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You will now create a 2000-word, thesis-driven researched paper that seeks to answer the question. Your introduction should give your reader context that relative to the problem your question defines. You will transition into your thesis, which is italicized. A successful research paper will include topic sentences, primary source evidence, secondary evidence, historical examples, and analysis that all support explaining your thesis statement. Evidence must be cited in the Chicago Manual of Style.  Employ transitional sentences.  Caution: do not let primary and secondary evidence takeover your voice (your use of words, expressing your educated ideas). Look to paraphrase and cite secondary evidence; use quotes (usually reserved for primary evidence) sparingly.

The Holocaust was the world’s largest genocide from World War II lasting from 1941-1945. Nazi Germany had a dictatorship ran by Adolf Hitler whom was against Jewish people. Adolf’s goal was to wipe out the entire Jewish race because he felt like it was a stab in the back after losing the war. Hitler began this whole genocide by using the Nazi’s as his army to go door to door and getting everyone who were Jewish sent out to concentration camps. This army of Hitler’s later became known as the Nazi Party which first started out as any old regular German political party.

Adolf Hitler was not the only person involved in this Genocide. The other main people involved in this genocide were Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler, Eichmann Adolf, and Schutzstaffel also known as the S.S. Each of these people/group had their own responsibilities in the genocide. For example, Heydrich was the chief of police and organized the killings of the Jewish. Himmler was in charge of the SS and Gestapo both of these implemented genocide on the Jews. Gestapo was the state secret police for Nazi Germany and they followed Hitler’s orders by enforcing internal security.

The concentration camps that were made for the Jewish people were located in Poland, these camps first belonged to the military, then later it became a factory, then a prison camp after the war in 1940. During these concentration camps Hitler had them make railway station that corralled all the Jewish citizen and transported them on down to the concentration camps. It is said that nearly 2 million people died at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Jewish were killed by gas chambers, tortured and experimented on like guinea pigs. It is interesting to know new thing about this part in history. I knew that the Jewish folks were getting killed in gas chambers and cremated, but I never knew that they were also getting killed and tortured by getting experimented on.

Background on the Jewish people and who they were is crucial because people might feel like they had to be a bad race in order for them to get hated on so much by Hitler. The Jewish actually were nothing special, they were just like any other ordinary race in the world. They are a race who believes in Judaism and whom at the time in Germany had a big role in Romanticism.

A very important person who was literally the savior to hundreds of thousands of Jewish people was Oskar, Schindler. He was a German industrialist who saved these Jewish citizens from the Holocaust and getting killed. Schindler was part of the Nazi Party who had created created a safe place for the Jewish to go. He would get skilled Jewish people and send them to his safe camp so that they can work over there, but in reality, he was saving them thousands at a time.

The Final Solution was coming upon Germany and the Jewish people when the Wannsee Conference was officially endorsed. This conference was secretly held by Heydrich in Berlin on January 20, 1942. They were not sure when it was going to happen, but they called it this because this was going to be the end of all the Jewish people. This solution was being led by one of many important leaders, Reinhard Heydrich, chief of police. This solution was basically the planning of what they were going to do to the Jewish people and how many of them they planned on murdering.

Lastly, there was a huge political and social movement against the Jewish people called Antisemitism. The people involved with this movement wanted absolutely nothing to do with the Jewish people. Once Hitler had become the dictator of Nazi Germany that is whenever this movement was at its peak. It was the beginning of something new it was the start of National Socialism otherwise known as (Nazism). This movement included many stereotypical and racial remarks about the Jewish people. Even though that is not true, the Jewish were a very religious group, nationalist and socialist group movements saw the Jewish people as racist, greedy and dishonest. This later led to hatred from the rest of the people in Germany which then began the world’s biggest genocide, The Holocaust.

 

3 Questions to further my research paper:

1. To what degree were the Nazis given due process at the Nuremberg trials: how did Germany, Europe at large, and the United States respond to German Jews as a result of the War?
2. Where the Jewish trying to escape during the invasion of their homes by the Nazi Party?
3. When the United States realized what was going on to the Jews in Europe what was the response?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Bibliography (CREDO SOURCES)

 

 

“Anti Semitism.” In Encyclopedia of Nationalism: Leaders, Movements, and Concepts, edited by Alexander J. Motyl. Elsevier Science & Technology, 2000. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/estnational/anti_semitism/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

“Auschwitz.” In An Illustrated Dictionary of the Third Reich, by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage. McFarland, 2014. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/mcfthird/auschwitz/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

Blechler, Ralph W. “Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945.” In Encyclopedia of Life Writing: Autobiographical and Biographical Forms, edited by Margaretta Jolly. Routledge, 2001. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/routlifewrite/hitler_adolf_1889_1945/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

“EICHMANN, Adolf (1906-1962).” In The Encyclopedia of Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories, by Michael Newton. Facts On File, 2005. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/fofcact/eichmann_adolf_1906_1962/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

“Final Solution, the.” In Rawson’s Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk, by Hugh Rawson. Hugh Rawson, 2002. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/rawdeod/final_solution_the/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

 

“Germany.” In The Encyclopedia of World History, edited by Peter N. Stearns, and William L. Langer. 6th ed. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/hmencyclwh/germany/5?institutionId=2265

 

 

“Heydrich, Reinhard (1904-1942).” In An Illustrated Dictionary of the Third Reich, by Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage. McFarland, 2014. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/mcfthird/heydrich_reinhard_1904_1942/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

“Himmler, Heinrich (1900 – 1945).” In World of Criminal Justice, Gale, edited by Shirelle Phelps. Gale, 2002. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/worldcrims/himmler_heinrich_1900_1945/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

Horowitz, Brian. “Jews.” In Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850, edited by Christopher John Murray. Routledge, 2003. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/routromanticera/jews/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

Karesh, Sara E., and Mitchell M. Hurvitz. “Holocaust.” In Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism, by Sara E. Karesh, and Mitchell M. Hurvitz. 2nd ed. Facts On File, 2016. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/fofjudaism/holocaust/0?institutionId=2265

Karesh, Sara E., and Mitchell M. Hurvitz. “Wannsee Conference.” In Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism, by Sara E. Karesh, and Mitchell M. Hurvitz. 2nd ed. Facts On File, 2016. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/fofjudaism/wannsee_conference/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

Karesh, Sara E., and Mitchell M. Hurvitz. “Kristallnacht.” In Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism, by Sara E. Karesh, and Mitchell M. Hurvitz. 2nd ed. Facts On File, 2016. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/fofjudaism/kristallnacht/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

“Life in Nazi Germany.” In The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide, edited by Helicon. Helicon, 2018. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/heliconhe/life_in_nazi_germany/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

“Nazi Party (NSDAP).” In Chambers Dictionary of World History, edited by Bruce Lenman, and Hilary Marsden. 3rd ed. Chambers Harrap, 2005. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/chambdictwh/nazi_party_nsdap/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

NELSON, GAIL H. “Gestapo.” In Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, by Rodney P. Carlisle. Routledge, 2005. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/sharpint/gestapo/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

“Schindler, Oskar.” In The Columbia Encyclopedia, by Paul Lagasse, and Columbia University. 8th ed. Columbia University Press, 2018. https://libdb.ppcc.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/columency/schindler_oskar/0?institutionId=2265

 

 

 

 

 

(2)  Primary Sources:

 

 

“The Jewish Chronicle .” Internet History Sourcebooks, May 6, 1881. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1881JC-pogroms.asp.

 

 

Rosenberg, Jennifer. “Overview of the Holocaust During World War 2.” ThoughtCo. ThoughtCo, December 1, 2019. https://www.thoughtco.com/holocaust-article-guide-1779702.

 

 

Objectives and Outcomes

You have the opportunity to share what you’ve learned from scholars about the topic you are researching.  An Annotated Bibliography is an academic way of communicating the extent of your research to your reader.  The sources listed in your Annotated Bibliography are those relevant sources that help you not only answer your research question, but help to frame the evidence you gathered to support a thesis.  Take copious notes when reading these sources for your Annotated Bibliography.  You will cite your sources in the Chicago Manual of Style.  Below each citation will be the annotation.

 

You will use three databases to help you find sources: JSTOR, EBSCO, and the PPCC e-card catalog.  Again, the Reference Librarians can help you to find sources on your topic, and teach you how to use these databases.  I will also have an instructional video on how to use them.

 

Assignment: Create an annotated bibliography that includes eight sources (two primary and six secondary) relevant to your topic, cited in the Chicago Manual of Style.  In your annotations, please include the following information:

1. The author’s background and expertise.
2. The authors thesis, or purpose of the work.
3. Explain how the work relates to your research question.
4. At the top of the page, include a working thesis, an answer to your question.

Assignment Resources: 

1. Reference the PPCC Undergraduate Research Process Website.
2. Gut books and articles (see website and podcast) to identify the best sources.
3. Once chosen, read the works more thoroughly, and begin to journal evidence and analysis that helps to answer your questions.
4. Write annotationsof the works you will include in your bibliography.
5. Be mindful that you may find additional primary sources, or primary source material that is more relevant than what you’ve discovered.  If so, add it to your bibliography.

 

NOTE: It’s never too early to start the writing process.  Free write; this will help you organize your ideas and start a framework for your research paper.  Some may even choose to outline (Old School).

 

 

 

 

Annotated Bibliography