The Conqueror's by Michael Beschloss World War II is one of the most intensively studied conflicts in history and nearly sixty years after its end, new information is still emerging. The Conquerors describes the politics surrounding the war. ... As allied forces fought Germany in public eye, Roosevelt and later Truman fought Churchill and Stalin in private on the best way to ensure that Germany can never threaten the world again. ... To prove his point he quotes from the December 17, 1942 Allied Declaration on war crimes noting that FDR speaks of the "mass executions" of many of "hun...

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It is an intriguing topic and one that has been the subject of debate since the end of the war. ... After World War II, Roper was sent to Germany by the British government to investigate and verify Adolf Hitler's death. ... Instead, it mentions a Russian spy who was a messenger in the Bunker and the importance of this man's role during World War I. ... The authors note that if the Goebbls" had not known for certain that Hitler was dead, then they would not have taken their children's lives as well as their own. ... While Trevor-Roper's book was written immediately after...

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He fell into a deep depression and contemplated suicide, until he heard that Germany was now at war. ... In 1919, after the war, the army gave him a job spying on potentially dangerous underground political organizations. ... Defying the Treaty of Versaille, Hitler began preparing Germany for war: building a strong air force, army and navy. ... After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American declared war against the Axis powers and after four years, Hitler was dead and the war over. However, the war had only been a cover-up for Hitler's true objective: the holocaust. ...

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It was as if I was in a fantasy dream world and thought that at any moment I would wake up from this unreality and find that I was back in the barrack room at Bulford Camp. ... I felt literally on top of the world. ... Background of D-Day: The Second World War had started almost five years ear, on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. ... Italy pushed the war into North Africa. ... These conclusions, with their notes of pessimism, were not shared by the bomber commanders, and were echoes of a new problem of immense significance. ...

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This second camp was called Auschwitz II, or Birkinau. ... That is the question which has been rearing its head in scientific research since the end of World War II. ... The other goal of the Nazi scientists was to provide human data that could be applied to the war effort. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School