While Europe was already going through a war, the U.S. hadn't decided if they would join the fight. ... Secondly, the conditions under which the soldiers were living on the front lines were hideous. ... Soldiers lost their friends, comrades and family, sometimes watching them died next to them, and it always showed how easily it could have been them dying. ... Watching a movie out of the German perspective shows the war in a whole different view than it would have through American eyes. ... Watching a movie with German perspective shows also that each nation had their nationalism, and tha...

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Two American soldiers Vince Boe and Aaron Radmanovich escorted their German POW work crew to the Segundo Mines. ... Straub came barreling for Boe, Boe stabbed his thumbs in Straubs eyes. ... The hooded cobra has a plan to go to the Carson Ranch and steal horses and escape to Mexico. ... In Von Toth eyes he was no use for him and shoots and kills him. ... "Jack ain't one to never start no fight, but he ain't the kind of man who's gonna sit back and watch one of his boys get whupped by a full grown man neither (Reed 12). ...

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They start to feel like the war is going to last forever and they are going to be stuck in these awful conditions. ... They simply watch the snow fall and the wind blow as they begin to accept their fate. ... It is very sad for them as their imaginations won't let them go back to their homes to dying happily. ... This is "All their eyes are ice". Owen is obviously comparing the men's eyes t...

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o go. ... They would spend their nights sleeping at the Aldwych Underground Station, and during the day they would take long walks a have picnics in the parks that were still intact. They both watch the city fall apart each day. ... Just hearing her voice like that made tears come to eyes. ... Over breakfast they Bill decided that he was going to go to work. ...

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We learn that while Americans were being bombed by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, Hitler was moving thousands of Jewish people into concentration camps, but we never focused on the lives of the Jewish community and the hardships that they had to go through in order to survive. ... When You were deceived by Adam and Eve, You drove them out of Paradise. ... When Sodom no longer found favor in Your eyes, You made the sky rain down fire and sulphur. ... I have even watched documentaries on the subject. ... While others left family members behind in order to better their chance of survival on t...

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Perhaps Hitler's most profound features were his eyes. ... They had never met anyone whose appearance was so completely dominated by the eyes. ... He thought of time as an enemy and would refuse to wear a watch or concern himself with it. ... He wanted to go to war while he was still young enough to enjoy it. ... All were products of the devil, in his eyes. ...

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Pope conveyed the participants of the "game" were admirable and those who sat on the sidelines shunned and disregarded. ... In the second line he goes on to say that the men are knock-kneed and compares their coughs to those of hags. ... Lines five to eight keep on with the tired, droning tone of those prior to them; they describe how the men were marching almost subconsciously, regardless of losing boots or small explosions in their wake. ... Like when they turned their backs to the flares, so they are, at least metaphorically, turning their backs on the bombs. ... It tells of how the dead ...

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All Nazi's were put to trial and some were hung. ... They blocked all rail, water, and highways from going to western Germany. 2,000 East German plants were entirely or partly dismantled and sent to Russia. 1,600 miles of railway line were completely torn out and an additional 7,300 miles of parallel tracks were ripped up. ... The Western Allies set up political parties in their zones held elections. ... In 1989, one of the most dramatic postwar developments began taking place before the very eyes if a stunned world public, German Reunification. ... While millions sat in front of their te...

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At the beginning of the war, Britain's military efforts were focused on France and the Napoleonic Wars; however, after their victory over France in 1814, they were able to send in more troops and thus began to fight Americans more aggressively. ... During the Battle of Baltimore, Francis Scott Key watched the British attack on Fort McHenry as a prisoner aboard a British ship. ... A main reason that James Madison declared war on Britain in June of 1812 was that the U.S. government was tired of watching its maritime rights violated. Madison agreed with Congress and believed that it was eith...

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However, black people were not represented. ... But why go through all these measures to keep in touch in the past and portraying it in future motion picture? ... He observes that the D-Day veterans who watched the screening of the series with him were in some cases shaken' by the experience. ... One could go further and argue that the conventions of narrative are to an extent exactly the same as the conventions of realism. ... It seems real because there's apparently nothing between you the viewer, and the stuff of the story- you are there, you are the story, its happening before y...

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War historians tend to be more interested in actual battles and massacres than in those people who were prisoners of war for their country. ... The Japanese figured that if they were going to keep the troops as prisoners, then they might as well benefit from it by forcing them to work in their country without proper conditions. ... Friendship and sacrifice were aimed at being a part of their survival. ... The Worst massacre that occurred took place in 1945 when some 2000 Australian and 500 British troops were forced to go on the infamous Sandakan Death Marches in Borneo. Out of the 2000 Austra...

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He and Clementine were very fond of each other. ... One of the biggest impacts he had was changing the way the British warships were powered. ... The Germans were so quick to believe in him though, he had brought them out of debt and economic rubble that Germany had been in since their defeat in World War I. ... Churchill wanted Chamberlain to occupy Norwegian iron mines and sea ports to watch over and possibly ward off German soldiers invading Norway, but Chamberlain neglected to do so. ... All seemed lost in Europe, it seemed as though Hitler was going to roll through Europe and take control...

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