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Papers On Holocaust Studies
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Botwinick's A History of the Holocaust
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This 7 page paper looks at this comprehensive book and answers ten questions posed by the author. The paper considers thoughtful questions on the Holocaust and relies on the book to a large extent for answers. No additional sources cited.
Filename: SA315hol.rtf
Cambodian Women and the Khmer Rouge
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This 7 page report
discusses the genocide that took place in Cambodia during the
totalitarian regime of the Khmer Rouge in 1975-1979. Various
empirical studies reported that Cambodian women experienced the
most extensive trauma. These women were victims of physical
violence, often of a sexual nature, perpetrated by their fellow
citizens. They were exposed to multiple forms of emotional abuse,
torture, and forced labor. Many witnessed the deaths or
executions of their husbands, and most lost at least one, and
often several, of their children. Extended kinship networks, so
much a part of their cultural heritage and their everyday
functioning, were destroyed. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: BWcamref.wps
Capture of Adolf Eichmann
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A 14 page research paper that discusses the legality of the abduction of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina by the Israeli secret service and his subsequent trial. As background to this discussion, the writer also covers Eichmann's role in the Holocaust and his escape from American occupying forces and flight to Argentina. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: kheich.rtf
Chaim Potok's 'The Chosen' / The Pluralistic Nature of Reality
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A 5 page essay which examines this award winning novel by Chaim Potok. The writer demonstrates that the differing viewpoints within this Jewish community are intrinsic to the thematic structure of this coming-of-age story of two teenage boys. The writer illustrates that by the novel's conclusion, Potok has peeled back the layers of meaning to reveal the shared humanity of the two groups.
Filename: Chosen.wps
Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men:" Why, When Given A Choice, Did The Vast Majority Of Men In The Reserve Police Battalion 101 Opt To Participate In The Nazi Genocide?
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5 pages in length. Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland" discusses the reactive nature of men who are under the mental, emotional and physical strain of superior orders. The extent to which members of Reserve Battalion 101 opted to participate in the Nazi genocide, despite the fact they were given a choice, speaks volumes regarding the overwhelming influence Hitler had over ordinary men – artisans and working class police reservists untrained for such atrocities – who would otherwise never consider killing another human being. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCBt101.rtf
Christopher Browning’s “Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion
101” and Daniel Goldhagen’s “Hitler’s Willing Executioners
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Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust: This 6 page report discusses
these two books and compares their differing premises regarding
the actions taken (or not taken) by “ordinary” German citizens
during the Holocaust. Browning’s premise was that circumstances
such as peer pressure, career promotion, and the mindless
conformity of society led large numbers of common, everyday
people to participate in murdering the Jews of Europe. On the
other hand, Goldhagen claims that the well-established German
tradition of an “eliminationist ideal” resulted in a type of
anti-Semitism that was, in his opinion, a solely “German
pathology.” No other sources.
Filename: BWordmen.wps
Cognitive Dissonance / Applied To Those Who Saved The Jews
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In 6 pages the author discusses the concept of cognitive dissonance as it applies to those who saved the Jews from the Holocaust. It is posited that cognitive dissonance makes a person want to right a wrong in order to change a distasteful situation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Cogdiss.wps
Comparison of Heinrich Heine and Gunter Grass
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A 5 page paper discussing classic
works by these German authors. Both Heine and Grass portray a dark and nearly hopeless
Germany in their works. Heine's Deutschland, a Winter's Tale is older than Grass' The Tin
Drum by more than 100 years, a century in which Germany rose to command world
attention twice. Grass portrays a Germany with much similarity to that of Heine's time.
Heine was threatening and ominous in much of his epic-length verse. He was able to see
ahead on Germany's then-current path; Grass looked back along that path in the other
direction. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSGermBks.wps
Conflicted Paths/Making the Right Choice
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A 5 page essay that compares and contrasts Mark Harris' Bang the Drum Slowly and Art Spiegelman's Maus, A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began. The writer argues how very different situations are connected when they each touch – as these authors do – on factors that are intrinsically human. No additional sources cited.
Filename: khharspi.wps
Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" / Past, Present, & Symbolism
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A 4 page essay on the symbolism of the shawl itself in Cynthia Ozick's novella. Special attention is paid to the way the symbolism changes over the course of the story. The writer presents a chilling account of life during the Holocaust. The primary source is cited.
Filename: Shawl.wps
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