Just as in Germany, men, women and children of Jewish origin, were dragged away from their homes and sent to camps where they were either put to work or death. ... The Jews were arrested in their homes, authorized to bring a single suitcase, and "sorted- at mustering centers. ... Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, coordinator of the Vichy government's anti-Jewish program, proposed that children be taken to homes in Paris which were run by the UGIF. ... It was desirable to have a house located in the "free zone- or the country because it provided easy access to food and an escape route away f...

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1.a) Explain how the Nazi Party consolidated its power in Germany in the period 1933-1939. The Nazi Party is now known as the most callously notorious political party of our modern times. Its life spanned only twelve years and three months, which was brief, yet sustained enough for the most savag...

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Families were taken out of their homes and forced to move to distant locations in exile. ... Esther's family, the Rudomins, was wealthy and ran a business in Vilna, Poland. ... Children were kidnapped from their homes and sent away to camps, and the children that were useless were killed by starvation, lethal injections, and disease. ... The Nazi's made it a point to degrade these people in every way possible by taking away their rights and free will. ...

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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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Located thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and worked. This camp , out of all the rest tortured the most people. At the camp there was a place called the "Black Wall," this was where the people were executed . In March of 1941, there was another...

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As the last bomber turned and headed home, it seemed that the kick off to Cobra was a success after a slow start. ... The fighting had turned into a free for all with divisions heading in every direction. ... Patton responded with "Forget this goddamned business of worry about our [open] flanks. ...

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Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. ... Jewish schools, hospitals, books, cemeteries and homes were also destroyed3. ...

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The structuralists counter this by arguing from several angles that Hitler was an unprincipled optimist with a central concern in "propaganda exploitation and the protection of his own prestige." (1) That he was subject to pressures from elite groups and therefore not a free agent able to follow any clear design. ... Hitler wished to eliminate this racial disparagement in phase one of his program, thus allowing for the supreme goal of attaining Lebensraum.(5) Through his reign he was of course subject to "forces at work, both in and outside Germany, conditioning the framework of...

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