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The Definition of Propaganda
Propaganda is an enigma that has defied historians to this day. Its definition is broad and it affects every aspect of life and has been used since ancient times.
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Agoge - Spartan Military Training
The city state of ancient Sparta was a martial culture the likes the world has rarely seen.
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Irma Grese Beast of Auschwitz
A young girl without much prospects in Nazi Germany became known as "Beautiful Beast" in the death camps she helped run.
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The White Rose Resistance Movement - Munich
In 1943, six members of the White Rose movement at the Munich University were executed after spreading anti-Nazi leaflets during the height of the Third Reich regime.
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Ilse Koch She Wolf of the SS
Ilse Koch was possibly the worst and most notorious of all of the female SS Nazi's in the terrible Concentration Camps of World War Two.
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A Child's Home
Traute Klein, one of my fellow Suite 101 editors, fights for peace. She knows all too well the effects of war. When she was a child, her world was shattered by World War II. It didn't matter which side she was on, her family was one of many innocent families who suffered. Read her story and understand why we should join Traute in her fight for peace.
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Hitler as Chancellor
Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor and the crowds go wild little realizing that Germany would never be the same again.
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Album of the Damned
Paul Garson's collection of everyday photographs begs the question: How could such ordinary people commit such extraordinary crimes?
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D-Day and Operation Fortitude
Hitler and the German High Command bit on the deception of Operation Fortitude and the results were successful Allied landings on the Norman Coast of France in 1944.
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Erwin Rommel: The Desert Fox
Rommel was a brilliant tactician and symbolized Germany's military might. He was arguably the greatest German commander of WW II.
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Nurnberg's Bavarian Fun and Offbeat Museums
Nurnberg has shed its Nazi image and shows visitors 1,000 years of history, museums, crafts, toys and cathedrals, along with hearty food, robust beer and Bavarian fun
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Pope Benedict XVI Turns 81
Joseph Ratzinger did not want to be Pope. He prayed not to be selected. But God's will was different. He was elected Pope in 2005.
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Sophie Scholl
She opposed the Nazi regime and paid the ultimate price. Although dead at age 21, her legacy lives on as hope for anyone who seeks to eliminate the evils of the world.
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The Role of Women in Nazi Germany 1939-1945
The favoured role of women in Nazi Germany was to produce large numbers of children to strengthen the future of the Third Reich. How much did this change during the war?
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Triumph of the Will
Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi era films have been hailed and criticized as Nazi documentaries, propaganda, and superb film making although she defended them as works of art.
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Adolf Hitler's Final Days
As Russian soldiers surrounded the ruined city of Berlin, the man who was once revered by millions of Germans was physically frail and psychologically unstable.
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Canadian 3rd Division on D-Day
On the morning of June 6, 1944, 20,000 Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen would launch their D-Day assault on the Normandy coast.
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Germany and Anti-Semitism - Part 7
More of the inhumanity of Police Battalion 101 and the way their wives 'helped' them.

The White Rose, Part 1
This article describes the heroic efforts of a small group of students who dared defy Hitler and his regime. I wrote this article for a publication called <a href="http://www.peacemagazine.org/">Peace magazine</a>. The article can be found in their Spring 2000 issue.
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Eyewitness to Hitler's Bunker Suicide
A secretary, a nurse, an aide and a bodyguard talk to the press about the last hours of Nazi dictator, Adolf Hitler, in the final days of World War II.
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