The Tugendhat’s lived in the villa for only eight years after the family had to flee Czechoslovakia due to World War II. They moved to Switzerland and never returned‚ so in sequence they had the Tugendhat villa confiscated for office use by the Gestapo. During their time living in the villa however‚ they had an extravagant time. The open floor plan made it easy for their children to play and walk around. The windows and glass walls provided lighting and the ability to see the outside from nearly
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Police officers and firefighters did not do anything to stop the mobs‚ because they were ordered not to interfere by the Gestapo headquarters. Approximately 7‚500 of Jewish-homes‚ businesses‚ and schools were demolished. About ninety-one Jews were killed. Thirty thousand Jewish men were captured and put in concentration camps (Kristallnacht: Kristallnacht). Men had their heads
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protection. By April 1939‚ the military occupation of the Czech lands by the German state was completed. The former Czechoslovakian army was dissolved while the task of protecting the state was assigned to the German troops and the new secret police‚ the Gestapo. Furthermore‚ numerous
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2014 Comparative Essay During WWII the Jews were being chased. Many of them went into hiding‚ but some weren’t lucky enough and were taken to concentration camps. Anne Frank and her family were part of the lucky Jews who went into hiding‚ until the Gestapo found them and took them to concentration camps. The Franks shared the hiding place‚ or how they called it “Secret Annexe”‚ with another family‚ the Van Daans‚ and Mr. Dussel. While Anne was hiding‚ she wrote all of the events that happened in her
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For example‚ Henry had to travel to Paris by train all by himself. He had to convince the Gestapo that his reason of leaving Germany was valid‚ and after Henry told them he was going to live in Paris with his uncle‚ the response he got was that if he came back to Germany‚ they would have to shoot him. Henry wasn’t surprised by this because as
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The White Rose - Resistance to the Nazis One of the biggest Resistances to the Nazis was the the White Rose‚ which was formed by the Students of the University of Munich in 1941 to take action against the Nazis. The group included the Hans Scholl‚ Sophie Scholl‚ Cristoph Probst‚ Alexander Schmorell‚ Willi Graf and Jugen Wittenstein. But also a philisophy teacher named Kurt Huber was a part of the anti-nazi group. They used the strategy of passive resistance which uncluded the publishing of leaflets
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out of food. Later‚ I found out that Maman was going to send me to an orphanage for French children whose parents’ had died on the war. My parents left me there for six months because it was the only way to keep me safe from the French police and Gestapo who were taking children away every week. After long‚ harsh months I finally returned to my family. Life Stage 2-Freedom One evening my family heard the most comforting words that we thought we’d never hear‚ “Bercent mon Coeur‚ D’une langueur
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Courage is displayed not only by Anton and his uncles‚ but also by his elderly grandmother‚ Bubbe. One example of this is when the Gestapo invaded the cave and Bubbe purposely sacrificed herself so that the others could escape. When she was captured and being interrogated she was not intimated by their treats. She stood her ground and she spat at Major Von Duesen to show her defiance
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Wernher von Braun was one of the world’s first rocket engineers. Born in 1912‚ he grew up with a dream‚ to “help turn the wheel of time.” Von Braun did just that by creating the V-2 missile/rocket‚ the Jupiter-C rocket‚ and the well-known Saturn V space rocket. Considering these ingenious devices created by Wernher‚ I‚ myself‚ would not hesitate to say that he did indeed “help turn the wheel of time.” On March 23‚ 1912‚ Baron Magnus von Braun and Baroness Emmy von Quistorp celebrated the birth
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discuss who these people were and what they did‚ why they did these things‚ when they did these things‚ where they did these things‚ and perhaps how they did these things. The first of these officers was Heinrich Himmler. Himmler was the head of the Gestapo (German State Police) and the Waffen-SS (militarized units of SS‚ which stands for Schutzstaffel‚ a group of Hitler’s personal body guards)‚ and Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945. He was also the organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the
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