The Battle of the BulgeThe Ardennes offensive was a last ditch effort by the Germans to achieve an advantage in the war, but it turned out to be an acceleration of GermanyÕs ultimate demise. Previous to the offensive the Allies had managed to achieve a beach head and advance toward Germany from alm...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the book "The Fall of Berlin 1945" by Antony Beevor. Specifically, it will summarize and review the book, ending with a critical analysis of the book. Beevor's book is a detailed and disturbing look at the last days of World War II in...

The Holocaust- an historical overview Jewish life in Europe The Jews have had a very bad life, as a religion goes any way. Even in roman times thay have been persecuted for the religious beliefs. Thay had no rights what so ever, and thay were often used a religious sacrifices for the Roman...

Introduction The German Nazis of the 1930s and 1940s had an explicitly approved form of art. Unlike the other totalitarian regimes of the era, the approved forms of art were firmly integrated into their iconography and ideology and excluded any other art movement, including those that were popular ...

In 1939 Britain evacuate millions of children from its major cities and towns. Evacuate began on 1st September, roughly two days before Britain went to war. The Government wanted its children out of the way before the war started. Evacuation was voluntary, the Government expected over 3.5 million pe...

Nazi and Neo- Nazi Movements: 2 of a kind When considering the differences and similarities within the Nazi and the Neo-Nazi movement, one may infer that without the former and the mentality that it took to create the latter, neither would exist. Regardless of how or when the two existed, howe...

The Battle of the Bulge If you were the commander of a huge military force, would you rush your men into battle if you were not sure of the outcome? Hitler's Plan for turning the war around was totally outrageous. Many of the German plans were being over heard by Allied forces. The fierce ...

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The Holocaust was not a strictly Jewish event that only involved the European Jewry as a culture. The Holocaust began with the euthanasia acts that began in 1939 when under the Nazi Party citizens that were racially German who were mentally ill, physically disabled, and incurable sick were gassed an...

Tarek El ZeinHolocaust Jesus or Hitler?Anti-Semitism was widespread in Europe at the time Hitler came to power. Much of this anti-Semitism was rooted, first, in religious beliefs that arose more than 1500 years before Hitler came to power, and second, on political beliefs, often cynically exploit...

Did Hitler Plan the Outbreak of War? After the conclusion of the Second World War, many historians posed their own opinions about how the war began. Many pointed their finger towards the works of Hitler, and argued strongly against the views of A.J.P. Taylor. Hugh Trevor Roper takes the following...

THE BEGGININGS OF THE COLD WAR The Cold War is not just one single war taking place in one area, but a large conflict between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union (USSR) and its allies. In this report, I am going to tell you about the happenings of the Cold War between the pe...

The Lebensborn Project The topic of eugenics cannot be discussed without encountering the Holocaust, but this is as it should be. When contemporary geneticists, genetics counselors and clinical geneticists wonder why it is that genetics receives special attention from those concerne...

A Critique of 'D-Day June 6,1944: The Climatic battle of WWII' The book D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II was written by Stephen E. Ambrose, and published by Simon & Schuester in New York. This book begins with a prologue that is followed by 32 chapters, a glossary, endnote...

Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945) Founder and leader of Nazi Party, Head of State and Commander of the Armed Forces, Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on April 20, 1889. Hitler was born to Austrian customs officials, Alois Schickelgruber Hitler, and his third wife, Klara Poelzl, both from Austria. Hitle...

During the 1930's, the Nazis were in power. They seemed to be in total control of the population, but was this actually the case? This essay will show you that although there seemed to be no chinks in the Nazi armour, there were actually a few loopholes that escaped Hitler's grasp, such ...

A Decade of Uneasy Peace World War II was the worst war that was fought in the 20th Century, and perhaps the worst war in the history of man. The loss of lives in World War II was a staggering 50-60 million dead (Mitchner, Tuffs Global Forces of the 20th Century 130). World War II also ushered in t...

William Golding wrote " Lord of the Flies " after the Second World War was over. Many of the things that Golding wrote about can be related to aspects of war. One of the major themes in the book is the power struggle between Jack and Ralph. In war this represents the two sides, the Allies and the Ax...

Time and Culturally Based MoralityAny way you look at it millions and millions of Germans did believe in Hitler. And it was a belief that was spread not only in the slums or ignorant but it included intellectuals, scientists, and political party members, even opposing party mem...

In the spring and summer of 1941, the Second World War began to spiral into a truly global conflict. In 1940, the World War was in reality a combination of several regional conflicts around the globe and couldn't truly be classified as a global war. In Europe, Hitler's Germany had overrun...

In 1919, a defeated Germany was forced to abandon government under the Kaiser, who had fled to Belgium and adopt the Weimar, a democratic but flawed system. Soon after Hitler and the Nazi Party appeared, and years later the Weimar Republic fell. What accounted for the fall of the Weimar? My essay w...

In 1919, a defeated Germany was forced to abandon government under the Kaiser, who had fled to Belgium and adopt the Weimar, a democratic but flawed system. Soon after Hitler and the Nazi Party appeared, and years later the Weimar Republic fell. What accounted for the fall of the Weimar? My essay...

Charles Darwin was the first person to propose the theory of "natural selection" and "Survival of the fittest" by which he explained the inner workings of nature to either help sustain or eliminate a species. According to the theory it is the design of nature to sustain the healthy and th...

DO WE NEED TO LEARN TO THINK SCIENTIFICALLY IN ORDER TO FIND THE TRUTH? What is truth? A question that has undoubtedly endured many hundreds of years of ponderment? So whom am I to ask the question in face of the minds that have gone before me, and even if I decide that the conclusion that I ...

The true nature of a man's ability and worthiness is assessed not only by his triumphs but also his failures. Quite often all that is achieved may suddenly be overshadowed by dark clouds of fallacy, occurring lightning fast, and having thunderous repercussions. Through either ineptness, deficiency...