But one day Anna's world is turned upside down when she and her brother Max are forced to begin new lives in Switzerland, France and England. ... After Hitler's success in the elections, Anna, her mother and brother pack up what they can carry on a train with them and head for Switzerland. ... They, including Anna's family, are anxious and concerned, so they decide to move to Switzerland. ... In Switzerland, Anna and her family felt at home but suffered financially: it is here Anna comes across as spoilt. ... And so, they are refugees in Switzerland, with no way back home, even ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Swiss couple in The Boat is Full who aided them were a sample of the general population, and went through several revolutions of mind before the end of the film. At first, the Swiss wife went out of her way to protect and care for the refugees, inventing a charade for them to play before the police and acting along with it. ... In the end, however, it is the Swiss husband who pays for his association. ... It is the scene in the village that really defines Swiss reaction to the Holocaust: half of the people in the crowd were happy to see them go, and could care less for their fate. ... J...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Swiss couple in The Boat is Full who aided them were a sample of the general population, and went through several revolutions of mind before the end of the film. At first, the Swiss wife went out of her way to protect and care for the refugees, inventing a charade for them to play before the police and acting along with it. ... In the end, however, it is the Swiss husband who pays for his association. ... It is the scene in the village that really defines Swiss reaction to the Holocaust: half of the people in the crowd were happy to see them go, and could care less for their fate. ... J...

• Word Count: 1581
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The Treaty of Versailles, which was made after World War One, caused German anger in many ways, including the high reparation claims and how much territory was taken from them. There were also some other actions taken during the 1920-1929 period to try and maintain peace, in the form of treaties and...

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In 1933, William E. Dodd, a Democrat from North Carolina, is seeking a change from his professorship at the University of Chicago to finish his book series on the Old South. Franklin D. Roosevelt is seeking for someone to fill the position of ambassador to Germany and is having difficulty finding a...

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• Grade Level: High School

Adolf Hitler was able to gain the support of the German people in these years through numerous devices, pretty much all of them were propaganda. Hitler came at a good time where the population was fed up with how it was being run and also a great depression had just hit Germany. Hitler also fuelled ...

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They pointed out, as proof of an ongoing Jewish campaign against Nazi Germany, that three years earlier a German Jew had shot and killed head of the Nazi organization of Germans resident in Switzerland....

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Benito Mussolini was a dictator and the leader of the Italian Fascist movement. Mussolini's reign of terror, as he referred to it, failed because numerous mistakes were made on his part during his career. One of these mistakes was his agreement to form an alliance with Adolf Hitler and the German Third Reich. In essence, Italy was a historical follower; the government jumped onto the Allied bandwagon when it was clear they would win World War I and later switched sides in order to join the Axis Powers when World War II began. The division of war reparations and territorial gains at the cu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate