... conscience, it is a question of how far will one go to obey orders. In this situation, the Germans went as far as to kill a group of people because someone else ordered them to do so. The obedience that the men had to their superiors was the main reason the men did what they were told to ... do, kill the innocent Jews. After the murders, these men, who were ordinary when they were drafted into the battalion, seemed to no longer be ordinary. This is because it is not normal to kill and at Jozefow killing became the norm. This meant that the men ... was one of the many mass murders that t...

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... conscience, it is a question of how far will one go to obey orders. In this situation, the Germans went as far as to kill a group of people because someone else ordered them to do so. The obedience that the men had to their superiors was the main reason the men did what they were told to ... do, kill the innocent Jews. After the murders, these men, who were ordinary when they were drafted into the battalion, seemed to no longer be ordinary. This is because it is not normal to kill and at Jozefow killing became the norm. This meant that the men ... was one of the many mass murders that t...

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... the audience to better comprehend the Holocaust. Both novels should be read to understand the scope of what happened in the Holocaust. Browning's writing style in Ordinary Men can be closely compared with that of a history textbook. This is due in part to the fact that Browning is a historian writing on extensive ... monsters. He does however not try to take away from the fact that they were murderers. One example of emotion displayed by the Nazis in Ordinary Men is the first order the Battalion had to carry out. The Battalion was woken up early one morning in their bunks. Once assembled ...

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... fails to heal but rather sears all efforts for good international relations because it prioritizes passion at the cost of basic historical facts. While Christopher Browning's "Ordinary Men" tells the story of Police Battalion 101, and how they play a role in the Second World War in Europe. Both of these books outline what ... like a military journal, while Chang's "Rape of Nanking" was more on a personal level. It told of the plight of the ordinary people. While Browning talked about the happenings of a the reserve police. As we progress forward we will examine how the events that took p...

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... higher intelligence", were "proved to be even more dangerous to the community." The familiar styles of the cartoonist were employed in these works to incite hatred and disgust on the ordinary Germans toward Jews and Gypsies. Usually, in order to present their "inferiority," the cartoon characters" facial feature were exaggerated, deformed and become animal-like; their actions were none but ... the patriotism of German public into hatred. The victims of the racism persecution are not only the people who died in the gas chamber, but also the people whose mind are consumed by this hatred....

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... of the residents of Nanking took place. Japan's army invaded Southeast Asia in attempt to gain control of land and resources, eventually leading to the mass murder of the Chinese people. Corrupt political and military parties are held accountable for these atrocities. Nationalism is a nation's pride in its culture, language, and history. Patriotism is just a sliver of what ... officer of Germany's police battalion 101, was a forty-year-old barber who was ordered to senselessly execute a Jewish prisoner with his rifle. (Browning, 66) He was one of many ordinary citizens that were under ...

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... to a significant part of the European economies and cultures. However, at this time, the world was hit by a terrible depression which left many people of Europe with nothing. Unfortunately, to find an easy answer to their problems at this time, the Nazis Party in Germany blamed the hardships of ... Warsaw Ghetto, he was one of the most respected person in Warsaw. However, when he is surrounded by "half-starved, disease-weakened" (3) people in the ghetto, he quickly begans to change. These horrible living conditions brings out Paul's false faith in the Germans which ultimately causes him t...

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... about. Rescuers are those who, at great personal risk, actively helped members of persecuted groups, primarily Jews, during the Holocaust in defiance of Third Reich policy. They were ordinary people who became extraordinary people because they acted in accordance with their own belief systems while living in an immoral society. Thousands survived the Holocaust because of the daring chances these rescuers took. In ... total their number is statistically small, rescuers were all colossal people. Rescuers were peasants and nannies, aristocrats and clergy, bakers and doctors, social workers ...

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... and coal, a disadvantage accentuated by the loss of Alsace and Lorraine and by the German occupation of its northern industrial areas throughout the war. Another resource which France lacked was people; for reasons which remain unclear its population growth was far outstripped by Germany's. The recovery of Alsace and Lorraine, which the French government regarded as essential, was not fully supported ... , a larger, faster, more expensive, better-armed vessel than any of its predecessors. The race was now on between Britain and Germany to build more Dreadnoughts as well as submarines and...

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... turned their back on each other and started worrying about themselves. In the mess, Italy and Germany switched to totalitarian governments (both totally different) and used propaganda to build the people up and improve the economy. Shortly after, Spain had civil unrest as it sat between the lines of totalitarianism and democracy while fellow fascist supporters (Russia, Italy, and Germany) aided ... remarks to China to antagonize before being fired for different reasons. A few offensive moves from China were diverted until a counter-offensive by the United States took the Iron Triangle a...

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... 2.To gain territory (living space) for Germany in eastern Europe. This would a war in order to defeat Soviet Bolshevism. 3.To include all German-speaking people in his proposed "Third Reich", especially those living in Austria, the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia and Danzig. 4.To create a "racially pure" German state that ... ; eg. The Treaty of Versailles. There was widespread belief that Germany had been treated too harshly. The Treaty of Versailles had humiliated the German people and caused deep routed resentment among them. It was not just Hitler's expansion, but Hitler on a wave of ...

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... already fully extended industry- that would require " cutting back on other things." Carr believes the effects of " the state intervening so actively in the regulation of the economy (was that) ordinary Germans began to blame it for its manifest failure to protect their living standards in the second half of the war." The severity of the decline in living standards on ... were deepened and a new class of war profiteers emerged, causing further discontent. In addition to this, government expenditures on the war effort contributed to a steady rise in inflation that hurt people on fixed in...

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... in 1903. Railroads and Steamships The second Industrial Revolution was also a transportation revolution. During it, new modes of transportation were pioneered. Steamships and railroads were to drastically change the way people travelled, transported things, and lived their lives. Steamships In 1807, Robert Fulton invented the steamship by placing a steam engine on his boat, the Clermont. In a short time, ... .Corporations and StocksNew industries, such as railroads, were expensive to build and maintain. To cope with that, corporations, using the money of stockholders, took charge of indus...

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... who have desirable traits, such as high intelligence or great physical fitness; these traits are considered to be protective factors for human evolution. Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people considered inferior or below average mentally and/or physically (Glass 1996). Cloning for a better humanity is then normally associated with positive eugenics. Immediately, when thinking of positive eugenics, one ... included in their individual raising. Even if society desired a hundred Einstein's, there is no guarantee that the clones would find the same path to physics or ...

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... during the Second World War played an exceedingly vital role in the overall outcome of the hostilities. The home front was the base in which ordinary citizens were able to be involved and continually assist armed forces in the struggle to win the war. This involvement ranged from production of goods, ... to increase the amount of food that was available in the country. The government in both Britain and the USA introduced new schemes to encourage people to plant their own small garden to grow vegetables and be more self sufficient. Without this effort by the home front food would not h...

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... in September 1933, which included departments for literature, press, radio, theatre, music and the creative arts. These departments had limited success, but mainly they failed. They force educated people, like Albert Einstein, to flee Germany fearing persecution by the Chamber. However the Press department, lead by Dettreich, which told the papers what to write, forced the newspaper circulation ... of the fittest" was a major part of Nazi ideology. The university attendance figures halved between 1933 and 1939. Much of Nazi science theory was illogical, however it gained credibility amo...

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... what they do or do not believe. Religious discrimination is related to religious persecution, the most extreme forms of which would include instances in which people have been executed for beliefs. In Number of Stars by Lois Lowry, the book primarily focused on the strategic events of the Holocaust during ... as an innocent child. For example, "Annemarie admitted to herself, snuggling there in the quiet dark, that she was glad to be an ordinary person who would never be called upon for courage" (Lowry, 4.60). This is significant because, Annemarie knows that the German soldiers are patr...

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... had some sort of representation. Article 1 of the constitution states that The German Federation is a republic. Political authority is derived from the people. This was very advanced for its era, especially the fact that voting included women suffrage as well as male suffrage. Another good example of ... . Germany had only ever experienced Imperialism and this government was considered to be radical It was the first government ever to give the people a choice. Nonetheless there had never been very much popular support for the Weimar government. Many Germans hated the Treaty and the Weimer...

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... opponents. The camps were a mechanism of fear to control the masses. But they soon became a readily available place to get rid of the "undesirable" people (i.e. Jews). These camps were institutes of death, the occupants of the camps were either subjected to various forms of torture, starvation, brutality, and "medical research ... for the problems plaguing their country, so Hitler issued the order for "the final solution of the Jewish question." This meant that Jews as a people were going to be utterly annihilated, this atrocity had no name for it and was named genocide, or murder of a ...

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... reproduction of individuals who have traits, such as high intelligence and physical strength or fitness, which are considered to be valuable to society. Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people believed to be inferior or below average mentally and physically (Glass). Cloning for better humanity, then, is normally associated with positive eugenics. Overall since the Nazi experience eugenics as a ... industrialism and later high technology, brainpower became more valuable. With cloning, potentially it would be up to some kind of population engineers like the eugenici...

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... reproduction of individuals who have traits, such as high intelligence and physical strength or fitness, which are considered to be valuable to society. Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people believed to be inferior or below average mentally and physically (Glass). Cloning for better humanity, then, is normally associated with positive eugenics. Overall, since the Nazi experience, eugenics as a ... industrialism and later high technology, brainpower became more valuable. With cloning, potentially it would be up to some kind of population engineers like the eugeni...

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... greater political strength was the constitution. It was revolutionary in it's values of equality and was a very democratic document for the time. All German people over twenty were allowed to vote regardless of sex, something that did not arise in other countries for some years. This brave statement of liberal ... cast over it from the upstart. Further to this was the view that the declaration of a republic was a Revolution from above'. The people felt distanced from the unrevolutionary revolution' in which they were not really involved. This hostility was greatly exaggerated by the dem...

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... Churches which had set themselves up as rivals to the Church of Rome. The essence of the Reformation was almost completely about religion and that people started questioning religion - something that had never been done before. It was seen as being made up of two related sets of events: ... on the authority of the Pope and were increasingly used as an additional method of raising revenue. However, there is little evidence to say that the ordinary people resented them - on the contrary: to them it seemed like a good bargain. However, there was considerable resentment in Germany over the t...

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... her intellect to guide others. Some leaders change the lives of people drastically and go down in history, whereas other leaders cause little change and fade into history and are forgotten forever. Adolf Hitler started out as an ordinary solider in World War I. He then became the dictator of almost ... the party's pamphlet, he realized that he agreed with their main point, building a strong nationalist, pro-military, anti-Semitic party made of working people. Although at the time the party was very disorganized, Hitler saw hope in them and decided to join. Earlier, Hitler had become inte...

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