... hunts of the olden days."(Frank 72) Neither the camps nor the ghettos were the answer to the Nazis "Jewish Question." Other arrangements had to be made. In the Auschwitz concentration camp in the summer of 1941, 250 hospital patients and 600 Russian prisoners of war were forced into a sealed ... room and killed with a poison gas called Zyklon B. The experiment, showing that it was possible to kill large groups at one ... their left forearm. (Rogasky 65) Everything was planned in the camps. If a prisoner did not die of starvation, they would die of disease. The camps were not places to ...

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... had not yet begun cremating the bodies so they had prisoners dig huge trenches 15 ft. wide, 15 ft. deep, and 150 yds. long to bury them. These massive holes would be filled within days. However, during the summer, the bodies bloated and rotted and a disgusting purplish liquid began seeping up from these graves, smelling of bile and rotting flesh. Nearby fish ... Block 11 also contained starvation cells. These cells accommodated fifty people or more. Prisoners were put here to die if one of them attempted to escape. They would lick the walls and drink their own urine to stay alive just a...

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... After a person was infected, many blood vessels burst beneath the skin and caused boils called buboes. This causes approximately one-half of the victims to die (Jordan 90). The other form of the plague called the pneumonic form spreads through the air like a common cold after attacking the lungs. It ... immediately after the plague struck the town (Corzine 33). The Black Death spread to France by January 1948 (Jordan 90). It hit in Marseilles, which was France's main seaport on the Mediterranean. By the summer of 1348, the plague had already infected most of southern France, including t...

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... 16,000 - 18,000 people at a time, over two million Jews died there (Grzech 2). In the summer of 1941, 438,00 Hungarian Jews were sent to Auschwitz (Nagorski 57). Of all the people sent to Auschwitz, only 65,000 survived (Adler 48). Birkenau was another concentration camp. It was known for burning the ... Grzech 2). One gas chamber could kill 4,000 people at a time (Bedford 92). The approximate time it took for people to die of asphyxiation was 4 minutes (Bedford 90). Burn pits were the main way to get rid of the many bodies of the dead. Most furnaces could burn 2,000 bodies in 24 hours. T...

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... shows that he is as much a victim of Christian hatred as he is a villain, thus demonstrating that all humans are equally flawed. Through his machinations to exact revenge against Antonio, Shylock is shown as devious and vengeful. In Act one, scene 3, before Shylock's interaction with Antonio, he admits that he hates ... Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?-fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? I...

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... . This number became their identity. From then on they were only known as the number. Nobody dared to care of your name and your background. The camps were not that of children's summer camps where all were fun and games. It was in fact the exact opposite and even more than so ... . Once in line they headed off to their next destination. Once could only hope that they were in the line headed off to work in the harsh and unbearable camp conditions instead of the gas chambers, or anywhere else where they knew they were to die. Many men had shredded clothing and shoes ... with holes in the ...

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... of all of Shylock's misery is his final punishment. Shakespeare could have easily ended Shylock's penalty at confiscating Shylock's possessions, however, he is forced into converting to Christianity: "for this favor, he presently become a Christian." (IV, i, 384-385) Indeed Christianity tortures Shylock, this is the worst of all punishments for ... Shakespeare could have ended it yet he continues. Shakespeare displays his tolerance by including these events in the play, the thing that was most important to him was pleasing the audience even if it meant disrespecting other cultures. It is...

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... came Irgun, another Jewish militia, this one more radicalized. Many attacks occurred, primarily against British officials, and in 1947, Britain brought the problem to the UN. After investigations, UN decided that Palestine would be further partitioned into two states, one for the Jews and one for the Palestinians ... as the Arabs had hoped; instead, it made the Jews more resolute in fighting for their independence. These conflicts were not just attempts to exterminate the Arabs or the Israelis; instead, they were attempts at expressing their political motives. This is Brown's fourth patt...

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... came Irgun, another Jewish militia, this one more radicalized. Many attacks occurred, primarily against British officials, and in 1947, Britain brought the problem to the UN. After investigations, UN decided that Palestine would be further partitioned into two states, one for the Jews and one for the Palestinians ... as the Arabs had hoped; instead, it made the Jews more resolute in fighting for their independence. These conflicts were not just attempts to exterminate the Arabs or the Israelis; instead, they were attempts at expressing their political motives. This is Brown's fourth patt...

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