Josef Kramer Essays

  • Josef Kramer: The Beast Of Belsen

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    While researching things about Josef Kramer I found out things that I didn't know before. Such as concentration camps and what it was like to live back then. Josef Kramer was the commandant of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp he was nicknamed The Beast of Belsen. Kramer was born on November 10th, 1906 and died on December 13th, 1945 by being hanged. He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. Josef Kramer was born and grew up in Munich as an only child in a middle class

  • Bergen Belsen As A Nazi Concentration Camp

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    SS; Hauptsturmfűhrer Adolf Hass. But in 1944 Hass was replaced by SS; Hauptsturmfűhrer Josef Kramer. Kramer had past experience with concentration camp, he had been involved in concentration camps since 1934 and before Bergen Belsen Kramer was at Auschwitz-Birkenau. While he was in Bergen Belsen he was nicknamed; "beast" because of the way he would kill prisoner or let them starve. One guy who survived wrote “Kramer lost his calm. A strange gleam lurked in his small eyes, and he worked like a madman

  • The Story of a Holocaust Survivor

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    When I was a child, a very close family friend of ours from Israel, Joyce Kleinman (now Wilner), and her sister Reisi Kleinman (now Greenbaum) entered the Auschwitz concentration camp at the ages of 15 and 12 years old. Years later, Joyce’s son Mike Wilner composed an interview that included his mother Joyce and Aunt Reisi outlining the significant events that led to the survival of both sisters and illustrated the events that took place during the Holocaust in which an estimated 6 million Jews were

  • Comparing Terror in Franz Kafka's The Trial and The Man Who Disappeared

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    the nature of terror is exposed to the fullest extent. The main characters in both works, Josef K. and Karl Rossmann are both used as pawns in the chess game also known as society. The dramatic impact from the major turn of events would create a tremendous change in both characters. Josef K., who was arrested for no apparent reason would have his life totally dominated by the judicial system. The road that Josef K. is forced to journey on became a one-way street and he was never able to turn back. Karl

  • Divided We Fall

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    family to conseal a Jewish person in their home. Csonger Kassai's character, David, escaped prison in Poland and returned to Czechoslovakia where he thought that someone could help him. He is taken in by his former employee (Bolek Polivka, who plays Josef), who is reluctant at first, but spends the next two years lying in order to save David, himself, and his wife, Marie (Anna Siskova). Throughout the film, there are many close calls. The worst one is that Marie told Horst (a worker for the Nazis, who

  • Justice On Trial in Kafka's The Trial

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    universe.  A search for justice by Josef K. finds no justice in either realm. Josef K. awakes one morning to find himself accused by a mysterious legal authority "Someone must have been spreading lies about Josef K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning."ii  His crime is unnamed, one of which he knows nothing.  The novel follows his many attempts to obtain justice from authorities with which he cannot communicate well.  Josef K.'s attempt to find justice end in

  • Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman

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    The main characters of this story are Rudi Matt, Franz Lerner, Frau Matt, John Winter, and Emil Saxo. Rudi is the son of the legendary mountain guide of the Alps, Josef Matt. He has mountain climbing in his blood and is destined to become a guide. He is the main character of the story. Franz Lerner is Rudi’s uncle. He was with Josef Matt hours before he died while trying to climb the Citadel, and now he is looking out for Rudi. Frau Matt is Rudi’s mother. She does not want Rudi to become a guide

  • Free Essays - All Quiet on the Western Front

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    weeks ended up healing fine, the opposite was true for Albert. An infection spread through his leg leading for the need for it to be amputated at the thigh. When Paul returned to the war these two friends parted, never to see each other again. Josef Behm Josef Behm was described as a plump fellow who, at first, did not want to join the war efforts. Later, after being called a coward, he was convinced by his schoolmaster and fellow students to join the army. He was the first of his schoolmates to be

  • Compare And Contrast A Doll's House Vs Kramer

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    Kramer vs. Kramer shows the outcome, the aftermath of A Doll’s House. In A Doll’s House there is the hard-working husband and father, Torvald and the stay at home wife whose job is only to mother the children, Nora. There is same exact scenario in the movie Kramer vs. Kramer with Ted and Joanna. Both in the play and the movie Nora and Torvald, and Joanna and Ted are married for eight years before they split, and they have at least one child. Kramer vs. Kramer continues the story of A Doll’s House

  • Life Span Movie: Kramer Vs. Kramer

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    has happened. Others try to rectify the situation; they come in and try to make things better, but all their good intentions just make the situation worse. In Kramer vs Kramer, the members of the Kramer family find themselves in somewhat of a crisis when the mother, Joanna Kramer, decides to walk out on her family. The father’s, Ted Kramer, main role in the family has been that of a provider, but he is now immediately thrust into playing the role of both parents. Not having been such an adept father

  • Joseph Mengele and his Atrocities

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    people to their death with a flick of a cane, without one scent of remorse or one inkling of guilt? -his name was Josef Mengele. (Nazi304) Hitler gave Mengele all the resources he could and this is the main reason why he went to Auschwitz, because the of the availability of the victims he could do his work on. The stories and pictures of Auschwitz tell a gruesome tale of death and torture. Josef Mengele performed horrific experiments on twins, justified by official Nazis party policies to try and create

  • Dr. Mengele

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    life story of Josef Mengele is one that is filled many twists and turns that play out like a suspense story with an ending that does not seem to fit what one would expect. The authors of the book Mengele: The Complete Story, Gerald L. Posner and John Ware, wrote this book largely with information taken from diaries and letters of Mengele’s, and interviews with those who knew him. It is a look into the life and times of a man whose nickname was “The Angel of Death.'; Josef’s life

  • Arabian Nights

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    The Arden production of The Arabian Nights should have included a story or two about a Demon like those included in the novel by Husain Haddawy. By including these types of stories they could incorporate magic and demons into the play. There are many interesting ways that they adapter could portray magic and the appearance of demons. The Story of the Merchant and the Demon from the novel tells of this wealthy merchant who travels from town to town selling goods. On one trip he rode for many days

  • the hatchet

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    This book is about a boy named Brian Roberson who gets stuck in the wilderness when his plane crash-lands because the pilot has a heart attack. It all started when Brian's parents had a divorce. He was sent away on a plane by his mother because it was summertime when his dad had custody. The parting gift his mother gave him was a hatchet. He wore the hatchet on a belt. When he left on the private little Cessna 406 plane in the copilot's seat he never could imagine how this little trip would change

  • Compare And Contrast Sweeney Todd Play And Movie

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    The University of Georgia’s theatre adaptation of the penny dreadful story, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, was very similar, design wise, to Tim Burton’s 2007 film of the same name. While the two were very comparable, they did differ in many design elements which include, lighting, costumes, color, and key structural set-ups. The lighting played a major role in setting the tone for both the theatre performance and the movie. In both the film and play, the lighting was dimmed and

  • Characteristics And Characters In 'The Wife's Story'

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    The Wife 's Story is a story about a pack of werewolves, and the husband turns into a strange creature; a vampire. Even though a normal werewolf transforms into a human, the husband in The Wife’s Story transforms into something totally different. The husband is a compulsive lying werewolf that is actually a vampire that is out to kill his family, but his plan turns on him. The husband has been lying to his wife since they got married and she is worried about why he is doing this. A wife should not

  • Physics Reflection Paper

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    Whether we realize or not, physics is a very prominent thing in all of our lives. Physics can be used to explain why just about everything in this world works the way it does. In physics class we learn multiple equations and how to apply those equations to multiple different problems and examples, but what happens when we try to apply these concepts ourselves in a real world situation? When first introduced to the Pack a Pringle project, I couldn’t believe how ridiculously easy of a project we had

  • Witchcraft Trials In Medieval History: Pope Innocent VIII

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    Witchcraft trials were prevalent throughout medieval history, especially throughout the continents of North America and Europe. The propose of these witchcraft trials was to identify those that appeared to be practicing witchcraft, place them on trial, and ultimately punish them for their alleged heretical beliefs and behaviors. These hunts and trials were often sanctioned by high ranking members of the church. One such high ranking supporter was Pope Innocent VIII, who not only acted as the

  • Passion's Role in Modern Love Stories

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    Many love stories these days share some key features that develop into amazing stories. However, they also have their differences which set them apart from each other. Some stories take a significant advantage of an intriguing human element, passion. Passion is an intense desire for something or someone. For instance, Irene Nemirovsky in “Fire in the Blood” described how passion can change one’s life for the worse. Nemirovsky begins the story by describing a country wedding of a girl that wished

  • The Story of a Brave Knight

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    When I was a young boy my Grandfather always liked to tell the tale of how he was wounded during the extraordinary battle that killed the great Roland. My grandfather was a brave knight that held all the qualities a knight was supposed to possess. He was a chivalrous, brave, strong knight that feared nothing. He had never been beaten in battle, and I suppose he never was. That is for you to decide. My grandfather served under the knight, Rowland, and his fateful assistant, Olivier. He would describe