The kings still owned the land, and upon death of the king or the man the land was given to, it would be returned to the current king. ... The serfs were generally not treated very well and suffered great loss and death especially during the years of the Black Death from 1347-1349, when 45%-50% of the population of Europe was killed. ... In conclusion, the Germanic clan leaders of the late 5th century A.D. took a world that was shrouded in darkness and doubt after the fall of the greatest empire the world had ever known, and turned it into a stable land of opportunity and power again. The time...

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They find Ellen, and her dark hair, and think she is a Jew, but Mr. Johansen shows a picture of baby Lise, who used to have dark colored hair. ... A "death" occurs and Great Aunt Birte dies, so everyone gathers at Uncle Henrik's house, but Annemarie thinks that there hasn't been a death because she has never heard of Great Aunt Birte. ... Soldiers come to their house questioning why there has been such a large gathering, and Annemarie's mother replies to them that a "death" has occurred. ...

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The mansion is associated with something big and bright while a hole is described as something small and dark. ... The word "dead" is a very dark and negative expression that emphasizes their miserable life and the amount of darkness surrounding the Jews. ... The old yew is usually seen in graveyards; thus, we can conclude that it symbolises death. ... This is when the old yew may symbolise death, hopelessness and all the bad upcoming consequences. ...

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Poor sanitary conditions, lack of food and forced labor also resulted in many deaths. Towards the end of the war, death marches added to the already growing number of victims. ... Due to their dark skin they faced discrimination. ... Laws permitted the death penalty for homosexuals until 1746. ...

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Military and patterns of warfare have been strong influential aspects to every society, since the beginning of cultural indifferences. Military has influenced every major culture, beginning from the Spartan's in Greece to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. The rulers of these nations had close contro...

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The populations of occupied countries lived in fear of being taken away to German Death Camps. ... These death squads murdered over 2.5 million Jews. ... In 1934 the first concentration camp was formed prisoners were literally worked to death. The population of these camps rose from 25,000 in 1939 to 714,000 in 1945 excluding death camps. Death camps were created in 1942 and killed over one million people. ...

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These give us impressions of what the person looked like around the time of death. ... Most of the Bog People shared the same fate; they died violent deaths, often from strangulation (hanging or garroting), blows to the head, or stabbing. They were possibly punished for a crime, but there is evidence to suggest that their deaths were ritual sacrifices. ... One had a stab wound in his left chest and the death of the other man is unknown. ... Recently, scientists hired a forensic artist (Richard Neave) to reconstruct her face and and it gives us an idea of what she looked like at about the t...

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They discussed the idea of the master race, and created a mythology of German heroism that encouraged loyalty to the group and glorified death for the country. ... Heroes such as those, inspired Germans including Hitler, to think of themselves as larger than life and capable of bringing great glory to Germany through both life and death (Thomas, Landry, Bruch, Richard Wagner on the Web). ... German myths often glorified blonde, blue-eyed heroes "a start contrast to the usually darker colored Jew. ...

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This left too many Germans in the dark, which left them vulnerable to Hitler. ... I know it sounds cruel and sadistic that I would let 12 million people be tortured and murdered during the Holocaust in the death camps. ...

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A white blaze lit up the dark skies from the basin of the Jemez mountains. ... Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, quoted a fragment from Bhagavad Gita, "I am become death, the destroyer of the worlds(Larsen 94)." ...

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The Nazi party were very persuasive; they would use whatever means they could to get what they wanted. These posters are propaganda for Hitler they both have the aim of enticing the German public to vote for them but they are both different types of propaganda. Source A is Black propaganda, sa...

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