During World War II Japanese Americans were portrayed as a racial nest of spies and sabotagers. ... Another type of discrimination that occurred in the United States during World War II was discrimination towards Negroes. Black people were looked lowly upon during World War II. ... Some Negroes didn't think it was fair for them to fight in the war. ... The United States wasn't the only place where racism and discrimination was in action during World War II. ...

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The book took place during the time of war in Denmark, Copenhagen. The book talked about the escape of a Jewish family from Copenhagen during World War II. ... She tries to help rescue Ellen and her family from the war that broke out against the Jewish ethnic community. ... France and other countries wanted to prevent another war from happening which is why they wanted to come with an agreement with Adolf Hitler so Trehan 4 they could avoid another World War from happening. ... The Star of David necklace is associated with the Holocaust and World War 2. ...

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During World War Two, while much of the world was fighting a war against Germany, Germany was fighting another war against what it considered the "undesirables" of its countries. ... Although the Roma were prosecuted before the war, much this pre-war prosecution was not life threatening, and mostly constituted of laws preventing Romas from living in certain places. ... The treatment of the Roma during the war was almost or equally as horrifying as the Jews. ... However during the war Roma children were not permitted to be in any German schools. ... This office remained open and funct...

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Throughout time wars have been waged with the claims of a religious purpose, but if looked at more closely, the actual wars were fought because of political reasons and mainly just to obtain land. ... A crusade is a war fought with a religious purpose and at the calling of a religious leader. ... "In Tibet, communist China invaded in the 1950's right after World War II had ended. ... The Jewish Holocaust took place between 1933 and 1945 during the duration of World War II. The Nazi Party was in power for six years before the war. ...

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Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, transit camps, or forced to live in ghettoes. ... By the end of World War Two, after Hitler's suicide and the overthrow of the Nazi regime, approximately six million Jews, almost two-thirds of the entire European Jewish population, had been murdered. ... Hitler did not hate Jews as much as he seemed to; he merely used Jews as a visible scapegoat so as to begin his own rise to power in the shattered remains of post-World War I Germany. ... And, to digress, Bullock as well points to certain phrases...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Wiesel writes a great deal about the hardships and happenings of the concentration camps during World War II. Even though history of the second world war is taught in school, it is never elaborated on. ... This passage has extreme passion and motivation, not only for Wiesel as he was living it at the time of the second world war, but also for his readers who did not have to endure the intense situation that he had to in order to survive. ... Wiesel's book forces the reader to think, feel, and endure the misery that millions were forced to experience during the second world war. ...

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Art Spiegelman, an author, born in 1948 in Stockholm, Sweden, shortly after the end of the World War II. ... In 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany. The United States tried to stay out of the war for as long as they could. ... Ironic how it seems that the United States wanted to end this war looking like the "good guys." ... Executive order 9417 was set up to help the Jews from the war department. ...

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Yet half a century after the war, the Holocausts still manages to make its' existence felt on survivors and their families. World War II ended on May 8th of 1945 in Europe, but those who survived found it difficult to go back to a normal life, as they did not even remember what that life had even been like, and some did not even find a reason to move on or a point to living itself. ... Holocaust survivors differ in many ways, from their post war appearance, their experiences in the camps, and how they adjusted to life after the war. ... Like the many survivors of the Holocaust, Sonia had...

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Reserve Police Battalion 101 Ordinary Men is a book examining the background of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was involved in mass killings, focusing on the Jozefow massacre and deportations of Jews during World War II. While reading Browning's work, one wonde...

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Reserve Police Battalion 101 Ordinary Men is a book examining the background of the Reserve Police Battalion 101. The Reserve Police Battalion 101 was involved in mass killings, focusing on the Jozefow massacre and deportations of Jews during World War II. While reading Browning's work, one wonde...

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Night, By: Elie Wiesel "Night", by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical account of a child's experience during World War II, more specifically, the Holocaust. ... As I read "Night", I was struck by the apparent lack of information the Jews had in respect to their families and others of the Jewish faith in regards to the war. ... In war, women and children are usually spared, but these were the first to be murdered by the Nazis. ...

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The Holocaust immensely affected the lives of the Jewish community in World II, but more so impacted the lives of their children, including Andrew Salamon, as the build up from before, the development, the peak, and the decline of the war changed their lives forever. ... The war was beginning to pick up and so was the fear that filled the souls of the Jewish people that lived in Europe. ... By 1944, the war had taken its firm grip on the Jews as it continued to destroy and oppress their lives. ... It was successful and any memories of the days before the war when Jews were treated as equals ...

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Soldiers working at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. Most soldiers enjoyed their job while a few others actually tried to help the prisoners. The soldiers working at the camps were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for short. The SS began a...

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"Porcelain Unicorn" is a short film that introduces us to an elderly gentleman who flashes back to a time during World War II in war-torn Germany. The flash back begins with him and his friends breaking into an abandoned building. While there, he discovers a young Jewish girl who has hidden herself ...

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"Night" can be looked at as a memoir of a young Jewish teenager who grew up in concentration camps. However, even though it technically is not a memoir and our author, Elie Wiesel, has altered details, the story that follows Eliezer through the Holocaust gives its readers a detailed, personal, and e...

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• Grade Level: High School