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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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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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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