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    During the reign of Adolf Hitler, Europe was taken into a state of chaos. German physicians were called to extermination camps. The reason was straightforward to them: They were called to camps to try to unlock the secrets of genetic engineering, hands stretched out in reach to get closer to creating the Aryan, or superior race. The use of Nazi eugenics was supported by the German government in order to create the Aryan and to exterminate those who did not fit into their criteria. They promoted the

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    Night

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    THHS Rachel Kupferberg, Rachel Maschler AP Literature-Band 6 May 1, 2011 Major Works Data Sheet- Night Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Date of Publication: 1958 Genre: autobiography, memoir Historical information about period of publication: World War II, and the Holocaust, ended in April 1945 when the liberating Allied armies came through the conquered territories in Nazi Europe. Night describes 16 year old Elie’s loss of faith in God, humanity, family

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    Essay on Holocaust 6

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    The Holocaust      Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried

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    For most of the 19th and 20th century race was a constant influential factor in society. Many countries used so called, theories of race, to justify persecution and discrimination within the country. These began to create the ideas of a superior white race and how these races were allowed to dominate due to social standard and strong genes. The most remembered occurrence in history in adapting these theories and aspects was in Nazi Germany and the persecution of the Jews. Social Darwinism, eugenics

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    World War 2 Summary

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    their homes, shipping them to safe locations, and smuggling them out of camps, some would also push food through the fences of the camps in an attempt to feed the starving people inside. Many Jews were subject to gruesome medical experiments. Dr. Josef Mengele used

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    The actress : Jessica Chastain My Chinese name: 孙蜀芳 My English name: Paige My class number: 13030143016 Date:2015/4/27 Ⅰ. Actress’s background Jessica Chastain was born in California, America, in March 24th, 1977. Estranged from her father, Chastain was raised by her mother, Jerri Chastain, and her stepfather, Michael Hastey, who she considers to be her father. His father was a fire fighter, and his mother was a housewife. She had two younger brothers and two younger sisters. She has

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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was one of the most powerful dictators of the 20th century. After World War One, he rose to power in the National Socialist German Workers Party, taking control of the German government in 1933. His establishment of concentration camps to control Jews and other groups he believed to be a threat to the Aryan race resulted in the death of more than six million people in the Holocaust. His attack on Poland in 1939 started World War Two, and by 1941 Germany occupied much of Europe

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    After evaluating the Nazis’ actions in detail, it is clear to see why they are recognized by most people as the worst people to ever live. They killed over eleven million people in the Holocaust, with six million of them being Jews (DoSomething.org). To give some perspective, this was two-thirds of the European Jews (DoSomething.org). Besides just killing many people, the Nazis also forced prisoners of concentration camps to work until they died, and regularly tortured them. Prior to killing the

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    During the Nazi Holocaust, multiple working and death camps were created to hold the captured Jews. While the Jews lived in this camp, they were tortured, mistreated, worked to death and eventually were put to death by either execution by firearm or were put into a death camp which exterminated the Jews using poison gas. The Nazi Party had developed many death camps in the central european area including the 6 death camps of Poland; Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, and Majdanek. Little

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    In Beyond Good And Evil

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    4 Perhaps one of the most horrifying experiments of all was preformed by Josef Mengele, also known as the “Angel of Death,” who sewed together a set of twins in an attempt to create Siamese twins. 1 In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche refers to several men as the “finest examples” of “marvelously incomprehensible and inexplicable

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