ORDINARY MEN In the book Ordinary Men I will be attempting to give my viewpoints on what the book conveys about the Holocaust in Poland and how the Nazis organized and carried out the destruction of Poland's Jewish population, and where they found the manpower necessary to carry out the murders. ... I think here that we do know a lot about how the Germans carried out the Holocaust, but we know much less about how they felt and what they thought as they did it, and how they were affected by what they did, and what made it possible for them to do it. ... To take things to yet another...

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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. ... A very important argument in the book says how the Germans were, "At the time the overall undisputed bosses over life and death in Jedwabne and they were the only ones who could decide the fate of the Jews" (Neighbors, pg. 47). This clearly states that the Germans were in charge in Jedwabne and it was within only their power to do what they pleased with the Jews. ... Even though there were not...

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The incredibly cheap and effective V-1 and V-2s were created, amongst other things. The German Fieseler FZG-76 (V-1) flying bomb had a range of 150 miles, traveling at a speed of 410 mph carrying 1,870 lbs of high explosives. ... More than 5,000 ships from battleships to landing crafts carried, escorted, and landed the assault force along the Normandy coast. ... One leader told his men that there were two types of people that would stay on the beach, the dead and those going to die, so they"d better get the hell out of there and, and they did. ... The General ordered landing crafts carryin...

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To make things more horrid 7,500,000 foreign workers both male or female had slave labor forced upon them. ... They did allow Hitler to gain power and maintain it, so therefore they were responsible for Nazism. ... The soldiers who carried out these hideous acts are also really not to blame because they grew up wit a strong emphasis on authority, with a tradition of unquestioning obedience in family, school, army, church, and the state. ... Most of the men and women who carried out these atrocities were acting under their commanders orders and just doing their job. ... Hitler was the leade...

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There are so many things that Adolf Hitler accomplished in his years of major power, that soon gave life to the great hatred he developed towards Jews. Even if the things that he committed seemed insane and disgusting to society he did it either way; causing corruption to many and around the world. ... Furthermore, they failed to reach an understanding with the Allies. ... For example Albert Speer who was the minister of armaments and munitions, refused to carry out Hitler's order to establish a scorched-earth policy in Germany. ... They all seem to respond to an authentic curiosity of th...

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All of these things were considered to be important to the major industrialized countries but they all chose to handle these things differently. ... His last solution to the uplifting of the people and the nation after the Great Depression is that they need great national effort to carry on work and to increase the programme of public works and to enable more and more men to put more work on hand. ... All of these things were done I believe to get ready and continue the fight to make Japan a more profitable nation for its government and its people. They knew that the only way they were go...

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Plath blames her father for her hatred towards the male gender and her unwillingness to accept things the way they are. ... Broe says "to Plath, dying is the defeatest ritual of feminity"(176) and she wants the male audience to see how they cannot destroy her. She wants the male to see that they can bring her close to death, but she is more powerful and is able to rise again, for the third time. In "Bright as a Nazi lampshade"(2.5), Plath brings us to the horrible treatment that was carried out by the Nazis (men). ... In this line she thinks the doctors are not concerned for her well bein...

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Us boys have to focus on military oriented activities, while my sister says they concentrate on more family oriented values. ... We judge this to be very unreasonable, as both of my sisters and also my were Jews, and they were killed by the Gestapo a couple of years ago. ... My father carried on conversation. ... The Press and journalists faced newer, tougher rules, regulations and restrictions, and no separate printing presses were allowed unless they were under strict Nazi supervision. ... In this day and age some things are taken for granted, but the idea of a fair society can no longer be ...

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The very idea of carrying out a night-time airborne landing of such a small force into the midst of the German army seemed to me to be little more than a suicide mission. ... Yet another rifleman who was carried to the beach in the LCVP's relates one of his incidents: "I got on the gun. ... They both attempted more than they had the strength to handle. ... Right after Dieppe, things began to go better for the Allies. in the fall of 1942 the British 8th army, commanded by General Bernard Law Montgomery, defeated the Germans and Italians in Egypt- the first in a series of defeats that was t...

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In June 1934, Heydrich, along with Kurt DALUEGE and Walter SCHELLENSBERG, carried out the "Night of the Long Knives" (arranged by Himmler). ... As there were accusations about Heydrich's ancestry, Hitler could have declared these rumours as true as Hitler felt threatened by big, tough men like Heydrich and liked to crush them before they became too powerful. ... Heydrich, it seems, did have power in the Nazi Party as he controlled several things. ... On the whole though, Heydrich was one of the most powerful, along with Himmler as they were mainly responsible for the Holocaust. ...

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In 1929 they expanded to 1,825. ... The panic only worsened things and on October 24, 1929, stockholders sold a record 16,410,030 shares. ... They were wrong. ... Germany had no choice but to sign the unfair "diktat"1 and there was only a matter of time before things turned for the worse. ... They carried out violent acts against Hitler's enemies. ...

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Does artists have a moral responsibility to the society through his artistic works or should they be concerned only with the aesthetics aspect of their profession? Like any other occupations, artists ought to care about how his works would affect the welfare of the society and its morality, and even more so because they are seen as the major mediator of culture in societies. ... He would then begin to dance to show those dancers how they should dance. ... All these Fausts bear a similarity, that is they were all victims of the devil's cunning and devious plots of Mephistopheles. ...

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So many things happen throughout the Holocaust that many believe that it's not true or just don't even know what had happened. ... America also likes to block out certain things that happened so the country would not look bad. ... The Jews didn't mind too much that they could not buy certain things or do certain activities, as long as no one was getting hurt or being killed. ... Louis ship carrying 930 Jewish refugees was turned away from Cuba, the United States and other countries. ... Many could not believe such stories, but they also didn't deny it. ...

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These units were taught many torture techniques and operated without any restrictions by civil authority, which meant they could not be tried for any of their police practices. This power and an elitist element to the Gestapo; in which its members knew that whatever actions they took, no consequences would arise. It was with this belief in which the Gestapo carried out the extermination of millions of Jews. ... It is one of those things that is easily said. ...

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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. ... I don't mind things being difficult, like not having any money, and I didn't mind about that silly concierge this morning - just as long as we're all four together... They, including Anna's family, are anxious and concerned, so they decide to move to Switzerland. They stay at an inn in the mountains. ... And so, they are refugees in Switzerland, with no way back home, even if they wanted it, and they would not want it. ...

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The Nazi party were very persuasive; they would use whatever means they could to get what they wanted. ... The first one, source A, does not carry the message "Hitler-our last hope" but it does make you think that. ... Hitler and Goebbels were brilliant at launching propaganda for themselves and the Nazis, so you cannot trust this source to give you the real details of what really happened on the night of the long knives, you will only get what puts the Nazis in the best light, this is what Hitler and Gobbels always did, they turned things round to put things in their favour. ... These ...

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They were looking for a scapegoat to blame their troubles on. ... Even knowing that there was a chance they wouldn't survive the journey to other lands, they just wanted the chance to escape from Europe controlled by the Nazi's. ... They were rounded up, shot-down and slaughtered. ... Although these ordinary people could be punished for helping the Jews, they knew that they would not be punished for refusing to kill them. ... Police rounded up as many Jews they could. ...

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They were looking for a scapegoat to blame their troubles on. ... Even knowing that there was a chance they wouldn't survive the journey to other lands, they just wanted the chance to escape from Europe controlled by the Nazi's. ... They were rounded up, shot-down and slaughtered. ... Although these ordinary people could be punished for helping the Jews, they knew that they would not be punished for refusing to kill them. ... Police rounded up as many Jews they could. ...

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It seems that Hitler did have consistent aims and plans which would be carried out when he came to power. ... But it is a detailed version of how Hitler thought things might go over the next eight years after. ... They felt that the Germans were only reclaiming land, which was theirs. ... Britain and France did little to stop Hitler following their policy of appeasement, which meant they they would concede to Hitler in the hope that he would stop his advance in Europe. ... They pledged to stop Hitler's next advance. ...

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They were separated from each other by electrically charged fences that lines their borders. ... They prisoners were sent into two different lines, one for women and the other for men. ... He did lots of things that had to do with seeing how ling it would take a person to die if you do this or that. ... Starting in March of 1942, trains arrived at Auschwitz-Birkinau daily, carrying Jews from Europe. ... They state, We do not, to be specific, replicate the Nazi experiments. ...

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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? ... What is it that made some people do what they did and other people to do nothing at all? ... The scene ends with Dussander lying about his past to Todd's parents while they are eating dinner. ... Then, later, in the same scene, Todd says, "The things I'm going to say, they"ll never go away. ...

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This was one of the terms that infuriated Germany the most, because they despised the Poles and believed they were an inferior race. ... They were looking for someone to blame for this predicament and also a way out of these unbearable circumstances. ... This action by the allies united the people momentarily as they had not been united since 1914. ... It meant that money had to be carried in suitcases instead of wallets. ... They felt part of a powerful new alliance that gave them hope and inspiration for the future. ...

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Alois, at the age of 39, after a successful career in the Austrian civil service as a Senior Assistant Customs Inspector, changed his last name to Heidler through the encouragement of an uncle to carry on the family name. ... Klara had three other children before the birth of Adolf, but they all died. ... These German-Austrians though they were subjects of the Austrian Hapsburg Monarchy, they expressed extreme loyalty to the German Imperial House of Hohenzollern and it's Kaiser. ... When Adolf returned to Vienna in February of 1908, to make a second attempt at becoming a great artist, t...

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