It was the deadliest theatre of war in history causing the death of over 30 million people. ... No other nation could have the attrition rate afforded to Russia by its vast population. ... Believing they would quickly topple Russia, the Wehrmacht had not prepared for Winter. ... Economy The Russian war effort was a "tremendous economic and organizational achievement." ... Economically, lend-lease was "Russia's life-saver." ...

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While both men are notoriously known as two of the most evil men in history, it is obvious that they accomplished great things for their countries. ... Stalin's Five Year Plan produced a rate of industrial growth during the first two decades of its implementation that was unrivaled by any country in all of history. ... In A History of the Modern, R.R. ... In A History of the Modern World, R.R. ... In Russia, Stalin's Five Year Plans created temporary discomfort among the Russian people. ...

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Therein lies the secret of absolute power- (Rapoport 1989) Has this method been used by most of the well known bloodiest dictators in history? ... Most cities in Russia were destroyed by the Russian themselves as to avoid leaving any goods for Napoleon. ... 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. ... Benito Mussolini backed up by Hitler, became the worst dictator in Italy's history by trying to take over the world. ... Somewhere another predator awaits his chanc...

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However, Hitler's surprising rapid victories would soon come to an end as the fall rains began over Russia, slowing the Wehrmacht's advancement. ... With Germany's continual retreat from Russia and the Western democracies of America, Great Britain, and France delivering defeats in Northern Africa, Italy, and the beaches of Normandy, Germany's existence would finally come to an end. ... How an individual like Hitler could shock the world by starting another world war two decades after the first is a prime example of history repeating itself. ...

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Stalinist Russia was clearly totalitarian but was not fascist. Though Russia's internal behavior was very similar to Nazi Germany, fascism and socialism are diametrically opposite and fiercely opposed to each other. ... A hatred of socialists and liberals: socialists as opponents of national self-assertion (and as potential betrayers of the people to slavery under a foreign Russian elite); liberals as unwilling to take the steps necessary to fight socialists, as self-absorbed individualists who weakened the nation, and as parliamentarians who did not recognize that the nation, not...

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In his opening argument, head prosecutor for the United States, Robert Jackson said, "The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a great responsibility. ... One of the first attempts at organizing a system of arbitration to deal with war crimes was The Hague Convention of 1907, which was signed by multiple countries, including Germany, The United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. ... Likewise, the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928, which also was signed by Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia, established...

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After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. These years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, trans...

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That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but its unquestionable primacy and central predestined role in history. ... Terrorists acts carried out by Communists and the emergence of a Communist state in Russia, ensured that Fascist parties grew up throughout Europe in opposition to Communism. ...

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Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. 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"...

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