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…to concentration camps. The pogroms became known as Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. The morning after the pogroms 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being Jewish…

…of concentration camps and broke the Soviet non-aggression act, while surviving a murder attack when a bomb was placed at his feet ("Hitler" n.pag.). This all may seem not to be wonderful feats to accomplish, but in the line of work, which Hitler placed himself…

…across the Volga had failed and a new solution was needed if the city was to be saved. The street by street fighting in Stalingrad gave Stalin time to lay plans and assemble fresh troops for a counter offensive. The German 6th Army were concentrated…

…World War II had stroked my soul not alike any other warfare. Holocaust, genocide, concentration camp were the nightmare terms that I had to grow up with. Certainly, every war leaves physical and psychiatric reflection on a nation; however, because…

…on, and a little too much to die on". Furthermore, not everyone was entitled to receive relief at that time, such as widows or unmarried mothers. Relief camps were also set up by the government across the country, which provided single unemployed men over ages eighteen…

…which are so low it is hard for them to even pay for food. Because of the current financial state of the family they have to settle for living in squalid camps which are called Hoovervilles. Tom gets into a fight at one of the camps with an abusive deputy…

…The Nazi camp of Auschwitz, located thirty miles west of Krakow, was the largest, most deadly camp used during World War II (Friedrich 2). Built in 1940, it was the first camp located beyond the frontiers of the Third Reich (Friedrich 4). "According…

…a vagrant just because he was traveling with his family. He also treats Tom unfairly because he assumes that migrants would try and steal his gasoline rather than pay for it. Another example of alienation occurs while Tom and the Joads were camping…

…general who lacked boldness. As a strategist Johnston seems to have been dominated by the concepts of Frederick the Great, Jomini, and Napoleon. He rarely strayed from the accepted maxims. Concentration and maneuver-these formed the twin pillars…

…of costing him the War. To many World War II has been seen as the most horrible world conflict that has ever taken place. During its time more then 50 million people lost their lives in battle, concentration camps, or resulting from famine. The causes of this war…