Summary Number the Stars takes place during World War II. The main character, Annemarie Johansen is best friends with a girl who belongs to a Jewish family in Gernmany. Annemarie also has a younger sister, Kirsti, and her older sister, Lise, died two weeks before her wedding date to a boy named...

Causes of the Holocaust The rise of the nazi's and the hatred of the Jews became known as the holocaust. Adolf Hitler being one of the biggest names that is known with the holocaust isn't the only person that contributed to this massacre of Jews. People where held in ghetto camps and later sent t...

History History- An account of facts, particularly respecting nations or states; that branch of knowledge which details with the past events; narration; a story; an account of existing things. This is the definition of the word history from Webster's Expanded Dictionary, 1991. Today the wo...

Hitler's Rise To Power Who or what was responsible for Hitler's rise to power? Many believe that there was only one factor for his rise to power. Some state that Hitler could not have risen to power in any other than Germany, implying that he was nothing more than a product of German c...

I will leap laughing to my grave, because the feeling that I have five million people on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction -Adolf Eichmann On May 29, 1962, Adolf Eichmann was convicted and sentenced to death for crimes against humanity, the Jewish people, and crimes dur...

TITLE: Why did the British government follow a policy of appeasement in the 1930s? After World War I Germany limped back, licking its wounds that the Treaty of Versailles had so mercilessly rubbed in salt. As one looks back on the events leading up to World War II it has to be asked whet...

"The Rise of Hitler" I. Introduction Exactly how did Hitler come into power? What drove him to become the way he was? Why did he kill all those people? In this report, I'll examine these questions and many others. II. The early years Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 at Br...

Hitler and His Downfall To many World War II has been the most devastating war in human history. It had been global military conflict that caused the loss of millions of lives as well as material destruction. The war began in Europe in September of 1939. It ended on May 8, 1945. This day was mar...

Nazi Leaders in World War II- Many people have contributed to the cruel treatment of human beings, specifically Jews, in Nazi Germany during the second World War. This is a report on the damage carried out by some of the Nazi criminals working under the rule of Adolf Hitler. Many people ...

The Numerberg Trials Were Unfair After World War II, the victorious Allies decided to hold a trial for the defeated Nazis. These trials lasted from November 20, 1945 till October 1, 1946. Although the victors claimed that they would give the accused a fair trial, upon closer inspection we can...