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- 271: Hero As Schinder
- ... United States and Europe because he risked his life and spent all he had to save a race of people his country was so against. He saved more than 1,200 human lives during the Holocaust of World War II and he is considered one of the greatest heroes of this century. Oskar Schindler was born on April 18, 1908 in Zwittau, Austria-Hungary. Both his mother and father (Louisa and ...
- 272: Genocide
- ... had not hated these Jews and instead if killing them and putting them in gas chambers in awful concentration camps, he could have won World War 2. The Jews genocide is also known as the Holocaust. Nazis were unbelievably harsh and monster-like when it came to dealing with Jews. Six Million Jews were killed in camps (Harff 11). A very well known camp is Auschwitz. Charny also wrote that Nazis ...
- 273: East-timor-conflict
- ... third of 690,000 inhabitants died through hunger and sickness. The US-American Scientist Noam Chomsky said the Indonesian occupying forces is guilty for the maybe highest deathrate related to the total population since the Holocaust. For your engagement for a peaceful solution of the conflict the East Timorese bishop Carlos Belo and the abroad acting speaker of the resistance movement Josι Ramos-Horta were awarded for the Nobel Peace Prize ...
- 274: Elie Wiesel Biography
- Eliezer Wiesel was born in 1928, a native of Sighet, Transylvania (Romania) which is near the Ukrainian border; He grew up experiencing first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust, this started when at fifteen years old Wiesel and his family were deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz. His mother and younger sister perished there, his two older sisters survived. Wiesel and his father were ...
- 275: Developement Of Europe
- ... World War II. It originated in Germany and was used as a way of saying that the slate was wiped clean. The Germans that survived the war did not want to be associated with the Holocaust and a war the took millions of lives. Zero hour was their way of saying they wanted to start over. Eventually, however, zero hour became a term for all of Europe. After the destruction of ...
- 276: D-day
- ... would have to say that if you think you have a more important day than D-day then you must be selfish, but thats my opinion. World War II was not just about the Holocaust and Hitler. It was about D-day, the day where many lost their lives to keep the rights that we have today, and showed the importance of getting involved, and helping ones neighbor.
- 277: Cuban Missile Crisis
- ... it obvious that his actions were unnecessarily risky, without enough cause. By gambling with such high stakes when the outcome was so unpredictable and potentially disastrous, JFK was more willing than Khrushchev to risk a holocaust. In the 35-plus years since the crisis, nothing has surfaced that proves that Moscow ever had any intent other than the defensive position it claimed. Consider this statement made by Kruschev in his memoirs ...
- 278: Cuban Missile Crisis 4
- ... events unfolded before their eyes; If any decision had have been different, it might have led to WW III. That is not a very comforting thought, knowing that we were so close to a nuclear holocaust. Many believe Kennedy made the right decision, I ! stand with that group; Others believe we should have conducted surgical strikes against the bases to show we would not tolerate a threat that close to our ...
- 279: Comparison Of Hitler And Stali
- ... would mean less opposition to his ideas. This assured Stalin full control over the communist party. Hitler was the other example of an amoral person. He demonstrated this after he got into power with the holocaust, but he did not foreshadow his amorality much before he got into power. One incidence of his amorality was when he killed all of his opposition. The first major victim of the Nazis was the ...
- 280: Anti -semitism
- ... a very anti-Semitic type of thinking that he developed on his own. I hope by reading this you have developed a better idea of what exactly went on during World War II and the Holocaust. I also hope that you will go and find out more about the anti-Semitic acts of World War II. I would like to leave you with a statement that I want you to think ...
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