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    memories. The terms used during World War 2 are going through the same shift. Goodman describes in her article‚ “Every domineering high school principal is accused of running a ‘concentration camp.’ Every overbearing piece of of behavior becomes a ‘Gestapo’ tactic. And every political disagreement becomes a fight against evil.” The words have already begun to devalue as they are compared to everyday situations. The terms are used more as a metaphor and not for the intended purpose‚ which was to convey

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    Racism In Kindred

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    Kindred is about a girl named Dana who is teleported from the 1970’s back to the 1800’s slave era when a boy named Rufus is in danger of losing his life. Dana faces many hardships and learns many things about her ancestors and the environment they grew up in. Tom Weylin is Rufus’s father and considered an evil man along with his son as he grows older. They both commit what this era would consider violent crimes‚ but in there time it was considered perfectly normal. Surprisingly there are many similarities

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    The Gestapo was also used to deliver threats to those who did not support the Nazi regime‚ promoting distrust among neighbours and families whom spoke or had differing opinions on Hitler’s actions and policies. This repression would be used by Himmler to find

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    out of the country by the Gestapo. Source B‚ an info graphic‚ explains the necessary components for a holocaust. Source C‚ a poem by Pastor Neimoller‚ explains how nobody stood up for each other‚ and Source D‚ an allegory‚ relates to Nazi Germany.

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    leader was Ernst Röhm.’ ‘They often used violence on political opponents and disrupted meetings of other opposing parties‚ especially Communists.’ 2011 What were the roles of the Gestapo and the SS in Nazi Germany? [5] ‘The Gestapo was the secret state police which investigated any opposition.’ ‘The Gestapo could arrest citizens on suspicion and send them to concentration camps without trial or explanation.’ ‘The SS’s prime responsibility was to destroy opposition to Nazism.’ ‘The SS’s

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    What were the Advantages and Disadvantages of Nazi Rule for the German People up to 1939? Nazism seemed to end the effects of the great depression. The German economy had been devastated in 1929 when the great depression happened‚ but surprisingly‚ it was looking more prosperous afterwards! In 1938 national income was the highest Germany had seen‚ which was higher than what Germany had before the great depression by eight billion marks! Although wages had not overtaken the level that wages were

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    Members of  the HJ made up much of the Gestapo as they were young adults.  Students in The Wave also  acted as the “police”.  In certain scenes of the movie‚ students even acted as guards‚ much  like the Gestapo in “Swing Kids”.    Then‚ there are the character similarities.  The main character of “Swing Kids”‚ Peter  and the main character of “The Wave”‚ Laurie are very much like each other

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    seen it with their own eyes but didn’t believe it. One day they learned that the Gestapo were coming to the Jewish neighborhood. When they came the people were split into two ghettos‚ a small and large one. The Wiesel family was put into the larger ghetto. They remained there for some time until one day the Gestapo came and put the people on these train carts. They could not bring any belongs with them. The Gestapo put at least 70 people on one cart. There was a woman on the cart and she kept on

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    How totalitarian were Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany? Giovanni Amendola first coined the word ‘totalitarian’ when describing the Italian Fascist government under Benito Mussolini in 1923 as different to conventional dictatorships. It is after this that the word was popularised to have both negative and positive connotations. However‚ German theorist Carl Friedrich and political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski collaborated to formulate a modern day politically scientific definition known as the

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    1984 and Nazism

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    Nobody can disagree with the fact that George Orwell’s vision‚ in his book 1984‚ didn’t come true. Though many people worried that the world might actually come to what Orwell thought‚ the year 1984 came and went and the world that Orwell created was something people did not have to worry about anymore. Many people have wondered what was happening in Orwell’s life and in his time that would inspire him to create this politically motivated book. A totalitarian world where one person rules and declares

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