... , they would be beaten, deprived of food, or shot. From time to time, they would be assured that things would get better. The daily meals in Auschwitz consisted of watery soup, distributed once a day,with a small piece of (moldy) bread. In addition, they got extra an allowance consisting of 3/4 ounce of margarine, a little piece of cheese or a spoonful of watered jam ... . Everyone in the camp was so malnourished that if a drop of soup spilled prisoners would rush from all sides to see if they could get some of the soup. Because of the bad sanitary conditions, the inadequate diet, the har...

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... . Even at this time Elie stays by him, but he discovers for himself it's very hard to keep himself and his father alive. " I gave him what was left of my soup. But it was with a heavy heart. I felt that I was giving it up against my will". He himself is very hungry, but he manages to share the food with his ill ... or the crematory the choice is in your hands." At the beginning when Elie is just getting the taste of the life at the camp, he won't even touch the soup, because he is to spoiled. When the hunger and suffering increases it makes him grow up very fast, and then he eats anythin...

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... 's failure to deal with the depression left the Nazis with a very disappointed nation, especially the businessmen, workers, young people and farmers who had already been doing badly. The Nazis opened soup kitchens and places to stay for the homeless people, who had been badly hit by the economic crisis, and promised improvement for the working class and farmers who had also ... ...

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... hit us" (Pres 1976). People died by being forced to work with a terrible sick, or even not eating anything for days. The daily meals in Auschwitz camp consisted of watery soup which was cooked by water, salt, and little rice. They contributed once a day, but the prisoners had to work for the whole day, that was ridiculous because they didn't have ... ...

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... given a striped shirt and paints. Every day they would be woke up and sent to work. Every day the prisoners would only get a piece of molded bread or some old soup. The living was so bad that four or five people had to share one bunk of a bed. Many people could not take the pain and committed suicide. Most people killed ... ...

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... was also very attracted to the characters of German mythology. Two years later his money ran out and he had to move into a poor house where he could get free soup. He spent his time going to libraries and theaters and continued his interest in German culture. He would sit quietly and paint until politics were mentioned, then he run over ... ...

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... able to help support him. In 1909, he moved to Vienna in the hope of somehow earning a living. Within a year he was living in homeless shelters and eating at charity soup-kitchens. He had declined to take regular employment and only took occasional jobs. He sold some of his paintings or advertising posters whenever he could to make a little money. In ... ...

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... Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1909 he moved to Vienna hoping to find work but in less then a year he lived in homeless shelters and eating at the charity soup-kitchens. He took occasional menial jobs and sold some of his paintings whenever he could. In Vienna he developed his hate concerning foreigners and Jews. In 1913 Hitler moved to ... ...

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... returned to Vienna in February of 1908, to make a second attempt at becoming a great artist, things went quite poorly for him. He slept on park benches and ate at charity soup kitchens (The History Place- Hitler's Boyhood). During those years of misery and absence of money, he had to earn a meager living as an unskilled laborer. He was eventually able to ... ...

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... struggled as a laborer in the building trades and painted cheap postcards for a living. During these times he was very poor and often slept in parks and received his meals from a soup kitchen. This was the beginning of feelings of discontent and hatred towards his homeland of Austria, which he labeled a "patchwork nation." He wrote in Mein Kampf, "I was convinced that the ... ...

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... "If you queer, that's what you wear." Throughout his time in the concentration camp Max uses his yellow star to his advantage, he gets more meat and vegetables in his soup and also manages to get Horst some medicine for his cough. The end of the play is very significant in showing the progression of Max's identity. He goes from trying ... ...

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... , he failed twice. He applied to The Academy of Fine Arts twice and was not excepted. Within a years time, he was living in homeless shelters and standing in line at soup kitchens. He refused to take regular employment so ha had several odd jobs. One of these was painting advertisements on postcards. After this he completely isolated himself from his family ... ...

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... would get a slap on the wrist or a very small fine. He got very little to eat. For instance, inmates at the camps were only allowed one ration of bread and soup a day. Therefore, Elie became weaker and weaker. Sometime the some of the prisoners did not eat anything because other prisoners would steal their food or the Kapo, the keepers of ... ...

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