The Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty that officially ended World War I between the Allied and Germany. The Allies created a League of Nations and armed with concept of a 14 point treaty that would stop war forever. The treaty was forced on Germany‚ in doing so they had to accept sole responsibility for starting the war. And that they had to pay for all the damages‚ decrease their military and surrender territory. With Germany unable to pay for the war and the
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’" ( "Concentration Camp" 498). Among those deported were Jews‚ Poles‚ Gypsies‚ Soviet POWs‚ socialists‚ Communists‚ homosexuals‚ priests‚ ministers‚ and many more. They were deported to Vernichtungslager‚ or death camps‚ such as Belzec‚ Chelmno‚ Majdanek‚ Sobidor‚ Treblinka‚ and the most infamous‚ Auschwitz (Kornblum). Suffering didn ’t start for the prisoners with their arrival at the camps. Deportees endured many hardships on the trips to the camps‚ and some weren ’t strong
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The Weimar Republic -- Doomed to Fail The Weimar Republic (1919-1933) was born in the aftermath of the defeat of Germany in World War I. Not only was this a fall from grace‚ it was a resounding crash that shattered Germany’s belief that they were the superior undefeatable race. Following the destruction of the old totalitarian German Empire‚ a new democratic republic was put into place. The question was‚ could Germany‚ splintered into groups of socialists‚ communists and the extreme right‚ unify
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Documentary films and their representations of the Holocaust have served not only to speak their truth’ of the atrocities but also to document changing paradigms of social thought concerning Holocaust truth’. Holocaust History and its documentation: Theodor Adorno’s famous 1949 injunction that to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric’ is indicative of the initial approaches of documentary to the subject matter. The first documentary footage of the Holocaust was shot as Allied troops
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Possible answers for Six Step Analysis of Freedom Writers exposed 1. List all the different examples of belonging evident in the text: The students are clearly identified as belonging to an ethnic group‚ based on colour‚ race and ethnicity‚ e.g. the Cambodians‚ the Latinos‚ the African Americans and the ‘whites’. They also identify themselves as being gang members and belonging to the gang‚ including having territory and ‘protecting your own’. The majority of the students live in an area
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The Holocaust was an event in history that people would like to pretend never happened however in reality it will never be forgotten. Hitler came into power in 1933 and wanted to create the “master race”‚ meaning the Aryan race (Ushmm‚ 2013). The Jews‚ along with other groups such as the gypsies‚ were not included in this superior race. He thought of them as inferior and knew he had to expel them from the world. The word “Holocaust” means a “burnt sacrifice offered solely to God” (Niewyk‚ 2011)
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“TOTAL WAR”: CIVILIANS AS CASUALTIES AND CIVILIANS AS LABORERS BY TROY RECTOR IUPUI HIST-B425 SECOND WORLD WAR DR. KEVIN CRAMER JUNE 15TH‚ 2012 Introduction and thesis The concept of “total war” can be seen throughout history in various forms. Some countries used the tactic of targeting of civilians in order to lower morale and support for war. Some countries in the past mobilized their economies and population in order to support the war effort. It wasn’t until World War II did
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The Holocaust also known as Shoah’‚ was the mass murder or genocide of approximately six million Jews during World War II‚ a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany‚ led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party‚ throughout the German Reich and German-occupied territories. Of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe before the Holocaust‚ approximately two-thirds were killed. Over one million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust‚ as were approximately two million Jewish
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Children of the Holocaust Advanced Composition/ ENGL 135 June 20‚ 2011 Alena Synjova once stated‚ “ I’d like to go away alone where there are other‚ nicer people‚ somewhere into the far unknown‚ there‚ where no one kills another. Maybe more of us‚ a thousand strong‚ will reach this goal before too long” (Volavková‚ 1994‚ p. 50). During the Holocaust‚ people craved opportunity to escape to a place where there were polite people and no one killed each other. The Holocaust affected everyone
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THE PERSECUTION OF JEWS IN EUROPE DURING THE 20TH CENTURY It is an indisputable fact that the Jewish people have been persecuted‚ oppressed and mistreated throughout the history of Judaism. But this persecution finally reached its peak during the 20th century when the Hitler’s dictatorship of Germany and Stalin’s rule over the Soviet Union caused the cruel and tragic deaths of millions of Jews. The main cause of this uncalled for persecution was the fanatic anti-Semitism that took Germany‚ Russia
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