This leads to one of the worst parts of living the ghetto‚ the dead. Beno Helmer described what it was like to see the bodies of people on the ground. He Talks about how the first few you saw shocked you‚ after that it just became a part of life. Ghettos took many lives during the holocaust. Treatment in the ghetto was terrible. (USHMM) described a scene where an officer killed a child by throwing them against the wall . During this story he focused on the mother. Children had little to do within
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Germany – Summary Notes Weimer Republic Emergence of the Democratic Republic: • On 2 October 1918‚ the Reichstag was told that Germany could not win the war. This was a shock to the German people who were led to believe that they would win. • The Allies demanded that the defeated Germans have a democracy before peace could be discussed‚ and that meant that the Kaiser had to abdicate. He refused to. • The German revolution started at Kiel‚ where there was a mutiny in the navy. Workers and
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Over time‚ the Russian land and people have changed to accommodate for their needs but they have also kept some aspects the same whether it was for the better or the worse. Throughout 1801 and 1939‚ many things changed in the Soviet Union while keeping many things the same. An aspect of the Soviet Union that changed between 1801 and 1939 was the shift of the government from a czar ruled totalitarian government to a more distributed communist government. In March of 1801‚ Paul I was killed and his
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CHAPTER 3 OF DEMOCRACY AND DICTATORSHIP - NOTES – EXAM REVISION How effective did Hitler establish and consolidate Nazi Authority 1933-1945 ? How was enabling act passed? Invited the crown prince at ceremony in the military church in Potsdam on 21 march pledged allegiance to the traditions and values of past and reawakened memories of UNITY AUGUST 1914. = he is a conservative statesman. KPD ‚ SPD members arrested. Told Centre Party he would protect the rights and privileges of Catholic
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Anne Frank I. Introduction A. Imagine being in hiding for 2 years and then being caught and taking to a camp and forced to work all because of where you are from. B. Have you ever been judged or looked at different because of the way you do things. C. The main purpose of my speech is to inform you about the life of Anne Frank and how her life became a legacy. D. I will begin with some history of the early life of Anne Frank. E. The life before and during her hiding F
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reach the people of Poland. Two months later‚ the Maximilian and the others were released. His City of the Immaculate was turned into a refugee center for lost families. Maximilian Kolbe was arrested again‚ this time on February 17‚ 1941. Before the Gestapo came to his home‚ he wrote his final theological essay about Mary and the Holy Spirit. At Auschwitz‚ he translated his writings and spoke them to his inmates‚ telling them that there is indeed a God (Life in the City of the Immaculate in Poland)
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Jeannine Burk. Born: September‚ 15‚ 1939; Brussels‚ Belgium. September of 1939 was when Adolf Hitler’s evil Nazi army‚ invaded Poland and the war was declared. It was the month Jeannine was born‚ with no knowing of what was going on with the government and Germany’s crude and cold army. In May‚ 1940‚ the Germans swept across Western Europe and Brussels was occupied for the second time of the century. Rumors constantly rose about the Jewish nation getting “rounded up” and that is when Jeannine’s
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basic freedom. In Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl‚ we are given a firsthand account of what is was like to be a Jewish resident of Holland during World War II. The author‚ Anne Frank‚ takes us through her family’s experience of hiding from the Gestapo in the secret annex of an office building. In this unlikely setting‚ where several people’s basic freedoms have been taken from them‚ the idea of personal independence is a prime focus. Independence plays a very strong role throughout the entire work
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requiring the alignment of the German culture‚ economy‚ education‚ and law with the goals of the Nazis. This policy was the first glimpse of what was to come under Nazi rule (2). Hitler wasted no time in increasing his power‚ upon the creation of the Gestapo in April of 1933 Hitler was able to take control of the local governments and use his private army to enforce the Nazi ideals. The Nazi power steadily grows as Hitler continues to use the
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and director of Poland’s chief Catholic publishing complex” (“Saint Maksymilian Maria Kolbe”). Which is basically just saying that he was a writer for for the church. Kolbe was living in Poland during WWII where he was eventually captured by the Gestapo for hiding Jews and other victims and was sent to Auschwitz (“St. Maximilian Kolbe”). While in Auschwitz‚ he was especially picked on by a work party overseer. Once he was nearly beaten to death‚ but never held a grudge and remained selfless for others
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