Adolf Hitler was born in the small Austrian town of Branau on the 20th of April 1889. ... One of his jobs was to report to the army command on the small political parties that had flourished in Bavaria. It was at this time that he attended a meeting of a small group called the German Worker's Party in September 1919. Hitler had found what he wanted- a small political party that he could shape with his own ideas. ... The voting which took place on the 14th of March was so close that no party received an absolute majority. ...

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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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Once again the camera zooms in on the small box, suggesting its importance. ... The scene takes place during the time that the Holocaust was taking place. ... The girl is holding a small white unicorn and she hands it to the boy. ... They have equal importance which is why I chose to place both values on the same second tier. ... He felt responsible for keeping it safe which is demonstrated when he tried to hide the unicorn from the officers by placing it behind his back. ...

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Ireland, originally a distinct and independent country, was invaded by Britain and forced to become part of the then small, but growing, British Empire. ... The Chinese government claims that the union formed at that time was never legally broken and because of that Tibet, the smaller of the two countries, has an obligation to become absorbed into China. ... The society could greatly benefit from more land, and the government saw taking over Tibet as a possible way of gaining land and making life more comfortable for the Chinese people, although with a country as small as Tibet one would think...

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He joined a small group, which called themselves the Nazis. ... They did whatever the man with the blue eyes and small mustache wanted them to do. ... Dresses, suits, jackets, went into one place, shoes in another. ... The camps were not places to live. They were places to die. ...

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Elie at first is a firm believer in God, but that faith slowly subsides as he sees all the mass murders of Jews taken place. ... After witnessing all the horror and deaths taking place it all just becomes a routine to him, he becomes inhumane, that is what the concentration camps made of him. ... I have bread for you toofor you too" (Wiesel, 101) In this scene it describes a young boy beating his father (on the train to the concentration camp) in order to consume a small crust of bread. ... This is evident when it says, "So, in the yard, we made a hiding place, a Bunker.... Wiesel d...

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Wyman discusses how the government set restrictions so that even the small quotas could not be fulfilled. ... First of all the cooperation of the non-Jews was very small. ... These strict guidelines insured that the small quotas were never full. ...

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The conditions in Germany at this time existed to enable such a revolution to take place. ... This act became known as the Beer Hall Putsch and took place on November 8th 1923. ... - Throughout the mid 1920s, they were a small but radical party. ...

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The government figured if they gave him a small amount of power, it would tone down his need for harsh actions against "non-Aryans- as Hitler liked to call them. However, the government was mistaken, this small amount of power was all Hitler needed to make the beginnings of the mass genocide of anyone Hitler did not see would fit into his superior race of people. ... Much of the killings took place in death camps where Jews were put in gas chambers. ... During WWII, Hitler appointed himself Commander in Chief; this held his place of having command of all military operations. ...

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Adolf Hitler was born on the 20th April 1889 in the small Austrian town of Braunau Am Inn to parents Alois Schicklgruber (who changed his last name to Hitler in 1877) and Klara PÖlzl. ... He began attending meetings, which the then small German Workers Party held in Munich, which shared the same views as Hitler did. ... "Hitler jumped onto a table, fired two shots in the air and told the audience that the Munich Putschwas taking place and the National Revolution had began." ... He came out with many powerful ideas:  The survival of the strong through struggle: the strong must f...

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Another example of SS humor was the placing of a ceremonial curtain from a synagogue across the door to the gas chambers. ... Although gas was the best method, shootings still took place. ... The SS would kill them with a shot through the base of the skull from their silenced small-bore rifle...

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It was here where Himmler first came in contact with Hitler when he took place in the Munich Beer-Hall Putsch in November of 1923 as a standard bearer. ... The SS was a small body of 200 men. ... "The Jewish people is being exterminated," every party member will tell you, "perfectly clear, it's part of our plans, we"re eliminating the Jews, exterminating them, a small matter." ...

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When Hitler rose to power, he blamed the Jews for the economic inflation that took place following WWI. ... Some of the experiences Wiesel describes include burning pits of babies and adults, babies being tossed up in the air and used as target practice with machine guns, people killing each other over small scraps of food, children being hung, and more (Wiesel). ... The book is a very accurate description of some of the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust. ... For the sake of humanity, we must remember the atrocities that took place during the Holocaust so that we know ultimatel...

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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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The Cheka enforced the revolution and made sure that no counter- revolutionary action could take place "counter-revolutionaries were "to be shot on the spot . ... A Terror more similar to that of Russia took place in China in 1949 after the Communist victory. " "High on the list of priorities" of the new communist government was the punishment of Tchiang and other war criminals (McAleavy 1972 32)" (O"Kane 1991 196) this is similar to the event in Cuba 1959. However summary executions then took place for people accused of infringing the new law after that executions ...

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The concentration camps were setup because they need a place to put the people who they arrested because normal jails was too small so they put them in the camp. ... It was a place where they killed all the Jewish....

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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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Some of their revoked rights were as followed: Jews must be in certain places at certain times. ... From 1933 up until 1938, the slow process of revoking rights from the Jews took place. ... The fire departments were aware of what was taking place and were on duty to put out any fires of those who are not Jewish and to let all Jewish homes and Synagogues burn down. ... In 1940, the Nazis began the first mass murder of Jews that took place in Poland. ... America instituted the number system, which was, as stated before, that the United States would only accepted a small number of refugee...

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But this phenomenon is most common in small, close-knit communities (WiseGeek). ... The Salem Witch Trials were considerably smaller than the Holocaust, there are many similarities between both tragedies. ... What place mass hysteria in the medical field is the need for medical care of those who were by this mysterious illness affected. ...

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Finally, Czechoslovakia received the Hultschin district from Germany; and Memel, a small territory in East Prussia along the Baltic Sea, was ultimately given to the Lithuanians.1 In addition to the loss of land, reparations had to be paid to the Allies by Germany. ... The Nazi Party also encouraged smaller political parties to join them in order to make it the most popular party. ... One way the United States tried to stay neutral was by examining how they got into World War I in the first place, they did...

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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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The problems begin when eight people are confined in a small area and everybody begins to irritate and annoy one another. ... While the arrest was taking place the men looked around for things of interest to take, but they overlooked Anne's diary that lay there like worthless papers on the ground. ... Minutes before the Frank's were captured in their hiding place Anne wrote in her diary, "In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." ...

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It is difficult to act ethically in an unethical environment, and this goes as well for environments that simply place private interests above the public interest. ... Even community leaders who seek to save those who depend on their leadership are put in the position of putting their personal interest, or at least the interest of their family or small community, ahead of the public interest. ... If more people simply just stand up and fight for a wrong doing, or if someone would stand up for the wife being beaten, the world would be a better place. ...

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During the time the Holocaust took place there were bystanders and those who rescued. ... It took place from 1933 to 1945. ... In total their number is statistically small, rescuers were all colossal people. ...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20,1889. This was the beginning with horrible plans for power and control of other people. Some of the things that Hitler did throughout his life were very cruel things; first of all, he was a man who loved war and fighting. Second, he was in ...

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