I am going to tell you about a book called Neighbors which show how people of Poland called Poles imposed many indecent and appalling things to the Jews that they have lived with for many years. ... Later on in the book there are records of a lot of Germans being in Jedwabne. ...
Essay I have had the fortunate, though sometimes difficult opportunity to have been born into a military family. This has painted my life with different hues than others. The commitment to give back to one's country began with my grandfather, Owen Paul, Texas A&M class...
"I am reluctant to say much about the years 1934 to 1940 in England because it brings me close to our own time which all of us have lived through in almost equal manner, with like unrest, baited by radio and newspaper, with the same hopes and the same worries.... "It happens-and I am not ashamed to admit this fault- that there is nothing heroic in my nature. ... He had no intention to write The World of Yesterday for himself, but to record that generation, the gigantic transformations and those memories....
Paul Baumer "All Quiet On The Western Front The story of Paul Baumer, the narrator from the novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, is one of the stories that have a great impact on my life. The story centers on Paul Baumer, who enlists in the German army with glowing enthusiasm....
As scheduled, the Enola Gay took off of the Tinian runway at 2:45 am, sharp, and began its course over the Black Sea. ... At 7:25 am, Tibbets (pilot of the Enola Gay) received a coded message from the weather planes that the cloud cover over their selected target, Hiroshima, was minimal. ... At exactly 8:16:02 am, Hiroshima time, the bomb exploded over the city. ... The heat generated by the blast melted stone and metal; the recorded heat directly below the explosion reached 2,000,000 °C. ...
December 9, 1958, Robert Welch and eleven other men gathered in a meeting hall. They came from Oregon, Wisconsin, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, and Massachusetts. He called upon these self proclaimed patriots to help him found a society of pro-American's known as the John Birch S...
On May 10, 1961 the JCS went on record as recommending a military solution to the crisis in Vietnam. ... The following day his successor Lyndon Johnson declared "I am not going to lose Vietnam. I am not going to be the president who saw Southeast Asia go the way China went". ...
Due to heavy rains, and thus the fear that the fission components of the bomb could not work under such conditions, the explosion was delayed until 5:10 AM, and the governor of New Mexico was warned that a possible evacuation of the state might be necessary. ... [He recorded that he had instructed Stimson to use the bomb] so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children... ...
"I feel that I am wasting life when I miss opportunities of being with you." During the war whenever his days work was complete he would recount the day in a diary which he saw as a record of a nightly conversation with her and an outlet for him. ...
" 'I am three times without a Heimat: as a Bohemian in Austria, an Austrian among Germans and as a Jew throughout the world – always an intruder, never welcomed.' ... The close-up features shift agitatedly: bloody paper, fluttering files, renaissance painting, the rapidly rotating record playing Mahler and finally the body of the German officer lying in the middle of the blood pool. ...
Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children...
