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… fall of Hitler's Third Reich, and one of even fewer to be repatriated into decent society after his imprisonment. The twenty years served in Spandau military prison, gave Speer an opportunity to reflect on the events of the past decade of Nazism and…

… middle class family in Manhein, Germany. The second of three sons, he followed the family tradition when, in 1925, he enrolled at the Institute of Technology in Berlin-Charlottenburg and became a third-generation Neo-Classical architect. He was greatly…

… born in 1858. Her family were very forward thinking and believed that all girls were as good as boys. So Emmeline attended school in her home city of Manchester and went to finishing school in Paris. Soon after her return to Manchester she meet the…

… The story of their romance, life and the fate they shared with their children in a Siberian cellar. Nicholas and Alexandra wrote to each other a great deal during the World War I. Nicholas and Alexandra were very close and during the war the…

… 22nd April, 1881. The son of a headmaster, Kerensky studied law at the University of St. Petersburg. <Tab/> In 1905 Kerensky joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party and became editor of the radical newspaper, Burevestik. He was soon arrest…

… points of interest. Our textbook, Social Problems by James Henslin, defined genocide as "Hatred and greed can lead to the dominant group to turn to a policy of extermination, or genocide. The most infamous example is the Holocaust, when death…

… philosophy, political thought, and literature as the Renaissance developed power and altered the way man was viewed against the backdrop of the universe. Much of what began in the Fifteenth Century would flower in the Sixteenth Century. Many artists…

… was beginning to spread. Simony, or the buying of church offices, was common along with pluralism which was the appointment of multiple bishops in multiple areas. Tithing had become mandatory to support the church's bloated clergy, yet it was…

… direct and objective book about the life and legacy of one of the greatest Russian monarchs, Peter I Romanov. Besides the central text, the book also contains a small forward and preface, numerous documents and maps, and a glossary, which are all very…

… Triumph of the Will and Olympia. However, these works, despite being so far ahead of their time, there was and still remains much controversy surrounding them and there is a historical argument as to whether these films were propagandist in nature,…