(1) Resistance as well as collaboration occurred in all German-controlled areas of Europe during World War II. Give specific examples of both‚ and of their consequences. An example of collaboration with the Germans was the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact. Under this 1939 pact the two nations agreed not to attack the other if it were to be in war another country‚ regardless of who started it. The treaty essentially bought time for both leaders as it allowed them to get what they want without the
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Postmodernism in English literature. 1. Postmodernism in the English literature of the last decades of the 20th century. 2. John Fowles’s novels as an example of postmodern writing. In the 1960s the cultural layers changed and grew confused; the emergence of the mass media and the technological revolution changed the nature of culture and publishing. Here started the era of postmodernism‚ manifesting the philosophical‚ cultural‚ and political instability of the contemporary world‚ and the difficulty
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1. Weimar Republic Emergence of the Democratic Republic and the impact of the Treaty of Versailles November Revolution • triggered by a mutiny in the navy ( spread to Kiel where sailors were joined by soldiers ( wanted democracy • 9th November ( announced the Kaiser had abdicated and a National Assembly was to be elected‚ to draw up a democratic constitution • the Chancellorship was handed to Ebert‚ head of the SPD ( called for elections for the Assembly 19th Jan 1919 • the National Assembly
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The Wannsee Conference On January 20‚ 1942‚ at a villa in a suburb of Berlin called Wannsee‚ 15 men‚ all high-ranking Nazi Party officials and members of the German government‚ met to discuss what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." The head of this conference was a man named SS General Reinhard Heydrich‚ the chief of the Reich Security Main Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt-RSHA) and one of SS chief Heinrich Himmler ’s top deputies. (ushmm.org) Heydrich had two main goals in
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her the way of the world probably through his speeches and sharing his life and past accomplishments with her and is later torn in a love triangle with the two men. She thought her husband Victor Lazlo had died during his hiding from the German Gestapo in Czechoslovakia‚ therefore to avoid the loneliness she found her way into Rick’s arms and were happy together. Later she found out her husband was not dead and recovered somewhere outside Paris. When the Germans were matching into Paris‚ Ilsa decided
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Anne Frank is still being thought today in this world. Anne Frank will always be remembered from her childhood during the Holocaust‚ her diary‚ and her fate at the end. Anne Frank felt about going into hiding "On August4‚1944‚ the Gestapo ( German Secret State Police) discovered the hiding place after being taped off by an anonymous Dutch caller" (Echoes). Anne had time living in those circumstances never being able to go outside and always having to be alert. It was a struggle not
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Was Dunkirk a moral victory or a military disaster? Firstly‚ let’s set the scene for this event. Neville Chamberlain had declared war on the Nazis eight months ago and currently there was a stalemate between both sides called the “Phoney War.” On May 10‚ the Germans launched a blitzkrieg attack on the Netherlands and Belgium. By May 15‚ they had already broken through the French defenses and started to head straight for the English Channel. A week later‚ German forces had the British Expeditionary
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Sigmund Freud explored many new concepts in the human mind during his lifetime. He was the scholar who discovered an immense new realm of the mind‚ the unconscious. He was the philosopher who identified childhood experience‚ not racial destiny or family fate‚ as the vessel of character‚ and he is the therapist who invented a specific form of treatment for mentally ill people‚ psychoanalysis. This advanced the revolutionary notion that actual diagnosable diseases can be cured by a technology that
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SIGMUND FREUD | Intro to Psychology | In the Moravian town of Příbor‚ Austrian Empire( now part of the Czech Republic) and in the rented room of a blacksmith’s house where they lived‚ poor Jewish parents Amalia and Jacob Freud welcomed their first born child of eight children into the world. Born with a caul‚ which his mother saw as a positive omen for the boy’s future‚ Austrian Neurologist‚ Neuropathologist‚ Psychiatrist‚ and Psychologist Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born on May 6th‚ 1856. He
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later on‚ Hindenburg realized how many people were supporting the Nazi Party and he stepped down. Hitler became Chancellor on January 30‚ 1933. Immediately after he became chancellor‚ he began formatting a new police force in Germany called the “Gestapo”. He appointed Hermann Goering as the leader of it. Hitler did away with any politics and made Germany a one-party
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