While both the Soviets and the Nazis committed horrible acts against minorities, the Nazis acted worse (but only by a little bit) Both countries sent Jews, the mentally ill, and other groups to labor camps to die. The killing of these innocent people was justified as "the good of the country." The Utopia that each country's leaders sought after was to be accomplished by washing the country with the blood of millions. Neither of these countries in practice were much better then each other, although the ideological roots of the German terror were worse. While the Soviets killed because they wanted to "rid the country of social enemies," the Nazis killed Jews and other races because they were "lesser beings." "If the focal point of Soviet exclusionary
The time, 1941, the place, the then Soviet Union, the Red Army is in retreat from the German forces, following closely behind the German frontline is an unspeakable force coming over the conquered lands like a deadly plague. The Einsatzgruppen were considered as mobile death dealers by their victims. The major occupation of the Einsatzgruppen was the humiliation, extermination, and complete of annihilation of Jews, Romany or gypsies, members of the communist party, and intellectsia or major thinkers. They were organized to be the most efficient at occupying and murdering the undesirables. The leaders of these hounds of war were hand selected by Heydrich Himmler from the brightest, bravest, and most loyal of the Nazi members. The Einsatzgruppen were broken down to cover more area and to cause more chaos. Their techniques for killing were horrific, and in some cases could even tax the mind of the executioner. They were responsible for most of the murders of Jews during World War 2. Almost every huge massacre site they were at it killing undesirables.
Among 1.5 million Jews were shot to death in the most brutal way by different Nazi units. The so-called Einsatzgruppen, which operated behind the front against the Soviet Union, were
Poland was devastated when German forces invaded their country on September 1, 1939, marking the beginning of World War II. Still suffering from the turmoil of World War I, with Germany left in ruins, Hitler's government dreamt of an immense, new domain of "living space" in Eastern Europe; to acquire German dominance in Europe would call for war in the minds of German leaders (World War II in Europe). The Nazis believed the Germans were racially elite and found the Jews to be inferior to the German population. The Holocaust was the discrimination and the slaughter of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its associates (Introduction to the Holocaust). The Nazis instituted killing centers, also known as “extermination camps” or “death camps,” for being able to resourcefully take part in mass murder (Killing Centers: An Overview).
The Germans can only be described as monsters, for their horrific acts of cruelty are wholly inhumane. During the Holocaust, the Germans strip the Jews of everything in their possession, to the point where the Jews are completely dehumanized. This is all a part of the Germans’ scheme to massacre the Jews with...
One obvious difference is the very first intention – Hitler's Nazi wanted to avenge what the world done to them after the World War I,...
Both governments used each of these methods maintain power and control over the people. Nazis and the Party had very similar ideologies. Although Nazis eliminated people because of their religion (Sauer 683) and the Party eliminated people because of their anti-Party feelings (Orwell 187), they both tried to eliminate anyone who did not agree with them. This practice was essential for controlling the masses and holding on to power. Retaining power is much easier for a government when the entire population that government rules agrees with its philosophies.
One of the biggest tactics used during WWII that both Hitler and Stalin had in common was the concentration camp. Stalin’s concentration camps were called Gulag’s and Hitler’s were just called concentration camps. Regular people that committed crimes were sent to the gulags; rapist, murderers, robbers and thieves spent their sentences in the gulags, also political prisoners were sent to the gulags so they couldn’t pose a threat to Stalin and over throw his power. Hitler’s concentration camps were designed mainly for the Jews that Hitler kicked out of Germany and that he captured in Poland. Hitler vied the Jews and a disgusting race and that they had to be destroy because the Germans were and Aryan race and the Jewish population was not Aryan. (“A drop of Jewish blood ruins the whole race”) There were two types of concentration camps that Hitler had, one of the camps that Hitler had was the work camp and then he had the death camps. There were requirements in order to be in the work camps and no sent to the death camps, you had to be young and you had to be able to work. Anyone that was old or had a handicap was sent to the death camps, and if you were a mother with children you were sent to the death cam...
...nfluences upon societies both were very conservative as women didn't have the same rights as in the free Western World and minorities were discriminated or even worse sent to the concentration camps and killed. Teachers, academics and other members of the elite were often mistreated not to say molested or even killed. The systems were actually killing their own people's and children future.Unfortunately Croatian people suffered under both of these systems, first as a part of Nazi occupied territory under the name of Independent State of Croatia which was run by local pro-Nazi government and immediately after the Second World War inside of Tito's Communist Yugoslavia.A lot of very sad days we remember still today and the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people will continue to remind generations of what an evil system and lunatic leader can do if he gets out of control.
These two men were very demanding in obtaining what they thought should be the rule of a nation by their own personal control. Stalin and Hitler were very close in the same way that they had an aggressive vigor to force a type of commanding dictatorship into their respective countries. Each had a special army that they put in high regard politically to where they were considered special police agents. These armies were under different orders, but their main objectives were to stop anyone who opposed, or were thought to be in opposition to the head of state. Also, both Stalin and Hitler had ideas to improve the education levels and economic prosperity of their own countries, each trying to put their own at the top of the world in industry and commerce. Although Hitler and Stalin were opposed to each other’s own strategies and political stance on being a world dominator, they were very similar in the way to which they fought for political power.
Totalitarian regimes take over control of every aspect of an individual's life in which the state holds total authority. The only thing Totalitarian regimes do for its community is cause the basic rights of humans to be destroyed by brutality and terror. The Totalitarian society of any regime is constantly moving toward some end goal, even though the totalitarian state never reaches it. It instead creates the illusion of doing so. As soon as one goal was reached, it was replaced by another and such was the case in Stalin's Russia.
In the book “The Nazi Hunters” illustrates Nazi killing and torturing hundreds of Jews to eliminate there. “In the Ukraine, people were forced into pits, ordered to strip, and get lashed for about twenty to thirty times, and then shot in the hundreds” (Neal Bascomb 13). This reveals that in Ukraine the nazi’s are forcing to do things, and get tortured, and killed just because of their race. This display as the nazi as cold blooded murderers. And heartless killers towards the Jews, and
The intentional murder of an enormous group of people is near unthinkable in today’s society. In the first half of the twentieth century, however, numerous authoritarian regimes committed genocide to undesirables or others considered to be a threat. Two distinct and memorably horrific genocides were the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany and the Holodomor by the Soviet Union. In the Holocaust, The Nazis attempted to eradicate all European Jews after Adolf Hitler blamed them for Germany’s hardship in recent years. During the Holodomor, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union attempted to destroy any sense of Ukrainian nationalism by intentionally starving and murdering Ukrainian people. The two atrocities can be thoroughly compared and contrasted through the eight stages of genocide. The Holocaust and Holodomor shared many minor and distinct similarities under each stage of genocide, but were mainly similar to the methods of organization, preparation, and extermination, and mainly differed
The treatment of Jews and other minority groups by the Nazi’s can be described as actions that could only be done by totalitarian
"Lecture 10: The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler." The History Guide. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 May 2014.
I believe that under certain circumstances that capital punishment should be allowed because if someone is going to commit mass murder they should pay with the ultimate human right which is of their life. This topic has been widely thought of in the world with a few philosophers really encompassing my views. Those are the views of Ernest Van Den Haag and Bruce Fein. Philosophers who oppose our views are such like Justice William Brennan and Hugo Adam Bedau. I will prove my point using the ideas of deterrence and morality of the issue of capital punishment. If the government would show that if you kill someone there will be a consequence for their actions and that the consequence would be equal to what they have done. The population will see that it isn’t worth taking another humans life. If we were to kill people that are committing these mass killings of innocent people there would not be as many criminals around. Therefore the streets would be a place people wouldn’t be afraid of anymore.