While fighting with the Russians, many French soldiers died due to starvation and the freezing temperatures, for none of the French were issued any gear for the winter. ... Reading his book entitled "Mein Kampf- (My Struggle), was like listening to him saying "if there is a supreme form of human being, then there must be others less than supreme-; moreover, he shows his hate for Jews and refers to them as liars, parasites, dirty, repulsive, unscrupulous, monsters, foreign menace, bloodthirsty, avaricious and that they were trying to destroy the Aryan race. ... So be aware, for even the old sa...

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In 1936 Hitler also ordered the German Army to reoccupy Rhineland, the demilitarised zone between Germany and France. ... Historian Roderick Stackelberg comments on the ideology of Autarky saying, "Autarky was the main goal of the Nazi economic policies". ...

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Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to find those promises withdrawn when they con- flicted with principles of self-determination. Italian claims to the west coast of the Adriatic, for instance, were denied by Yugoslavia. Italy received most of the Austrian territories it demanded, but many maintained that these were inadequate rewards for ...

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