... , fuel and military equipment, causing terrible losses to merchant shipping and threatening to cut off the British Isles. Churchill was so worried by these losses that in March 1941 he ordered Bomber Command to concentrate on attacking German submarine bases and factories. Together with Coastal Command the bombers also continued to attack German shipping. The battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were ... the first priority. Precision raids would be carried out when conditions or circumstances allowed. The plan was thought up by Churchill, but over the winter of 1941 the Command was ...

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... a legal basis for permission to kill them."2 Hitler's argument created a debatable/considerable opposition, which helped him launch the euthanasia program, which was also called mercy killing. This program was ordered by the state and it led to the murder of the disabled by the doctors and medical stuff. Euthanasia resulted into approximately 70,000 deaths. This program resulted into citizens ... of getting mad and fearing a public uprising across Germany, Hitler ordered to stop the killings. During the invasion of Poland, Hitler and his men murdered many sick poles in the hospitals. Hi...

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... together, the European map was basically re-drawn, and the league of nations is formed. This treaty basically stripped Germany of everything though.. They were blamed for every thing and ordered to pay the entire cost of the war (Article 231, 232) and they were given limits on divisions and men in their army (Article 160). They are ... ordered to give all lands they acquired back including the area of Alsace-Lorraine to France (Article 49). In John Maynard Keynes" Economic Consequences of Peace, he points out many problems ... ...

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... documents of the German crimes. In a total of 18 months, the Nazis had slaughtered 19,421 Jews. In June of 1943, Hitler ordered that all Eastern European Jewish ghettos be converted to concentration camps. As time passed, the Jews were ordered to go to Estonia, a Baltic state under German rule. Instead though, they were sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. On the ... ...

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... Air Force of Britain, they were constantly bombing Hitler. "Hitler spread death as no person has done in modern history. "Have no pity! Act brutally!" he told his soldiers. He ordered tens of thousands of those who opposed him to be executed, and hundreds of thousands to be thrown into prison. Hitler particularly persecuted Jews. He ... ordered them removed and killed in countries he controlled. Hitler set up concentration camps where about 4 million Jews were murdered. Altogether, Hitler's forces killed about 6 million European Jews as well as ... ...

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... take any property when they left and were expected to only have the clothes on their backs. In 1938 a Jew shot a Nazi official dead and Hitler was absolutely furious. He ordered his army, the S.A, to commence a week of terror against the Jews. It began on the 10th November with The night of broken glass. 10,000 Jewish shopkeepers had their windows ... smashed, while Jewish homes went up in flames. The S.A men murdered dozens and arrested thousands on the grounds of being a Jew. The Jews were ordered to pay the Nazi Government 1 billion marks. The S.A men also continued their campaign of...

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... Wilhelm II Germany wouldn't have enlarged its navy. Others believe that it was Bismarck who provoked Britain by building a massive navy and colonization had been Bismarck's original plan. Had Bismarck ordered for a larger navy to compensate for the little military experience that he had? Bismarck had been described as an aggressive man who strongly and forcefully pushed his policies. "There ... ...

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... June of 1941, Hitler issued first order to murder specified groups such as Jewish men, who served Soviet Union, armed forces or communist party. It was the first time he ordered to kill Jews; it was not his first order to murder national enemies, though. After the invasion on 22 June 1941, Einsatzgruppen began to exterminate Jewish men of any kind ... ...

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... hatred that sparked the eventual downfall of the Weimar Republic. As a result of Germany's failure in repaying the Reparations Bill, the nation also failed to supply the coal and timber ordered by the Treaty of Versailles. In January 1923, 60,000 French and Belgian troops invaded Germany;s heartland, the Ruhr, in order to 'claim this payment'. This invasion provoked nationalistic ... ...

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... a "perfect" Germany. Despite the involvement with the cultural aspects of the Nazi state, the Jewish population in Germany was targeted for exclusion from society. The Jewish Boycott Day, ordered by Hitler was executed by the SS. Jewish shops were prohibited from selling products by having members of the SS deployed outside, turning away customers. As a result, Jewish shop owners ... ...

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... of the war, there were severe food shortages, which lead to people getting less than 1000 calories day. Additionally, the German Navy refused to bring goods. The army troops were ordered to shoot the sailors to bring supplies and the army troops refused to shoot their own men. On top of that, the Spanish flu epidemic hit Germany which caused many ... ...

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... of its army to 500 000 men, and as a result of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement increased its Navy to 35% of that of the British. In 1936 Hitler also ordered the German Army to reoccupy Rhineland, the demilitarised zone between Germany and France. His actions to increase his army size, and reoccupy the demilitarised zone were made restricted by the ... ...

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... living space without breaking the rules that the treaty of Versailles had in place for them . Hitler disobeyed the terms and expanded his army. In 1936 the German army was ordered to invade the Rhineland between Germany and France. This was a risky move but they succeeded in making it German territory . After this domination Hitler focused on Anschuluss which was the ... ...

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... access to global trade. The nations who benefited most were Sweden and France. The Holy Roman Empire was trying to restrict Sweden's religious freedom so King Gustavus Adolphus, supporting protestantism, ordered an all out attack of the Catholic states in 1630. This was the beginning of the Swedish Empire as they took much of the land that still makes up Sweden ... ...

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... Serbia immediately left Belgrade and France, promising to support Russia if they went to war. On the 28th of July, Austria declared war on Serbia and two days later, Russia ordered a general mobilization of troops its troops. On August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and France, ordering a general mobilization of the German mobility. 2. Was the war inevitable prior to June ... ...

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... Germany. As the Germans retreated, the German commander, General Erich von Falkenhayn decided that his troops must hold onto those parts of France and Belgium that Germany still occupied. Falkenhayn ordered his men to dig trenches that would provide them with protection from the advancing French and British troops. The Allies soon realized that they could not break through this line ... ...

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... was attacked. The president was unreasonable in his views of freedom of the seas; and a heavy argument started over the use of German U-boats. To avoid war with the U.S., Germany ordered all U-boats to stop attacking any passenger ships. A few months later another passenger ship the Arabic was attacked. In 1917 Germany declared to attack all ships, passengers or not, in ... ...

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... of the treaty was perhaps article 232, in which the allies actually formally recognized that Germany didn't have adequate recourses to repay reparation costs. Despite this they went forward and ordered Germany to pay. Page 3 The treaty limited the size of the German army to 100,000 men and declared that the Germans could not possess any military aircraft or any ... ...

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... terrible. This chore was to be done under the conditions of, "Horrible Germany Weather." The assignment required prisoners to pile all of the snow using wooden planks. Earlier prisoners were ordered to build a large brick structure, complete with ovens. Though these assignments were entirely corrupt, Nazis" considered Dachau to be one of the more mild camps (Feig 50-51). If you ... ...

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... their revolution. Soon they created the National Parliament and in 1848 the Frankfurt Assembly drew up plans for a unified nation-state. Their plans were thwarted however by Germany's kings who ordered their armies stop the revolution. Although the revolution was stopped it helped the spread of nationalism. Between 1848 and 1871 the upper class began to accept Nationalism. In the years ... ...

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... on May 7, 1915, a German submarine, U-20, surfaced to recharge its batteries off the coast of Ireland. Captain Schwieger then noticed the smoke coming from the stacks of the ship, and ordered the U-boat to advance. With undetermined knowledge that the ship contained contraband, the captain fired a torpedo. The G-type torpedo struck solidly into the bridge of the starboard side, damaging the ... ...

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For centuries, particular elements of society have excused blatantly senseless crimes against their fellow man and seen them 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 ... ...

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... . He set up a private battle-ready elite guard known as the "Schutzstaffel" (SS) to transport and take care of all political prisoners and people thought to be inferior. Hitler also ordered the creation of a special police force to make sure that all opponents would be eliminated, the Gestapo. Also teachers had to belong to the Nazi party and the children were ... ...

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... ,000 Jews were "captured" in 3% of Warsaw. The walls in the Warsaw ghetto were toped with barbed wire, and watched with guards. During the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler ordered the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) to eliminate Communist political leaders and Jews. Government officials met at the Wannsee Conference outside Berlin to have a plan recognized called the "final solution to ... ...

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... in riots. Later on September 1, 1939 Hitler became futrer of Germany, Hitler commands Germany to invade Poland starting World War II. About a month into the war Jews of Poland were ordered into ghettos. Ghettos were fortified buildings where Jews were trapped to die. The Germans made so many people fit in such a little space that diseases spread and people died for ... ...

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