If there was no cooperation, the Jews were killed on the spot. ... As the briefing went on he would state his instructions verbally for his staff to take down and then issue as written orders. There were several problems with Hitler's style of command. ... There again he assumed an easy victory and had no back-up plan when failure was imminent. Then, even as the failure of his eastern offensive was becoming obvious, he took on the United States. ...

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None of the countries in the Triple Alliance was completely happy with the status quo. ... At the same time, the European powers were also building up their armies. ... Later, in 1912 and 1913, there was a series of local wars in the Balkans. ... Germany was worried about encirclement by France and Russia, and the Schlieffen Plan instructed that German troops would attack and defeat France quickly, then turn their attention to Russia, as Russia would be slow to mobilise its vast army. ... However, there cannot be a war without somebody to start it and Germany certainly played a big part in thi...

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There are two instances that occur almost 50 years apart that demonstrate this clearly. ... Although in reality, US soldiers would not see combat until 1918 and even then only for months rather then the Brits who had been involved for years. ... World War II saw the induction of modern day tactics, modern day technology, and the idea of global domination was in fact an idea of the past that should stay there. Alliances were made in the colossal clash of arms that stand today, but none as strong and stable as that of England with the United States. ... Reparations and the war crimes trials ...

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There seems no other way. ... Even those who were skeptical about the war were soon swept up in the current as well. ... In All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque shows how an entire generation of men, (those who entered the war fresh from school, knowing nothing except the environment of hopeful youth) were, if not physically, then mentally destroyed by the war. ... There is my mother, there is my sister, there is my case of butterflies, and there the mahogany piano - but I am not myself there. ... None of them can answer questions about post war plans because they have no con...

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• Grade Level: High School

The travelers were light, or maybe none of them would ever have found a way through. ... His hands hung stiff at his sides; water and slime were dripping from them. ... There was a faint hiss, a noisome smell went up, the lights flickered and danced and swirled. ... There are dead things, dead faces in the water, he said with horror. ... In the pools when the candles were lit. ...

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There was a massive gulf between the rich and poor populations and poverty was widespread among the working classes who were often forced to live in slum-like housing. ... None of these were new problems; they had existed throughout the nineteenth century when Britain was comfortable with the concept of Laissez Faire. ... It was not until the 1833 Factory Act that the government intervened and even then, intervention was minimal. ... There were many open wounds that the Laissez Faire ideal and war had left to be tended; these were famously outlined in the famous ˜Beveridge Report' ...

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