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    the essence, we will be protecting our country for a better future.) The commanding officer announced. “The Soviets are coming!?” “Freedom, finally!” “Overthrow those Nazi bastards!” The crowd suddenly erupted. “Beruhigen die Hölle hinab! Alles von Dir!” (Calm down! All of you!) The officer shouted. “Freedom!” “Kill ‘em all!” “Die!” Screams erupted from all over the crowd, an uprising had begun. “Alle Wachen, zum Verwaltungsgebäude, haben die Männer in Rebellion ausgebrochen!” (All guards, to the administration building, the men have erupted into rebellion) The speaker crackled. “No way, there’s no way this could happen!?” The guards broke into sheer panic. They were at least outnumbered 10 to 1. “What are we supposed to do!?” “Feuer frei! Feuer frei!!” (Open Fire, Open Fire!) The sergeant of Dietrich’s squad shouted. Ka! Crack! Crack Crack! Ka! Crack Crack Crack! Crack Crack Crack! Ka! Crack Crack Crack! The machine gun nests opened up. The entire camp turned into a warzone in a matter of seconds. Dietrich was running down one of the side streets, trying to find the rest of his squad. He turned a corner. Three prisoners jumped out at him. “You bastards kept us locked up for years, it’s your turn.” “Get him!” Dietrich had no idea how to respond. “Get away, an... and I won’t hurt you.” He said, almost sounding like he was going to cry. “Looks like we got a rookie here, you guys up for some fun?” Dietrich was just about to say something when he noticed their armbands.…

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    We hopped off the train only to jump onto the hard, cold, fear filled dirt. I looked ahead seeing only small building and a barb wired fence. Curiously, I asked my mom where we were. She responded with a falling tear and two words, “Concentration Camp”. I was curious towards these two words not understanding what they meant. I saw the waiters cowering inside the train as if they were playing hide and seek. It reminded me of childhood games of hide and seek in the house. The tour guide gathered…

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    the largest of the Nazi 's camps and the biggest killing center ever created. In Auschwitz, 1.1 million people were murdered. It became a symbol of death during the Holocaust and the destruction of European Jewish population. (Rosenberg, J. n.d.) Auschwitz included three main camps, all of which forced prisoners into labor. One of the camps also worked for an extended period of time as a killing center. (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189) The first part of…

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    the global market, exportation of goods increasing from $855.4 million to $3,836.5 million and foreign direct investment increasing from $2.3 million to $383 million in the range of time 1972-1981 brought about massive growth known as the “” economic miracle”” (Davis-Hamel, 2012), averaging “7.3% from 1976 to 1981” reducing inflation from 505% to 19.7%. Integration in the global market for Chile crossed off the Eighth MDG, where Chile developed global partners in trade. Pinochet’s new…

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    (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Auschwitz was found on a former military base outside of Krakow. Anyone who was living around this camp was ejected from their homes and the land was bulldozed by the Nazi to make room. The camp was originally meant to be a place where the arrested Poles were sent it was known as a Detention Camp. When Hitler 's Final Solution policy came into effect Auschwitz was deemed as an ideal death camp (Auschwitz). Auschwitz was set up in multiple different camps with in the one…

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    Elie Wiesel Thesis

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    camps, the Nazi’s would often have night runs( an exercise in which the Jew would have to run from concentration camps to concentration camps). The consequence of slowing down, of course, would be death. Jews out of all things became the slaves of hard work and labor. The Jew often had to work in factories, they did not really having any experience with the jobs so they would often have to work hard and long hours. This was mostly the jobs main job while on the concentration camps. Their…

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    was in a deep slumber, as what eventually happened to me. I dreamt I was back at my real home, in school. I despised school with an intense passion, yet at that moment, I’d have rather been anywhere else. Everyone said I was gifted in academics, but I was really only interested in art. I would color pictures of the sky in a deep chocolate color and in white, my favorite color. Everyone always insisted it was not a color, but I refused to believe them. I awoke from my nostalgic dream to an…

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    Maus Spiegelman Analysis

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    begins to introduces his passed by leading Art to his old room. He goes on the stationary bike with a hand holding the handlebars and another holding the seat, and he says, “It's good for my heart, the pedaling"(M I 12). The panel he says the line, Spiegeiman added Vladek’s figure shadow lines, but everything in the room remain only the outline without shadows. In Vladek’s face I see vicissitudes, gloomy and miserable because he has to recall the memory before the War. Vladek had continues to be…

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