Passover is supposed to be a time of prayer, food, drink, and singing for seven days of happiness, but how much happiness could come from this event knowing that the Nazis were preparing them for deportation to concentration camps where they would be enslaved with work and little food. ... In readying themselves Elie's parents said, "We must fast as much as we can before we are deported because we do not know when they will be feeding us next (Wiesel 16)." ... Food was never enough to satisfy their hunger. ... The Jews were given very little food and very little time to rest. ... T...

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They were brought from all over in these filthy cars, going for days without food, water, or washing facilities. ... If you didn't heal fast enough to suit them, they gave you an injection of phenol to the heart or they sent you to the gas chambers. ... It was the kapos job to wake prisoners in the morning, beating them with sticks if they didn't move fast enough. ...

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The use of labor saving machinery in factories and on farms enabled workers to produce more goods faster and less expensively. ... At some points, the American consumer could not buy the goods as fast as they were produced. ... Also, the plants used up the nutrients in the soil faster than they could be replaced. ... Unemployed young men who joined Hitler's groups were given food, shelter, uniforms and a sense of purpose. ...

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The Nazi's therefore increased the prices of the food they produced, thus they made more profit from the selling of farmers goods. ... They lost out to big department stores and large factories who could sell the same products but much cheaper and much faster. ...

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The Germans took valuables, artworks, equipment, food and anything else they could from conquered territories. ... To make mass slaughter faster, Germans established death camps (like Treblinka and Auschwitz), where Jews from all over Europe were brought and killed. ...

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The use of labor saving machinery in factories and on farms enabled workers to produce more goods faster and cheaper. ... At some points, the American consumer could not buy the goods as fast as they were produced. ... In the 1920's the United States strived to be the world's banker, food producer, and manufacturer, but to buy as little as possible from the world in return. ...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. Pinpointing exactly the political origins of the war is a still discordant issue even after all these years, however no one can deny that the facts are still there. While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. Many new politica...

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So when he opened up again - the Germans, when they fire, they fire fast, they don't fire like we did, because they change the barrels of their machine guns in seconds. ... But a large invasion, depending on great quantities of ammunition, gasoline, food and countless other supplies, would need a port or excellent unloading facilities in France. ...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing coul...

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The Growth and Implementation of Hitler's Continental Expansionist Foreign Policy Program One of the most interesting historiographical debates about the Second World War concerns the nature of Hitler's foreign policy. Everyone knows that the Second World War was horrible, even worse than the First, but it has yet to be unequivocally decided what exactly was Hitler's role in bringing about such a catastrophe. The most important issue relates to the question of whether or not Hitler had evolved a clear and coherent foreign policy by the time he assumed office and ...

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