The Allies set about to the devising of a peace settlement with the defeated Germany. ... They described a peace program in which a "League of Nations" was to be formed in order to preserve the peace. The fourteen points instilled a sense of hope and peace, and laid the groundwork for the armistice. ... Allied statesmen, urged on by the pressure of public opinion, had made peace in a spirit of revenge. ... This created a Polish "corridor" to allow Poland access to the sea, but it also separated eastern Prussia from the rest of Germany. ...

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One Jewish woman, Madame Shacter became delirious after her and her husband was separated at the station. ... They had reached Auschivitz concentration camp where the families would be separated and meet the Angel of Death. ... He would be able to rest in peace if he killed himself rather then having some Nazi kill him. ...

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Benito Mussolini was a dictator and the leader of the Italian Fascist movement. Mussolini's reign of terror, as he referred to it, failed because numerous mistakes were made on his part during his career. One of these mistakes was his agreement to form an alliance with Adolf Hitler and the German Th...

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Adolf Hitler's life is separated into two completely different spectrums. ... Hitler was not only a substitute for their lost Kaiser that a large part of the nation was longing for "the one man-, but also because of bitterness over the lost war and impotent anger against what was felt to be an insulting dictated peace treaty. ...

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Imagine finally arriving at a camp, after being stripped of everything that we have that makes us "cultured" individuals, being separated from our mother and sister, as Wiesel was, and our first experience of our new "home", is seeing babies, children, men, and women being burned alive. ... Instead of being a victim for the rest of his life, he has chosen to tell the world of his experience and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. ...

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After the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles was established. Germany was greatly affected by this because under the treaty, they were to follow some major changes financially, politically, militarily and territorially. Because of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany accepted the War Guilt Clause. They also were to pay for the damages caused by the war amounting to US $33 Billion. Aside from that they were only allowed to have 100 000 men in the army and were not allowed to have an air force. ...

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Anti-Semitism goes at least as far back as the day Jesus Christ was sentenced to crucifixion. Followers of Christ blamed the Jewish for the death of their messiah, and so despised them. The Romans kicked the Jews out of Rome for failing to worship the Roman gods, and, when Rome converted to Christ...

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