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…The History of the Panama Canal, By, Aaron Ang The date is August 15, 1914, where one of the world's greatest engineering marvels, was officially opened by the passage of the SS Ancon. But it was a long and tiring journey, taken over the course…

…employment to prepare for war and aggression could be achieved. Terror and intimidation had been major factors in the Nazi march to office. The SS had originated in the mid-1920s as a bodyguard for Hitler and had become a more elite paramilitary organization…

…of Gestapo. Gestapo was chain of secret police, crated in April 1933, which main task was to find everybody who speaks about Nazis something wrong. This meant that, Goebbels with cooperation with Gestapo and SS (schutz staffeinel)- (Hitler's army before 1938 when…

…progressively stripped of their dignity and possessions. First, the Star of David is forced on their arm. Then, their civil liberties are suspended. Finally, they are exiled into the walled Warsaw ghetto. In the ghetto they meet an even worse fate as SS troops…

…was effective in preventing all forms of dissent developing in the community. The principle instruments of terror in Hitler's Germany were the SS, The Gestapo and the concentration camps. The main roles of the SS and the Gestapo were security, surveillance…

…immediately and it was merciless. Jews were herded into crowded ghettos, randomly beaten and humiliated, capriciously killed. Jewish property and businesses were summarily destroyed, or appropriated by the SS and 'sold' to Nazi 'investors', one of whom was the fast…

…of this corruption in Wiesel's book is on the second train ride towards Buchenwald towards the end of the book. On this train, during one of the stops, an SS officer tore off a piece of his bread and threw it into the carriage. Havoc then broke loose and the men all…

…), but by 1934 the SS, Hitler's personal security force, were ordered, by Hitler, to control the camps." Camps were set up for several different purposes. Some for forced labor, others for medical experiments and, later on, for death/extermination. Transition camps…

…On December 6, 1917 the Norwegian vessel SS Imo, carrying Belgian relief supplies, and the French freighter SS Mont Blanc, carrying munitions, collided in Halifax Harbor. The ships' captains had made very wrong assumptions of where they were supposed…

…) would have approached the theme with the clear goal to sue all germans in general for the holocaust. The wife of the SS-officer, who had to feed 2 children, as well as the Christian who struggled between maintaining christian morals and obeying Hitler’s…