... 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 ... by a cupboard. It's dark, gloomy inside. It has lots of room, like Frank's family's room, Anne and Margot's room, a room containing wash basin and small W.C. compartment. There's a big room with stove, radio and sink which can be the kitchen, general living room, dining room and scullery. It is also a bed...

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... megalopolis which is when the cities seem to just run together such as on the East Coast of America. This means that most homes in Germany are small. County homes in the so called "rural" areas are bigger in size and often times have stories. The houses may have many stories but generally more ... than one family lives in the house. Grandparents most often occupy the first story, parents on the second and the children on the third story. The generally small space in homes causes things to be different in Germany than life as I know it. As I look at most of my friends they all have at .....

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... Sir Hugh Trenchard had only two objectives; morale damage, killing of civilians, and material damages, destruction factories. This might sound good in theory, but when strategic bombing was put in place, the measure of success was how many civilians were killed, not how many factories or oil refineries were destroyed. This measure of success is morally wicked and the whole idea ... , bombing of German factories was flawed from the very beginning. Minister Albert Speer robbed the Allies of their industrial targets by separating manufacturing processes and dispersing the fragment to new sm...

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... it spiralled out of control. In order to make needed changes, civilians were set on creating a better Germany, indeed were the government. A small defiance of the authorities did occur but was this the revolution that had shaped a new beginning in Germany? The sailors had inadvertently started an ... state, new ideas (generally not liked by the government) and a fast change altogether. With these factors in consideration the revolution that had taken place in Germany during 1918-1919, we have to question the extent in which the German people gained a full revolution. Indeed, changes did o...

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... are no boundaries between them! The Western part of Germany has more people than the Eastern. The majority of the people in Germany live in small towns and villiages. More than three quarters of the people in Germany speak German.The German language is related to Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch ... English. German is also spoken as the native language in Austria, Liechtenstein, most of Switzerland, South Tirol (northern Italy),northern Schleswig (Denmark) and in small areas of Belgium, France (Alsace) and Luxembourg along the German border. German is the native language of more than 1...

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... it was the main cause. The WW1 finally broke out in June1914 because of an accident in Bosnia. It was the Sarajevo incident, the immediate cause of WW1. It took place on June 28, 1914. On that day, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, and his wife were shot dead by a young Serbian student at Sarajevo, the Bosnian ... all her colonies in Africa and the Pacific. Germany was almost totally disarmed. She was allowed an army of 100,000 men to be recruited by voluntary enlistment and six small battleships of less than 10,000 tons. Submarines and aeroplanes were strictl...

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... the army as a propaganda speaker to keep the military spirit alive in the disheartened and defeated German nation. In the course of new found job he came into contact with a small group calling itself the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which pursued a somewhat confused mixture of nationalists and socialists ideas. In April of 1920 he went to work full time for ... total. Since no one had a true majority, a run-off election was required. Hitler traveled cross-country making wild promises and positive messages. On April 10, 1932, the run-off took place. Hitler received 13,418,5...

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"A time when nothing happened." How far do you agree with Bismarck's opinion of the period 1815-48? I disagree with Bismarck's opinion totally as many things took place during this time which led to the spread to Nationalism and then on to a united Germany. Many things happened between 1815 to 1848, Cultural Nationalism for instance occurred in the ... Educated German society who had been to university, although there was only a small amount this still meant that "Germany" had begun to consider Liberalism and Nationalism. The Revolutions and the Zollverein also played a big part in encouragin...

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... a war they lost. This may have been due to the very different ways in which Germany and Italy were unified. Mainly democratically and politically Italy was joint with only two small revolts, whereas Germany's unification war made possible by three wars and much more blood spilt. Italy became neutral as the war stared giving up on the alliance with Germany, as ... prominent causes of World War One. France and England were struggling to be seen as the dominant and most powerful country in Europe while Germany was quick to seek their place at the top to prove they were just as good as the ...

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Refugee Blues is a poem written by W.H. Auden. It takes place in Europe during World War II, and it is written in the voice of a German Jew and what he and his loved one had to go through during Hitler's ... holes" are used to compare the sizes and the connotations carried by the words. The mansion is associated with something big and bright while a hole is described as something small and dark. "Dead and Alive" are very strong words that are used to describe the pain of the German Jews. The word "dead" is a ... reasons such as highlighting specific words or conveying the theme of love and a m...

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... children from rising. The program started about three years ago and is called the "Baby Cradle". The actual "Baby Cradle" is a small door on the outside wall of the hospital. This is the door where mothers can open and place their baby inside. Confidentiality is assured and the mother has enough time to leave the area without being seen. Then the process ... gate staff then makes a telephone call to inform the nurses in the baby ward that a newborn baby has just been placed in the cradle. Next, they take the baby and place it in the ward, where it is given a health check. The baby then ...

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... of a wolf, because they believed that they would posses the same powers as this feared predator. The Werewolf legends in which the transformation took place by full moon also descended from the prehistory. When humans tamed wild dogs for the hunt they must have seen how these animals howled to ... from the many characterizes that you could according to the folklore recognize a Werewolf. Things to look for when you come in contact with a Werewolf; - small pointed ears, teeth that stand forward and continuous eyebrows. To shake a persons hand was a good opportunity to look for more clues,...

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... Moche was making all of the stories up. Life was so content within the town that they could not believe that there were murders of innocent people and babies taking place. To clear the stories Moche was telling they began to say that "he's trying to make us pity him" and blame the stories on the "imagination he has". Moche had ... strong and enthusiastic about life. The Jewish were not to be fazed. Even when "the Budapest radio announced that the Fascist party had come into power" they thought it only a small change to the administration. Though there was awareness of the problem that c...

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... , Herman Von Francois took advantage of this, and attacked. All of Herman Von Francois's men were from East-Prussia, so they knew their way very well. They were able to place traps and kill people easily. One day Herman Von Francois and his army found Russian people lost in the woods. Herman Von Francois shone car headlights on the camp so ... 't actually defeated; they were forced to sign the treaty so they wouldn't be defeated. They started to blame the Weimar Republic** The Germans forgot why they surrendered in the first place. They were starving because their currency was worth almos...

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... your shoes and the ground. There are so many visitors and everybody remains absolute silence, even the children. All of them are overwhelmed by the atmosphere, which fills this memorial place. Each person is remembering the human beings, who were killed here. The Nazis murdered 32,000 prisoners in Dachau and six million altogether since 1933. Most of them were Jewish ... strenuous and monotonous labor. Even children were brought into those concentration camps. There are the grey painted and very impersonal looking houses in which the captives had been accommodated. The small and extreme...

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... invade and occupy the whole Europe, and Hitler desired to exterminate the Jews and dominate the entire world. As for Napoleon, his special personality drove him from a poor family in a small island of Corsica to the power of Paris, and even made him long for more. Hitler was also from a poor family, but he devoted himself to the career of rejecting ... to take down, making the enemy commander believe that their assault would directly strike Napoleon's army. However, the outcome was all considered in Napoleon's mind even before the battle took place. On the other hand, although Hitler wa...

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... a walking stick... wriggl[ing] in the air" (Wells 19). This deviation from what is expected causes much pandemonium as "a loud shriek [erupts] from a woman behind... astonishment giv[es] place to horror on the faces of... people... [and] ungovernable terror grip[s] [the] [narrator], [who] [is] petrified and standing" (Wells 19). Although the Martian itself is of fairly ... small size and has not done anything to provoke the spectators, due to its differences, they automatically assume that it is a threat. The narrator himself is overcome with an uncontrollable fear ... ...

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... equipment that the continental army had to overcome in their struggle for independence. Many historical inaccuracies can be found in the painting as well. First and foremost, the crossing took place at night with many diary accounts from the present soldiers describing the sleet and snowy conditions, which would make visibility almost non-existent. Another point of note is that the ... River ice, it is important to note that the boats captured in the painting are quite different than what would have been used by the army at this time. The small boats in the painting would not have been ...

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... considered as a cunning animal. The story of the "Little Red Riding Hood" is a story that we all have read. The little girl meets a wolf on the way to her grandma's place and the wolf asks her where she is going to. Then it goes to grandma's house and disguises itself as grandma to eat the little girl. This story gives us ... chief and how intelligent and gentle the animal is. The wolf is feared as a cold-blooded killer by many adults because of the stories that they have heard in their small days. Therefore, wolves have not only been shot and killed but they were tortured as well. Peop...

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... to the shower chamber. Little did they know this would be their march to death. Once inside the doors were closed. A tablet of Zykon B was dropped into the chamber from a small opening. It would spread and most people would die from three- fifteen minutes. The soldiers would know if everyone was dead when the screaming stopped, which was about thirty minutes ... death tolls for Auschwitz was one million Jews and one million non Jews. The Nazis tried to dismantle the camps hoping to cover up their crime. The Nuremburg trial took place where twenty two nazi soldiers were put on trial and ...

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... as appropriate because they were ordered by someone in authority over them. This is very evident in Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery". As the story opens, the people of a small town are preparing to hold a lottery. There is a feeling of excitement in the air, but the reader also senses a feeling of nervousness. The townspeople greet each other and make jokes ... townspeople as they remarked about other towns that had given up the tradition of the lottery, but there was no organized effort to stop the atrocious action about to take place. Likewise, the German people knew about ...

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... church, as the church themselves would back the legitimate lord in order to ensure stability. This effectively meant that the Capetian kings had the backing of God, which would theoretically place them in a great advantage over the other lords such as those of Flanders, Anjou and Normandy. The king also held legal rights, including being the font of justice and keeper ... , not through theoretical power. As such the Capetian's power would be derived from the land held by themselves, meaning that their power is highly localised particularly due to the relatively small landholdings of the ...

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... ever in such need. Although I have never impacted anyone's life as greatly as Alicia, for instance nursing my family back to health after they have contracted typhus. Hopefully I have made small changes that have helped people, such as helping with homework or social problems. Another quality that I posses in conjunction with Alicia, is hatred for the Nazis. Until reading this book ... infuriated, depressed, and immersed in turmoil, bottles her anger inside and never lets it reach the surface where it could potentially get her or her family killed. If in Alicia's place, I would simply b...

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... desolate area. Why is this happening? Why me? Why when im living? Am I going to have to keep running away to different countries, different places? So im living in a small hiding place with 8 people. Im going to die. That's all I can think because we have no food or water. All of us are scared that we actually might be discovered. We have ... ...

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... Cavalry, Walery Goetel who was an ecologist, geologist, and conservationist, and Matt Urban who was the most decorated WWII soldier. Poland is a very interesting and unique country. It may be small but it has many things you can learn from its culture to its history to its geography. I think it would be a cool ... ...

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