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58The Denial of the Holocaust
A look at modern day Holocaust denial, how it started, who's responsible and the steps that some are taking to combat it.
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90Genocides In History
Genocide is a blow to humanity at the lowest level when a group of people are treat like animals. That is they are treated less than humans because of their culture, religious beliefs, sexual preferences and even because they are of a different ethnic group. This article explains the events that ultimately lead to the process of committing genocide.
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72A Review of Filip Mueller's "Eyewitness Auschwitz"
Between the years of 1941 and 1943, approximately seven million people lost their lives within the confines of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Located in occupied Poland, Auschwitz rapidly became a highly industrialized killing apparatus whose...
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90Japanese Internment
December 7, 1941, was “a date which will live in infamy” as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated in his speech to Congress, when he declared war against Japan. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor in the islands of Hawaii. Within 24...
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85American GI's and German Soldiers
Considering that America was engaged in a war against Germany, American soldiers, with few exceptions, entertained fairly positive, even sympathetic feelings for German soldiers and civilians. After the war veterans were asked to name their favorite European country. It is illustrative that four out of five GIs named Germany as their favorite European country.
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91Two novels about racism
A review of two novels which paint in stark yet moving details the dreadful evil of racism, its effects on ordinary people trying to live their ordinary lives, and the extraordinary things that racism imposes on them.
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81What Most Germans Knew About the Nazi Concentration Camp System Part -- II
In their oral history testimonies, letters, questionnaires, interviews, and journals American soldiers explain why they did not accept German protestations of ignorance and innocence. GIs from the 42nd, 45th, 71st, 88th, and 103rd Infantry Divisions, and the 11th Armored Division, and the 69th Signal Battalion all referred to the incredible odor emanating from the Nazi concentration camps.
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81Discussion of the book "Night" by Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel The town Sighet, located in northern Romania, Transylvania, is the initial location of this story of one Holocaust survivor. This book, "Night" by Elie Wiesel, is an autobiography of this young Jewish male. To say that he is Jewish...
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82How were homosexuals treated before the 21st century
How were homosexuals treated before the 21st Century. Homosexuality throughout history. GLBT History
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78NIGHT--A book of the Holocaust by Elie Wiesel
"Night" is a true story written by a concentration camp survivor. It's a little and powerful book; written so simply, so truly. The author, Elie Wiesel, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
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