World War II was perhaps one of the most serious wars in the worlds history. During this time‚ over 6 million Jewish prisoners were killed in concentration camps. In more severe cases‚ death camps. Death Camps were specifically made to kill off the Jewish population. Right next to Auschwitz‚ Treblinka had the highest number of killings. Although it is not as well known as other concentration camps‚ it is most definitely just as serious. In November 1942‚ after the establishment of the first camp
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IMPORTANCE OF IDEOLOGY ON THE FORMULATION OF NAZI FOREIGN POLICY to 1939 From Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor on January 30 1933 to the beginning of WWII on Sept 3 1939‚ the Nazi state pursued an aggressive foreign policy that contributed largely to the outbreak of war. This foreign policy was largely reflective of the goals Hitler had set out in his 1924 autobiography “Mein Kampf”‚ particularly Germany’s easterly moving aggressions. However‚ although Nazi ideology played a dominant role in structuring
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La Vita è Bella: A Look into Nazi Concentration Camps Movie: Life is beautiful. Hitler had a different vision of beautiful‚ which he shared with others of the Nazi party. They believed their race to be “pure” and wanted only the so-called “pure” to remain. Hitler and the Nazis took advantage of their power and tried to execute all people who they didn’t believe to be of their “pure” race. “As for the Jews‚ they are incapable of being enlightened by German culture. Instead‚ they are destroyers
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1942 was the year that Nazi German troops invaded Vichy France. Vichy France is the common name of the French State headed by Marshal Philippe Pétain during World War II. It represented the unoccupied Free Zone in the southern part of metropolitan France and theoretically‚ the French colonial empire. On this day in 1942‚ German troops invaded Vichy France. Which has been previously freed of an Axis military presence. Since July 1940‚ upon being invaded and defeated by the Nazi milerty‚ the autonomous
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Why did so many Europeans collaborate with the Nazi occupiers? As the dust settled in Europe‚ collaborators were hung‚ sent running naked down the streets or imprisoned‚ while the resistance set out to define post-war Europe. The illusion of a clear distinction between Hitler’s henchmen and enemies shaped the psychology‚ language and power structures that are still present today. Collaboration and resistance‚ as categories of human behaviour‚ gained their historical relevance from the weight
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Happiness The Nazi Germany pursuit of happiness changed throughout the war. As the war changed so did the thoughts behind what Nazi Germany wanted in the end. They didn’t expect to lose the war so why change what the end result is? At the start of WWII Nazi Germany wanted to be the power house in the world. They wanted revenge from WWI when they got defeated and had to pay for the war. Germany was not happy so they needed a man to make them happy again‚ Adolf Hitler. At the start of the war Germany
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and had 14 children. He graduated the University of Coimbra and he studied law. He was a Portuguese diplomat and was in consulate of Bordeaux in France last. He had a Rabbi friend called Chaim Kruger and was inspired by him to save the targets of Nazis. He stamped visas for refugees and Jews for entering Portugal during 16-23. June 1994. He saved over 30‚000 refugees including 12‚000 Jews. He lost his job and was put on the black list so he couldn’t have any job in Portugal. Jewish Refugee Agency
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In 1949‚ Germany was still recovering from the destructive Nazi Regime and the consequences of World War II. Constitutional and governmental concerns were very fragile at the time since Germany was trying to find a stable balance between the instability of the Weimar Republic and the totalitarianism of the Nazi regime and prevention of similar chaotic forms of governments. Therefore‚ in 1949‚ German authorities finally wrote the Basic Law‚ Germany’s constitutional document‚ which up to now has proven
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Examples Atrocity: Acting with great criminality and cruelty; an extremely cruel act or horrid act of injustice that typically involves physical violence or injury. Example 1: One example of atrocity is the Jewish Holocaust perpetrated by Hitler’s Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945‚ which is arguably one of the most well-known atrocities or war crimes in history. The genocide of Jews includes two thirds of all Jews living in Europe and took place in Germany and German-occupied territories. This genocide
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defeat during WW1‚ still lay fresh in the minds of Germans. The treaty of Versailles 1919‚ the worldwide economic depression‚ poverty‚ unemployment‚ contributed to the circumstances that bestowed an opportunity for the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Hitler appealed to German population‚ who were desperate for change‚ especially the lower middle class‚ the unemployed and young. Through his powerful and spellbinding speeches‚ he pledged a better life and a superior Germany. So because of
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