At Fort Benning, they embarrassed the sergeants with their outstanding physical fitness: " After two days of such abuse, the sergeants told the C.O. that the 506th was in much better physical condition than they were, so all the companies of the 506th started in immediately on B stage". ... 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. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"It refers to the fragments of shattered window glass that littered the sidewalks in front of Jewish shops that had been vandalized during the night.... "In the earlier stages Jews were attacked and beaten. gradually some 15000 arrested Jews were assembled at police station. ...

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It was Himmler's men who staged the phony border incident that Hitler used to justify the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of World War II. ... Weakened on all fronts, he was attacked after 1944 by Martin Bormann, who tried to revitalize the party organization as a rival of the SS. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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It was at this stage, when Heinrich Himmler became head of the Gestapo, that the Gestapo started to unify and consolidate with other organizations within the Reich Central Security Main Office or "RSHA-. ...

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• Grade Level: High School