Do Schindler's Good Deeds Outweigh His Bad

We recently finished watching the movie “Schindler’s List” and most of us liked and appreciated the main character Oskar Schindler. We all liked him for the good he did and because we understood why he did the things he did but we didn’t take much time to think about or discuss the bad things he did. Just because he was taking advantage of the jews in a nicer way than most other Germans, doesn’t change the fact that he was still taking advantage of them and making a huge profit using slave labor. This was something Mr. Stewart briefly mentioned after we watched the film and I was wondering what other people thought. Where is the line for when the bad will outweigh the good? And does that line apply to all situation or is this one an exception? How much of it is he responsible for since most Germans were taking advantage of the Jews and slave labor anyway? He seemed to have done his best to do good in the most efficient way possible at the time but there were other ways he could’ve helped without dealing with the Nazis and taking advantage of slave labor. Although my personal opinion is that the good things he did and the lives he saved far outweigh the bad things he had to do to achieve that.

After Helen meets with Monika

After Meeting with Monika, both ladies went on to share their stories with the whole world in the documentary inheritance. Helen was reluctant at first because she was the daughter of the mn who abused her and killed others when he was still alive an running the Krakow-Płaszow concentration camp. Monika had grown up being told that he father was a great man who dies fighting for his country on the battlefield. It wasn´t until her mother told her that she would die like her father that she found out the truth from her grandmother the man he actually was. Later in life wanting to learn more about her father she decided to watch Schindler's list in which she learned a whole lot of information regarding her father. Having been shown all this information she became mad at Spielberg for telling her through the film what her father had done. The film and a holocaust survivor documentary helped reminded her of Helen who she had been told about a few times growing up but never met and her house. After they meet  Helen goes on to say,¨Monika, she accepted the fact that her father was a killer, but she still wanted to defend him. She said to me that, "They all were doing it." I said, "But he was the one that gave all the orders." So, it's just like she still protected…"They all were doing it." It just, like, annoyed me, you know? It's hard for me to be with her because she reminds me a lot of, you know…she's tall, she has certain features. And I hated him so. But she is a victim. And I think it's important because she is willing to tell the story in Germany. She told me people don't want to know, they want to go on with their lives. And I think it's very important because there's a lot of children of perpetrators, and I think she's a brave person to go on talking about it because it's difficult.¨

How "the good guy with a gun" stops "the bad guy with a gun"

Spoiler: they don't.

At least not enough to justify increasing the number of privately owned guns in America. A 2014 report released by the FBI examined 160 mass shooting incidents in the US. Only 5 in 160 shooters were stopped (meaning they were killed/wounded) by an armed individual not affiliated with law enforcement.

In comparison, 21 of 160 incidents were stopped by an unarmed individual "safely and successfully restrained" the shooter.

Studies have also suggest that the presence of a gun can encourage people to engage in confrontational behaviors that can escalate a situation (Zimmerman and Martin). This pose some very serious concern as to why Americans are so keen on increasing (and not just maintaining) the amount of gun that are privately owned.



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DACHAU

Dachau was the first regular concentration established by the National Socialists government (Nazis). It was established and opened in March 1933. As Heinrich Himmler, police president of Munich (Head of SS and second in command under Hiter (Hitters Bodyguard)), would put it, its sole purpose as officially described the camp served as "a concentration camp for political prisoners."
It was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the N.E. part of the town of Dachau, about 10 miles northwest of Munich in southern Germany. During the first start of the camp, it held about 4,800 prisoners

In early 1937, the SS, using prisoner labor, began construction of a large complex of buildings on the grounds of the original camp. Prisoners were forced to do this work, starting with the destruction of the old munitions factory, under terrible conditions. The Dachau camp was seen as a training center for SS concentration camp guards. The camp's organization and routine became the model for all Nazi concentration camps. When Kristallnacht time came, more than 10,000 Jewish men entered the camp.
The camp eventually evolved into a death camp where countless thousands of Jews died from malnutrition, disease, and overwork or were executed. German physicians performed medical experiments on prisoners, including high-altitude experiments using a decompression chamber, malaria and tuberculosis experiments, hypothermia experiments, and experiments testing new medications. Prisoners were also forced to test methods of making seawater potable and of halting excessive bleeding.In addition to Jews, the camp’s prisoners included members of other groups Hitler considered unfit for the new Germany, including artists, intellectuals, the physically and mentally handicapped and homosexuals. Thousands of prisoners were worked to death.

On April 29, 1945, American forces liberated Dachau. There had been at least 28,000 known registered deaths, not including the number of deaths between the years 1933 and the end of 1939, as well as an uncounted number of unregistered prisoners death.

What does it Take ?

What does it take to stop mass shootings. How many times have we seen in the news that there has been a new mass shooting, how many times do we see that people are getting killed because of someone that is mentally sick. Could it be that what we watch on television , the news, exaggerates too much could it be that not the whole story of  what is presented on the news is true. What are sources that we can trust or is it up to us to figure out what is happening in the world, but then again we come back to the same thing even if the news exaggerates what is happing it is no excuse and we still are seeing mass shootings we still see people getting killed. So we come back to the original question, what does it take? We see that the lawyers of the shooters blame bulling and mental illness, but isn't that's why the government has invested lots of money into programs that help stop bullying and also programs that help with mental illness and they also set up counselors for troubled kids. How many more shootings is it going to take for us to finally figure out how to stop shootings? DO we need harsher punishments for the killers so people think twice about shooting up place or perhaps more security, or even restrict the media from turning a mass shooting into a exaggeration?

Amon Goeth

As reported at the war crime trial by a survivor of the camp, Moshe Beijski - a Schindler Jew, in 1943 on Yom Kippur, an important holiday of the Jewish year, "Goeth and his SS-men took 50 Jews from the barracks and shot them. Often prisoners were publicly hung, with more than 15,000 inmates lined up on the ground." 

Goeth was known as an Austrian SS soldier and the commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp in Płaszów in German-occupied Poland. The camp's existence served for most of the War (World War II). In the beginning, he joined the Nazis youth group at 17 years old and took up all the influences and knowledge it gave to him. In the year 1930, when he was twenty-two years of age, he decided to join joined the then-outlawed Austrian Nazi Party. In the same year, he set forth on his path to joining the S.S.
Later on, Amon Goeth was forced to flee to Germany when he was pursued by Austrian authorities for crimes involving explosives. When word came out of this as he entered Germany, his superior officers admired his devotion, gave him glowing personal evaluations and transferred him to the S.S. Amon Goeth was viewed as a model officer, and his reward was a posting, in August 1942, with Aktion Reinhard, the S.S. operation to liquidate more than two million Polish Jews.His position at Plaszow was amongst his most powerful time in his career. According to many, he made life at that concentration camp dreadful. Prisoners would say they were lucky enough to survive up to 4 weeks. He was a brutal murderer who was invested frequently in Collective punishment. Torture and death were well known and daily events. Many prisoners in the camp, people and groups passing one another on different work shifts reported the daily number of people being killed.

In another case reported, "The case of Olmer, whose daughter lives in Jerusalem, and I know her. He was summoned by the Camp Commandant Amon Goeth. The Camp Commandant had two dogs, Ralf and Rolf, and he set the dogs on him. The dogs ate him up alive. Possibly a little breath still remained in him. He shot him and he was killed." This showed the cruelness he had in him. Even though it could have been certain circumstances that is not an excuse for these behaviors.

As shown in the movie, Shindlers Lists as well many know him for his daily actions including passing his mornings using his high-powered, scoped rifle to shoot at children playing in the camp. He was a vicious person and many feared him more than anything. As many of Schindlers Jews recall it, "When you saw Goeth, you saw death."

Who was Oskar Schindler?

Oskar Schindler born, April 28, 1908 - October 9, he was a german industiralist and a member fo the Nazi Party. He has been credited with saving 1200 jews during the Hollocaust by employing htem in his enamelware and ammunition factories. He had a movie made after him that we watched in class called, Schindlers List directed by Steven Spielberg. This was a very accurate description of the Holocaust and saw how the Jewish community was enialated by a bunch of madmen. In the movie is described Schindler as a opportunist initially motivated by profit. Then later he showed some sympathy and actully showed how he cared for the Jews. Schindler was apart of the intelligence service of Nazi Germany. When he died on October 9th, 1974 in Hildesheim, Germany and he was buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion, the only memeber of the Nazi Party to be hounoured in this way.

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide also known as the Armenian Holocaust was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of 1.5 million Armenians. These people were mostly citizens within the Ottoman Empire. This genocide was carried out after World War 1 and was implemented in two phases. forced labour till death or extermination. This is very similar to the Holocuast we know with Adolf Hitler and the mass killing of Jews. I feel that Hitler looked back in history when decideing the final soluiton he got some of his ideas from the Armenian Genocide. They are very similar in the way they decided to kill and exterminate people. The Armenians had a tactic that Germany did not use which was these death marches. The Turkish people forced Armenenians to march through the syrain dessert. They were deprived of food and water, they were subjected to periodic rape and robbery.

Gun Control

I have grown up with guns and weapons. I enjoy shooting guns, bow and arrows, throwing knives, etc… Although I have nothing against guns, I do think they should be restricted because obviously some people can’t handle them. I have shot almost every kind of gun and I am perfectly comfortable around them but honestly even for sport I don’t see the point of fully auto or even semi auto guns. Fully auto is just ridiculous especially considering they don't allow them at most ranges anymore so the only reason someone would have them is to have a concealable killing machine. Semi auto on the other hand are probably the most common kind of gun but I think these are also pretty unnecessary. If we needs guns for sport or hunting, there's nothing wrong with pump action shotguns, bolt action rifles, and old style revolvers that don’t pull the hammer for you. If those were the only guns allowed no sport would be affected. The only difference is there wouldn’t be mass shootings. I would like to know what would’ve happened if the LA shooter only had bolt action rifles. He may have gotten off 10, 20, or possibly 30 bullets compared to the 1,100 he fired from his fully auto extended mag guns. People are so focused on their “right to bear arms” that they are unwilling to compromise to save lives, at least until it happens to them and it’s too late…

Justice system and money

The justice system is one that can be bought. If you dot have a large sum of money you are willing to spend on lawyers test and other fees, you may just get convicted. A couple cases this applies to are the OJ case and Claus Von Bulow case. Both these men had mountains of incriminating evidence against them. They both were fund to be innocent but at a high price. OJ had spent millions on his trial. He had 4 lawyers who were at the top of the food chain. All very expensive lawyers. Essentially by buying these lawyers OJ had bought his freedom. They did everything right in a trial, while plying by the book. In clauses case he had good lawyers to petition and when his appeal in court. He used money as a help to get out but ultimately he used the fact that the police had not gone by protocol. Even in civil trial money is heavily involved. Big corporation facing lawsuits will normally delay the case to take years and make their opponent spend a large sum on lawyers and court fees. Big corporations really dislike to settle and pay out because it sends a message that they can be sued easily. Overall in the courts system money is a key factor it can change evidence and win cases. The real question is, is that fair to people who don't have access to that money.

Itzhak Stern: The True Hero

While the movie is called Schindler's list, it really should have been called Stern's list. First off, he was the one who typed it but even before that, it was his idea to bring in Jews from the ghetto for cheaper wages. While he used this logic to appeal to Schindler, a shrewd businessman with only an eye for money, he was also trying to save his people. Beyond this, he tried to save academics and intellectuals by forging papers for them saying they were essential workers. By doing this, he was saving twice as many lives. Throughout the movie, we can see that Stern's growing friendship with Schindler starts to bring out the moral side of Schindler. Schindler rescues Stern from the trains, his first saving act, but only because he needs Stern. Stern brings out the better side of Schindler. For these reasons, I believe that Stern is the unspoken hero of the movie. Do you agree or disagree with this? Do you think Schindler would still have done his actions without Stern?

The Girl in the Red Jacket

As I've sure you've all noticed by now, there's this reoccurring character in Schindler's List that seems to have no explanation as to why she exists or is so emphasized: The girl in the red dress. I wanna ask you guys, why do you guys think the girl in the red dress is so emphasized in this movie? Why does she exist? Why is her jacket in color?

I have my own personal theory about this. I think the little girl is symbolic of the SS, the war, and the genocide of the Jews. The first scene we see the little girl, she walks amongst the SS, almost invisible to them. She's in a jacket that's colored red when the whole movie is in black and white. The color red is normally symbolic of death, blood, war, and evil. Childhood represents innocence. Synthesizing all these things, I personally think the little girl is a symbol for the SS believing that what they're doing is innocent, not hurting anyone at all, however, that "red" follows them everywhere, almost invisible to them. They first think that putting Jews into ghettos is innocuous, but really, death, blood, and evil follow them everywhere they go like a shadow. What they're doing is not innocuous, but instead causing people to die.

The girl returns a second time, this time, after the SS are given orders to burn all the bodies of the dead Jews in the Krakow work camp. The girl is shown dead, in a wheelbarrow full of other dead bodies, still in the red coat. In my opinion, this is Spielberg telling the audience that the Nazis have finally realized that their innocence is dead. They are no longer just putting Jews into work camps, but instead, killing them off systematically. The Nazis know they are losing the war, and with that knowledge comes the realization that what they are doing is looked down upon and shamed by the rest of the world. They might have realized that what they've been doing is horrific. The dead girl symbolizes this realization.

But, this is only a theory of mine. I don't know if this is accurate or not, and there might have been some things I missed or skipped over when making this theory. What do you guys think of the girl in the red jacket?

Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig

Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig was the maid of SS officer Amon Göth who would physically abuse her. She was originally from Kraków where she had been living with her family up till when the Nazis invaded Poland and forced her and her family into the Kraków-Płaszów labor camp where she was forced to work until on her 3rd day she was complimented by Göth on her washing skills and was ordered to work as his housemaid in his villa just outside the camp. In the villa, she shared a room with Helen Hirsch who is shown in Schindler's list.  Along with Hirsch having interactions with Schindler, he would also offer hope to Rosenzweig such as ¨Remember the people in Egypt? They were freed. So you will be, too.¨  As of 2015 she is still alive and in 2004 she appeared in a film with the daughter of Göth, Monika Hertwig despite being hesitant at first due to her experience with her father.

Schindlers Wife

Emilie Schindler - Before the war Schindler she was in poverty, born in Germany on a farm with animals such as geese and cows. She first met Oskar Schindler when she was 20 when he was with his father. He visits became a routine and they later married.

During the War she wasn't around him alot which would allow Oskar to flirt with women. During this time he started hiring Jews who were in the ghettos for cheap labor while also helping them to stay alive. Throughout the war Oskar was arrested many times by the Nazis for bribery among other things but Emilie was vital in keeping the company together when he was arrested. Without both of their efforts the factory would have been closed and those Jews sent back with an uncertain fate awaiting them.

Does war justifiy the actions of a person ?

Time and time again we see that the ss officers are ruthless and they beat and kill women, men and kids that they don't like we see this because they are suppose to be the "killers" of Nazi group. But we see that there are some SS soldiers and officers that abuse their power like Amon Goeth that liked to take advantage of women and kill people. And even as bad as he seemed he was still able to be changed by Oskar schindleir because Oskar was smart with his words, but did that mean that he was still justified for all the bad things he did and was still doing? Like what oskar said to the girl in the wine cellar, the war brings the worst out of people and we see that this is the case for many of the SS officers and soldiers. But war shouldn't be an excuess to just go out and kill people that are innocent because you feel like it. Now I know that there were a lot of soldiers that didn't want to do all this and they didn't want to participate in the war but when they fell into influence they did what they were told or some feared what could happen to them. But i guess the question is who should be accussed of what is happening or who should be let off. In the justice system not everyone is going to get justified and the people who judge the accused have choices to make with a set a rules that sometimes don't prove that the accused are wrong for what they are doing or what they have done.

Schindler List: Oskar Schindler

As we are finishing up the movie we heard that this movie is actually based on a true story. There are many scences that are really harsh and hard to believe these really happen. The main character in the stroy, Oskar Schindler was born on April 28, 1908 and died on October 9, 1974 from a cardiovascular disease. From the begining he was an ethnic German and a Catholic, he remained in Svitavy during the interwar period and held a Czech citizenship with its newly established Czechoslovak Republic in 1918. As he was growing up he attended various amounts of trade schools in the city of Brno. He grew up in Catholic well-to-do family with all the privileges money could buy. At nineteen years old, he married Emilie Schindler but depsite being married he was never without a mistress or two. But they remained separated at the time of the war because Shindler wanted to do buisness negotiations and returned to Germany as his wife remained in Austria- Hungary. During the war, he had presided over the demise of his family business and become a salesman when opportunity came knocking. Never one to miss a chance to make money. He made good and smart negotiation/connections He dived headfirst into the black-market and the underworld and soon made friends with with the SS and the local Gestapo, softening them up with women, money and illicit booze. His newfound connections helped him acquire a factory which he ran with the cheapest labor around: The jewish community. 

Shindler, an opportunist businessman with a taste for the finer things in life became known as a candidate unexpectly and a wartime rescuer. During World War II, Schindler rescued more than 1,000 Jews from deportation to Auschwitz, Nazi Germany's largest killing center.

The girl in red in Schindler´s List

The girl in red stood out to Schindler while he watched the murders of the Jewish Pols in the ghettos. She wondered aimlessly while people were being shot, she was innocent, just like all children, and just like all the Jewish Pols that were killed. I think she represents the innocence of the Jewish Pols as well as everyone else that was killed in the Holocaust. What do you think this symbolism means? Are there are other examples of symbolism in the movie?

Lodz Ghetto

200,000 Jews were victims of a German operation where Jews were gathered and set to live in a small city. Many polish Jews killed daily, for not working or just for fun. With no power against the SS organization had no option but to work for survival. Many Jews tried to become police, because they would have power over the other Jews. These Jew Officers would live separately from any other with more benefits. A little boy who worked for the Nazis in Lodz Ghettos saved a neighbor and her daughter to get in the "right line", were they wont get sent to a gas chamber.

Hitler and How he Rose to Power?

How did Hitler rise to power? In September 1919 Hitler joined the German Workers party which will later become the Nazi party. He was undoubtedly one of the best speakers in the party. He was able to persuade a sea of people through his speeches. He was able to make a connection with the working class of the German population, he used the Jews as scapegoats for everything wrong with Germany. He went from having 2.6% of the vote to later becoming the face of Germany. Since Germany was so desperate for a voice/leader, Hitler was not shy to become that person. He believed a lot in survival of the fittest and to him, the fittest was the Aryan Race. Aryans were blonde-hair, blue-eyed people. He preached about how they are the supreme race and every other race should be subordinate. He put fear in others eyes that it's either the Nazi way or you die. That's how he rose to power so quickly, because of how desperate Germany was in need of a leader.

What is Zyklon B?

Zyklon B is a cyanide-based pesticide invented in Germany in the early 1920's. It consisted of hydrogen cyanide as well as a cautionary eye irritant. Why this product is relevant because of the use of it during Nazi Germany. They used Zyklon B to kill about two million people in gas chambers. Some of the camps that used Zyklon B are, Auschwitz and Majdanek to name a few. This cyanide is a poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration, so it affects your ability to breathe. Tesch was the person who sold this Zyklon B to Nazi Germany. He was later executed after they found out he willing sold Zyklon B to the SS, he knew the SS used it as a chemical weapon to kill Jews.

Anne Frank

One of the most known victims of the holocaust, Anne Frank was a little girl whose diary she left behind captured her life in the time before her and her family were found and captured by the Nazis. Her story has been read in different countries in different languages. Having said this, the book is banned in several US states for different reasons such as saying that the book contains pornographic messages and some countries that are anti-semitic. However, through the book we see a glimpse into how a little girl saw what was happening around her. We learned of her families plight and struggle.

How the Germans could have won World War 2.

World War 2 could have been won by the Nazis if it wasn't for one mistake made by Hitler in my opinion. The Germans were winning the war when they were fighting it on one front and basically allies with Russia. They made a huge mistake by attacking Russia because they started a war on 2 fronts. They could have continued their siege of western Europe on one front. Also, the Germans had invented the Jet engine and got it past a flight test in 1941. However, by the time they attacked the Russians, there were too many enemies to worry about to have factories to produce these Jets by the thousands and use these in the war. I truly believe if they got these up and running that they would have won the war because nothing else would have been able to compete with the Jet in the sky in WW2. I believe that if Hitler had not attacked Russia he would have had the resources to use these Jets. Thank God Hitler messed up.

Is another genocide possible?

In class, we learned about 2 genocides. The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust. The Armenian Genocide took place earlier in 1915 about 30 years before World War 2 and the time of the Holocausts. They used similar tactics as the holocaust and ended up exterminating 1.5 million Armenians. The world didn't learn and the German people did the same thing during the holocausts but killing 6 million Jews. The people that took place in this discrimination and killing of another people all had a similar belief preached to them that they believed. They all believed that the people that they were killing were subhuman or less than them. That they shouldn't be treated as human because they were barely human. They also believed that the people that they were killing would be some sort of threat to them if they were to remain alive. 

We live in a world with a lot of hate and violence in the name of many different leaders, religions, and revenge. Is it possible that a people will once again feel so threatened by another that they would be willing to go as far as a genocide? Many people thought Trump was going to do it again when he spoke of deportation of illegal immigrants. He has not done this, but would it have been possible for him? The American people were scared and spoke up before he had even done anything. Are we at a place with media and learning that we wouldn't let this happen again? Or could we ourselves do this or one of the other many powers in the world be willing to go to this? Does history repeat itself like it already has?

H&M

I'm sure we all have heard about the incident that happened with H&M and the colored child who was seen photographed in a hoodie stating, "Coolest monkey in the jungle." which resulted in a lot of damages caused to H&M stores all over. This incident was talked about all over social media sites,the news, even celebrities that signed with the store removed themselves. People went around destroying H&M stores,but while people all over the world reacted to it negatively the little boys mother tells them to "get over it." The little boys mother showed no kind of concern for what was happening, she took it as just another modeling opportunity. Not knowing that her comments would only make things worse, she was targeted by others and forced to move her family into another home for their safety. My question is, do you think h&m was wrong for putting the little boy in that specific hoodie? or because the mother has no problem with it it's not such a big deal anymore?

Spread of Misinformation

In these past couple of days there have been massive rumors sweeping the U.S. at a highschool and college level regarding the use of Juuls and a supposed antifreeze in them that causes horrible lung cancer. There is no legitimate evidence backing up these claims and it is possible that this was a stunt pulled by another vape/nicotine distributor to delegitimize the safety of Juuls. Even with this absence of evidence, enough confusion has been created to actually get people to stop using, or throw away their Juuls. With this type of propaganda being distributed it is easy to see how Hitler could have turned many good people against the Jews.

Nazi Twins experiments

The atrocities that were done in the diffrent camps are well documented in those that weren´t death camps solely. One of the well known camps during the nazi regime is aushwitz which was a multi-camp that housed and killed people. Aushitz however was also the camp where men, woman and children were experimented on. One of the well known cases are those of twins who the moment they were spotted getting of the trains were snatched away. Documents suggest that there were abut 700 pairs of twins that were experimented on. In many cases when one of the twins died the other was killed. It is thought that the nazis were interested in the genetics of the twins and how they came to be. Twins that had survived were young and forgot what they went through or they doent entirely remebr what happened but many do say that some twins were injected with bacteria to give them diseases and some twins had their organs harvested without anestisia 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30933718

Auschwitz: A Simplified Brutal Community

Auschwitz was undoubtedly one of the most brutal and horrendous places in Nazi Germany back in the World War Two days, but surprisingly a place that has caused so much pain and suffering can be looked at as a learning and teaching moment for many people because it illustrates aspects of human beings and how the world around us works. Auschwitz, despite the death camp part, has many concentration camp additions to model it more about the world outside of the walls. They had a soccer stadium, a library, photographic lab, and its own symphony orchestra. It also housed resistance groups along with religious services. It even had a brothel for the prisoners who had been behaving well and earned a good time. Tadeusz Borowski, a surviving prisoner and Polish writer, made the bold statement that "the whole world is really like a concentration camp. " Although tough to look at our world as a place with all these cruel events occurring, it holds similar basic fundamentals for human survival to a concentration camp. For example, the strong people control the weak ones and force them to work for them and when they can no longer work, they die. Borowski expressed that "There is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself." Essentially, the world is ruled by power, not by morals or being nice to everyone. Sometimes, things need to get done to survival and the basic primal instinct kicks in to push people through the hardships and work when they are holding on to any sliver of hope. A less extreme example would be in business in the real world. The strong ones who were able to make it to the top of the business are now able to hire the weaker or less experienced ones to do the dirty work for them. The most important part that ties these together is how the low wage, low experience workers are expendable much likes the prisoners in the camp. If the worker can't keep up with company standards or starts to rebel then they are fired. Much like at the camp, if a worker gets too weak and cannot keep up with doing work for the SS then they either die from starvation or are killed by the SS.

Trash Islands

The new recycling idea I stumbled upon is a private island that is fully built of bottles and other trash. I think this idea could be the idea of the future. The idea is that you are to get nets and fill them up with bottles and gallon containers or any other trash that allows you to close the container and holds in the air, you then tie together these massive nets full of these containers and put flat pieces of wood on top of the nets that will then allow you to put get a flat surface of which you can build a hut on. Though most of the islands I have seen so far only contain small living space I believe that this is something that alot of years from now will be very common, since instead of these bottles getting tossed out into the enviorment they will now be used to make more land for our ever growing population. In the future the idea will obviously be modified to maxmimise the amount of bottles and trash that can be unmder these private islands and slowly I do believe this will be a large part of our recycling ordeal.

Zyklon B

A Jewish Chemist named Fritz Haber seemed to be the one who has invented Zyklon B. IG Farben bought the patent for Zyklon B, A German Chemist and Pharmaceutical. IG Farben sucsseded with his company later in the 1930, he contacted Germany and became a donor for the Nazi Party. They provided large amounts of Materials for the facilities in Auschwitz and other camps. This company also contributed during WW2.

Nazis "Canada"

           Today in our journal reading we discussed this idea of "Canada" in Auschwitz. The Holocaust time period consisted of a lot of stealing. After inferior races were sent to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, they were stripped of their clothing and belongings. There clothing and belongings were then piled up in rows of 30 barracks. These piles of belongings became the biggest black market for Germany, known was "Canada". Anything from food to a variety of other items were constantly being stolen, sold, or traded. Below is a photo of a barrack that contained shoes of those who were stripped of there clothes and belongings. 

Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch was the wife of a Colonel who was in charge of the Sachsenhausen camp.  In the summer of 1937 he was transferred to Buchenwald which at the time was a new concentration camp. What we know about her started upon her arival to the camp. According to sources she would go around the camp and choose prisoners with tatoo markings that she liked and would have officers take the prisoners away to be killed and have their skin with their tatoo cut off and tanned so that she could use it later. She used human skin to make Lampshades, bookcovers, and gloves and added them to her collection that she had now stareted to amass. In addition to using skin to make these items, she would have prisoners perfrom harsh physical actitivies to tire them for her won amusement.

After WWII  Ilse and her children moved to a suburban neghborhood where she was rrested and tried for her crimes. HEr sentance was reduced to much outrage and then she was arrested once again for her treatment of prisoners. She would go on to hang herself in a women prison in 1967

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ilse-Koch

http://www.auschwitz.dk/Women/Koch.htm

Mob Mentality

Following the Eagles victory in the Super Bowl, a common problem happened at a large scale, the problem of mob mentality. Fans were wreaking havoc and causing immeasurable damage to private and public property. This is an example of where an outburst of emotion as well as a unified cause can blur the lines between wrong and right. In a way, it makes sense how people would be able to rally around the Nazis as a lot of them had struggles and were fighting for a common cause.