The general theme of the Riefenstahl’s film is to display the greatness in Adolf Hitler as a mighty leader while presenting the tremendous return of Germany to power. The director uses a variety of film making techniques like aerial photography, use of long focus lenses, and camera movement. Riefenstahl applies aerial photography in scenes like the landing of Hitler’s plane. She makes sure that the camera floats through the clouds before Hitler’s plane comes in to view. As the plane hovers above
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Auschwitz has become a symbol of death, the Holocaust, and the destruction of European Jewry. Dates: May 1940 -- January 27, 1945 Camp Commandants: Rudolf Höss, Arthur Liebehenschel, Richard Baer Auschwitz Established On April 27, 1940, Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of a new camp near Oswiecim, Poland (about 37 miles or 60 km west of Krakow). The Auschwitz Concentration Camp ("Auschwitz" is the German spelling of "Oswiecim") quickly became the largest Nazi concentration and death
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My Secret To most of existence there is an inner and outer world. Skin, bark, surface of the ocean open to reveal other realities. What is inside shapes and sustains what appears. I walk off the subway. Cars, people, ambitions charge by. City thrashes without hesitation or apology. No stillness. No pause. Peop le do not see where they are. Traffic stumbles by and feet carry forgotten objects. Eyes see only the next walk signal, the next cash register, the upward battle ahead. They tell
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Austin Rudd 3rd Period Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau Austria. His father, Alois Hitler was married to his third wife, Klara Hitler. Hitler had five siblings, three of which were from his fathers' previous marriages. However, only Adolf and a younger sister, Paula survived to become adults. His mother, Klara Hitler was a kind and gentle woman. His father was a intelligent and ambitious man. Alois wanted his son to do well in life. Alois
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Adolf Hitler was born on 20th April, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau near the German border. Both Hitler's parents had come from poor peasant families. His father Alois Hitler, the illegitimate son of a housemaid, was an intelligent and ambitious man and later became a senior customs official. Klara Hitler was Alois' third wife. Alois was twenty-three years older than Klara and already had two children from his previous marriages. Klara and Alois had five children but only Adolf and
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According to the United Nations, the phrase genocide refers to “a denial of the right of existence of entire human groups, aiming at complete extermination of such groups.” This is the perfect expression to describe what happened to the Romani during WWII. Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s was not the place to be if you didn’t have blue eyes and blonde hair. Everyone knows what the Holocaust is, why it happened and who was victimized, but many people are unaware of the other groups that
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Omar Diaz Professor Grimes 12/5/13 Final Paper The Use of Film During WWII At the beginning of World War I, America was neutral to what was happening across the pond. Americans went about with their everyday life. One of the new trends that
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During the eugenic movement there were internal concerns about criminals, insane, feeble mindedness, alcoholics, paupers, derelicts, delinquents, orphans, prostitutes and those unable to support themselves. These traits were considered to be hereditary defects that cannot be eliminated by environmental procedures. Many studies supported and illustrated the use of sterilisation as negative eugenics such as the Juke family published in 1875 and the Kallikak family in 1912 where one or more members
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TIMELINE OF IMPORTANT DATES May 12, 1889: Otto Frank (Anne‘s father), is born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. April 20, 1889: Adolph Hitler is born in Austria. January 16, 1900: Edith Hollander (Anne’s mother), is born in Aachen, Germany. 1914-1918: Otto Frank serves in German Army during WWI as a lieutenant. Adolph Hitler also serves from 1914-1920, as a Corporal. November 11, 1918: The Armistice which ends World War I is signed. June 23, 1919: Germany accepts the Versailles Treaty
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King Ferdinand II, the king of Spain, sent a letter in Spanish to all of the Native Americans who were now ruled by the Spaniards saying that they should “recognize the Church and its highest priest, the Pope, as rulers of the universe.” Ferdinand actually wrote that they should “unconditionally and of their own free will [become] Christians.” The letter was very threatening, and stated that failure to convert into Christianity would lead to oppression against themselves as well as everything and
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