From her extreme knowledge about the war, she explains to her readers why they put so much effort into killing so many innocent people. ... As uncomfortable as this subject matter was to read, I have also learned how much they had to sacrifice and went through from visualizing all of the graphic experiences that happened firsthand at war. ... These four points are the most important parts of the new insights that I have learned from reading Bergen's book about the war and genocide that happened during the history of the holocaust. ... As uncomfortable as some of the incidents were to r...

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As the II World War began in September 1939, Hitler was finally able to bring his dreams about setting the world free from "Jewish disease" to life. Before the war broke out, hatred for Jews and anti-Semitism were raising in society, nothing but unclear and occasional public threats were found in Hitler's documents, though. ... Decision to attack Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 taken in November 1940 intensified violent war with Jewish nation. ... After announcing the war with United States and giving the speech to party leaders extermination of Jews went from group murders t...

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Some of the of the main form of mass communication that Hitler used were; large meetings within the Nazi party, large dehumanization camps and a book entitled "Mein Kampf- which sold over five million copies before the start of World War II. Second, he was the main culprit of World War II, and a war criminal by using concentration camps. ... Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. ... It was no accident that Mussolini allied with Hitler during World War II. ...

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Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... It also does not prove that they were not anti-Semitic before the war. ... He does not consider the men significantly affected by the anti-Semitic environment in which they had been immersed over the decade prio...

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Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, transit camps, or forced to live in ghettoes. ... By the end of World War Two, after Hitler's suicide and the overthrow of the Nazi regime, approximately six million Jews, almost two-thirds of the entire European Jewish population, had been murdered. ... Hitler did not hate Jews as much as he seemed to; he merely used Jews as a visible scapegoat so as to begin his own rise to power in the shattered remains of post-World War I Germany. ... And, to digress, Bullock as well points to certain phrases...

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