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| BORN:Sighet, Romania, 1928. A survivor of Nazi concentration camps, he's dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust. 1986-won Nobel Peace Prize, 1963-became American citizen, now lives in NYC |
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| The leader of the Nazi party in Germany during WWII |
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| National German Workers' Party - the political party that emerged after WWI |
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| Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group |
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| The act of great destruction & loss of life |
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| "lighting war" described speed, efficiency, and intensity of German militia against their opponents |
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| "night of broken glass" retaliation program against German Jews, Jewish businessmen and synagogues. |
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| Originally Hitler's elite guard. Also in charge of the death camps. |
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| Nazi Germany from the end of the Weimar Republic to the end of WWII |
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| a conference held on jan. 20, 1942 beside Lake Wannsee in Berlin. At this conference it was decided and made official Nazi policy that the total annihilation of Europena Jews was the only rational means of a "Final Solution" to the Jewish Questioin. |
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| anythign that stands for or represents else. |
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| a speaker/character who tells a story |
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| use in literary work of clues that suggest events that have yet to occur. |
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| general term for literary techniques that portray differences between appearance and reality, expectation and resutl, or meaning and intention. |
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struggle between opposing forces
PERSON VS PERSON: person in conflict against someone else.
PERSON VS NATURE: person in conflict against nature
PERSON VS SELF: person in conflict with himself |
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