... them and made them believe they were exterminating vermin. Usually the people that joined the SS were between the ages of thirty and forty years old, married, came from a lower-middle-class family, and probably came from one of Germany's larger cities, most likely Munich or Berlin, many did not have a religion. As a group, the Germans in the camps were unremarkable ... what happened at the Holocaust. It has happened again in some parts of the world. Many people have been murdered simply because someone else hates them. The question we should ask ourselves is, "Who will be the Jews the n...

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... also did well in Italy and Spain. Instead they finger the unprecedented social and economic dislocation in Europe in the 1920s and 1930s. A similar angle is explored by questions that ask for identification of the social groups which supported Hitler in 1933 and beyond. This involves the growing literature on Fascism, of which Roger Eatwell's Fascism: a History is the most recent ... view that Hitler and the Nazis were a bourgeois-capitalist class front aiming at keeping the workers in their place - although somewhat discredited since 1989! TIMELINE 1889 Hitler born to lower-middle clas...

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... .uk). These clinics were not shunned away in some back alley; in its place these clinics were completely visible to the public with a white flag with a red dot in the middle to identify them to the public (historylearningsite.uk.) Hitler successfully reduced women's social activity to a purely biological purpose, and without much criticism from the female side he was able to ... should not remain unmarried, keep your body pure, you should keep your mind and spirit pure, as German choose only a spouse of the same or Nordic blood, in choosing a spouse ask about his ancestors, health is als...

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