At the close of World War II, the Allied Powers (The United States of America, England, France, and The Soviet Union) were faced with the dilemma of how to deal with the vanquished Axis military and political regime which had committed horrific crimes in its pursuit of world dominance. ... A war crime, using the definition adopted since World War II can fall into any of three categories: crimes against peace involving initiation of war; war crimes including murder, torture, or deportation of civilian populations and crimes against humanity including political, racial, or religious persecution ...

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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. ... 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. By the end of the war, only she and her mother had survived. ...

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It is often assumed and taught that the Holocaust portion of World War II was such a well kept secret that no one knew of it until after the fact, however, this is untrue. ... The majority of those that were taken onto continental Europe perished within twelve months, the 287 that went to Britain survived the war. ... It is often assumed and taught that the Holocaust portion of World War II was such a well kept secret that no one knew of it until after the fact, however, this is untrue. ... The majority of those that were taken onto continental Europe perished within twelve months, the 287 tha...

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World War II Nazi soldiers who worked at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. ... Before the war had begun, some of the soldiers had been nurses, farmers, salesmen, and factory workers. ...

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World War II, the European front was a raging battle between the allied forces and Nazi Germany. ... I believe that in this point of time in the war, the risks were worth taking. ... General Eisenhower agreed that it was risky, but could be the turning point in the war if successful. ...

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Introduction The genesis of World War One was controversial and was shrouded on confusion. ... While going into the background, history, and causes for the war is not necessary for this essay, it is important to realize that the systems in place during the pre-war period were essentially political "boiling pots" and these tensions carried over through the war into post war circumstances to shape new social movements. ... Nonetheless, the war indeed was an ideological struggle in numerous respects. ... One difference was the remobilization of the French and British people to war by using democ...

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The Treaty of Versailles was not the only cause of World War II, however was one of the important factors. ... France wanted to permanently punish Germany harshly enough that they could never make war again. ... However just twenty years and sixty-seven days later, war would once again break out in Europe. ... Italy had originally been allied with Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but when war broke out Italy refused to march. ... At the end of the war the Italians never got anything near what they had been promised. ...

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This second camp was called Auschwitz II, or Birkinau. ... That is the question which has been rearing its head in scientific research since the end of World War II. ... The other goal of the Nazi scientists was to provide human data that could be applied to the war effort. ...

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Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau- am -Inn, Austria. The town is located near the Austrian- Germany border. His father Alois, worked as a customs officer on the border crossing. His mother Klara, had previously given birth to two other children...

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Richard Slotkin Gunter Grass, in his novel "Crabwalk", rewrites, revises and revisits the history of Nazi Germany and World War II. ... But ironically his son Konrad starts a cyber war against Jews and influenced by his grandmother Tulla, hopes to re write history. ... Post-war Germany has kept a code of silence around any German civilians suffering as a result of the war, seeming to reflect the national guilt for starting the war. ... He posits Wilhelm Gustloff, the ship as a metaphor to describe the history of war and hatred, the Germans went through. The ship started its voyage with "stre...

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They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... The treaty required Germany to pay the Allies reparations for the damage incurred during World War I. ... For many Germans hyperinflation caused more suffering than the war, which resulted in festering anger and resentfulness. The blame was not laid on the Kaiser's war government which had started the inflation by its borrowing trend. ...

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With the lingering memory of the more than 300,000 U.S. troops either killed or injured in World War I, isolationism was the dominant sentiment in most political circles. Americans were not going to be "dragged" into another war by the British. ... So, before war broke out in September 1939, during that same summer, President Roosevelt called for the deactivation of the IGCR, the now 600,000 refugees in need of aid were nowhere closer to asylum than they were at its creation. ... But when asked about getting masses of Jews out of Germany, he replied, "The time is not ripe for that," ...

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Not only was Hitler trying to give this message to the world but also the German public, if Hitler didn't have the German public behind him then he could not start or compete in a war. After the First World war Germany had suffered badly, especially with the treaty of Versailles, so the last thing the Germans would have wanted was another war, but if Hitler could persuade the public that they could win the war, by parading there huge army, then he would have had a good chance of winning the war. ...

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Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. The movie was based on Klaus Mann's novel with the...

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