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    Holocaust Memorial Museum) There were many types of camps, including labor camps, transit camps, and killing centers that were designed for mass murder. Over 6 million people died, mostly Jews, but there were also Social Democrats, asocials, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler became chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, The SA (commonly known as Storm Troopers), or the elite guard of the Nazi…

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    Elie Wiesel had once said “Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.” Auschwitz was the camp with the most killed people, but it also had the most survivors because of labor (van Pelt, Auschwitz). Auschwitz, a malefaction against humanity, was the site of many unspeakable horrors that still have an impact on society today. Auschwitz originally wasn't an…

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    Terezin Research Paper

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    Terezin had too much that it was full,approximately 5,000 Jews.Prisoners like Jehovah's witnesses,Homosexuals, and Disabilities were captured.Those prisoners were useless to be working.So,they were sent into a crematorium to burn into ashes.The rest worked,but if not they get a punishment,perhaps getting hanged. In June 2,1942…

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    Barnette involved Jehovah’s Witnesses evoking the First Amendment to challenge one of West Virginia’s laws. A statute of West Virginia “required schoolchildren to recite the Pledge of Allegiance even if they (or their parents) objected to the Pledge’s content” (Alexander 150-151)…

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    About 6 million Jews, 3 million Soviet prisoners of war, 3 million Poles, 700,000 Serbs, 250,000 Gypsies, 80,000 German political prisoners, 70,000 disabled people, 12,000 homosexuals, and 2,500 Jehovah's Witnesses were brutally murdered by the Nazis. As a result of this slaughter on a grand scale, the term genocide was introduced to international law. Although it would be impossible to try every the most senior officer to the youngest member of Hitler…

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    victims who died. Jews have been hated by many people, not just the Germans. Unfortunately Adolf Hitler decided to take it upon himself and cause world terror and destruction. The Nazi’s didn’t only kill Jews they killed African Americans, Jehovah’s witnesses, and anyone who helped hide Jews or just was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hitler’s motivation was to create a master race of blond hair and blue eyes. Oddly enough Hitler himself has brown hair and blue eyes.…

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    Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. At the meetings, anyone can comment on things that they like about what we are studying, so it is good to have read and know the material being covered. Due to that, I have learned how to read much better than I believe I would have without. The people that were involved in this would be almost everyone I know, from my parents to just plain friends in the congregation. The reason that I began attending these meetings is because my parents are also Jehovah’s…

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    * New Evidence That Demands a Verdict — named one the twentieth century’s top 40 books and one of the thirteen most influential books of the last 50 years on Christian thought by World Magazine. * I did my research from the book, New Evidence That Demands a Verdict. This book is separated into four parts and I focused on Part 1: The Case for the Bible. Slide 7: * In New Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Josh McDowell expresses his reasoning for the truth in Christianity through his…

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    by Hitler. The Nazi’s came and took over Germany on January 30 in the year 1933. The types of people that Hitler found unworthy of living was the Jews, Polish, Gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war, Homosexuals, Handicapped, Blacks, Freemasons, Jehovah’s witnesses, etc. A Jewish holocaust survivor, Jews were a type of victims that were included in the Holocaust. In the year 1933, there were…

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    The United States of America was built on freedom. The founding fathers strongly believed in our freedom and therefore protected it in the Constitution. One of the major freedoms protected by the First Amendment is the freedom of religion. However, not every practice of religion is considered lawful by Congress. Due to this, there has been controversy in interpreting to what extent our religious freedom is allowed as outlined in the Constitution. As a result, the framers of the Constitution have…

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