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Maria Mandl (also spelled Mandel; 10 January 1912 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian SS-Helferin ("SS helper") and a war criminal notorious for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Ravensbrück concentration camps.
A study found 3,100 killed and 6,880 were kidnapped, amouting to 2.5% of Yazidis being either killed or kidnapped. [77] By 2015, upwards of 71% of the global Yazidi population was displaced by the genocide, with most Yazidi refugees having fled to Iraq's Kurdistan Region and Syria's Rojava. [78] [79] Darfur genocide: Darfur, Sudan 2003 2005 ...
Torture is one of the most devastating experiences that a person can undergo. [175] Torture aims to break the victim's will [176] and destroy the victim's agency and personality. [177] Torture survivor Jean Améry argued that it was "the most horrible event a human being can retain within himself" and that "whoever was tortured, stays tortured".
A leak in 1972 led to cessation of the study and severe legal ramifications. It has been widely regarded as the "most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history". [62] Because of the public outrage, in 1974 Congress passed the National Research Act, to provide for protection of human subjects in experiments. The National Commission for ...
Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.
[117] [118] [119] In this regard, Schopenhauer dismisses most things that are typically considered precious or meaningful in human life, like romantic love, individuality, and liberty. [120] He holds that the best response to the human condition is a form of asceticism by denying the expression of the will.
Vattimo dated the beginning of philosophical postmodernism between the writing of On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life and Human, All Too Human (1878): [9] Nietzsche had clearly seen that "overcoming" - a term widely discussed by Vattimo, which he contrasts with the term "transformation" borrowed from Heidegger - was itself a ...
The book was first published in hardcover by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2011. [1] The paperback was published by W. W. Norton in May 2013 under the new title Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History. The British edition (Canongate Books, 20 October 2011) is entitled Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements. It ...