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…to less than 15 acres." The potato became the staple of the peasant's existence, because it was easy to plant, and required little attention. The Irish viewed the situation as a holocaust, yet had no power to do anything about it. "There was no famine…

…take part in a memorial service of protest about it. She did what she could to help the survivors of the holocaust escape death, including getting visas for the refugees who managed to get to Spain and Portugal. The issuance of visas to children…

…How could all this have happened? This is one of the many questions associated with the Holocaust. The Third Reich of no doubt on of the world’s largest and most feared empires. It could have easily overthrown the Roman Empire and was the most…

…and forewarning fiction. While most authors chose to warn of nuclear and post nuclear holocaust, one significant author chose a different approach. Tom Clancy chose to write of conventional warfare and sometimes unconventional enemies. Between his novel Red Storm…

…The Rape of Nanking A hole in our historical memory has been filled by Iris Chang’s book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II , which gives us a full detailed, documented account of the event that took place from December…

…of panic, as they slip one step closer to a nuclear holocaust. On the other side of the Atlantic, the USSR notices the nuclear build up in the United States. In fear of an preemptive strike, the Communist fuel and prepare their birds just in case…

…in Germany, whose scientists prepared the way, ideologically, for the Nazi holocaust. And, too, the Rockefeller Institute employed Alexis Carrel, who, while with the institute, wrote his book advocating euthanasia and the use of gas for the extermination of people…

…such as the Holocaust. They were also the first war crimes trials conducted by the winners of a war. There were a total of twenty-one defendants. Included in these was Hermann Goering (Shaver, 1). This following is a study of his trial…

…of the survival of the top and bureaucracy. One of the most important aspects that were mostly used to criticize weber's ideal type is the aspect of inhumanity affected on individuals by bureaucracy. Zigmund Bauman's Modernity and the Holocaust (1989) shows that "we…

…forged relationships with the world's political and religious leaders. He was the first pope to enter a Synagogue and a Mosque. The Pope did a great deal to improve Catholic-Jewish relations. He visited the Holocaust Memorial 'Yad Vashem' in Israel…