During the war, while the full scale of the Holocaust remained generally unknown to the Allied Powers, the Iași pogrom stood as one of the known examples of Axis brutality toward the Jews.

The brutality of the Kielce pogrom put an end to the hopes of many Jews that they would be able to resettle in Poland after the end of the Nazi German occupation and precipitated a mass exodus of Polish Jewry.

Unlike in the West, the Nazi racial policy encouraged excessive brutality against what it considered to be the " inferior people " of Slavic descent ; most German advances were thus followed by mass executions.

Irving claimed that the Holocaust was not the work of Nazi leaders, but rather of " nameless criminals ", and furthermore claimed that " these men killed the Jews acted on their own impulse, their own initiative, within the general atmosphere of brutality created by the Second World War, in which of course Allied bombings played a part.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D. C., “ The fate of black people from 1933 to 1945 in Nazi Germany and in German-occupied territories ranged from isolation to persecution, sterilization, medical experimentation, incarceration, brutality, and murder.

Lasansky is perhaps best known for The Nazi Drawings, which examine the brutality of Nazi Germany.

" She also wrote ( in the same passage ) that in her post-war experience with other victims of Nazi brutality, it was those who were able to forgive who were best able to rebuild their lives.

He recognized the brutality of governments like Nazi Germany ; in 1938 he joined with Hoover and Bernard Baruch in supporting the establishment of a refugee state in Africa as a safe haven for all persecuted people, not just Jews.

* Liebe Perla is a 53 minute documentary that documents Nazi Germany's brutality towards disabled people through the exploration of a friendship between two women with dwarfism: Hannelore Witkofski of Germany and Perla Ovitz, who at the time of filming was living in Israel.

The Red Army's brutality towards civilians during the East Prussian campaign, coupled with years of Nazi propaganda regarding the Soviet Union, led many German soldiers on the Eastern Front to believe that " there could be no purpose in surviving Soviet victory ".

Kershaw argued that the Soviet regime, despite all of its extreme brutality and utter ruthlessness, was basically rational in its goal of seeking to modernize a backward country and had no equivalent of the " cumulative radicalization " towards increasingly irrational goals that Kershaw sees as characteristic of Nazi Germany.

" Although Admiral Lütjens is fictitiously portrayed as a stereotypical movie Nazi, crazed in his undaunted belief that the Bismarck is unsinkable, Lütjens was not a supporter of the Nazi cause, and along with two other navy commanders, had publicly protested against the brutality of anti-Semitic crimes during Kristallnacht.

The play's setting of homosexuals and love in a Nazi death camp was shocking for many theatregoers at the time and uncovered a previously little-examined area of Nazi brutality.

Despite these initial efforts to limit the brutality of the Nazi regime, Gürtner also played a role in legitimizing it.

When the film was released, the U. S. government's Office of Censorship declined to approve it for export overseas during wartime, because of the " long sequence showing life in a prison chain gang which is most objectionable because of the brutality and inhumanity with which the prisoners are treated.

In succeeding issues ( and in its later London version ) Oz gave pioneering coverage to contentious issues such as censorship, homosexuality, police brutality, the Australian government's racist White Australia Policy and Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, as well as regularly satirising public figures, up to and including Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies.

In the context of the global struggle for the release of political prisoners in our country, our movement took a deliberate decision to profile Nelson Mandela as the representative personality of these prisoners, and therefore to use his personal political biography, including the persecution of his then wife, Winnie Mandela, dramatically to present to the world and the South African community the brutality of the apartheid system.

In both cases, the Left Opposition denounced the regressive nature of the policy towards the kulak social class of wealthy peasants, and the brutality of forced industrialisation.

Because of the brutality of both his domestic and foreign policy, Wanyan Liang was posthumously demoted from the position of emperor.

" Goldreich speaks of the ' bantustanism we see through a policy of occupation and separation ', the ' abhorrent ' racism in Israeli society all the way up to cabinet ministers who advocate the forced removal of Arabs, and ' the brutality and inhumanity of what is imposed on the people of the occupied territories of Palestine '.

Von Trotha defended his policies later in his life " It was and is my policy to use force with terrorism and even brutality.

It also campaigned for a separate black nation in the South, one of the CPUSA's principal tenets in the early 1930s, and against police brutality, the Italian occupation of Ethiopia and Jim Crow laws, while also advocating a more general policy of opposition to fascism and support for the Soviet Union.

It also campaigned for a separate black nation in the South and against police brutality and Jim Crow laws, while also advocating a more general policy of opposition to fascism and support for the Soviet Union.

Later, as a federal district court judge, he presided over a challenge to the Pentagon ’ s “ Don ’ t ask, don ’ t tell ” policy on homosexuality and the notorious Abner Louima police brutality case in New York.

Their petition related to the 1793 Fugitive Slave Act which was criticized for encouraging cruelty and brutality, and noted the danger which free blacks risked of being kidnapped and sold into slavery.

In 1876, the Editor of the Animal World drew Dr. P L Sclater's attention to this and the press charged the Zoological Society of London with encouraging cruelty, " pandering to public brutality " while one writer in the Whitehall Review ( April 27, 1878 ), protested against " the Cawnpore Massacre enacted diurnally ," and headed his article, " Sepoyism at the Zoo.

He tends to underestimate -- or perhaps to view charitably -- the brutality and the violence of the age, so that there is an idyllic quality in these pages which hazes over some of its sharp reality.

Resolved that his wrongs and bereavements in Kansas, occasioned by the violence and brutality of those who were intent on the propagation of slavery in that territory, call for a charitable judgment upon his recent efforts in Virginia to undermine the despotism from which he had suffered, and commend his family to the special sympathy and aid of all who pity suffering and reverence justice.

The Irish War of Independence was a brutal and bloody affair, with violence and acts of extreme brutality on both sides.

In defense of the film's portrait of warfare, filmmaker Brian De Palma commented, " The level of violence in something like Saving Private Ryan makes sense because Spielberg is trying to show something about the brutality of what happened.

Widely condemned for its brutality, including violence deployed against peasants, trade union organizers, popularly elected officials and the general civilian population, the Shining Path is described by the Peruvian government as a terrorist organization.

'" Turner also thought that revolutionary violence would serve to awaken the attitudes of whites to the reality of the inherent brutality in slave-holding, a concept similar to 20th century philosopher Franz Fanon's idea of " violence as purgatory ".

Indisputably Charles was cruel, ungenerous and vindictive ; yet he seems, at all hazards, strenuously to have endeavoured to do his duty during a period of political and religious transition, and, despite his violence and brutality, possessed many of the qualities of a wise and courageous statesman.

Sometimes, for example at the end of the 3rd Symphony, Brian seems to be celebrating violence and the brute power of the music, but on repeated listening his music seems wiser than this – Brian seems to be enjoying making us think his music worships brutality, although its composer does not.

Indeed " police brutality " is often used to refer to violence used by the police to achieve politically desirable ends and, therefore, when none should be used at all according to widely held values and cultural norms in the society ( rather than to refer to excessive violence used where at least some may be considered justifiable ).

" Husbands ", Mill wrote, " indulge the utmost habitual excesses of bodily violence towards the unhappy wife who alone, at least of grown persons, can neither repel or escape from the brutality ".

The behaviour of both groups immediately became controversial ( one major critic was King George V ) for their brutality and violence, not just towards IRA suspects and prisoners but towards Irish people in general.

Hardcore hip hop reflective lyrical themes include partying, braggadocio, crime, violence, sex, nudity, wrath, poverty, shootings, menacing, omen, rebellion, profanity, racism, substance, drugs, guns, firearms, hostility, street life, ghettos, rivalries, gangs, violent crime, killings, social issues, consciousness, struggling, social issues or extreme menace to the whole society, nihilism, uncompromising behaviors, distrusting ( of others ), life, death, beatings, hedonism, street violence, police brutality, wars, gang rivalries, sexual intercourses, the harsh and grim experiences of the rapper's urban surroundings.

Many of his poems dealt with the overall brutality of war and violence, to which he was a direct eyewitness.

However, to cut the repetitiveness, there are a number of recent thrillers that maintain the aspects of the horror genre ; having more gore / sadistic violence, brutality, terror and body counts.

The album's lyrics describe the Carnival of Carnage as a representation of the violence that occurs within the ghettos, which takes the form of a traveling carnival to enact the same brutality on the upper class.

The eternally vivid memory of this action-his android memory meaning that the horror and brutality of what he did to the Hork-Bajir would remain as fresh in his mind as it had been when he first committed it-so disturbed and disgusted Erek, that he restored the failsafes against violence in his programming after having saved the Animorphs ' lives, vowing to never harm anything ever again.

He wrote and directed La Haine ( Hate, 1995 ), a hugely controversial film in France dealing with themes around class, race, violence, and police brutality.

Although Deodato was later cleared, the film was banned in Italy, Australia, and several other countries due to its disturbing portrayal of graphic brutality, sexual assault, and animal violence.

Due to the tolerance and wisdom of Aboriginal leaders like Billibellary and Beruke, and the patience and determination of Assistant Protector William Thomas, there was little violence between whites and the Wurundjeri-willam, a marked contrast to the violence and brutality that disgraces much of the early history of white settlement in Australia.

A difference between épée and foil versus sabre is that a corps-à-corps or " body-to-body " contact between fencers is not necessarily an offense, unless it is done with " brutality or violence "; however, corps-à-corps still results in an immediate " halt " to play.