Although the Nazi's forbade education it took place clandestinely, where small groups of pupils would meet either in the soup kitchen or in the home of the teacher. There is evidence of educating youths in a large number of places in Poland, Warsaw and numerous other places where the Nazi's prohibited education. ... Another major uprising took place in the Vilna ghetto. ... Resistance also took place in death camps. The first took place in Triblinka on August 2, 1943. ...

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Although the Jewish suffered greatly other smaller groups also were affected. ... Throughout the course of the Nazi campaign, the Jewish people were targeted with laws that prevented them from owning and operating shops, stopped them from walking in certain places and eventually forced them to live in ghettos. ...

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Upon hearing or seeing the words 'shooting stars', the brain will usually compose a portrait of a small meteor zooming across the stars and possibly a child making a wish underneath the sky, which will give the reader a pleasant and purposely false vision of what will follow. ... Innocence symbolizes the speaker's hope for no other calamities while the child is around for the child's sake, and youth symbolizes potential for a future away from what the awful place the speaker is in. ...

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The Failure of the Weimar Republic The German Weimar Republic was born amidst the defeat of the imperial army, the revolution of 1918 against the Hohenzollerns, and the hopes of German Liberals and Social Democrats. Its name derived from the city of Weimar, in which its constitution was writte...

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At the bottom, Hitler places the black race, Slavs, Gypsies and Hebrews, groups that gave him feelings of exacerbated hatred. ... In North America, where the population is prevalently Teutonic, and where those elements intermingled with the inferior race only to a very small degree, we have a quality of mankind and a civilization which are different from those of Central and South America. ... They supported the idea that Hitler had a well-organised plan to take the power and to set the Third Reich, and places him in the centre of National Socialism. ... Regarding Germany's foreign policy...

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Being forced to accept the blame for the war as a whole (clause 231 – the War Guilt Clause), which in turn provided a justification for the allied forces to put in place the requirement that £6.6 billion in reparations need to be paid to them as a payment for all war damages. ... The National Socialist party saw themselves gaining support from white-collar middle class, the lower middle class, small merchants, clerks, craftsmen, civil servants, farmers and professionals who were ruined as a result of inflation. ... He was setting up new laws in order to make Germany a more pleasura...

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Mussolini, however, became convinced during World War I of the inadequacy of socialism: it had no place for the enormous outpouring of nationalist enthusiasm that he saw during the war, no place for the struggle between nations, and no recognition of the fact that solidarity was associated with the national community--not with one's international class or with humanity in general.Moreover, socialism had no plan for how a post-capitalist economy would operate. ... The main fascist threat in the UK comes from the small number of people who carry out and incite violence and hatred against mi...

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Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible" for these crimes. ... This of course would be the main response and fuel to bring about the military tribunals of Nuremberg and punish those most responsible for the atrocities that took place. ... Practically the entire country had been destroyed in the war by the allied forces and rebuilding was highly hindered by the strict sanctions that were put in place on Germany following the war. ... They could...

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A few years after Adolf Hitler had come to power in Germany as the Chancellor in 1933, his Nazi Government started policies that were mainly targeting the German-Jews and others that were seen as the enemies of the Nazi regime. In the next ten years the policies had increasingly grown repressive and...

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Because of the Nazi Party's ability to take control of the people, the government, and the daily life actions that took place, it was apparent that this party displayed totalitarian values. ... This caused Communes to be created, which were consolidated small farms. ...

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This meant making it easy for small parties to gain representation in the Reichstag. ... The government of Germany encouraged the workers in the Ruhr to strike but they were supported by the German treasury, so this was costly and this led to many people becoming unemployed and many small businesses going bankrupt who then swore allegiance to parties like the Nazis. ...

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It was these feelings that can be seen as one of the reasons for their aggressive foreign policy; the Kaiser wanted to gain for Germany her "place in the sun", an empire which would reflect her (ever increasing) industrial, financial and military might, on the other hand, Hitler's main aim was to overturn the Treaty of Versailles, especially those that limited the freedom of Germany in any way, for example, German re-militarization, and re-occupation of the Rhineland. ... Undoubtedly the alliance system created rivalries in Europe, it also made war more likely in that it served to chan...

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Hitler's decision to remilitarise the Rhineland at this stage of events was triggered by the fact that Britain and France were to preoccupied with the Abyssinian crisis to pay much attention to his actions, the remilitarisation also took place on a Saturday which meant limited resistance. ... After occupying the Rhineland, they could fortify it, hold the frontier with a relatively small force, and greatly increase their striking force on the northern bank. ...

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There is no doubt at all that Nazi Germany was a profoundly anti-Jewish state, due in no small part to Hitler's many speeches and Nazi state-run propaganda. ... In many different places throughout the book, Hitler takes great pains to identify Jews with everything wrong in Germany. ...

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