The historical event of the sinking of The Gustloff becomes a prism through which the attitudes of three generations of Germans are refracted thus revising history differently. ... "Crabwalk" is essentially a historical novel in which Grass employees the sinking of The Gustloff, to reveal the history of Nazi Germany and attempts of its second generation to forget it. ... The three generations in the novel Tulla, Konrad and Paul revisit the history in order to revise and rewrite it in present for the future. ...

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We do not admit that future generations, who are completely innocent, should be burdened by them. ... They felt part of a powerful new alliance that gave them hope and inspiration for the future. ... He was now a dictator under his rule Germany would become nation of Warriors, war and conquest would be the way out of the bleak future that the nation faced. ...

• Word Count: 2583
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• Grade Level: High School

Nevertheless, when viewed in the context of setting a foundation for future world justice dispensation, Nuremberg served its purpose. It became the model for future world criminal tribunals and the criticisms it engendered were taken into account in establishing these new legal venues. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Pfitzner believed: "Since the musical gift was rare, inborn, and God given, a new generation of aspiring, hardworking intellectuals were intent on blurring the boundary between the concreteness of music and its power of expression on one hand, and language, thought, and ideas on the other, all in order to cover up their lack of spontaneous musicality. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Their destinations were unknown and their future was also unsettled for they did not know what would await them. ... Children were seen as "the next generation of Jews" and, therefore, would have to be banned too. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Hitler wastes no time and on the very first page of his book mentions the "moral right to acquire foreign soil and territory" and continued: "The sword is then the plow, and from the tears of war there grows the daily bread of generations to come." (1) This statement falls completely in line with his racial dogma and shows quite clearly that Hitler had always deemed expansion was necessary. ...

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Located thirty-seven miles west of Krakow, Auschwitz was the camp where Jewish people were killed and worked. This camp , out of all the rest tortured the most people. At the camp there was a place called the "Black Wall," this was where the people were executed . In March of 1941, there was another...

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World War II Nazi soldiers who worked at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. Most soldiers enjoyed their job while a few others actually tried to help the prisoners. The soldiers working at the camps were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for s...

• Word Count: 2686
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School