Men and women in the West felt "increasingly adrift in a strange, uncertain and uncontrollable world.""5 In his essay "The Crisis of the Spirit- written in 1919, Paul Valéry, one of France's most outstanding poets, wrote that Europe "doubted itself profoundly.""6 This is certainly true since the terrible trauma of total war left deep scars in the European "spirit."" 7 The people were so devastated by the war that they lost faith and hope in a brighter future. ... Paul Valéry argued that "the best of life is behind us, that fullness is behind us, but disarray and doubt are i...

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Hitler appointed Paul Goebbels, a propagandist, to spread the Nazi messages. ... The burning of the Reichstag was a serious insult to the people Hitler used this common protest to get Paul Hindenburg (the ineffective and senile president of Germany at the time) to sign a decree which gave the National Socialists power and to put their political opponents in jail and concentration camps. ...

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General Paul von Hindenberg, a retired veteran, was recalled to wartime duty as commander in chief of the eighth army. ... General Yakov Jilinsky was the commander of the Northwest Army Group, consisting of two armies, General Paul Rannenkampf's First Army and General Alexander Samsonov's Second Army. ...

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When thinking of World War One, the pictures that often come to mind are trenches, stagnant warfare and other items that are associated with the Western Front. When one thinks of War in Africa, items that generally come to mind are old tribal wars, or General Rommel's Afrika Corps, General Montgome...

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On the other hand the film All is Quiet on the Western Front stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. ...

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