... day. The inefficiency of the French process may be evident in the fact that only one French scientist rose to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century, Madame Curie. This negligent economic policy throughout period of political upheaval may explain why France entered the twentieth century as a weak industrialized economy, behind Germany, Britain and the United States. Britain and ... ...

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... was the principal cause of the loss of competitiveness, the question remains whether technological backwardness was the root of the problem or symptomatic of more fundamental disorders." (10) However, Jean-Pierre Dormois supplies a sympathetic continental viewpoint.(11)" A vast and complicated national economy is simply not susceptible of altering its configuration at the ` drop of a hat`." Electrical engineers were thwarted in their ... ...

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... , will have Tayllerand here in their mind expressing Frances' advocation of federalism for the political structure of its neighbor: "Il faut soutenire des Allemagnes (Allemagnes with a plural s). Frances foreign Minister Pierre Maurois in 1989/1990 only paraphrased Talleyrand, when he, being confronted with the possibility of Germany's reunification, stated that he liked Germany so much that he wanted to support two ... ...

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... ; he also sent troops but no more than 10,000. He also provided an increasing amount of superior equipment, which in large part allowed the successful nationalist advances of 1938/39. This may have been the result of the weaknesses of the League of Nations, as the league failed to enforce the non-intervention policy. The league initially called for the ... ...

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... was starting to reunify. Also the Russians opposed any government run by any western powers and took many measures to prevent this new government from staying in power (Prittie 38-39). On June 24, 1948 the Soviets shut down the "service on the stretch of railroad between Berlin and Helmstedt, which was the main supply artery for Berlin at the time ... ...

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... machines the range is from 72% in Sweden to 96% in Italy; for dishwashers, from 11%in the Netherlands to 34% in Germany; for clothes dryers, from 5% in Spain to 39% in Belgium; for microwave ovens, from 6% in Italy to 37% in Sweden; for vacuum cleaners, from 56%in Italy to 96%in Netherlands. It is remarkable that the same countries ... ...

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... knew for sure who his grandfather was. But he did know his grandmother, Maria, married Johann Hiedler when his father Alois was five-years-old. Alois, at the age of 39, after a successful career in the Austrian civil service as a Senior Assistant Customs Inspector, changed his last name to Heidler through the encouragement of an uncle to carry on the family ... ...

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... , they were all sent to work. Reflecting on the situation Elie said, "If I was sent to the crematory I would have run straight for the fence and jumped on it (Wiesel 39)." The fences were electrical and anyone who touched it would be shocked to death. He felt that if he was going to die it would not be at the hands ... ...

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... changed the name from the German Worker's Party to the National Socialist German Worker"s Party or the NSDAP. From this name came the short name for its members "Nazis"(Forman 39). The party now needed a symbol, which Hitler created. He rejected the colors of the Weimar Republic and chose a red field to represent blood with a white circle for the Nationalist idea ... ...

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... you will. One of the people in that circle was Eva Braun. She was Hitler's mistress. She had to endure never-ending loneliness and humiliation to be with him (Ayer, 39-52). Although Braun was Hitler's only permanent mistress they were not married until many years after he met her. She was kept on an emotional roller coaster the whole time ... ...

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