Hitler needed his armies to move lightning-fast to break the Allied lines before they ever saw it coming. ... Thus, there were fuel and supply shortages at the front, which slowed and sometimes stopped the German advance for days (Ambrose2). ... However, it still depended on the soldiers in the front line. ... They were fighting on stationary fronts for days and weeks on end without proper winter gear, little food, and low ammunition. ... The soldiers on the front line did not have nearly that much, and were also wet from melti...

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" (lines 10-12). ... What a trash To annihilate each decade" (lines 16-24). ... In the next few lines, Lady Lazarus describes her own body as a million little strands in front of a "peanut-crunching crowd" (line 26), like a circus or a carnival, and she seems to be the main event. ... I do it so it feels real" (lines 46-47). ... (lines 51-55). ...

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World War II, the European front was a raging battle between the allied forces and Nazi Germany. ... They dove on the German lines with machine guns rattling and releasing their 500-pound bombs. ... As the assaulting allies grew closer to the German lines, field artillery boomed and pounded the Germans 500 yards ahead of the advancing element. ... By 30 July, many key terrain features were captured but there seemed to be no front any more. ... The plan was to link the divisions together that had been slashing through the German lines, creating a large trap around German forces. ...

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Soldiers scrambled to find one another as they were dropped behind enemy lines. ... After thwarting the Germans' attempt to cut Easy off, they are pulled from the front line in Holland to rest, recover and refit themselves. In Camp Mourmelon, the men drank, gambled, relaxed, but most of all, shook off a little bit of their front-line trauma and stress. ... While fighting in the dead of winter, troops from both sides found themselves behind enemy lines, and there was much confusion. ... They are assigned risky tasks like going behind enemy lines to retrieve prisoners for interrogation, but...

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D-Day and The Battle of Stalingrad were two battles in the Second World War II that changed the tides of the war towards the Allies both on the Eastern and Western Front. ... Both of these pivotal battles proved to be the beginning of the end for German forces on each front. ... Roosevelt to open a second front to take some of the burden off of the Eastern Front. ... In the early morning hours of June 6, the American 82nd and 101st and British 6th Airborne divisions were dropped behind enemy lines to take out any threats inland from the beaches, and to cut off communications and transportat...

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How much different would life be today if Nazi Germany would have one the Second World War? Victory was anything but out of reach for the Germans at the time The Battle of Stalingrad took place. It is possible had the Germans defeated Russia, Europe would today be flying a Nazi flag. The...

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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 eyes are drawn from the three horses to the "intellectual" force behind the action with sweeping converging lines, thus ploughing the land is a collective action, shared between farmer and animal, working towards a better field, or in symbolic terms a better Germany. ... The piece portrays Hitler triading in front of an avid crowed; we only see his back, but assume it the "glorious" Fuhrer because of the title. ... The strong vertical lines and noble pillars are marked by an "heroic severity of tone," and a deliberate heaviness or sense of the monumental aids in the construction of it bein...

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People marveled at the sacrifice of the young generation and the old who could not make it to the war front sung in praise if the youth. ... The great and apparently endless lines of soldiers walking past Hitler, the devotion of government officials and numbers that portray greatness and power are just a few things that symbolize nationalism in the film. ...

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Some of his daily duties were on the front lines and at headquarters, He was wounded in the leg in 1916 and gassed in 1918. ... (the several passages that follow are from related readings- All Quiet on the Western Front) " Still blinded at the train carried him eastward, Hitler was in a state bordering collapse. ... Hitler not only had a second blindness but surprisingly enough cried for the first time since standing in front of his mother's grave in Leonding, Austria. ...

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The madman cold bloodedly shot and killed Joe and Hilda in front of Josh and Cassie. ... "For the two months preceding D-Day, British-based aircraft had systematically bombed rail lines, bridges, and airfields on French soil" ("Snyder" 1). ...

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Take for example that while the original allied forces contained Tsarist Russia, Britain & France , the allies would later be split with the loss of Tsarist Russia to the Bolsheviks and the inclusion of the USA on the front. ... In 1918, thousands of Italian soldiers were returning from the front lines of World War One, Mussolini was among them. ...

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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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