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- 321: The Theme Of Genocide In Night
- ... at Wounded Knee were another example of genocide. The Armenians, in 1921, were also the unlucky bystanders of the genocidal tendencies of the Turks. Ten years later, the Jews were being exterminated like ants in Germany. Genocide still happens to this day. From 1990-1995 the Bosnian Serbs committed genocide on the Rwandan Muslims and Tutsis in Rwanda, slaughtering thousands. As late as 1998, Yugoslavia was committing genocide to the Ethnic ... nothing to do with the conduct of war. The holocaust is the most noteworthy act of genocide because it was committed to a large religious group, in a technologically advanced and modern country such as Germany, and was systematically carried through with the collaboration of the German government, industries, and train systems. Many holocaust victims documented their horrific experiences. A few turned their accounts of the holocaust into literature. Ann Frank ... will let up? In the past, America, along with most other countries, did a horrible job in preventing genocide, and aiding the victims of it. It took twelve years for the madness to end in Germany. It seems like countries don't like getting involved unless they are directly effected by it. On the other hand, America is getting better at responding when small-scale genocide may arise. Bill Clinton ...
- 322: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... Entente into an anti- Soviet alliance." "By 18 June, the occupation of the Baltic states was complete." (21) The Baltic states takeover provides a model for what was to happen to Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, East Germany, Poland and Romania after the war. A combination of fifth columnists and Russian commissar types transformed the Baltic states first into "People's Governments." A series of dubious political moves, "spontaneous" demonstrations by Communist sympathizers ... States in that year and after the war perished, and less than 20% returned after Stalin's death." (25) Within a year of this region being seized by the Soviets in their quasi-legal manner, Germany invaded the region, and had taken most of the area under their control by the end of August, 1941. This began three years of occupation. Though this invasion briefly stimulated revolt against the Soviets prior ... suppressed cultural life, took over the direction of Baltic education, suppressed newspapers and book-publishing, and caused "compulsory drafts for labor service." By 1944, "a total of 126,00 Baltic workers had been sent to Germany. the national breakdown may have been 75,000 Lithuanians, 35,000 Latvians (especially from Latgale), and 15,000 Estonians." (27) The cost in lives, especially among the Baltic Jews, was quite large in proportion ...
- 323: Nuclear Strikes
- ... acquire the materials to build the nukes from either the third world countries, China, or poor, underpaid, overworked, Russian nuclear power workers who have not been paid in months. There has 14 different occasions in Germany alone of nuclear smuggling being caught at airports! There has many incidents involving a base in Obninsk and a man named Leonid Baranov. One such incident occurred when Baranov recruited Aleksandr Sherbinin to smuggle material ... a city. Then it could seep into the water supply and air conditioning system, contaminate buildings and streets, and drift invisibly without even an explosion! Baranov is a suspect in two other smuggling cases in Germany. One such case involves three Spaniards, Justiano Torres Benitez, Julio Oroz, Javier Bengoechea. They were caught in a German sting with 560 grams of MOX fuel (363 grams of uranium & plutonium). This is a very controversial case in Germany because they allowed this substance to be let into Germany. It is also controversial in Russia because the Russians were notified of the sting and believe that it was a ploy against them because ...
- 324: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then." (11) Fahrenheit 451 trends are perhaps most prevalent in Germany. Gόnther Deckert, a school teacher translated into German a work of American execution consultant, Fred Leuchter, titled The Leuchter Report. The report is Leuchter's 1988 analysis of the alleged gas chambers of Auschwitz and ... time, in a Karlsruhe court, Judge Eva-Marie Wollentin sentenced him to two years imprisonment - in what has been described as "the freest state in German history. The Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung spoke for many of Germany's modern editors in an editorial, intoning that it was a just sentence. "There was no reason to suspend the sentence passed on the rightwinger," it declared. "Deckert showed not the slightest repentance" In that ... receiving numerous complaints, a German publisher ordered the "recycling" of John Sack's An Eye for an Eye which recounts the story of Jewish revenge against the Germans after World War II. Citing information from Germany's Federal Archives, Sack, who is himself Jewish, maintains that 60,000 to 80,000 ethnic Germans were killed or otherwise perished between 1945 and 1948 in camps run by the Polish communist regime' ...
- 325: Battle Of The Bulge
- ... The battle of the bulge was Hitler's last chance to win the war or at least make the allies go for a treaty. He did this because his forces were being pushed back into Germany and soon they would run out of supplies and other resources for war. Hitler thought of this bold plain when he recalled how a German hero Frederick the great was facing defeat, Frederick went on ... new solders and the tired battered solders here . The Germans mobilized at this last chance they had to win the war and if they would lose this battle Hitler wanted all the Germans left in Germany to all burn any thing useful in Germany and every one to move to Berlin were all the German people would fight to the death. The Germans needed to cut the American forces in to two parts, this way the could easily ...
- 326: Cold War 2
- ... the re-establishment of the nations who were concored and destroyed by the Germens. These nations wold have elections and choose thir desired leaders creating more democratic nations. It turned Berlin and eastern half of Germany to Stalin and lastly Stalin agreed to join the war against Japan in two-three months after Germany has surendered and war in Europ was terminated. However this was all to change once Rosevelt and the rest of the politicians left. Rosevelt had failed to realise that Stalin wanted revenge and was going to create a buffer around its land to protect future invasions by Germany, this being the second consecutive attack by them. Americans had been atacked only once by Japan and therefor were fighting a war without feeling the war. Roosevelt however did not do enything to stop ...
- 327: The Reformation of European Religion
- ... spreading of Lutheranism, albeit sometimes indirectly. The agitation that Lutheranism was creating throughout Europe had revolutionary side effects where the reforming religious spirit was mistaken for that of a social and economic one, especially in Germany in the 1520s. A league of imperial knights, adopting Lutheranism, attacked their neighbors, the church-states of the Rhineland, hoping by annexations to enlarge their own meager territories. In 1524, the peasants of a large part of Germany revolted due to thoughts stirred up by preachers that took Luthers ideas a little too far: anyone could see for himself what was right. The peasants aims dealt not with religion, however. They demanded ... exactions and oppressive rule by their manorial overlords. Luther, in seeing his original intentions fractured for other uses, redefined his position more conservatively. Nonetheless, Lutheranism spread throughout the Scandinavian and Baltic regions as well as Germany. Lutheranism was closely associated with established states, inhibiting its widespread acceptance. The most widely accepted form of Protestantism was Calvinism, to be discussed shortly hereafter. It is apparent, however, that the Lutheran Reformation was ...
- 328: Bach
- ... He truly can be considered a music history great. Bach, who came from a family of over 53 musicians, was nothing short of a virtuosic instrumentalist as well as a masterful composer. Born in Eisenach, Germany, on March 21, 1685, he was the son of a masterful violinist, Johann Ambrosius Bach, who taught his son the basic skills for string playing. Along with this string playing, Bach began to play the ... training on these instruments combined with Bach s masterful skill paid off for him at an early age. After several years of studying with his older brother, he received a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Germany, which is located on the northern tip of the country. As a result, he left his brother s tutelage and went to go and study there. The teenage years brought Bach to several parts of Germany where he mainly worked as an organist in churches, since that was the skill he had perfected the best from his young training. However, a master of several instruments while still in his teens, ...
- 329: The Bible
- ... their choice of sin. Society chose to punish the individual and not their innocent family members for the crimes accomplished. Today people all over the world try to forget previous generations' crimes against humanity. In Germany it took many years after WWII for later generations to even write in history books what really happened. These younger generations felt ashamed and somewhat responsible for the crimes their ancestors committed. It took years ... were crawling with people who shunned these war victims - using violence and anger to push them back out of that town. These people continued the hatred the war brought out by blaming these victims for Germany's turmoil after the war ended. These people are as guilty as Hitler for they blamed the innocent for the war. They made themselves guilty, to another degree, of the same horror Hitler , " the father ", displayed. They tried to blame a minority group for something everyone in Germany was responsible for - the Jews did not ruin Germany, the government and the general population was responsible for all of her faults. These people chose their own path of cruelty and sin by promoting ...
- 330: Contain Communism
- ... United States launched the $13 billion Marshall Plan (see European Recovery Program) to rebuild Western and Central Europe. When Stalin responded by extending his control over Eastern Europe and threatening the West's position in Germany, Truman helped to create a military alliance the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and to establish an independent West Germany. The cold war widened in 1949-1950, when the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb and the Communists in China conquered their vast homeland. The Chinese Communists signed an alliance with Stalin, but the United ... three years later in a truce that left the prewar border intact. In 1953 Stalin died and Truman left office, but both sides continued to struggle over Europe. The USSR tried to protect Communist East Germany from serious population loss by building the Berlin Wall in 1961. Each superpower also attempted to gain influence over emerging nations in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. A serious crisis arose ...
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