Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... As he notes in the beginning of the book, "the Holocaust took place because at the most basic level individual human beings killed other human beings in large numbers over an extended period of time. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... It also do...

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The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... In addition many countries were yet to recover from the First World War. ... Another problem caused by the First World War was that of inflation. ... The situation in Germany was made worse because of the reparations they had to pay as a consequence for having started World War I. ... The consequences of the depression were so serve in some countries especially Germany that hostile political parties gained power which in turn led to the outbreak...

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It is an intriguing topic and one that has been the subject of debate since the end of the war. ... After World War II, Roper was sent to Germany by the British government to investigate and verify Adolf Hitler's death. ... Instead, it mentions a Russian spy who was a messenger in the Bunker and the importance of this man's role during World War I. ... The authors note that if the Goebbls" had not known for certain that Hitler was dead, then they would not have taken their children's lives as well as their own. ... While Trevor-Roper's book was written immediately after...

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• Grade Level: High School

He fell into a deep depression and contemplated suicide, until he heard that Germany was now at war. ... In 1919, after the war, the army gave him a job spying on potentially dangerous underground political organizations. ... Defying the Treaty of Versaille, Hitler began preparing Germany for war: building a strong air force, army and navy. ... After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, American declared war against the Axis powers and after four years, Hitler was dead and the war over. However, the war had only been a cover-up for Hitler's true objective: the holocaust. ...

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• Grade Level: High School