It was customary for them to burn crosses on hillsides and near the homes of who they wished to frighten. ... These activities were justified by the klan as necessary measures in defense of white supremacy and the inviolability of white womanhood A secret convention of Klansmen, held in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1867, adopted a declaration of principles expressing loyalty to the U.S. ... At the first mass meeting of the German Workers' Party, held in Munich on Feb. 24, 1920, Hitler read the party program, which he had partly written: this cinsisted of 25 points compromising a...

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• Grade Level: High School

Schindler's list opens in a Jewish family's home. ... Soon afterward, the Jews are forced out of their homes to report to the train station, where their names are registered. ... Oscar Schindler who was a German businessman and who held the Nazis in very high regard, in fact he bought himself right into the Nazi party and became a very popular one himself, visited the ghetto. ... All Jews are now forced to pack their belongings and move out of their homes by German soldiers. ... The soldiers violently raid the Jews' homes and steal their belongings. ...

• Word Count: 1581
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• Grade Level: High School

Individual acts of violence against Jews, their shops, homes and synagogues grew. ... Anne writes: Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidden to ride in cars, even their own; Jews were required to do their shopping between 3 and 5 p.m.; Jews were required to frequent only Jewish-owned barbershops and beauty parlors; Jews were forbidden to be out on the streets between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.; Jews were forbidden to attend theaters, movies or any other forms of en...

• Word Count: 2365
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• Grade Level: High School

"There is no question that Hitler held the NSDAP together and was the party's main weapon" (Toland, 261). ... Germans continually blamed the Weimar Republic, the Allies, and even more close to home, the Jews. ... When elections were held shortly after, the Nazi Party was able to squeeze out a small parliamentary majority. ...

• Word Count: 1750
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Once the ship was within two days of the Halifax Harbour, Ottawa, which was under pressure from high ranking officials and politicians, had refused to grant the Jewish refugee families a home in Canada (National Post News, 2011). ... The Jewish refugees were held in eight different camps across Canada from which only two also housed Nazi prisoners (The Jewish Daily Forward, 2013). The point that 7000 European Jews had arrived on Canadian shores and were held in eight different camps across Canada whilst there were only two camps for the Nazi prisoners illustrates the vast majority of Jewish ...

• Word Count: 2212
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During his early childhood, he was heavily influenced by his father who was a mid-level customs official and his mother who was a home maker. ... Both his father's abuse and an unstable home negatively impacted Adolf Hitler from an early age. ... On his rise to absolute power, he held countless elections that were all stacked in his favor. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Although the Nazi's forbade education it took place clandestinely, where small groups of pupils would meet either in the soup kitchen or in the home of the teacher. ... When the Nazi's entered the ghetto on April 19, 1943, Passover Eve, they met determined resistance; in factthe Jews held back the Germans for longer than the French army could hold back German invasion in France. ...

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He was sent home in 1916 when he was wounded but returned to fighting in 1917. ... In a vigorous campaign they held hundreds of rallies across the country, attacking the weaknesses of other parties. ...

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My mother stays at home making quilts to sell for extra money. ... Eight days later, Hanukah is over and my grandparents have gone home. ... I thought to myself, "Finally, after three years of living in that ghetto, we get to go back home." ... I held him in my arms for hours, crying. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It was not until 1965 that the Vatican established that the Jewish people were not to be held responsible for the death of Christ. ... His mother let him stay home from school whenever he so desired. ... When Hitler was around fifteen years old, his father died suddenly on his way home of a lung disease. ... To make matters worse, when he arrived home after his second rejection, his mother, whom he loved dearly, had died of breast cancer. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most were given two weeks to sell their homes and possessions. ... Neighborhood people acted as scavengers and offered outrageously low prices for the Japanese homes, businesses, cars, and other personal belongings. ... The Japanese Americans were held in detention camps for three years from 1942-1945. ...

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Most of the youth in Germany were raised in fatherless homes. ... The most generally held concept of propaganda is that it is a series of tall stories, a tissue of lies, and that lies are necessary for effective propaganda. ... He held briefings with his senior military advisors, often in the company of Party officials and other hangers-on, each afternoon and late each night. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. That anger frequently found its outlet in an ideology that asserted not just the importance of the nation, but its unquestionable primacy and central predestined role in history. ...

• Word Count: 1866
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During WWII, Hitler appointed himself Commander in Chief; this held his place of having command of all military operations. ... It also didn't help that the soviets had the "home field advantage- so to speak. ...

• Word Count: 1818
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• Grade Level: High School

Whilst The final solution was kept secret by the Nazis, their previous legislation against the Jews was done publicly, and yet the immigration laws held by major powers such as the United Kingdom and the United States did not make any allowances for the huge numbers of Jews trying to flee Germany in the 1930s and so many were trapped. ... These pre war years saw Jewish people removed from their homes and placed into "ghettoes" they were removed from their jobs and all assets were passed over to Aryan Germans. ...

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He and Sallah snuck into the temple and held the Amulet up to the light; the light traveled through the Amulet and showed the location of the Ark of the Covenant is located. ... After escaping from the submarine, they were able to come aboard a friendly vessel, where they thought they could store the Ark and prepare for a safe journey home. ...

• Word Count: 2090
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• Grade Level: High School