... follow are from related readings- All Quiet on the Western Front) " Still blinded at the train carried him eastward, Hitler was in a state bordering collapse. Like the other victim his eyes were swollen, his face puffed up.....This wounded and shaken corporal would fifteen years later be the leader of the Reich not yet aware of the magnitude of Germany's defeat ... pastor announced the news of an all out revolution broken out in Munich. " It became impossible for me to sit still one minute longer. Again everything went black before my eyes and I tottered and groped my way back to the do...

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... regarded as the weird but harmless rantings of a would be revolutionary (Ayer, 44-46). Even his fellow Nazis thought the book an embarrassment. Hitler's dream was falling apart before his eyes. Hitler decided that the best way to gain power was to go about it through proper means: election. This would be difficult because the Nazi party had lost most of ... tie the peoples hands behind thier back and then slash their wrists, or cut the bottoms of their feet and make them walk across salt, or stick pins in their eyes. They subjected people to all sorts of torture. He destroyed all forms ...

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... to regain back their lost pride, and here rose Hitler, a gifted public speaker, who appealed to the mass; the working class people. At first the Jews had to wear the "star of David" stickers on their arms. Then they were banned from public places. Then they were holed up in ghettos; a confined area of buildings where they could not get out ... world, only one race was fit to survive; the Aryan race. Aryans were tall, with beautiful facial features, white skinned, wit blonde hair and blue eyes; which is ironic as Hitler himself was short, with black eyes and hair. Inside the holocaust: t...

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... holocaust victims. Then we see Nazis, then Dussander, then Himmler, then Hitler (whose photo is next to a wolf's face - possibly symbolizing cunning, etc.). Then there is a close up of Hitler's eyes, then the story goes to 1984, the time the film begins. (In some of the montage, Todd's face is seen very slightly superimposed over the photographs of the Nazis, etc ... cat escapes leaping through an open window. Gee. How convenient. Oh, right. I forgot the third rule of uptight Hollywood filmmaking. You can't kill animals on-screen unless your corporation's biggest star is a mangy rat wit...

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... the German way of life. Hitler however did the most to bring the people to the Nazi party. He controlled his audiences. They did whatever the man with the blue eyes and small mustache wanted them to do. On January 30, 1933 he was made chancellor of Germany. Within a year and a half the Nazi party ran the county. (Rogasky, 13) As ... capitulated and the Germans came the trouble for the Jews started. Anne writes: Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees: Jews were required to wear a yellow star; Jews were required to turn in their bicycles; Jews were forbidde...

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... of her and attempt to take her away from Rosa. Even in this situation, Magda's face is described as "another kind of face altogether, eyes blue as air, smooth feathers of hair nearly as yellow as the Star sewn into Rosa's coat (Ozick 4)." In this context, Magda is the last glimmer of hope to her mother Rosa that she will be able ... ...

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... value had to be handed over to the soldiers, but Elie's father was smart and buried the family valuables in the seller. After three days, every Jew was issued a yellow star that had to be worn at all times in order to preserve their lives. Restraunts, cafes, and synagogues were taken away from the people and they were not allowed out ... and the bitter coldness because he would not leave his father there by himself. They both used each other as motivation to keep themselves living. Elie looked in his father's eyes and knew the harsh conditions were taking its toll on his father. Near th...

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... money was too enticing to pass up. Meanwhile, Hitler was slowly destroying the Jews from within. It began with stereotypes, which advanced to identification of all Jews with the Yellow Star of David. It progressed from isolating in ghettos to concentration camps, which finally escalated to death camps. Genocide didn't become public policy overnight. It was this quiet, gradual progression that ... to come, and every message of hate and prejudice helped the Germans to rationalize either their apathetic attitude or their enthusiastic participation in murder. The Jews were dehumanized in th...

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... write or publish, to act on stage or in films, to teach, to work in hospitals or in banks, or to sell books. All Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David as identification. Nazi violence against Jews mounted, the Germans would encourage them more and more until they were totally gone. In November of 1938, Nazi mobs carried out ... for public torture. Those who survived the last march were placed in concentration camps inside Germany. There, the Allied troops found them- they were skeletons, starved and shrunken, with huge eyes starring out of swollen eye sockets. It was hard to...

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... they are forced out of the country. More and more countries close their gates to German Jewish refugees. As the process of removal does not proceed fast enough in the eyes of the government, a nationwide pogrom was organized for the weekend of November 9 and 10, 1938. All Jewish churches in Germany are set on fire, Jewish shops are ransacked and about ... remain in Germany. With the war in progress, emigration becomes almost impossible. In 1941, Jews in Germany - as all Jews in countries under German occupation - are made to wear a Jewish star - the yellow badge of the middle Ages. In 1...

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... value had to be handed over to the soldiers, but Elie's father was smart and buried the family valuables in the seller. After three days, every Jew was issued a yellow star that had to be worn at all times in order to preserve their lives. Restraunts, cafes, and synagogues were taken away from the people and they were not allowed out ... and the bitter coldness because he would not leave his father there by himself. They both used each other as motivation to keep themselves living. Elie looked in his father's eyes and knew the harsh conditions were taking its toll on his father. Near th...

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... value had to be handed over to the soldiers, but Elie's father was smart and buried the family valuables in the seller. After three days, every Jew was issued a yellow star that had to be worn at all times in order to preserve their lives. Restraunts, cafes, and synagogues were taken away from the people and they were not allowed out ... and the bitter coldness because he would not leave his father there by himself. They both used each other as motivation to keep themselves living. Elie looked in his father's eyes and knew the harsh conditions were taking its toll on his father. Near th...

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