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English report help on the holocaust?
I have this report due tomorrow and I've really been behind on it becuase I haven't been able to find a lot of information on my topic- the Aryan race. It is for the Holocaust unit in 8th grade honors english and I really have no idea what I'm doing. I need 4 different sources cited in each paragraph with a total of at least 7 sources. There needs to be an intro, 4 body paragraphs, and a conclusion. It needs to be 4 pages long. This is what I have so far. Can anyone help me add a little to it or anything? I really need help. Thanks!
“If the breed was everything and the individual was nothing, then human life was ultimately worthless” (Stewart, Racism in the Third Reich). In Hitler’s perfect world, a master race that he called Aryan would rule, while lowly other races would become extinct through cruel processes.
Although Hitler’s ideal “Aryan race” did not actually exist, there is a long history of how this fictional race came to be. Starting in ancient times, the word “Aryan” seems to trace back to a linguistic group in the Indian Peninsula. It loosely translates to “noble”. Hitler’s propaganda suggested that Aryans were light-skinned, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and tall. That is not logical because the ancient people who spoke Indo-Aryan languages lived in an area where dark eyes, hair, and skin were most commonly seen. However, when the Nazis came to power, many Germans fitting the former description were led to believe that they were superior because of their looks.
Although the main target of the Aryan myth was to make “Aryan” people feel superior, this myth was also meant to help convince people that “non-Aryans” were to be destroyed. Who exactly were these “non-Aryans”? Hitler and his followers believed that people who would contaminate the Aryan race should be exterminated or sterilized so they could not bring imperfections to their descendants.
Many experiments were led to determine how to make this “master race” the most dominant race in the world. Dr. Josef Mengele was a leader in these experiments, and used thousands of people in hopes of finding a way to perfect the Aryan race.
The myth of an Aryan race affected path of the Holocaust in many ways. Many people made choices they might not have made before they had been told that they needed to protect their “master race”. Without the idea of a race to protect, it would have been difficult to convince people to destroy an entire race.
Even though the debates still occur to this day about the definition of an Aryan, there is no doubt that it played a role in the Holocaust.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
WHO SAID THAT THE ARYANS WERE WHITE-BLOND-BLUE EYED?
THATS WHAT HITLER SAID WITHOUT ANY SCIENTIFIC PROOFS AND WE STILL BELIVE IT LIKE IDIOTS!
HE EVEN TOO THE SWASTIKA FROM INDIA,HINDUISM!
THANKS TO THE WESTER HISTORIANS AND INDOLOGISTS WE HAVE A WRONG IMAGE OF THE ARYANS!
A SIMPLE QUESTION: IF ARYANS INVADED INDIA, WHY ISNT ANYTHING SIMILAR TO THE INDUS CULTURE ELSEWHERE???
ITS NOT ABOUT A RACE RATHER ABOUT CULTURE... THE INDUS-SARASWATI CULTURE.
THE WORD ARYAN HAS ITS ORIGIN IN SANSKRIT, MAX MÜLLER TOOK THE WORD FROM THE VEDAS, THE AUTHORS OF THE VEDAS CALLED THEMSELVES "ARYA" WHICH MEANS "NOBLE". THEY LIVE IN THE AREA WHICH MAKES TODAYS INDIA, IRAN,AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN.
DEFINITION:
the authoritative Sanskrit lexicon (c. 450 AD), the famous Amarakosa gives the following definition:
mahakula kulinarya sabhya sajjana sadhavah
An Arya is one who hails from a noble family, of gentle behavior and demeanor, good-natured and of righteous conduct
And the great epic Ramayana has a singularly eloquent expression describing Lord Rama as:
arya sarva samascaiva sadaiva priyadarsanah
Arya, who worked for the equality of all and was dear to everyone.
The Rigveda also uses the word Arya something like thirty six times, but never to mean a race.
THEY WERE NO BARBARIANS AS THE WESTERN "ARYANS" SAY... SEE ALL THOSE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ARYANS AND THEIR SUCCESSORS IN SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, ASTRONOMY, MEDICINE ETC... CAN THAT BE FROM BARBARIANS?
I MEAN ARYABHATTA, SUSRUTHA, CHARAKA ETC...
THERE ARE STILL NO SCIENTIFIC PROOFS FOR ALL THOSE "ARYAN THEORIES" OF THE WEST...
WE SHOULD STOP MISUSING AND INSULTING THE NAME OF THE ANCESTORS OF THOSE NATION.
to ARYAN-DRAVIDIAN theory which the british used during the colonial era:
Recent studies of the distribution of alleles on the Y chromosome microsatellite DNA, and mitochondrial DNA in India have cast overwhelmingly strong doubt for a biological Dravidian "race" distinct from non-Dravidians in the Indian subcontinent. The only distinct ethnic groups present in South Asia, according to genetic analysis, are the Balochi, Brahui, Burusho, Hazara, Kalash, Pathan and Sindhi peoples, the vast majority of whom are found in today's Pakistan.
ACCORDING TO THE LATEST SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE THE FORFATHERS OF THE HOMO SAPIENS (US HUMANS), THE HOMO ERECTUS ORIGINATED IN AFRICA!
SO WE ALL ARE ACTUALLY AFRICANS... BUT NOT BLACK!?!
AND SADLY THE CURRENT CONDITION OF OUR "HOMELAND" IS A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER!
- 1 decade ago
Well,I've never had experience with Nazi history in school but my info on the Nazis(I don't consider Germans as a Nazi)which I got from various WW2 movies so here it is: Adolf Hitler(aka the Fuhrer which means leader in German) wanted to eradicate all forms of races that are not pure white(Asians,Africans,Jewish etc.) so Hitler wanted the Aryan race(The Pure white) to be the only race in earth,So He showed his racist nature by committing the Holocaust,The Holocaust is when Hitler has prejudiced the Jews in Europe in the countries which he controlled using his pawns(Nazi soldiers) by forcing Jews to submit themselves and be treated in an inhumane way(Labor Camps,Identification stars in their clothing etc.) and after the war had ended in 1945 it was reported by the Allies(America,Britain,France,Russia other countries) that 6 millions Jews were killed due to the Holocaust.And if you ever go to countries who's religion is mostly Jewish NEVER wear a Swastika,It is the sign of Hitler and the Fascist countries malice in WW2,When Jews see you wear a Swastika or tattoos of Swastikas They'll kill you.That's all,I hope I was of assistance.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Websites for Holocaust Education
(Some of these links can be upsetting.)
http://www.holocaust-history.org/
http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/
http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holoc.htm
http://www.cumbavac.org/Holocaust.htm
http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/genocide/Holocaust.htm
Holocaust Timeline:
