Winter's men now excel through training and quickly become the Army's best unit of the war. ... This victory, though critical in the course of the war, came with a heavy casualty and death toll on E Company. ... The men drink, celebrate the war, and enjoy their stay in the luxurious houses. ... Post war relationships last the rest of their lives, and slowly they pass, one by one. but nothing can describe the bonds of the men and loyalty to one another that the man of Easy Company had. ... These men helped win the war against a purely evil enemy, and without them, we might not be he...

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He was in Munich at the break out of the First World War and although not a German citizen, he served in the German Army throughout the war. For most of the war he served as a runner, and served at the front line in Flanders (Belgium) and in France. ... In the last months of the war Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross First Class "For bravery and general merit", an honour for a corporal. ... Hitler's rise to power After the end of World War One Hitler was made a political officer for the army. ... He had his own room and was allowed unlimited visitors, special food and he had the compan...

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During the reign of Nazi Germany between the years of 1942 and 1944 a widespread system of coastal defense and fortifications known as the Atlantic Wall was built beside the shoreline of Scandinavia as well as central Europe as a form of protection against a foreseen attack from the Allies on Nazi-controlled Europe from Britain during the period of the second World War. ... The primary engineering group which had designed and constructed a majority of the wall's main gun defenses along with the emplacements and of this Atlantic Wall was the company known as Organisation Todt. ...

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After World War I, Hitler learned the advantages of propaganda through Germany's opponent. He applied their similar skill and calculation in creating his own propaganda for World War II that worked towards the masses (Miller 633). ... In reference to Cross, the advertisement device this alcohol company used is definitely bandwagon. ... Stroking is where advertising companies tell the people what they want to hear to make them feel good about themselves. ... On the lower left hand corner is the companies phone number and website. ...

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Particularly in Germany, a country deeply affected by a financial crisis after the first World War, Jews were raising their incomes faster than the rest of the Germans. ... Even though all the advantages for the nazis, high officials didn't like to have Jews working in their companies, they preferred to kill them in order to create posts which were filled by others Jews, that were also forced to give all their jewelries and money....

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The Indians and the white settlers eventually went to war and the Indians got destroyed by crushing force. ... Say a computer manufacturer company made computers that are worth one thousand dollars. ... The company would lose money due to the fact that they went down in sales. ...

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(lecture) After the resulting war was the string of events to cause the rise of Nazism. Germany's surrender after the war was devastating to the German people who thought they were winning. ... All of Europe faced economic hardship after a costly war, the germans were not alone. In fact they came out of the war in better shape economically than the winners. ... Skyrocketing unemployment, savings wiped out and companies and banks going out of business sapped even more pride out of the German people. ...

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He served in the German army in the First World War and was wounded twice. When Hitler returned to Germany after the war he found his adopted country to be in turmoil. ... The party found a reason for the loss of the war and named the Jews as the chief enemy of the German way of life. ... They had immigrated to Holland in 1933, when her father became the Managing Director of the Dutch Opekta Company. This was a company which made jam. ...

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From then on, I became more and more enthusiastic about everything that was in any was connected with war or, for that matter, with soldering." ... This hatred was at boiling point and only needed the events, which triggered World War 1 to confirm his patriotism. ... "Germany had high hopes of defeating enemies in World War 1, with their Kaiser promising European supremacy" (source 3). ... However it was during time in World War 1 that all Germans, Jews and non-Jews alike shared the spread of patriotism. "World War I Jews served along with non-Jews, fighting and dying in the armi...

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World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. ... He held briefings with his senior military advisors, often in the company of Party officials and other hangers-on, each afternoon and late each night. ... After the war, the picture emerged of Hitler as a megalomaniac who refused to listen to his military experts and who, as a consequence, lost the war for Germany. ... Certainly his operational decisions, especially early in the war, were sometimes as good as, or better than, those of his generals. ... He began by accepting war agai...

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As Hitler and the Nazi's power rose in Germany during the 1920s, 30s and 40s, after World War I, we begin to see how this happened and compare it to the concepts of Democracy which we live by today. ... After World War I in 1918, Germany was a nation with political and social problems. ... This meant that Germany was forced to take the blame for causing the war and had to pay for all the war damages; as well as give up some land to France and Poland and was also forbidden to have any submarines or military aircraft. ... It didn't take very long; on October 29, 1929 the Stock Mark...

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It was not gas, not bullets, not even war itself, but racism that took millions of lives. ... But that was not the case in the aftermath of world war one. ... It forced the dismissal of individuals who belong to these races from position of public employment, included all positions in radio broadcasting, educational institutions, orchestras, theater companies, and museums. ... Of cause, the persecution of the Jews and Gypsies was not the first time that a race as a whole became the victim of war, and surely it will not be the last one, because racism still exists today. ...

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Yet at the moment that the glider parted company with the ground I experienced an inexplicable change. ... Background of D-Day: The Second World War had started almost five years ear, on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. ... He made another bad mistake in June 1941 by declaring war on Russia, until then his ally. ... Italy pushed the war into North Africa. ... The Allies had already won the war in the air at the cost of thousands of British and American lives. ...

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They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... The treaty required Germany to pay the Allies reparations for the damage incurred during World War I. ... For many Germans hyperinflation caused more suffering than the war, which resulted in festering anger and resentfulness. The blame was not laid on the Kaiser's war government which had started the inflation by its borrowing trend. ...

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Is it possible for a person to be an accessory after the fact to a crime that was committed twenty-four years before they were born? This is one of the questions that the film "Apt Pupil" asks. But, the film does more than this. It is a thought-provoking film which demonstrates the potential for evi...

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