After the damage had been assessed, soldiers replaced, and the allied line restored, Cobra was to be tried again the following morning. ... Foot soldiers and supply vehicles supported the armor divisions. ... Even with tired soldiers and abused equipment the allies continued their assault on the German forces. ... This proved to be a test of the soldier's integrity as the Germans made its first full force counter attack. I respect the will and determination of those soldiers that stood their ground and kept on fighting to the end no matter what the costs were. ...

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The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mas...

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At the beginning most of the members of the Nazi Party were disgruntled former soldiers and members of the lower middle classes. ... In such a state common good is placed over individual good, opponents are ruthlessly prosecuted and the armies as well as the police forces serve as political weapons. ... Girls were educated to become good housewives. ...

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In 1918, thousands of Italian soldiers were returning from the front lines of World War One, Mussolini was among them. ... Over the span of its involvement in conflict Italy lost more then 460,000 soldiers and the country was left heavily in debt. ...

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It took six weeks for German soldiers to defeat the civilians of the Warsaw Ghetto, two weeks longer than it took them to defeat the entire Polish Army defensive. ... Moral resistance consisted of remaining a mensch, or good person in spite of the hardships to be combated. ...

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Members of the Nazi scientific community were to serve as alert biological soldiers (Crum, 33). These soldiers conducted research on non-consenting camp inmates in order to demonstrate a hereditary basis for group differences in behavioral and physical characteristics in humans (Caplan, 286). ... Objectors to the use of Nazi research believe that nothing good will come from this research. ...

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The man appears to be kind, gentle and a good leader, like an angel, but underneath he has the threat of violence and therefore is a deceitful, liar too. ... So he would have had to hear the story from someone else, like Hitler, or a soldier that wouldn't say a word against Hitler, so the story could easily be made up to make Hitler. In source Cb he is hiding behind Hitler in a sort of scared, frightened pose which I also think is like an "ohh good shot Hitler, go on do it again" pose. ... From the info from each source you can get a good picture of Goebbels, I think that he is right b...

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Civil servants, newspaper editors, soldiers and members of the judiciary were dismissed from their positions, while lawyers and physicians were forbidden to practice. ... Early reports from aerial reconnaissance, returning soldiers, escaping citizens, prisoners of war, neutrals, as well as reports from Polish, Dutch, French and Czech intelligent services, all reported 'unofficial stories' - the State Department viewed them as rumors - about Nazi plans of extermination12. ...

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As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing could happen is to go back to where it all started. At the end of World War One, Germany had many problems. ...

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1) A Terrible Tragedy The human tragedy of the Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of millions of Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. The adversity of this persecution influenced not only the European arena, but also peoples from all over the globe and their ideas. The impact caused by this ethnic cleansing was enormous. People's lives were drastically changed as they were persecuted and tortured. Families were taken out of their homes and forced to move to distant locations in exile. ...

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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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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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