The head of SNCF, France's national railway company, recently delivered the first public apology directly to Holocaust victims. ... He introduced a bill seeking to require all companies competing for US high speed rail contracts to reveal any role they might have had in deporting Jews and others to Nazi death camps in the war. ... Instead, he said official apologies were a result of a long time effort to look at the company's past. ... In November, the company issued a statement expressing its "regrets" and "sorrow" for its involvement in the Holocaust. A month ago, the company s...

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During the reign of Nazi Germany between the years of 1942 and 1944 a widespread system of coastal defense and fortifications known as the Atlantic Wall was built beside the shoreline of Scandinavia as well as central Europe as a form of protection against a foreseen attack from the Allies on Nazi-controlled Europe from Britain during the period of the second World War. ... The primary engineering group which had designed and constructed a majority of the wall's main gun defenses along with the emplacements and of this Atlantic Wall was the company known as Organisation Todt. ...

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Not only did the dam project help us out of the great depression, it also helped us win World War Two. ... The dam provided companies, like Boeing, to have enough power to build planes for the war. ... For starters, we may not have won World War Two. ...

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Particularly in Germany, a country deeply affected by a financial crisis after the first World War, Jews were raising their incomes faster than the rest of the Germans. ... Even though all the advantages for the nazis, high officials didn't like to have Jews working in their companies, they preferred to kill them in order to create posts which were filled by others Jews, that were also forced to give all their jewelries and money....

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The Indians and the white settlers eventually went to war and the Indians got destroyed by crushing force. ... Say a computer manufacturer company made computers that are worth one thousand dollars. ... The company would lose money due to the fact that they went down in sales. ...

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During the First World War, the Weimar Republic was an old traditional empire and mainstream democracy. ... By having all-day school, some young women appeared including doctors and presidents, who have a right to control management in a major company, and these people has motivated to have a life work management at the same time since women's power has become powerful in workforce. In 2008, some German companies let men who have a responsibility to take care of children to take time off for their child. ...

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The Book Thief is about a young girl's life in Germany during World War II. ... Unable to do much to help, she tried to give comfort to Max by keeping him company reading books to him and protecting him by keeping him secret. ... Throughout the movie several instances of conflict occur, and in the end the conflict is resolved when American troops invade Germany and the war ends soon after....

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There was no specific group he targeted, not just war criminals or supporters of Hitler, he was completely random in his plan to obliterate four populations. ... Kovner sent out small dispatches of Nakam to the four cities in disguise as engineers and water company employees to find out the inner workings of the water supply and where Kovner could release the poison. ... This time they set out only to find and kill war criminals in prison. ... All they were doing was trying to start another war, but that's not what Europe needed, they needed time to reform again and return to the lives th...

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