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1. Causes and Motivations
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deportation “to the East,” in part to protect their countries’ sovereignty. Toward the end of the war, as ... protection against charges of prior collaboration with the German enemy. Generally, the course of the war ... miscalculated in thinking the end of the war was near): Sophie Scholl, Hans Scholl, Christian Probst, and other -
2. Coining a Word and Championing a Cause: The Story of Raphael Lemkin
his twenties, Lemkin learned about the Ottoman destruction of the Armenians during World War I (known ... Washington, DC, in the summer of 1942, to join the War Department as an analyst and went on to document Nazi
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3. Cause and effect
after the Holocaust and a war-time memoir, much of which describes his experiences as a U.S. soldier and ... The work is both a history of Kenneth Colvin's (b. 1924) family in the United States before and ... his participation in the liberation of Ebensee and his postwar life.
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4. Belle Mayer Zeck reflects upon people who have dedicated their lives to the cause of human rights
Belle Mayer trained as a lawyer and worked for the General Counsel of the US Treasury, Foreign ... conglomerate that used slave labor during World War II. In 1945, Mayer was sent
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5. A page of the Hadamar Institute's death register in which the causes of death were faked to conceal the euthanasia killings that took place there.
of the program continued until the final days of the war. In all, "Operation T4" claimed at least ... (HADAMAR); WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATIONS; WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS
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6. World War I: Aftermath
World War I, there was spiraling hyperinflation of the German currency (Reichsmark) by 1923. The ... causes included the burdensome reparations imposed after World War I ... catastrophic war). This hyperinflationary period combined with the effects of the ... losers of World War I, and eventually raised levels of tolerance for and acquiescence in violent
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7. Interrogation of suspected war criminal
scoffing at the causes of death and reacting even more angrily to the names of Jewish victims. He asks the ... feeding the corpse into the flames. The narrator indicates that this is the crematory of the city cemetery
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8. Blitzkrieg (Lightning War)
strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of ... World War II in Europe. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short
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9. Antisemitism in History: World War I
being blamed for starting the war and having to shoulder the burden of paying damages to the victors ... "behavior" of Jews that appeared in the wake of World War I and that were deliberately propagated alongside ... the misery of the war to enrich themselves and prolonged it to lead the Bolshevik Revolution in
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10. World War I: Treaties and Reparations
After the devastation of World War I, the victorious western powers imposed a series of harsh ... war, the German, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and Ottoman Empires ceased to exist. Treaty of ... with the Allied Powers; but shortly thereafter a Turkish War of Independence began. The new Republic of ... some ten months before the end of World War I, US President Woodrow Wilson
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11. Polish Refugees in Iran during World War II
prisoners of war in the Soviet Union, and finally, allowed for the formation of a Polish army on Soviet soil ... . Forming the new Polish Army was not easy, however. Many Polish prisoners of war had died in the labor ... forbade the transfer of rice to the central and southern parts of the country, causing food scarcity ... of transportation, the manufacturing industry, and all other resources for the war effort
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12. Adolf Hitler and World War I: 1913–1919
watercolors and sketches until World War I gave his life direction and a cause to ... This political antisemitism seeped into the military hierarchy during the last two years of the war ... him as he was convalescing. The end of the war brought the threat of demobilization from the only ... frontline soldier from 1914 to 1918. Like many, Hitler believed Germany lost the war because of enemy
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13. World War I and its Aftermath: Key Dates
The Outbreak of War Archduke Franz Ferdinand was in the line of ... international crisis led to the outbreak of World War I. Following the assassination, the Austro ... August 4, 1914. Within six weeks of the assassination, Europe was at war. This timeline ... of the first battles of the war and the first major battle won by Germany on the Eastern Front. It
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14. The Eastern Front: The German War against the Soviet Union
. The Soviet Union was the result of the collapse of the Russian Empire and of the Russian Civil War ... Communist Party. The Bolshevik coup led to a civil war that resulted in Communist control over most of the ... During the summer of 1939, Imperial Japan and the Soviet Union were fighting an undeclared war in ... protect Poland’s borders five months earlier—declared war on Germany. These events marked the beginning of
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15. “If there is war, I will be used to it.”
targeted by the regime. War in Sudan has always been fought on the backs of civilians. More than 2 million ... Sudan. The leaders here fear the approach of the North and its allied militias would be brutal if war ... . War could cost the regime billions of dollars in revenues — the South has threatened to destroy the ... weary of conflict. They have survived decades of brutal war which has been the norm, while peace, until
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16. Army film showing US involvement in war from 1917 to 1938
Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 3. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. A ... them attending service. The narrator talks of war and how Americans "bend over backwards to avoid it ... Johnson gives a speech saying that they want no war. The Neutrality Act of 1935 is explained and text ... states, "No arms for sale to nations at war." 05:06:35 News of civil war in Spain reaches the US in 1936
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17. Dr. Hans Kurt Eisele listens to an account of his pursuits as a Luftwaffe medical researcher at Dachau, where he used prisoners of war as "human guinea pigs" to check the effects of extreme pressures and air temperatures, causing numerous fatalities.
Dr. Hans Kurt Eisele listens to an account of his pursuits as a Luftwaffe medical researcher at ... and air temperatures, causing numerous fatalities.
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18. War, a minimalist welded steel sculpture symbolizing childhood memories of WWII in Budapest
The collection consists of The War Series, a group of nine semi-abstract welded steel sculptures ... and as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust and World War II.
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19. Air war in Flanders: Western Campaign
dive-bombers caused terror among Allied ground forces, who came to recognize the telltale shriek of a ... The Junkers (Ju) 87, known as the "Stuka," spearheaded the Blitzkrieg ("lightning war") attacks
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20. Post-war satirical leaflet
sarcastically mourns the death of the Third Reich; cause of death is described as a bleeding heart and giving in ... Consists of a leaflet entitled "Velkonĕmecká R̆ís̆e" (Greater German Empire). The leaflet ... to the will and the hand of Hitler.
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21. Studio portrait of the Press family before the war.
War I. He died of natural causes before the Holocaust. In 1940 the Soviet Union incorporated ... Studio portrait of the Press family before the war. Sonja Press is flanked by her two twin sons ... Gershon Press (the father of the doner) was born in 1921 (though official documents listed his
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22. Group portrait of Jewish youth after the war in Lodz.
Group portrait of Jewish youth after the war in Lodz. Pictured from the left are: unknown, Rachel ... Abram Zelig is the youngest son of Yitzhak Malka (nee Krell) Zelig. He was born on April 6, 1927 in ... Abram Zelig is the youngest son of Yitzhak Malka (nee Krell) Zelig. He was born on April 6, 1927 in Lodz
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23. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case
mother had been killed during the bombardments of the final days of the war. Teodozjusz Nowinski, the ... Jadwiga met and married Jozef Hassa, a former Polish prisoner-of-war and later gave birth to two children
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24. Oral history interview with Primo Levi
Imperial War Museum, World at War oral history collection ... Imperial War Museum ... Oral history interviews from the Imperial War Museum, World at War collection ... Primo Levi (1919-1987) describes the history of antisemitism in Italy; experiencing almost no
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25. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Trial of Century: Eichmann Tried for War Crimes ... before court tribunal in Israel on war crimes charges. MLS of courthouse building. HA MLS seats for three ... others during the period 1939 to 1945 caused the killing of millions of Jews in his capacity as a person