Elie and his father's lives form around bread and soup in order to survive. ... Elie instills faith in him, when he questions if he should give up and not fight any longer, but Elie doesn't allow his father to think that that's even an option, they endured so much together he wouldn't allow him to give up now. ... " (Wiesel, 86) Here the author is describing how he survived through sheer determination that propelled him to the point of not allowing himself to give up. He suffered already so much, he wouldn't allow himself to abandon his father and give up now. ......

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My brothers and I were put into a barrack and given clothes to wear; we had to give all our clothes to the soldiers. ... The man said, "If anyone else would like to try to steal a piece of bread, go ahead." ... My little brother, only nine years old, was shot and killed for stealing a little piece of bread. I wish I had known how hungry he really was, I would've given him my ration of bread, and he would still be with me today. ... I had to encourage him to keep going and to not give up. ...

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From there they were sent off to be put in wagons that tightly fit eight people, one window with bars so no one could escape a few loaves of bread and two buckets of water. ... As Elie and his father waited in line to learn their destination from the Angel of Death, others were giving him and his father advice on how to stay alive. ... They were even treated a little better by receiving an extra portion of food or bread that is all the Jews were served. ... He also had a little something else; he would not give in to hunger and the bitter coldness because he would not leave his father...

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It is said that during this economic recession, a wheelbarrow full of money could have bought one loaf of bread. This gives you some sort of idea of the state the Germans were left in following the war. ...

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The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread. ... Hitler did not give the opportunity of choice to people unless it was a choice of two evils, for example "go to the gas chamber or die on the spot. ... At each level, the superior was to give the orders, the subordinates to follow them to the letter. ...

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The Treaty of Versailles was proposed to be a peace settlement between the victorious Allies and the defeated Germans at the outcome of World War I. The post-war reparations imposed on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the subsequent economic disaster tha...

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