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  • Terrorist Benefit From Refugee Camps
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    Harms 1: 18,000 Africans illegally held in jails and prison camps According to the United Nations based Organization for Human Rights, at least 18,000 Africans are now being illegally held in jails and prison camps. The prisoners are held without charge and denied access to lawyers, family and friends for months on end. April 22, 20042: UN camps hold violent offenders Chronology of Malino Accord Violations in Poso - 2003 (28/11/2003) #6965 Ever since the Malino Accord in December 2001 there have...
  • History Of Nazi Concentration Camps
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    In the Camps Hist 4957 Dr. Fritz MWF 10: 20-11: 1511/29/99 Concentration camp is a term that stirs up many emotions. How did they come about? What were they exactly? And just what went on inside those walls? Many have tried to give a full description of what life in the camps was like. With toady's fast moving and knowledgeable media the public has become very informed on the subject at hand. The fact still remains that few were there, so few can know what really happened. These three poignant q...
  • Camp Hill The Day
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    Camp Hill the day that lasted 72 hours On October 25, 1989 more than 1,300 inmates at the Camp Hill State Correctional Institution rioted. The rioters took at least 8 hostages, lighting 4 fires and caused millions of dollars in damage. More then 35 staff members, 5 inmates, 1 firefighter and 1 state trooper sustain injuries in the worst uprising in Pennsylvania history. Inmates returning from an exercise yard in the late afternoon overwhelmed correctional staff and seized hostages. Inmates were ...
  • Every Morning Prisoners
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    The Terror of Auschwitz The Holocaust refers to any widespread human disaster, but it is more widely known as the almost complete destruction of the Jews in Europe by Nazi Germany. During the 19th century, European Jewry was being emancipated, and, in most European countries, Jews achieved some equality of status with non-Jews. Nonetheless, at times Jews were vilified and harassed by anti-Semitic groups. Indeed, some anti-Semites believed that Jewry was an alien "race" not assimilable into a Eur...
  • Very Uncivilized Some The Other S.S. Officers
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    Night From the View of an S.S. Officer This whole situation started out simple enough. The men and myself first moved into a little town called Sighet. The people there seemed so naive. None of them realized what was about to happen; none of them realized what happened when the Germans move into town. We first started by imprisoning the officials and made all the Jews were yellow stars. The Jews were then moved into a very small ghetto and cramped quarters. It was obvious that none of them had h...
  • Civil War At Andersonville Prison
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    When one turns on the television today they are made witness to all the crimes that are present in society. It is impossible to sit through thirty-five minutes of news without anger and rage becoming aroused. This is because society is bothered by infinitesimal paraphernalia. Society also believes in human rights and punishment for those who violate such rights. Yet what constitutes humanity? Ever sit there and watch the news and wonder just how far humanity reaches? When is it time to say this ...
  • Victims Of National Socialism In Levi's Book
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    In looking back upon his experience in Auschwitz, Primo Levi wrote in 1988: "It is na " ive, absurd, and historically false to believe that an infernal system such as National Socialism (Nazism) sanctifies its victims. On the contrary, it degrades them, it makes them resemble itself". (Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved, 40). The victims of National Socialism in Levi's book are clearly the Jewish Haftlings. Survival in Auschwitz, a book written by Levi after he was liberated from the camp, cl...
  • Camps For Political Prisoners
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    Russia, has a lowest ever temperature of -44 oC, and an average of 104 days a year above 0 oC and a yearly average of 261 days below 0 oC. It is the second coldest continent in the world only behind Antarctica, it snows on average 111 days of the year. It is dark, gloomy, freezing and miserable in the winter, and in the summer, cold, dark, and gloomy. Camps for political prisoners seemed even colder, especially with no real heating and limited clothes to wear on these wintriness days. The camp w...
  • Auschwitz The Most International Of The Camps
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    Auschwitz EVEN IN THE SILENCE OF THE POLISH countryside, Auschwitz can not rest in peace. The name alone prompts instant recognition -- a shorthand for the criminal barbarity of the 20th century. If ever there were a place in which myth was unseemly and unnecessary, where fact could be left unadorned, it would be Auschwitz. For 50 years, that has not been the case. The list of myths and misconceptions about the largest Nazi concentration camp is a long one. Soviet investigators declared in May 1...
  • Their Deaths In Nazi Extermination Camps
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    Starvation. Mass shootings. Gas chambers. Beatings. Mass murder. In the early 1940's, perhaps the most brutal atrocities ever committed on a people in our world's history took place. It was World War II. The Nazi Regime, led by Adolf Hitler, was waging war across Europe. Occupied Poland became the place where those prisoners and captives held by the Nazis were sent to be eliminated. From 1941 through 1945 a total of some 3.5 million Jews met their deaths in Nazi extermination camps. These "death...
  • Harsh To The Jewish Prisoners
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    ELLI- Coming of age in the Holocaust. Elli, her mother and all of the prisoners they meet all have to undergo numerous physical and psychological hardships when they are forced into the concentration camps. They are treated like cattle on their way to the slaughterhouse when they are taken from their houses to the ghetto, then to the synagogue, and eventually to Auschwitz, the death camp. The majority of suffering that was inflicted on Elli and her associates was physically inflicted, this was i...
  • Prisoners Of War
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    Prisoners of War BY: Presented to: Mrs. Prova to ENG 2 A 0-04 Wednesday December 8, 1993 Dear: The International Red Cross am writing a letter to you today to mention how the prisoners of war were treated throughout the second world war. If you have never been a Prisoner of War (POW), you are extremely lucky. The prisoners of war during the World War II, (1939-1945) were treated poorly with no respect or consideration and were given the living conditions worse than animals. It was an extremely b...
  • Today My Troop
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    Dear Mother, Today my troop and I arrived at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. We were preceded by another troop lead by a gruff colonel. The colonel briefed my troop upon our arrival. He told us to prepare ourselves for the most horrible sight some of us might ever behold. I thought he was just trying to intimidate us, but I was very wrong. When my troop and I walked further into the camp, almost inhuman faces peered from around barbwire fences greeted us. Their faces were gaunt and extremely pale...
  • Tale Of Ivan Denisovich Shukov
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    Words = 1740 A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich In "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich", the author tells the tale of Ivan Denisovich Shukov, a prisoner in a Russian work camp during the reign of Stalin who had been arrested for high treason. Solzhenitsyn introduces the reader to the schedule that Shukov lived out on a specific day during his sentence at the work camp. The beginning of the book depicts reveille at the work camp. As soon as the rail was struck by the camp guard, which was lik...
  • Page 115 A Guard
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    Vocabulary Words: 1. Valenti - page 18 - Knee length felt boots worn for winter 2. Zen - page 28 - Russian prisoner 3. Volk - Page 41 - wolf 4. Chivvies - page 43 - to hunt or to chase 5. Flanks - page 67- To the right or left side in military formation 6. Decree - page 69 - An authoritative order having the support of the law 7. Hod - page 70 - A through carried over the shoulder for transporting 8. Pood - page 74 - thirty-six pounds 9. Sodden - page 70 - thoroughly soaked 10. Kasha - page 75 -...
  • Millions Of Death Camp Prisoners
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    In the short story, The Lottery, Shirley Jackson aids the reader in shaping some horrific images of her characters. Each and every one of the villagers Jackson portrays manages to remove herself from the lives of friends and family so that she is able to stone another fellow villager to death. Jackson clearly proves that when a person removes herself emotionally from the lives of her friends and family, she is able to kill another person without any regrets. In World War II, the Nazi soldiers we...
  • Living Conditions Of Andersonville
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    Andersonville was a POW camp of the civil war controlled by the confederate captain Wirtz. Extremely overpopulated, Andersonville held 32,000 Union soldiers in a camp built to hold 8,000. The treatment that the men of Andersonville did not even live up to the standards of the articles of war. Though in tough times, the soldiers survived the unsanitary conditions while still showing kindness and sympathy. Though prisoners lost many of their comrades to the raiders and the confederates, it was the...
  • One Survivor Of Auschwitz
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    Imagine being forced by total strangers, no different than yourself, to leave your home and everything in it behind. You are then pushed onto a train packed with other people. After a long train ride you are taken off the train and the women and children are put in one group. The people who can perform the tasks that these strangers need done are put into another group. The women and children who were told that they would be given a shower are never to be seen again. Two of these camps are Ausch...
  • Human The Prisoners
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    Primo Levi's, Survival in Auschwitz, is autobiographical account of the ten months that Levi spent in a German death camp. Survival recounts the struggle of the Jews to maintain a flicker of humanity against the Germans unending attempt to reduce the Jews to mere animals. The prisoners suffered from all types of atrocities from lack of food to being beaten for the least offense. Everything the Germans did was dedicated toward one purpose, to take away the basic foundations of what makes a person...
  • Camp Of Auschwitz
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    The Nazi camp of Auschwitz, located thirty miles west of Krakow, was the largest, most deadly camp used during World War II (Friedrich 2). Built in 1940, it was the first camp located beyond the frontiers of the Third Reich (Friedrich 4). "According to various estimates, 1,600,000 people were murdered in the killing center?' (Yahil 372). Ninety percent of those who were murdered in Auschwitz were Jewish (Yahil 372). Originally an Austrian artillery barracks, Auschwitz was to be supposed to be bu...

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