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    The role of ordinary Germans in the Holocaust is that of bystanders. The people of Germany watched on, without protest, as the Jewish people were murdered. Small and large jobs such as engineering and railway work contributed to the operation of the Holocaust and the murdering of Jews. The manipulation of the German people, through racist and anti-Semitic propaganda, speeches and polices from Hitler, meant that millions of Germans backed the plans to rid the nation of Jews. The idea that the Jews

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    Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Synopsis – Hitler’s Willing Executioners is a work that may change our understanding of the Holocaust and of Germany during the Nazi period. Daniel Goldhagen has revisited a question that history has come to treat as settled, and his researches have led him to the inescapable conclusion that none of the established answers holds true. Drawing on materials either unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Goldhagen presents new evidence to show that many beliefs

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    Ordinary Germans and soldiers are culpable in the Holocaust in addition to Hitler and the Nazi inner circle. They are guilty for the Holocaust as well because of their long-standing antisemitism, knowledge of the enormities, and actual assistance in the Holocaust. Although Hitler was the leading force for the Holocaust, he was supported by ordinary Germans and soldiers who agreed with his beliefs and participated in the atrocities just as much. Antisemitism was the beginning and the cause of the

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    Effect Of Accounting Information On The Share Prices By Estimating And Comparing The Movement Of Share Prices Of Three Companies Working In The Same Industry. The Results From The Comparison Of All Three Companies Are At Last Compared To The All Ordinaries Index To Determine General View Of The Market. The Basic Purpose Of The Report Is To Examine The Effect On Share Prices Of Metcash After Its Profit Announcement. The Information Such As Returns, Residual And Cumulative Residual Are Extracted From

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    To: ASX Investor Seminar From: Henry Kennedy Date:15/3/2017 Purpose: The purpose of this report is to analyse the performance of Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd (FLT) share price over the last six months. Compared FLT to the ASX 200 and evaluation through the “GICS” Industry that it belongs to. This report also notes future dividends and announcements made by FLT. Company background: FLT is the largest retail travel company in Australia, offering flights, cruises and holiday packages. The company

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    In the book, Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, Conrad Jarrett undergoes different stages in life that occur after his incident. Throughout these phases he sees a change in himself as a whole. The most pivotal moment in his psychological and moral development transpires when Dr. Berger comes into Conrad's life. Dr. Berger becomes his guiding principle that eventually leads him to progress in areas he struggles in such as forgiveness, happiness, and acceptance. Through these developments Conrad is

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    The Worst Day Of My Life

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    Once there was a girl named Crystal who thought that she had her whole life planned out from the day she would get a job and then to the day she would be no more. That was until she did something that she did every year on one special day. Although she didn't know that that day and what she did would change her life for the greater good. But first, let us go back to the beginning before her life changed and from her viewpoint. Crystal tells her tale Today is a cold and sad day, today is my grandmothers

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    The Ego and Despair in Ordinary People   Ordinary People by Judith Guest is the story of a dysfunctional family who relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i.e. an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or prevent anxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and Calvin Jarrett, home after eight months in a psychiatric hospital, there because he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists

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    Recovering from trauma is often a difficult and painstaking journey. In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye and the movie Ordinary People, two characters named Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett struggle with their lives in their own bildungsromans, stories about the coming of age. When their brothers die, both Holden and Conrad suffer emotional trauma which causes them to push people away. These episodes complicate their efforts to connect with people and further meddle with their recovery from the

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    after the collection of short stories Νιότη χωρίς τραγούδια Sofia Fildisi published the novel Ο μεγάλος μας αδερφός also set in the period of the Occupation. Just like in her previous book, in this novel too, the author does not distinguish between Germans and Nazis and words like ‘Nazism’, ‘Nazis’ or ‘Third Reich’ are nowhere to be found in over one hundred fifty pages of narrative text. This is of particular importance as Ο μεγάλος μας αδερφός is the only text published in the first period the metapolitefsi

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