... not just the Jews but the other ethnics as well. A book can remind us to the life in World War II and also The Holocaust. The book has been rewarded by numerous awards, "The Book Thief". "The Book Thief" has been written by Markus Zusak, an Australian author. This book tells us about the life of a nine years-old girl living ... in Germany during World War II. This book also tells us about the struggle and suffering of ... the teacher asked her to read. Even everyone laughing at her, she still has a desire to learn how to read and write. She learned how to read with the first book that ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... covering a different theme. Information is put together from a large number of sources, including diaries, newspaper accounts, and mood and moral reports for the SD, and firmly based secondary sources. The book tells about the Nazi's use of propaganda, policies, policing and image as a way to influence people and the enemies from within. He speaks heavily of the large public support of ... involving communist, priests, ministers, Jehovah's witnesses, and other political and religious opinion marketers. Not only does he vaguely ever talk about communism, but he very briefly mentions Jews i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Book Thief is about a young girl's life in Germany during World War II. Her name was Liesel Meminger. Liesel lives with her adoptive parents on a street named Heaven Street. She becomes ... she couldn't keep her safe, as her mother was labeled a communist. In the beginning she could read or write. She is taught by her adoptive father, Hans, by reading a stolen book titled "The Gravedigger's Guide." In the basement of their home they shelter a Jewish refugee, Max, whom she soon sees as an older brother. She finds comfort in books ... as the other. He demanded the German people follow his...

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• Grade Level: High School

... stated, "There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right." In Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, this idea of courage is expressed through the character Hans Hubermann, whose compassionate nature rejects the dreadful influence of Hitler and the Nazi party. His nature is conveyed through ... make a magnificent character that represents courage. He best shows this through the treatment of his new foster daughter, his keenness to help the targeted Jews, and his accordion. Overall, The Book Thief is based on a dark time in hi...

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• Grade Level: High School

... her parents. Ellen appears in the story at the beginning also. Ellen a jew, who is Annemarie's friend is forced to hide with Annemaries family. My book takes place during the german occupation of Denmark in 1943. It is in Copenhagen during the fall weather. The Germans are relocating all the jews in Denmark ... and Annes family are hiding from the nazis to prevent them from being relocated. The diary of Anne Frank takes place in Amsterdam, Holland and my book both takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1943. Ellen pretends to be part of her friends family in hiding but in annes diary she ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... her parents. Ellen appears in the story at the beginning also. Ellen a jew, who is Annemarie's friend is forced to hide with Annemaries family. My book takes place during the german occupation of Denmark in 1943. It is in Copenhagen during the fall weather. The Germans are relocating all the jews in Denmark ... and Annes family are hiding from the nazis to prevent them from being relocated. The diary of Anne Frank takes place in Amsterdam, Holland and my book both takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1943. Ellen pretends to be part of her friends family in hiding but in annes diary she ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... her town and hates all Jewish people. Chana is a Jewish girl during the holocaust, but the book does not describe her appearance. She is about thirteen in the beginning of the book but by the end of the book is nineteen. Hilary is very depressed with her life. She hates almost everything and everyone who is not ... Chana grows into a courageous person with enough strength to handle Auschwitz concentration camp. The setting of the story in the beginning of the book is in the town that Hilary lives in. There she meets her boyfriend who brings her into the Nazi gang. The entire ... from wh...

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• Grade Level: High School

Can you imagine being cooped up inside for over two years? It seems impossible. For my novel, I read The Upstairs Room. This book is based on the true story of Johanna Reiss and her sister who were forced to go into hiding because they were Jewish. The story ... Upstairs Room apart from most other books is that it is written through the eyes of a young girl named Annie, who is only about 8 years old when the book begins. It tells of little Annie, a ten-year-old child who has to go into hiding during World War II. She must dye her hair, hide her face ... incase the guests tell the Nazis, and...

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... his years at the concentration camps. For one, Elie is separated from his mother and sisters. To add to this, his father dies later in the book. This example shows that Elie no longer has any family and has no place to turn in life. Elie faces another hardship when he is put to ... he also blames God for man's deeds. It is clear from this example that he has no one to turn to, not even God. The overall book is affected in many ways by the hardships Elie faces. The reaction of the audience is one example of the effect of the hardships. The audience is horrified ... and terrified by the...

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• Grade Level: High School

... a German photographer possessed these eyes and mind. Jane Fulton Alt was able to capture the beauty of smoke and fire in her photo book, The Burn. She opened the different side of fire and how it symbolizes the stages of life and what makes life. The ... book encompasses the cycle of life and the spectrum of emotions a person possess. Incidentally, the photo book tells more about German history and its culture than expected of a book of life. The book is divided into three parts by poems the photographer wrote. The first ... section is "Smoke" - the beginning of the book and the beginn...

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... , the woman who lost her daughter, turned her daughter's home into a memorial so that there will always be a place to remember Pinina and her husband. In one part of the book Feitlowitz discusses a continuation of kidnappings. She also describes an incident where Scilingo was kidnapped and told to get talking so much. The kidnappings may have continued but they are not ... for us as Americans to imagine a situation like this and we should not be such quick judges of other countries repeating history. The last passage of the book is the most insightful passages in the book. Life for many ...

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... to tackle such a potent subject as racism. O"Hara's personal encounter told of receiving a dirty look from a sales clerk when asking for Mein Kampf in a book store. I was taken aback by the ignorant attitude O"Hara portrayed the clerk to have displayed in response to an interest in one of the most important books ... of the 20th century. This book, in my opinion, should be a part of every high school curriculum around the world. If this book were used as a tool for learning it would aid us in our fight against racism/anti-Semitism ... but if we continue to deny people access to it, we a...

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... close friends, by helping them escape to Sweden. Annemarie learns that it is easier to be brave when you don't know the full truth. In the beginning of the book, Annemarie was afraid because the Nazis were trying to capture all of the Jews, including Ellen, her best friend. The Nazis forced the rabbi, of a nearby synagogue, to ... colored hair. Having no evidence of where the Rosens are, the soldiers leave. In the middle of the book, they go to Uncle Henrik's house, for the city is too dangerous. Annemarie also changes in this part of the book. She learns that it is easier to be brave w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Poland's Jewish population, and where they found the manpower necessary to carry out the murders. I felt that the author had based this book on the testimonies of the men of Reserve Police battalion 101, which was a unit of the German Order Police. The book, I thought, provided me a graphic portrayal of Police Battalion 101's involvement in the Holocaust. The major focus of the ... book is the reconstruction of the events this group of men participated in. A picture is painted very vividly of the brutality these men inflicted ... . I felt a little disappointed by the fact that very litt...

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• Grade Level: High School

... decisions we made in the heat of the moment, and realize how wrong hose choices really were. Some decisions made in this war should have been better thought out. This book explains some of the decisions that were made. His main point is that the Nazis could have probably won the war if Hitler would of listened to his knowledgeable generals ... been," is that other situations might have changed as well, and things might not have been so straightforward. He does make this book interesting, as he gives great detailed explanations of strategy, battles, and politics. He also illustrates this...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Regime The Franco Regime1936-1975 by Stanley Payne tells in great detail the reign that the Spanish endured over a forty-year period. Though this book is not for someone who has a slight interest in the subject, in fact because of its tremendous size, the reader must really want to ... fully understand the reign of Francisco Franco. Yet this over 600-page account could have probably been conveyed in about 300 pages making the book more available to a larger audience. However, the reading is lightened up by the addition of pictures to it, something not often found in an adult ... the t...

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Erich Fromm, in his remarkable book of social intellectualism, titled Escape from Freedom, defines the concept of freedom from a very lucid angle. Fromm has summoned up the paradox ... and what makes him want to escape it at the same time. This paper sheds light on this concept of freedom as presented by Fromm in his book. To understand Fromm's idea of freedom, Fromm himself suggests that one must first understand what freedom is, why people want to escape from freedom, and how ... democracy, man enjoys freedom of speech, freedom of writing against undesirable occurrences, freedom of raising...

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... time. Most people believe today that it was only the Nazi regime that killed and viciously mistreated the Jews. I am going to tell you about a book called Neighbors which show how people of Poland called Poles imposed many indecent and appalling things to the Jews that they have lived with for many years. There ... in their town. On this tragic day in Jedwabne there were only seven Jews who were not violently killed. There are many different arguments in this book and many different views with whom actually made this horrible day take place. One of the main reasons that all of the Jews we...

• Word Count: 459
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• Grade Level: High School

The novel Daddy is a historical fiction/thriller takes place during World War II. Because this book is more of a thriller than a historical novel, the author's purpose in writing this book is to entertain the reader rather than educate them, although he ended up doing so in the process. Hans Thomas von Gall is an elderly German banker, who has fooled ... the secret codes to release the money before the war actually closed off all routes to Switzerland? I don't know I guess the author wasn't thinking about that when he wrote the book. It was more of a chase/thriller than a historical fiction,...

• Word Count: 842
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• Has Bibliography
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The Upstairs Room is an autobiography. Johanna Reiss is the author. In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. In 1939 the Germans invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler who hated the Jews ruled the Germans. Hitler blamed the Jews for the lost ... . Chapter six marks a month that the girls had been with the Oostervelds. The year is 1942. They are very bored. The family gets them the book, "War and Peace" to read. They spend time reading this book. The girls help with the birthday party for the grandmother. This is an exciting time for them. In chapter seven the grandmother is upset w...

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• Grade Level: High School

... conflicts in history and nearly sixty years after its end, new information is still emerging. The Conquerors describes the politics surrounding the war. The purpose of this book is to uncover the actions and strategies of First Franklin Roosevelt and then Harry Truman. This book allows the American people to hear private conversations and letters of historical giants. A central theme in the ... book is the destruction of the idea of Hitlers's Germany rather than the physical army. The physical army could have been dealt with in many ways. But the notion ... terrible atrocities that wer...

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• Grade Level: High School

Written by Art Spiegelman, Maus is the life story of his Holocaust surviving father, Valdek. Maus is presented to us in a comic book form. Ironically it talks about a very dramatic subject which makes it seem lighter than what it really is. The following will talk about the symbolism and metaphor used throughout the ... emotions. In the second volume, Artie draws himself sitting on a table writing his novel Maus, then all of a sudden, reporters storm him with many questions about the success of his book. At this point, Artie's intimidated by them and slowly starts to shrink until he becomes ...

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The Upstairs Room is an autobiography. Johanna Reiss is the author. In this book, she tells the story of her difficult childhood. In 1939 the Germans invaded Poland. Adolf Hitler who hated the Jews ruled the Germans. Hitler blamed the Jews for the lost ... . Chapter six marks a month that the girls had been with the Oostervelds. The year is 1942. They are very bored. The family gets them the book, "War and Peace" to read. They spend time reading this book. The girls help with the birthday party for the grandmother. This is an exciting time for them. In chapter seven the grandmother is upset ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... "humiliating failure" when Germany attacked Poland in 1939 (McDonough, 2002). This essay also evaluates two significant appraisals of the Munich agreement, described in McDonough's (2002) exhaustive book: a first, which asserts that it was an utterly unwholesome policy of despicable capitulation and a second, instigated by the 'revisionist historians' - exemplified by Taylor's (1963) controversial ... book - which comprehends it as an elaborated policy enabling Chamberlain to prevent an imminent war while he was opportunely preparing for it (McDonough, 2002). This essay concurrently...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... 's enemies. "There were whispers of horrors taking place but under the rigorous barrage of wartime propaganda we quickly learned not to ask too many questions." Inge Weiss . Hitler wrote a book in 1923 while he was in prison called "Mein Kampf" (My struggle). In this book he wrote about his hatred of the Jews and his opposition to the Democratic Government. In his ... book he describe how he hoped many Jews would leave the country voluntarily and he planned his return to politics and gain power over the German people. On Hitler's release from ... ...

• Word Count: 1242
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate