Essays Tagged: "gas chambers"

Capital punishment should be abolished. Persuasive essay

st common methods of execution are hanging and shooting. Countries like the U.S. use electrocution, gas chambers and lethal injections to dispose of the convicted. Some countries, like the U.S., have ...

(4 pages) 361 0 3.0 Jan/1992

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Through Their Eyes. Speaks of Jewish children who were victims of the Holocaust

blinka, Belzec, and Majdanek. The nazi's most effective way of killing people was in specially made gas chambers, into which the victims were packed wall to wall. After the bodies were gassed, they we ...

(5 pages) 87 1 4.2 Mar/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

"The Nazi Doctors" by Lifton

thing." The book illustrates several different medical killing's and experimental surgery ,from gas chambers to sterilization's that ended in death. Nazi doctors where male and consistedin a ... e the worst that couldhappen to a prisoner, considering the other alternatives of work camps and gas chambers. Butthink again, sterilization was meant to cause the end of a race by any means ac ...

(7 pages) 63 0 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Rape of Nanking

The Rape of NankingMost American schoolchildren have been taught of the gas chambers at Auschwitz and have read at least part of The Diary of Anne Frank. Many are taught ab ... taught about the atomic bombs that the United States dropped on the Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But ask them about the horrors of Nanking and they do not even recognize the city's name. Ma ...

(2 pages) 209 7 4.1 Dec/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History

This is a brief summary of some of the horrid occurrences provoked by the Nazis.

ork, they were put to death.The killing started with massive shooting. A more effective way was the gas chambers.The gas chambers were disguised as shower rooms and carbon monoxide was given instead o ... ower rooms and carbon monoxide was given instead of water. When the war was assumed to be lost, the gassing stopped in all the camps.Only a handful of people survived this ordeal and tried to continue ...

(1 pages) 47 2 3.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The controversial topic of Capital Punishment.

st common methods of execution are hanging and shooting. Countries like the U.S. use electrocution, gas chambers and lethal injections to dispose of the convicted. Some countries, like the U.S., have ...

(4 pages) 44 0 5.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

Oskar Schindler and the Schindler Jews.

itted Hitler, the powerful SS troops, and the Nazi party in its entirety to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other during World War II. While millions of Jews died in Nazi death camps suc ... . We hoped Schindler would find us" (No Author, 2003). They did not know whether to expect water or gas from the showers, but Schindler had eventually arrived to rescue them. Details are unclear, but ...

(12 pages) 64 0 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Should Concentration Camps be Restored?

remind us of what should never have happened.From 1939-1945, millions of people were killed in the gas chambers of the concentration camps. Those people had family members that survived after living ...

(2 pages) 41 1 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

The Diesel Gas Chambers: Myth Within a Myth)

d to murder as novel and as bestially spectacular as the alleged mass-murder of millions of Jews in gas chambers, one would be given far more information. Surely, the postwar trials involving those mo ... would be given far more information. Surely, the postwar trials involving those monstrously amazing gas chambers would provide the most extensive and precise documentation possible regarding such unco ...

(2 pages) 22 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Capital Punishment

l punishment have been an eye for an eye, drowning, stoning, hanging, firing squads, electrocution, gas chambers, and more recently lethal injection. The United States and Japan still use capital puni ...

(4 pages) 47 0 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

A Man's Search for Meaning An evaluation of Victor Frankl's Book

ired of them, and if they could sleep or not. Always in the back of their minds was the fear of the gas chambers. The inmates had to except the fact that they were in a seemingly hopeless situation. T ...

(4 pages) 93 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

The Holocaust along with the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Describes the psychological changes in victims.

nd fell backwards into their grave (Wiesel 5). Other deaths were caused in concentration camps from gas chambers, crematories, and starvation (Schnabel). Some concentration camps only considered a per ...

(3 pages) 57 2 3.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Cigarettes

found in rocket fuelHexamine: Also found in barbeque lightersHydrogen Cyanide: Also found in poison gas chambersLead: Also found in batteriesMethane: Also found in swamp gasMethanol: Also found in roc ...

(1 pages) 66 3 4.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Genocide

tially start life over. Most of them lost a close relative or at least knew someone who died in the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps. This has put a psychological strain on Jewish survivor ...

(1 pages) 31 1 3.5 Jan/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Theft-Murder: The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism

acts were uncompleted in 1945; the injustices of twentieth-century anti-Semitism go far beyond the gas chambers of Auschwitz and the crematories of Dachau. They extend comfortably into the modern era ... rying to utilize and benefit from every aspect of the prisoners. First, their labor, then they were gassed for their hair, their gold teeth... even their bones were crushed and used as fertilizer" (Ba ...

(14 pages) 43 0 5.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Modern History Oral - Personal Account Of The Holocaust - I did an account of a Jewish woman sharing her experiences with a history class.

ut World War II, Nazis and many of the horrors of the Holocaust such as the concentration camps and gas chambers and I am here to help you achieve a greater understanding of what it was like for me an ...

(7 pages) 13 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Angel Of Death

tion, brutality, and deprivation but a chance for survival. To the other side, instant death in the gas chambers. The frightening yet friendly figure making this decision was, frequently, Josef Mengel ... ections" of incoming transports. These selections determined which would be sent immediately to the gas chamber, and which would become prisoners in the camp. Unlike several of the other physicians, h ...

(5 pages) 1247 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Politics In Sports

States, and perhaps in many other parts of the world, who has not seen the gruesome pictures of the gas chambers at Auschwitz or read at least part of the haunting tale of the young Anne Frank?"# The ... acks. Many grew ill from malnutrition. When the sick where no longer productive, they were led to a gas chamber, led to certain death. The gas chamber was the nazi's main method of extermination. This ...

(3 pages) 10 0 0.0 May/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Cicil War

teraction floor. This floor contains very emotional displays. One of the displays is a replica of a gas chamber similar to the gas chambers many Jews lost their lives. Inside the replica gas chamber, ... as chambers many Jews lost their lives. Inside the replica gas chamber, monitors replace the lethal gas. The monitors play footage showing Jews people in concentration camps. On this floor, the Museum ...

(2 pages) 1126 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Differences And Similarities Between John Glenn And Christopher Columbus

World War ll, the guns, gas chambers, concentration camps, and many lives that were taken. Bring back many memories. The eve ...

(1 pages) 1162 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers