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    Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was the person who started World War II and watched over fascist polices, it resulted in millions of deaths. He was born in the Branau am Inn in Austria on April 20, 1889, to Alois Hitler and Klara Polz and was the fourth of six children. At the age of 3, Hitler’s family left Austria and moved to Germany. When he was a child he clashed with his father frequently. His father wanted him to have interest in business, however…

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    The Book Thief: Summary

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    was after an airplane crash when the sky was black. Their last meeting was after a small German town was bombed, when everything was red. The book takes place in the World War II in Germany. Liesel, her mother and her brother are travelling to Munich because the children will be living…

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    Hitler dressed in civilian went to the meeting of about 25 in the back of a Munich beer hall. He listened to their speeches on economics until one man stood up and said that he believed that the German state of Bavaria should break away and become an Austrian state. This enraged Hitler and he stood up and lectured the man uninterrupted…

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    In 1936, Oskar Schindler became a spy for the Nazi’s. He was soon arrested for treason under the Czech government, which lead to him being released under the Munich agreement. The Munich agreement is a settlement permitting the Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was originated. Once bailed from jail, he decided to continue gathering information from his last mission as…

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    The Book Thief by Markus Zusak “received many awards for .., including the Michael L. Printz Honor and the Kathleen Mitchell Award(Australia).”(“Markus”). Which are awarded for excellence in young adult literature. The Book Thief most definitely deserves these awards as its ability to combine fact and fiction is truly remarkable. Markus Zusak takes his own imagination, and his life experiences and turns them into an outstanding novel. Zusak takes the facts and events of World War II, his…

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    Biographical Christian Cannabich, who was the son of the flautist and composer Friedrich Cannabich was born in Mannheim in 1731. A pupil of Johann Stamitz, Christian Cannabich entered the Mannheim court orchestra as a 'scholar' at the age of 12 (1744) and in 1746 he was formerly chosen as a violinist. The Elector Carl Theodor contracted him an electoral salary to study in Italy and in the fall of 1750, he then started a course of training with Jommelli in Rome where he endured until 1753. He…

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    Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia, to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. When Kandinsky was about 5 years old, his parents divorced, and he moved to Odessa to live with an aunt, where he learned to play the piano and cello in grammar school, as well as study drawing with a coach. Even as a boy he had an intimate experience with art; the works of his childhood reveal rather specific color combinations, infused by his…

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    Germany had was sued for an armistice with the victorious Allies. Hitler is picked up by certain circles in the German military intelligence and soon he was spewing a line of blaming the Jews for the Versailles treaty and confronting the Communists. In Munich on 1923 he attempts to overthrow the government of the Bavaria. This movement was called the beer hall putsch. The putsch failed and Hitler was sentenced to 5 years of prison. In his cell he decides to write a famous book called Mein Kampf.…

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    USSR and the U.S. did not trust each other, this lead to prior tension waiting for a catalyst. The USSR mistrusted the U.S. as the U.S. helped in the Russian civil war, the western countries did not invite the USSR to the League of Nations or the Munich conference. The U.S. did not trust the USSR due to the creation of ComIntern, and the USSR negotiating with Hitler. During the Russian Civil war the U.S. along with Britain and France helped the White army during the Russian Civil war to fight…

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    feel empowered and for Germany to rebuild itself. There were many causes that led Hitler and the Nazi’s into power. The main reasons were: the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, the political instability of Weimar Germany in 1919, the beer hall putsch in Munich in 1923 and lastly, the Great Depression that began in 1929. Furthermore, there were consequences of Adolf Hitler coming to power such as the Nazi Racial Policies, the territorial expansion of Germany, the failure of appeasement and…

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