This symbolizes how this dark future is not too far away, as well as that something ominous will occur soon. ... Both of these examples help point out how dark it was for the workers, they also symbolize the rise to power and shroud of darkness that the Nazi party would have in Germany in coming years. ... Both of these examples, make a point about how machine like and patterned these people's life were, (e.g. birth-work-death). ... This makes a point on how inside these people were dead and in their lives, they were only "going through the motions" until their inevitable death. ... T...

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A race was systematically destroyed, but what's behind this astonishing number of deaths is something even scarier - the racism ideology carried in countless people's mind and influencing their view of society. ... In Islamic world, Gypsies were considered as Christian because of their different religion believes and culture; but their dark skin and foreign-looking faces made them "Islam" in Christian society. Many Europeans associated their dark skin with the devil; others claimed that they were expiating the sin committed by their ancestor. ... They were alienated in the early deve...

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The populations of occupied countries lived in fear of being taken away to German Death Camps. ... These death squads murdered over 2.5 million Jews. ... In 1934 the first concentration camp was formed prisoners were literally worked to death. The population of these camps rose from 25,000 in 1939 to 714,000 in 1945 excluding death camps. Death camps were created in 1942 and killed over one million people. ...

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These give us impressions of what the person looked like around the time of death. ... Most of the Bog People shared the same fate; they died violent deaths, often from strangulation (hanging or garroting), blows to the head, or stabbing. They were possibly punished for a crime, but there is evidence to suggest that their deaths were ritual sacrifices. ... One had a stab wound in his left chest and the death of the other man is unknown. ... Recently, scientists hired a forensic artist (Richard Neave) to reconstruct her face and and it gives us an idea of what she looked like at about the t...

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They discussed the idea of the master race, and created a mythology of German heroism that encouraged loyalty to the group and glorified death for the country. ... Heroes such as those, inspired Germans including Hitler, to think of themselves as larger than life and capable of bringing great glory to Germany through both life and death (Thomas, Landry, Bruch, Richard Wagner on the Web). ... German myths often glorified blonde, blue-eyed heroes "a start contrast to the usually darker colored Jew. ...

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Most of the times, it ritualizes the death as sacrifice, and shows martyrdom as testimony. Don't we see that even the victims can devote themselves to noble causes when death seems to be a historical necessity? ... As Apter notes, "Martyrs of the Hamas of the party of God regard the Israelis they are ordered to kill as " pigs or monkeys", and their followers honoring the killers at the moment of their death".... In 1992 alone, there were over 300 deaths due to political violence in Ireland (Finn1991,202). ...

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For such tragedies to happen during WWII, the Holocaust's deep darkness is exposed from reading War and Genocide, a Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen, through her powerful use of writing that she does throughout her book. ... Not only does Bergen go into the depths of how Hitler abused his power as leader during the Holocaust, but she also points out that the German public was to be accused of not stopping the unnecessary deaths of the innocent people that were being killed around them. ...

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Coal is still the number one use for electricity and the world would simply shut down and go dark without it. ... The industrial revolution also came with problems; there are cases that factory workers got caught by uncovered machinery resulting to injury or death. ...

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This left too many Germans in the dark, which left them vulnerable to Hitler. ... I know it sounds cruel and sadistic that I would let 12 million people be tortured and murdered during the Holocaust in the death camps. ...

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A white blaze lit up the dark skies from the basin of the Jemez mountains. ... Robert Oppenheimer, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, quoted a fragment from Bhagavad Gita, "I am become death, the destroyer of the worlds(Larsen 94)." ...

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Gothic Cathedrals "Throughout the earlier half of this millennium, one of the grandest stories in European history was written primarily in stone,"" (Gothic Dreams 1). The Gothic age was a time of overwhelming change in the area of architecture. The origin of intellectual and religious life...

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After Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to popular power in January of 1933, the Jews of Germany, and later all of mainland Europe, would be living in a deadly, deadly society. These years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe. Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, trans...

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