda Conference, which took place in April of 1943, was assembled between Great Britain and the United States as a means by which to address the plight of wayward Jews who had become refugees from Nazi-occupied countries. The writer discusses that as positive and forthright as the Bermuda Conference may have been, it did not succeed in bringing the Jews any peace or salvation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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(5 pp) There are times when we are hearing a story, or an event told by a friend, and we almost automatically say, I can't imagine that. Perhaps that is even why some of us have such a great enjoyment of reading, in that it expands our sense of imagination. We can imagine more as we experience the stories of others. It has been said that the best way to learn of history is not from the facts in a book, but rather from the stories or memories of someone who was in the experience. Such is the case of The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.
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The Ethics of Medical Experimentation on Humans: Four Views on the Nazi Medical Experiments
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This 10 page paper provides a review of four specific articles on the ethics of medical experimentation on human subjects and the implications. This paper considers the argument that benefits can still be derived from assessments of the outcomes of the Nazi experimentation and the various arguments on the ethics of using the results of Nazi medical experiments. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Ethics of Medical Experimentation on Humans: Four Views on the Nazi Medical Experiments
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This 10 page paper provides a review of four specific articles on the ethics of medical experimentation on human subjects and the implications. This paper considers the argument that benefits can still be derived from assessments of the outcomes of the Nazi experimentation and the various arguments on the ethics of using the results of Nazi medical experiments. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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The Final Solution
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This 4 page paper evaluates whether or not the Final Solution ,a plan carried out by the Nazis, was accomplished through brainwashing or whether the people were simply anti-Semitic. The former position is supported. How the Nazis changed the thinking of the people is at the crux of the discussion. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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The Holocaust
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A 5 page paper which examines how the Holocaust emerged as seen through "Life in the Third Reich" by Richard Bessel and "This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen" by Tadeusz Borowski. No additional sources cited.
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The Holocaust
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A 6 page paper that discusses the Holocaust. Specific topics include what the Holocaust was, the numbers killed and the causes of the Holocaust. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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