Introduction The field of transitional justice was practically nonexistent prior to the end of the Second World War. Mass atrocities had taken place on the world stage with almost no consequences being brought upon the perpetrators, and more importantly the orchestrators or those "most responsible" for these crimes. ... The Rise of the Third Reich With the end of the First World War Germany was left in shambles both physically and economically. ... Hitler capitalized on this and using his eloquent speech promised exactly this to the German people. ... This would lead to the invo...

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The Treaty of Versailles was not the only cause of World War II, however was one of the important factors. ... Britain wanted increase their colonial power all over the world. ... All of the othe smaller Allied countries wanted more land or more people, mostly wanting a piece of the spoils.(2) The meeting where they decided on the terms of the Treaty of Versailles as well as many other items was called the Paris Peace Conference. ... This greatly upset them and this led to Mussolinis rise to power, and may have pushed the Italians into joining the Second World War on the side of the Axis.(...

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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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I felt literally on top of the world. ... Background of D-Day: The Second World War had started almost five years ear, on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. ... And British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the British people looked forward to the day when England would attack. ... How important was air-power for D-day's success? ... This was just as important as meeting and defeating German planes in the air. ...

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In the world we live in, vast impersonal forces are making for the centralization of power and a regimented society" (Huxley, Education for Freedom, para. 2). ... Unfortunately, many sources like these go unquestioned by the general public, which leads to a misinformed world. ... A few years later these people who took daily baths and went to church in top hats were committing atrocities on a scale undreamed of" (para. 2). ... In Huxley's essay he said, "it would be foolish to suppose that this sort of thing cannot happen again" (para. 2) analogous to Obama taking out ...

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Fascism as a political totalitarian movement of the right was born in Italy in 1919 with the name Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, meaning Italian Fasces of Fighting and by 1923 the Fascist movement came to power after the so-called 'March to Rome'1 and very soon after, under the dictatorial government of Benito Mussolini took complete control of society.2 In these years, the passion for nationalism on which the Fascist ideology was based found breeding sites everywhere in the world where the wounds of the Great War were still open. Most importantly though developing side by side wi...

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He would go on believing that these were the working class people of Germany. ... At the breakout of the first world war, in 1914 he volunteered. ... He then made a statement that would forever change his life and the lives of people throughout the world... The end of the war and Germany's defeat disappointed and frustrated Hitler greatly. ... The failure of the putsch destroyed the party organization, and broke up influential ties between Hitler and other important people. ...

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Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regret amongst British society, and consequently Britain strived to prevent any future war, through whatever means necessary. In the aftermath of World War 1, lay a mutual understanding between the British government and society that never again should a catastrophe such as World War 1 occur, it was described as the war to end all wars reinforcing the view that it was a cataclysmic event which should never be re-enacted upon society. ... World Wa...

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Most importantly, Rosa Luxemburg and fellow Spartacist Communist leader Karl Liebknecht were murdered, stripping the communists of their leaders. ... They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... Ludendorff was arrested, and then Hitler two (2) days later. ... The treaty required Germany to pay the Allies reparations for the damage incurred during World War I. ... The blame was not laid on the Kaiser's war government which had started the inflat...

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One day, when going home on the bus, he recognizes an old Nazi war criminal named Kurt Dussander, a.k.a. ... What is it that made some people do what they did and other people to do nothing at all? ... You could not call it a mercy killing, because most people would not kill it, but would contact the humane society. ... 2. ... One explanation the film gives for people doing evil ...

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