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    “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future,” once said Adolf Hitler. The youth are said to be the saviors of the world, the ones who can make a difference; controlling them would mean controlling the difference. With the same totalitarian mindset, this Nazi leader controlled the youth and made them change the future, too. Adolf Hitler was an important and influential figure in history that had a negative impact on the world because of his dictatorship after Germany’s long held independence…

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    of, from various cities around the country. Because of these skeptical calls, rumors start to swirl from numerous attendees. Such rumors consist of accusations that “‘He’s a bootlegger . . . ‘one time he killed a man’ . . . ‘he (is) nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil’” (Fitzgerald 61). As expected, these outlandish rumors are not true, but they are not far off. The reader later finds out the Gatsby operates many drug stores illegally and is involved with Meyers Wolfshiem, a…

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    votes. In 1932 Hitler stands as a candidate in the Presidential elections, he comes in second but in the Reichstag election of that year, the Nazi party became the largest single party. The German president reelected for a second term, is Paul Von Hindenburg, a hero of the Great War is now 86 years old and in failing…

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    In the summer of 1917, British forces launched a strategic offensive campaign near the town of Ypres, Belgium, against the German Army resulting in approximately 200,000 dead German Soldiers, and nearly 300,000 dead British Soldiers. The British aimed to relieve the worn-out French forces already in place, and then take possession of the areas above the plain of Flanders, mainly the city of Passchendaele and its surrounding areas. The result was a sound beating of the British forces by the…

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    calorimeter. On the American continent balloon flight was developing and the first manned flight took place on the 9th January 1793 the pilot was Jean- pierre Blanchard. George Washington observed the launch. Airships, blimps became popular until the Hindenburg, a luxurious passenger airship caught fire killing 35…

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    The Nazi reign in Germany is a key event in the 1900’s. Hitler could not do all of it by himself, she he hired Leni Rifensthal as his camerawomen. Hitler’s terror effected everyday people and made them fear him. This paper describes how one woman made a huge impact and played a large roll in Hitler’s power and fame. The question answered in the following research paper is: How did Leni Riefenstahl play a role in Hitler’s propaganda machine? I will answer this in several parts and explain what…

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    leader; he had the people rallying behind him the whole time. Hitler was the Chancellor of Germany and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was a successful dictator. Hitler’s rise to power began when he was appointed as Chancellor of Germany when Hindenburg agreed to appoint him to the position…

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    Like many soldiers, Wilfred Owen, was faced with harsh tasks. He marched six miles over shelled roads and flooded trenches in the middle of No Man’s Land in the dark. Being a soldiers, among other things, heavily influenced his work. Among those other things, were his mother, his priesthood, and his perceived homosexuality. However Wilfred, was not a poet known to support the war. Wilfred Owen born on March 18, 1893 in Shropshire, England was a famous poet in the time of World War…

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    Chapter 1: What is the historical event about? The Final Solution: The mass killing of The Holocaust 1.1 Concept of Superiority and Anti-Semitism After the World War I, Adolf Hitler who was the leader of a political organization called Nazis, became the dictator of Germany in January 1933. During his rise to power, he successfully convinced the people to believe that Germans with fair skin tone, blond hair and blue eyes were the superior form of human which was also known as the master race of…

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