Her books are said to fit into the same all-purpose theme that deals with human connections. Lois Lowry is a two time Newberry Medal winner for her books, The Giver in 1994 and Number the Stars in 1990. ... Later, the Rosen's along with other Jewish families sneak on a boat to Sweden to free themselves from the Nazi government. ... They could end with Ellen fleeting Denmark to the free lands of Sweden. An additional project to enhance the students education of the book could be to have them research the Nazi government in the 1940s by searching the internet, books, and old newspapers. ...

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Night The scene where the young child is hanged is absolutely horrific. He still seems to be alive as Eliezer walks past him. The man says "Where is god now?(61)" Eliezer says to him-self "Where is He? He is Here - He is hanging on the gallows (61)" The child has been hanging for about a half...

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In order to channel propaganda, Hitler forced teachers to teach Nazi principles and rewrote history books to conform everyone to his version of past events. ... The Nazi scientists running the concentration camps were meticulous note-keepers, and with no ethical issues at hand, were free to do whatever they wished to their subjects, and record the results. ...

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Books, newspapers, magazines, and radio, all tried to "educate" the audience about the struggle between the white "Aryan" race and others, and the harms those minority groups had done to society. ... Gypsies were described as shiftless, stupid, licentious and violent people who tended toward crimes simply on account of their racial makeup; even their mix-blooded offspring, "who pair the free spirit of the Gypsies and the lack of Moral and social constraints with the higher intelligence", were "proved to be even more dangerous to the community." ... And these books were used in classroom to in...

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He performed special tasks such as distributing books and taking charge of the class in a teachers" absence, all of which seemed like such remarkable achievements at the time. ... He was forced to sit in the back of the classroom, was no longer invited to supervise the class or hand out books, and constantly had to avoid the ""stray" balls or stones that were thrown by "mistake"" at him during recess. ... Andrew and his fellow prisoners of the Nazi's were rescued by the Zionist group, Hanoar Hazioni, who dressed as a Nazi unit and set them free from execution and were let to escape into t...

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The Americans freed 33,000 inmates from concentration camps, out of the 6,000,000 that were murdered. ... From what research shows, America turned Jewish refugees away but then freed them from the death camps. ... When the minor terrorizing began as early as 1935, many Jews wanted America to come to their safety or at least be able to flee to America for a safe, free life. ...

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"Night," by Elie Wiesel and "Enemies: A Love Story," by Isaac Bashevis Singer, are two books that tell the story of two men that have gone through the Holocaust. ... He had felt his father growing weaker and believing that the end was near, had thought by this separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival, a prayer to this God in whom I no longer believed. ...

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That's a phrase my dad heard and would never forget when he attended the Free Wesleyan Church Boys' School in Tonga. ... Growing up in Tonga, I didn't think that the Holocaust really affected me until I read a couple of books, watched some movies, and discussed what we read and watched with other students in the class. ...

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He had a sunny room on the bottom floor, access to unlimited books and even a personal secretary. ... It swept away constitutional safeguards against arbitrary arrest and the suppression of free speech. ...

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However, if this was not the case, the guilt would never show in movies or books such as these. ... The intention of fighting the war was not to free Jews and stop the holocaust, but instead was to stop Hitler from taking over the world. ...

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Hitler also invested large amounts of money in propaganda posters to persuade the people of Germany to stay loyal to him.7 As soon as Hitler rose to power, he quickly suppressed any and all free will. ... In order to destroy any opinions contradicting his own, Hitler burned thousands of books, magazines, historical documents, as well as anything that could potentially harm the prosperity of the Nazi Power. ... He developed an extremely oppressive government revoking the German people of their own free will and thought. ...

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His nationalism, which he saw as to be a united Austria and Germany; which would let all the free speaking Germans come and go as they please, definitely had roots in his time in Vienna. ... Even the "true sign-, the swastika, had been adorning Stefan George's books for several decades. ...

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He endeavors his best to conceal the fact that he was more intelligent than the others, we looked upon Union 5-3992, who were a pale boy with only half a brain, and we tried to say and do as they did, that we might be like them, like Union 5-3992, but somehow the Teachers knew that we were not. (1.18) But it was much more difficult than he could imagine, and eventually he had to elude, discovering books of the old world and the word 'I' he had been relinquished from the brainwash he had been raised with and discovered himself. ... Fear is restraining these people, but if they set ...

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The Ministry's objective was to ensure that the Nazi ideology was successfully communicated through art, music, theatre, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press. ... The information distributed by the poster, which is 'the Jewish people are the sole cause for the commencement of World War II now knowingly false due to free access of information from newly developed technology. ...

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Like any other leader, Hitler recognized that for absolute control of the nation, he would have to have the support of the people. He would require total support from the people of Germany for his ideologies of Nazism to grow, and without the backing of the people, Hitler would not be capable of go...

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They made the German people believe that they had ears in the walls and that they could have no free thought if it was anything bad against the Nazis or they would be arrested. ... One of my favorite books about the time period is the book of cartoons that Dr. ...

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Unlike the other books our class has read, this book Leap Into Darkness was the most touching and most real. ... After reading this book many of my questions were answered and I had a better aspect of what really occurred and it allowed me to see that not all Jews in the Holocaust just went along, but instead many like Leo also escaped until they were free. ...

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Switzerland also supplied Nazi Germany with other materials for free. ... They did not act like a neutral nation would act during a war, but history books and encyclopedias still say that they were a neutral nation during World War II. ...

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This may be one of the reasons why the majority of history books state that there was a far greater number of men who experienced unemployment than women and young people. ... The government did provided other benefits to those suffering from unemployment, for example there were benefits for women such as maternity and child welfare centres, and for children their were benefits such as free school meals. ...

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He was treated well and given access to mail and books. ... Hitler was now free to rule as a dictator and banned Communists and the formation of all other parties, banned trade unions as well as abolishing the state government. ...

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The Nazi party were very persuasive; they would use whatever means they could to get what they wanted. These posters are propaganda for Hitler they both have the aim of enticing the German public to vote for them but they are both different types of propaganda. Source A is Black propaganda, sa...

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Hitler was freed about nine months after his trial. ... Hitler would begin to read his fathers history books about Native Americans and how they were slaughtered along with reading about battles between the Germans and Russians. ... In 1938 Germany invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia to free German minority and really begin Hitler's plan of world domination. ... Hitler took Norway because that guaranteed that vital iron ore supplies from Sweden could be shipped to Germany through the ice-free Norwegian ports. ...

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The German Nazi or National Socialist political party was the platform used by Adolf Hitler to create a dictatorship that would, in one decade cause the German people enormous misery and shame. This fanatical political system was to gain popularity in the Old German Empire that was defeated in World War One and later by the great world economic depression. The polices of the National Socialists were offered to deprived and hopeless people for solutions to their economic woes. Also through some very crude tactics the Nazi party showed its readiness to end the turmoil in the streets and br...

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The Holocaust Ann frank History has had a great influence on art, whether it's literature, theatre or cinema. Tragically, the Holocaust has been the subject of many books and movies. The Diary of Anne Frank is the diary of a young girl captured in the time period of the Holocaust. Anne Fran...

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The next day, at the urging of Hitler, Hindenburg issued an emergency decree for the protection of the people and the State which stated: "Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed" (Hosch, 2007). ... In one of his books, Hitler descri...

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