... out differently than anyone had imagined As millions of men were marching off to battle in 1914, everyone imagined a quick war of mobility. This was not to be however, as the advances in weapons and transportation would make it a war of defense. Effective use of airplanes, submarines, trucks and railroads would ... There was an increased emphasis on educating and training the Russian people. Women were proclaimed to be equal to men. All were changes for the better, but by the time of Lenin's death in 1924, he had not completed all of the goal of communism. What he did mange to create was...

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... the front lines and at headquarters, He was wounded in the leg in 1916 and gassed in 1918. Hitler believed that he was making a better life for himself and was proud to serve in the German army of which he admired so much. Interestingly enough the regimental captain that recommended him for the award was Jewish. Being gassed during a British attack ... had a second blindness but surprisingly enough cried for the first time since standing in front of his mother's grave in Leonding, Austria. He had endured the death of his comrades, injuries to himself, and blindness .....all in silence. ...

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... with his lover Rudy in tow, refusing a ticket to safety in Holland because there isn't a second one for Rudy, yet ends up unwillingly beating him to death on the cattle train to Dachau. If he hadn't killed Rudy the officers would have killed Max. He blames himself for Rudy ... 's death even though he had no choice, page 61 Max says "You know who loved me? That boy. That dancer, I don't remember his name. But I killed him. See - ... proclaimed homosexual, knows this but still wears the pink triangle. He is not afraid of being gay, even in prison. Horst is proud of who and what he is so do...

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... Nazis attracting more and more votes in the elections (appendix), President Hindenburg had to appoint Hitler as Chancellor on 30th January 1933. Although not in total control yet, the Nazis showed what they were capable of doing by establishing the first concentration camps and imprisoning political opponents ( ... and a person's life. A totalitarian state is usually led by a dictator, which is "above" the law and has the power over life and death. In such a state common good is placed over individual good, opponents are ruthlessly prosecuted and the armies as well as the police forces se...

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... Beethoven. Although he lived a century prior to Hitler, he remained very well loved by the German people. Beethoven's music was powerful and proud, traits that the Germans could relate to. Hitler felt that Beethoven exemplified the true heroic spirit of Germany. Hitler played upon the sentimentality of ... to Wagner. Hitler thought that Bruckner was a fine example of what a musician should be, not only for his talent as a musician, but also due to his great love for Germany. When the news of Hitler's death was announced, a movement from Bruckner's Seventh Symphony was played in honor of t...

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... enlistment, "smiling they wrote his lie: aged 19 years", (Disabled) sending five different sets of brothers from Eton alone, to their premature deaths. Death, as taught in such establishments, was not one of dehumanising pain where, "eyes writhe in his face" (Dulce Et Decorum Est) after a gas attack, but rather one of Greek ... Source F showing the bobbling footballs as the men move forward, shells landing all around the Surries, together with the dead, shown, perhaps as this could not be concealed from the public for long. The heroism of the East Surries is conveyed by their poses, arm...

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... he had long held deep respect. Despite the enmity of the war Hitler said on December 10, 1919: "As a people the Englishman has reason to be proud." Though he had only a year earlier been fighting the British, Hitler believed that both peoples came from Aryan stock, far superior to Slavic Russians and ... To this end he sided with the Wermacht against his own vastly numerically superior SA.(3) The German that would subjugate France and conquer territory in the East would not be a rowdy brown shirt, but rather a well trained and disciplined soldier. In an address to prominent members of th...

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