... anti-Semitic ideas, and who used the "Jews" as so-called scapegoats, blaming them for all bad and evil things going on within the country. Secret police were also depicted in the story. The Thought Police whose job was to monitor everybody and everything they said, did, and thought. The Thought ... everybody was doing things in accord with Big Brother's goal. Russia, Italy, Germany also had secret police to monitor their people. KGB, Squadristi, and Gestapo are some of the names used for these organizations of secret police, respectively. In 1984, family could not even be trusted. Anyone ...

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... fought against Nazi occupation. In order to protect the headquarters of the underground movement, the Zabinski's decided to turn the zoo into a pig farm. This also allowed Jan to deliver secret messages to the ghetto and help shelter the Jews. When the Jews were ordered to move into the ghetto, most of them obeyed because they know that they would be ... houses 7.5 times, on average. Between 1942 and 1943 the Underground forged fifty thousand documents" (Ackerman 1578). There would be secret meetings in cafes, code-names such as the animal names where given to the guests at the Zabinski...

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... , 2004 The book Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl has a lot of setting. But most of the story took place in Prinsengracht canal in a warehouse which was called "Secret Annexe". The Secret Annexe, is a warehouse which was just fixed to be a hiding place. It is hidden by lots of doors, stairs, and window. There is office, attic and small kitchen in ... it. There is a door at each end of the landing, the left leads to a storeroom and the right hand door leads to the Secret Annexe. No one would ever guess that there would be so many rooms hidden behind that plain gray door. The door is c...

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... and access codes. Heydrich, leader of the operation, has reason to believe that Thomas Von Gall is not the only one who knew the secret codes. He believes that Thomas Von Gall's beautiful mysterious granddaughter also holds the secret. Heydrich enlists the help of two different types of man hunters to help him find her. His friend, Professor Gregor Laemmle, who is ... the order for Miquel to kill Laemmle, in which Miquel shot him between the eyes. Before the death of Laemmle, Thomas went to the banks where he finally released the secret codes that had tormented him for so long. He was f...

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... concerning the world's knowledge of what was happening. It is often assumed and taught that the Holocaust portion of World War II was such a well kept secret that no one knew of it until after the fact, however, this is untrue. There were various ways that the world was notified of these horrors. ... concerning the world's knowledge of what was happening. It is often assumed and taught that the Holocaust portion of World War II was such a well kept secret that no one knew of it until after the fact, however, this is untrue. There were various ways that the world was notified of these h...

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... the established constitution. The passage of the Act led to a one party system in which the Nazi party legally became a totalitarian regime. The Act also paved the way for Hitler's secret police the Schutzstoffel (S.S.) to be formed. Under the command of Henrich Himmler all political opponents, real or imagined were promptly arrested and held without trial. Prison camps were created to ... the Gestapo was to ensure obedience and to stop the simplest form of revolution from entering the mind. It created a guise of futility and despair. The futility of eluding the secret police also helped ...

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... events that surrounded her. On May 10, 1940 the German Army invaded the Netherlands, where Anne and her family lived. The invasion caused them to go into secret hiding, because of fear of their life. This was the first measure in the campaign of persecution against the Jews of the Netherlands. A short phrase captures ... tried to look for the good things in situations and make the best of them. After the invasion the Frank family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" with the help of Mr. Franks colleagues. This is where her two-year journey of fear begins for Anne. I am sure that such...

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... told was wrong. Unable to do much to help, she tried to give comfort to Max by keeping him company reading books to him and protecting him by keeping him secret. She tried to comfort the Jewish people that were walking by proclaiming she would not forget them, which eventually got her thrown to the floor by a German officer. Liesel's adoptive ... leave and Hans is soon conscripted into the German army. Liesal also was troubled because she had to keep Max a secret from Rudy, her best friend. When Rudy found out he was hurt that she did not trust him to keep her secret. Feeling that she b...

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... in a country where you"re the enemy and you have to sleep with a gun underneath your pillow? Aline Romanones did. She tells the story of how she made it as a secret agent and survived. In The Spy Wore Red, Aline gives her own personal account of how she served our country in World War II. She was an aspiring model from ... was only twenty-one years when she got her first assignment to go over seas. Her mission was to find out who was Heinrich Himmler's top spy, and where their secret radio station was located. The Allies were planning two major missions that could change the course of t...

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... million European Jews had been killed. The Red Terror of the Russian Revolution used terror on a different format to that of the German genocide. Lenin introduced the Cheka the Russian secret police similar to the SS. The Cheka enforced the revolution and made sure that no counter- revolutionary action could take place "counter-revolutionaries were "to be shot on the spot ... : 325)" (O"Kane 1991 196) These scenes were common in Shanghai and China lost a lot of its American support. China soon came under threat from counter-revolutionaries backed by a foreign nation. A secret police forc...

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... the chilling concentration camps German Jews were then being sent to. Thus, they began to make preparations to go into hiding. With the help of Otto's Dutch associates and friends, a "secret annexe" was formed as their hiding place. It consisted of a group of rooms behind an office building, and hid the lives of the Franks", the VanDaan's, and an elderly dentist ... , Mr. Dussel. They all moved in on July 6, 1942, and remained missing in action for two years from the ever-changing world. Life wasn't easy in the "secret annexe". There was a constant threat at that height of Hitler's empir...

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... degenerate books and paintings, sterilized mentally and physically disabled people, and enslaved and murdered millions of people who were enemies of the Reich. To uphold these ideologies, Hitler created the "secret police," known as the Gestapo. The head of the Gestapo, who reported only to Hitler himself, was Heinrich Himmler. Hitler then created the "New Order," which would supposedly lead to ... to Eastern Siberia seven times between April 1902 and March 1913. He escaped many times to return and wreak havoc upon the tsarist government. In 1905, he went to the secret Bolshevik confere...

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... Moscow show trails that convicted army officers and prominent old Bolsheviks of monsterous crimes. By 1939, 98 of the 139 central committee members were shot that had been elected. His secret-police " KGB" elimated millions of innicent people including those in concentration camps. He convinced himself to be a genius in every field of human endeavor and people agreed because they feared ... him and his secret police. In 1939 he feared the growth of Nazi Germany and made the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Adoft Hitler. But in 1941 Germans invaded the Soviet Union. The angered Stalin ... ...

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Ku Klux Klan A secret terrorist organization that originated in the southern states during the period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War and was reactivated in the 20th century. The Ku Klux Klan believed ... wanted, the victim would be flogged, mutilated, or murdered. These activities were justified by the klan as necessary measures in defense of white supremacy and the inviolability of white womanhood A secret convention of Klansmen, held in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1867, adopted a declaration of principles expressing loyalty to the U.S. Constitution and its government and d...

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... of this was Italy. Italy had originally been allied with Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, but when war broke out Italy refused to march. Then a year later Italy signed a secret pact with the Allies, in exchange for Italy joining the war on the Allied side, the Allies would give Italy all the land they felt they had a claim to. At ... seaking peoples forced to live in other countries outraged Hitler. He wanted to unite all the countries and German speaking people togethor, especially his native Austria.(7) There were a variety of secret treaties before, during and after World W...

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... their independence from Yugoslavia, which resulted in a civil war. In 1992, the Serbs systematically rounded up Bosnian Muslims and were shot, terrorized, and forced to flee their homes. There were secret camps, mass killings, destruction of Muslim property, and open genocide amongst the Muslims. In 1995, after three weeks of negotiation talks, a peace accord was declared. However, over 200,000 Muslim ... the world. It wasn't until June of 1942 that the news came out in the New York Times that the Nazis had already killed over 1,000,000 Jews in their secret death camps. President Frankl...

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... that down in her diary. She didn't know much about World War II when she was alive back in the 1940's. She only knew that she was hiding in the Secret Annex so the Nazis wouldn't find her. I will agree with her saying that all human beings are good only because she said "deep down inside". From The Diary of Anne ... Frank, Anne lived in the Secret Annex without knowing fully what was going on. "I expect I should be describing what it feels like to go hiding. But I don't really know yet myself."(Frank 463) She didn't know ... ...

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... that down in her diary. She didn't know much about World War II when she was alive back in the 1940's. She only knew that she was hiding in the Secret Annex so the Nazis wouldn't find her. I will agree with her saying that all human beings are good only because she said "deep down inside". From The Diary of Anne ... Frank, Anne lived in the Secret Annex without knowing fully what was going on. "I expect I should be describing what it feels like to go hiding. But I don't really know yet myself."(Frank 463) She didn't know ... ...

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... that view. Two key issues, which Hitler presented in his book 'Mein Kampf' (My Struggle), were those of 'Lebenstruam' (Living Space) and his desire for a European war. Hitler made no secret of his views in his book, which he wrote while in jail in the 1920's. It could be argued that with this publication Hitler made his views and plans perfectly ... as the Nazis and Soviets were bitter enemies. The pact was mutually beneficial as both sides benefited from its terms. One of the key points in the pact was the secret term relating to Poland. Both sides discussed how Poland should be divide...

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... that is aimed at attacking the other. Finally, it was agreed that this pact would last for ten years. However, other clauses also came along with this agreement, namely the Secret Protocol. Eastern Europe and the Balkans were divided between into spheres of influence, while sharing Poland equally along the Narev, Vistula, and San Rivers . Also, Stalin agreed to provide substantial ... about yet. Therefore, ironically, Germany also signed the treaty so as to forestall an invasion, as Russia did. Also included were the raw materials from Russia as part of the Secret Protocol. The willingn...

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... and other allies, therefore costing them the war. Although both were very different in how their military was, both were somewhat similar in their beliefs and thoughts. Both men had secret servicemen working underneath, using them to destroy anyone who did not share their beliefs, or their views on how society should be like. For Hitler, his beliefs were that the ... eventually the world, needed to live by. Mussolini believed that all people should be loyal to their country, and those who were not were not worthy of living. With his secret police called the Squadristi, Mussolini would k...

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... were just two very unselfish people that risked their lives to save others. One person I know of that is an amazing hero is Corrie ten Boom from the story The Secret Room. She definitely carries all of these traits. Corrie was a woman that lived with her sister and elderly father in the Dutch city of Harlem. She lived a normal life until ... death. By doing this, she was putting her life on the line to save many Jew s lives. At one point, she gave up her own bedroom to make it into a secret room for all the Jews to hide in. As you can see, she is very unselfish and she isn t someone tha...

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... their independence from Yugoslavia, which resulted in a civil war. In 1992, the Serbs systematically rounded up Bosnian Muslims and were shot, terrorized, and forced to flee their homes. There were secret camps, mass killings, destruction of Muslim property, and open genocide amongst the Muslims. In 1995, after three weeks of negotiation talks, a peace accord was declared. However, over 200,000 Muslim ... the world. It wasn't until June of 1942 that the news came out in the New York Times that the Nazis had already killed over 1,000,000 Jews in their secret death camps. President Frankl...

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... friend Ernst Roehm, a Bavarian staff officer. Roehm advocated the primacy of the military and wanted to incorporate the party's preliminary units called the SA or the Storm Troopers into his secret army. On the other hand Hitler insisted on the primacy of politics. When the French occupied the Ruhr in January 1923, Germany nationalistic feelings soared, and military authorities prepared for ... to take anymore land and the neive Allies agreed. Of course Hitler didn't hold to his promise for long. Stallin hoping to keep peace and prevent further economic instability sign a secret non- ag...

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... in 1801. But the English didn't spend enough time looking after their Irish lands, and soon a terrible famine came upon them in 1845. Many Irish moved to the USA where a secret society was founded to fight for Ireland's independence, thus the IRA was formed. Groups of them came back to Europe and bombed the English in Ireland and London. The IRA ... popular support . By the attainment of republican objectives in 1949, and by government measures against its illegal activities, the IRA declined swiftly. Eventually outlawed by both Irish governments, it became a secret organization. It per...

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