The powers that be were notified many times of what was going on. ... It is easy, when faced with all of these facts, to recognize that the image of the world as having German wool pulled over their eyes is fallacious. ... Despite their virtual lack of outside support, the European Jews did not go like lambs to the slaughter as they are often portrayed. ... Imagine watching all those you loved or cared about killed. ... The powers that be were notified many times of what was going on. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Families were taken out of their homes and forced to move to distant locations in exile. Their destinations were unknown and their future was also unsettled for they did not know what would await them. ... In her book, Toby Fluek, a small Jewish girl, describes how her family had to move to a Jewish Ghetto and go into hiding several times to save their lives when World War II began. ... Children were kidnapped from their homes and sent away to camps, and the children that were useless were killed by starvation, lethal injections, and disease. ... The victims were treated inferior simply becaus...

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• Grade Level: High School

For both Hitler and Mussolini sport would have a huge amount of importance for their ideologies and their Fascist societies, so much so that sporting events would become true liturgies because actually what was being paid attention to above all was the image that was being portrayed, the glorification of a historical event, a sporting event, through the use of forms that were essentially ritualistic. ... Hitler would go on to murder millions of lesser able bodied people and any so called 'racially impure' in order to try and create this new perfect race of strong and 'racially...

• Word Count: 3439
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Is it possible for a person to be an accessory after the fact to a crime that was committed twenty-four years before they were born? ... First, a link between the two is established by a close up of both Dussander and Todd, each in their own house, laying awake in bed, thinking. ... It never goes away, not for you. ... Then, later, in the same scene, Todd says, "The things I'm going to say, they"ll never go away. ... Then there is a close up of Hitler's eyes, then the story goes to 1984, the time the film begins. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In either case, for those who assume that all or at least most of those sailors were devout followers of Hitler, there is very little sympathy. ... The audience identifies quickly with the war correspondent as he and the audience tries to figure out where they are going, and what is going on. ... The positioning of the camera makes it easy for the audience to assume that the Captain is watching his crew. ... The weathered Thomsen replies: "Cheeks together, balls in their hand...and the belief in the Fuhrer in their eyes." ... The audience can see the honesty in Thomsen's eyes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It is expected that the Holocaust survivors would lose faith in God, their determination to go on living, and their reliance in others because of the horrific experiences that they faced day to day. ... A person would question living when he sees the demise of loved ones and fellow Jews right before his eyes. ... Wiesel believes that God exists, and he wonders how God could sit back and watch thousands of His people brutally tortured and murdered. ... Whether or not this is true, Wiesel decides to go on living. ... Maybe God is to blame for their unity. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

People that were chosen to come to these camps were expelled from their homes. Their houses were destroyed for the purpose of building Birkinau. ... They were separated from each other by electrically charged fences that lines their borders. ... The prisoners that were to work, had their clothes taken, heads shaved, got sterilized, and were given black and white striped clothes to wear. ... Tattoos were given to the prisoners on their right arm as an easier way of registration. ! ...

• Word Count: 4730
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School