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98What Did Most Germans Know About the Nazi Concentration Camp System?
Americans often assume that most German civilians knew next to nothing about Hitlers Final Solution and were unaware that the SS controlled and administered the concentration camp system. While the death camps were located in conquered Poland, hundreds and hundreds of concentrations camps were scattered across the populated areas of Germany, most within walking or biking distance of towns and cities. They were not hidden; they served as public warning to opponents of the Nazi regime.
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94How to Improve Your German Vocabulary-Gender Rules
I am planning to post a series of articles on how to improve German language vocabulary skills. I hope you will enjoy the content whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner or you learned the language...
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94German made easy-The Present Perfect Tense
Continued from German made easy A sentence like this.... " I have bought a car" would be ich habe einen wagen "gekauft". Notice the verb "kaufen" ="to buy" remove "en" add "t" at the end and add "ge" as prefix. Note that just like in...
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93Operation Drumbeat: Nazi U-boats Off the American Coast, 1942
Drumbeat, at least in theory, had been planned as far back as 1897. Germany had always been fascinated with attacking America, a land insulated and buffered by two oceans. There was a desire to “break” this immunity. Thus, in 1897, when Hitler...
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93How to Learn a New Foreign Language Fast -- Learning Can be Very Easy in Your Own Country or Abroad with these Top Tips!
Do you want to learn a foreign language fast? Maybe you would like to learn a few languages! I've studied many languages over the years, and here are my top tips for learning quickly and remembering for a long time.
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90Planning for a Post-Euro Europe
What would happen if the euro collapses? What would the value of the post-euro currencies be the day after the euro collapses? How will the euro's collapse affect the US? How will the euro's collapse affect China? How will the euro's collapse affect the UK?
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92Peru's Ciudad Constitucion: A Dream Never Realized
Many capital cities were changed around in the last 100 to 150 years, some being built from the ground-up. The one that stands out is probably Brasilia which rose from the jungles of Brazil in 1960 and, after many problems, is now accepted as that...
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88Understanding Heidegger's The Question Concerning Technology
It has always been my conviction that the basic insights of the great philosophers can be rendered in pleasing, non-technical prose for everyone to understand. The great ideas arise as a result of experienced reality, a reality shared by everyone....
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91World War 2 History: Sitzkrieg- The Plan to Wait for Hitler
When the Germans invaded poland Britain and France declared war on Germany and gathered 110 divisions arrayed against the 23 German divisions given the hopeless task of holding the Allies at bay until the war in Poland was over. For eight months, the Allies waited for the Germans to attack.
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91Run, Lola, Run's Unique Approach to Gender
Run, Lola, Run AKA Lola rennt (dir. Tom Tykwer, 1998) It is hard to ignore a film with a narrative driven by such a strikingly motivated, mobile (and arguably potent) female lead. Surely, the simple fact of her presence must mean that the film has...
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