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 | | The Holocaust Within the Artistic Postwar German Society | | by Nicole CuUnjieng, Dec 20, 2007 | | The way in which postwar German artists confronted the legacy of the Holocaust and World War II. Issues of culpability, "memory of an offense," history and identity come into play in examining, particularly, the photographs of Gerhard Richter and the paintings of Anselm Kiefer. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 1 |
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 | | The Failure of the Maginot Line | | by Andrew Sean Murphy, Dec 6, 2007 | | After fighting the Germans in one of the most destructive wars in history for four years the French were determined to make themselves less vulnerable to future German attack. They did this by creating a "super trench" called the Maginot Line. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The Bombing of Guernica | | by Andrew Sean Murphy, Dec 3, 2007 | | For over seventy years, Picasso's "Guernica" has represented the horrors of war in the eyes of many. It is based upon an event during the Spanish Civil War in which German bombers leveled the city of Guernica. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | A History of World War Two | | by Yankeeboy254, Nov 25, 2007 | | In 1933 Adolf Hitler took over Germany under the new Nazi Party. The world was in depression and Hitler vowed to do whatever possible to stop The Great Depression. But no one knew how many millions of lives would be sacrificed from Hitler's war machine. | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | The White Rose: Bravery in the Face of Adversity | | by Jimzzor, Sep 9, 2007 | | When malicious powers strive to conquer, decimate and destroy with no remorse, when a despicable force so malevolent and powerful that entire nations cannot halt its advance, what possesses a chivalrous band of university students to pose a challenge to such an indubitably invincible foe?
The ‘"White Rose," using pamphleteering and other clandestine methods, attempted to rally the people of Germany against the oppressive rule of the Nazi Party, and their extremist-cum-supremacist policies of genocide and imperialism. Who were these intrepid, courageous and ultimately doomed subverters, whose legacy will greatly out-live their demise? | | Comments(0) Liked It: 0 |
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 | | Why Was There a War in 1939? | | by paddys, Aug 14, 2007 | | War broke out in September 1939 when Britain and France declared war on Germany because Hitler refused to remove his troops from Poland. However, the causes of the war are much more complicated than just that one event. | | Comments(1) Liked It: 8 |
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