• [edit] Biography Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe was born Raymund Kolbe on 8 January 1894 in Zduńska Wola‚ which was part of the Russian Empire at the time. He was the second son of Julius Kolbe and Maria Dabrowska. His father was an ethnic German[6] and his mother of Polish origins. He had four brothers‚ Francis‚ Joseph‚ Walenty (who lived a year) and Andrew (who lived four years). Kolbe’s life was strongly influenced by a childhood vision of the Virgin Mary that he later described: That night
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their rights were taken away from them and there was no way that they could get them back. They could not vote the nazis out of power because they were not allowed to vote. In the book‚ “Because of Romek”‚ David and his family had to register at the Gestapo (Romek 79). This put them under the control of Nazi power. Their identities were taken away from them
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Max Planck Justin Thomas Period 4 Chemistry 10/08/96 On April 23‚ 1858 Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel‚ Germany. He was the sixth child of a law professor at the University of Kiel. At the age of nine his interest in physics and mathematics was developed by his teacher Hermann Muller. When he graduated at the age of seventeen he decided to choose physics over music for his career. Although he is know for physics he was an exceptional pianist who had acquired the gift of
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What is the relationship between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini? And how did it affect WW2? At the beginning of Hitler’s reign there was actually a lot of animosity between Hitler and Mussolini. Mussolini was worried about Hitler’s rants about the German master race and what that meant for Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region a German speaking part of Italy that could have become Italy’s Sudetenland. When Hitler first tried to take Austria in 1934‚ only Mussolini sent tanks to the border threatening
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The Hiding Place Book report by Devon Riggan The Hiding Place is about Corrie ten Boom‚ her family‚ and how they helped the Jews in Holland when Germany invaded Holland in World War II. The main characters are Corrie‚ her older sisters Betsie and Nollie‚ her older brother Willem‚ and their father‚ Casper ten Boom‚ commonly referred to as Opa. The book starts out in January of 1937‚ in Haarlem‚ Holland. When Germany invaded Holland during the beginning of World War II‚ the Jews were the
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Yettie was pregnant so she needed to leave first. Unfortunately‚ the next day brought bad news for her. Her husband was taken to Sobibor‚ after a raid‚ where his life was ended. Yettie stayed in the Hague. After a few months of living there the Gestapo came to their house looking for Yettie’s brother. He ran out the back of
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One man looked to buy a wine glass set‚ and he picked up the glass‚ threw it on the ground‚ and then said‚ “I would like this set‚ but I must pay you less for its missing an item.” Gerda was then moved to a ghetto‚ where she was confronted by a Gestapo looking for her father‚ which he said‚
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every Nazi party member who wore a uniform acted as a quasi police officer. Another party is that the Nazi’s did not tolerate criminals; there were very little limits as to what the police could do. When Himmler ( a nazi party member) took over the Gestapo they passed a law where the police did not have to wait for a crime to be committed to take action or arrest someone‚ if the Police believe someone was going to do/perform a crime they could arrest them. In the bad side the Police had a great deal
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Hitler Young people: The Nazi’s were determined to turn the young into loyal Nazis and the only way to do so is that they had to get into a routine so lessons began and ended with the teachers and pupils saluting and saying “Hail Hitler” and so this got them to feel it natural to showing there loyalty. As education was a large part on how Hitler believed he will grow in power by the youth he had to glorify the regime so decided to change the history of the Nazi party and how they grew to power and
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Socialism caused a large mistrust between the people of Germany. The Scholl’s father‚ Robert Scholl‚ was turned in by his own secretary who overheard him simply saying‚ “Hitler was a “scourge of humanity” (18). He was taken in and questioned by the Gestapo‚ but was
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