The Book Thief is about a young girl's life in Germany during World War II. ... She is taught by her adoptive father, Hans, by reading a stolen book titled "The Gravedigger's Guide." In the basement of their home they shelter a Jewish refugee, Max, whom she soon sees as an older brother. ... Cahn defines worldview as "the way one interprets the world based on how they were socialized at home, their place of worship, and school.... In The Book Thief, Liesel sees this and engages in a primary method called praxis. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

They sleep in and take valuable items from the homes of the high ranking Nazi officers. ... They pillage and ransack the whole place. ... Through close calls and perilous situations, each man always has the others backs. ... The book is important because it is part of our United States history. ... I feel I really got something out of this book. ...

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If one were to read Art Spiegelman's "Maus" and then research a timeline of events that took place throughout the Holocaust, one would find that there is a lot more information in the book "Maus." ... One night in 1938, Hitler sent a message out to all police head quarters throughout Germany, stating that terrorizing the Jews would start to take place on a night and burning of all Jewish homes was allowed. That night was called Kristallnacht, which is Night of Broken Glass. The fire departments were aware of what was taking place and were on duty to put out any fires of those who are...

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This diary is now a world-famous book. ... This book has sold millions copies in over fifty countries. ... When Hitler was in jail, he wrote a book called Mein Kampf, which was also called the bible of the Nazi movement. ... The camps were not places to live. They were places to die. ...

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In his book, he writes about 'living burdens" that translates into German as Ballastexistenzen. ... Here, Hitler seized the chance, and called upon Dr. ... In order to disguise the Kef, they came up with a fictitious committee called "The Reich Committee for the Scientific Registration of Serious Hereditarily and Genetically Based Illnesses" in short it was known as the "Reich Committee." maternity homes were established for all women. ... They would place a "+" sign if the child was condemned to die, a "-" sign if the child was allowed to live. ... They would talk about maybe placing ...

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Diane Ackerman's book, "The Zookeeper's Wife," tells the story of a Polish women living in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. The book was very well organized and it was able to use memoirs and historical research to tell a very powerful and touching story. ... Since the story takes place around a zoo, Ackerman often uses animals as an analogy. ... At the beginning of the book, Ackerman described the animals as playful, mischievous, and sensitive. ... When he ran out of money he "sold his own home, and used the profits to rent and furnish four more apartments for hiding Jews&quo...

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Baptized as a catholic from birth, Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889, in an Austrian town called Braunau am Inn. ... Both his father's abuse and an unstable home negatively impacted Adolf Hitler from an early age. ... A book called "Mein Kamph" meaning my struggle. The book was a combination of autobiography, political observations, and propaganda techniques. ... After becoming dictator, he acted on these feelings with the genocide of a race (The History Place)....

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He came from a middle-class family that lived comfortably, although he suggested in his book Mein Kampf that his family was poor and his childhood was filled with hardship. ... He was sent home in 1916 when he was wounded but returned to fighting in 1917. ... It was at this time that he attended a meeting of a small group called the German Worker's Party in September 1919. ... Over three million Germans were unemployed, and the Nazi Party called an election in September 1930. ... The voting which took place on the 14th of March was so close that no party received an absolute majority. ...

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It was here where Himmler first came in contact with Hitler when he took place in the Munich Beer-Hall Putsch in November of 1923 as a standard bearer. ... With Hitler's plan of the Final Solution imminent he turned to Himmler which Hitler called "Der Treue Heinrich" (Loyal Heinrich) for its execution. ... Known as Lebensborn, Himmler wanted to create a so-called race of "supermen". ... On October 4, 1943 Himmler called a meeting of the SS leaders in charge of the execution on the Final Solution. ... In July of 1944, Himmler attained the rank of Chief of the Army's Home Organizat...

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Hitler was born in a small town in Austria called Braunau Am Inn. ... 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. ... Landsberg was for political prisoners, and was a rather ritzy place, for a prison. ...

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The school of thought that believes it would be utterly implausible for anyone who accepts that the holocaust was a reality to say it was some kind of reactionary accident on the part of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's is called The Intentionalism . ... Functionists are of the belief that genocide was not Hitler's intention, but something that took place as a result of the war. ... In 1933, during The Nazi's first few months in power they urged the German people to boycott Jewish businesses, as well as staging a book burning, destroying publications promoting "un-German" ideas. ....

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Then I went into an area that was called "The Point of View Diner." ... Adolf Hitler wrote a book titled "Mein Kamplo" that translates into "My Struggle." In his book, he writes in great detail his hatred for the Jews. ...

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This of course would be the main response and fuel to bring about the military tribunals of Nuremberg and punish those most responsible for the atrocities that took place. ... The invasion of Poland would be what Hitler would refer to as expanding the German empire and providing what he called "Lebensraum". ... " (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) Streicher was also responsible for the publishing of the well-known Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer as well as a children's book series Der Giftpilz. ... In the children's book the Jews are described as a "poisonous mushroom...

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Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. ... Jewish schools, hospitals, books, cemeteries and homes were also destroyed3. ... So, before war broke out in September 1939, during that same summer, President Roosevelt called for the deactivation of the IGCR, the now 600,000 refugees in need of aid were nowhere closer...

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Hitler's use of the masterly notion of "Brutality impresses" was depicted in the "Night of the Long Knives" on 30 June 1934, where the murders of people who posed a challenge to Hitler's position (in particular, Ernst Rohm and General von Schleicher) and the annihilation of the SA took place. ... Where Bruening had called for sacrifices and gained no concessions in return, Hitler offered pledges and made no concessions". ...

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Hitler did have a foreign policy program that he laid down, however sickening it was, in 1925 with the writing of Mein Kampf.(4) In this book Hitler described to all the world his three main foreign policy intentions. ... Hitler wished to eliminate this racial disparagement in phase one of his program, thus allowing for the supreme goal of attaining Lebensraum.(5) Through his reign he was of course subject to "forces at work, both in and outside Germany, conditioning the framework of Hitler's actions, which naturally, did not take place in a vacuum as a free expression of au...

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Klara died when Hitler was 19, and from then onwards, he had no relatives willing or able to support him.1909,Hitler left his home to seek his fortune in Vienna. ... He continued to live in places such as youth hostels full of prostitutes, cranks, outcasts, and transients. ... Roehm advocated the primacy of the military and wanted to incorporate the party's preliminary units called the SA or the Storm Troopers into his secret army. ... In here is where he wrote is famous book Mein Kampf. ...

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