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- 691: Auschwitz
- ... two Nazi organizations-the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941 and included a women's section after August 1942. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria ... to liberate the camp on January 27, 1945, they found about 7600 survivors abandoned there. More than 58,000 prisoners had already been evacuated by the Nazis and sent on a final death march to Germany. In 1946 Poland founded a museum at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in remembrance of its victims. By 1994, about 22 million visitors-700,000 annually-had passed through the iron gates that ...
- 692: What is Virtual Reality
- ... been a fair bit of discussion ongoing in the sci.virtual-worlds newsgroup (check the Sept./Oct. 93 archives) about this and some other studies. One contributor, Dipl.-Ing. Olaf H. Kelle, University of Wuppertal, Germany, reported only 10% of his users showing eye strain. His system is setup with a focal depth of 3m which seems to be a better, more comfortable viewing distance. Others have noted that long duration ... of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration (DARPA) SIMNET project of the later 1980s. SIMNET was/is a collection of tank simulators (Cab type) that are networked together to allow unit tactical training. Simulators in Germany can operate in the same virtual world as simulators in the USA, partaking of the same battle exercise. The basic Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol has been defined by the Orlando Institute for Simulation & Training ...
- 693: Johann Sebastian Bach
- ... Passion, and Jesu Der Du Meine Seele. He came from a family of musicians. There were over 53 musicians in his family over a period of 300 years. Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Germany on March 21, 1685. His father, Johann Ambrosius Bach, was a talented violinist, and taught his son the basic skills for string playing; another relation, the organist at Eisenach's most important church, instructed the ... a professional organist, and continued his younger brother's education on that instrument, as well as on the harpsichord. After several years in this arrangement, Johann Sebastian won a scholarship to study in Luneberg, Northern Germany, and so left his brother's tutelage. A master of several instruments while still in his teens, Johann Sebastian first found employment at the age of 18 as a "lackey and violinist" in a court ...
- 694: George Orwell Wrote 1984 As A Political Statement Against Totalitarianism
- ... it" ("George Orwell"). George Orwell has been a major contributor to anti-communist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the totalitarianism state, Nazi Germany, was at war with England and destroyed the city of London. "'I know that building' said Winston finally. Its a ruin now. It's in the middle of the street outside the Palace of Justice ... World War II. During that time Soviets gained six nations as satellites. England was helpless and had to worry about their own problems and had to watch the Soviet Union take control of half of Germany. The leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, closely resembles Big Brother. They were both larger than life figures in there respective countries. In the Soviet Union you could easily have found large posters with Stalin ...
- 695: Atomic Bomb
- ... Pear Harbor, Hawaii, which was the principal American naval base in the Pacific (Johnson 18). The next day, the 'sleeping giant' took action and declared war on Japan. As the war raged on, and as Germany eventually surrendered, the United States found itself essentially fighting alone against an implacable enemy in the Pacific. In an attempt to undermine the Japanese will to fight, the United States bombed most of its major ... Brown 79) (Johnson 25) (Yamanaka 128) In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki the tremendous scale of the disaster largely destroyed the cities as entities in themselves. Even the worst of all other previous bombing attacks on Germany and Japan, such as incendiary raids on Hamburg in 1943, and on Tokyo in 1945, were not comparable to the paralyzing effect of the atomic bombs (Brown 89). In addition to the huge number of ...
- 696: Alber Einstein
- By: Angel Mendoza Albert Einstein Albert Einstein was a famous scientist, writer and professor. He was born in Ulm, Germany, on March 24,1879. As a child, Einstein wasn't like the other boys: he hated school but loved math. He was shy, and talked very slowly. He didn't participate in sports but instead ... interested in science. When he wanted to relax he would play the violin which he started playing at the age of six. The kocks, his mother's family, and the Einstein had lived in Southern Germany for more than a century, selling cloth, farming, and clerking in banks. During their free hours they enjoyed boating on the Danube and walking in the woods. Both families were Jewish . In 1880, when Albert ...
- 697: Existentialism And Theatre
- ... known for the "Theatre engage" or Theatre 'committed', which is supposedly committed to social and/or political action. One of the major playwrights during this period was Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre had been imprisoned in Germany in 1940 but managed to escape, and become one of the leaders of the Existential movement. Other popular playwrights were Albert Camus, and Jean Anouilh. Just like Anouilh, Camus accidentally became the spokesman for the ... popularized a new form of surrealistic theatre called "Theatre of the Absurd". Many historians contribute the sudden popularity of absurdism in France to the gruesome revelations of gas chambers and war atrocities coming out of Germany after the war. The main idea of The Theatre of the Absurd was to point out man's helplessness and pointless existence in a world without purpose. As Richard Coe described it "It is the ...
- 698: Adoph Hitler
- ... Later in his army career he received two of the most honorable awards, the first class iron cross. A man told Hitler of a rumor stating the Bavarian government is going to break away from Germany and join Austria. Outraged, Hitler gave many persuasive speeches on why the government shouldn’t break away. Later Hitler took over a group and renaming it NSADAP, which is infamously known as the Nazi party ... of the President, he held an election to combine the companies. He launched another propaganda company, and he won. Hitler had total control, and he had to answer to no one. The expansion of on Germany began in 1938, when Hitler’s army marched into Austria, and later into Czechoslovakia. The invasion of Poland 1939 triggered World War II, a war that last almost five years and cost the lives of ...
- 699: Tom Clancy's Genius
- ... Red Storm Rising is Tom Clancy’s second novel dealing with the former Soviet Union as a potential enemy. This was a time when America’s finest tank and infantry units went on exercises in Germany fully armed with the expectation that the Russians could attack them at any time. This was also a time when the Soviets did the same exercises with the same amount of live ammunition. Therefore there ... the Russian language (Clancy 55). The description of Bob Toland could apply to anyone in the Washington D.C. area or any neighborhood across the U.S. With the ending of world communism, reunification of Germany, and breakup of the Soviet Union, Tom Clancy’s books evolved to present more modern enemies and even several “What if?” situations. This is the case with his latest novel Debt of Honor. This installment ...
- 700: Where Should the Line Be Drawn?
- ... Night occurs in several different countries. Howard spends most of his childhood in Schenectady, New York. When his father, an engineer for the General Electric Company, is reassigned, the family moves to move to Berlin, Germany. After World War II, Howard is secreted by the CIA back to New York to escape extradition for crimes committed while under cover. Howard eventually turns himself in and is sent to Israel to be ... does his job too well and causes more harm than good. Vonnegut divides the setting of the novel into three distinct categories. After living in America as a child, Campbell and his parents move to Germany. Howard eventually becomes a playwright in the German language and marries German actress, Helga Noth. Sadly, Helga is presumed dead during the war. In 1938, Howard Campbell is recruited by Major Frank Wirtanen to be ...
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