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Early in January 2005, high officials of many world governments gathered in the Polish town of Auschwitz. They were there to remember the sixtieth anniversary of its liberation from Nazi tyranny. The concentration camp at Auschwitz is the primary symbol of one of the worst crimes ever committed against human beings: the Holocaust. Under the orders of German dictator Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust was the organized killing of an estimated six million Jews. The horror extended to millions of other people. They had the misfortune of being different from "normal" Germans. The Holocaust was a Monumental Milestone in that it made people recognize the importance of human rights and realize how easily fellow humans can violate those rights. It stands as a warning for future generations.… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
On the morning of April 29, 1945, Sergeant Joe Sacco and his buddies in the 92nd Signal Battalion had reason to feel optimistic.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The [Nuremberg] trials lasted for more than ten months. They concluded, ironically, on October 1--which that year fell on the Jewish religious holiday of Yom Kuppur, the Day of Atonement. Three defendants were acquitted. Four were sentenced to prison terms of between ten and twenty years. Three more received life imprisonment. The other eleven were condemned to death. For them, justice was swift. In the morning of October 16, 1946, they were hanged. There was one exception: Hermann Goring. Like Hitler and Himmler (who killed himself after being captured by the British), he chose to end his own life: He swallowed poison.
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Early in January 2005, high officials of many world governments gathered in the Polish town of Auschwitz. They were there to remember the sixtieth anniversary of its liberation from Nazi tyranny. The concentration camp at Auschwitz is the primary symbol of one of the worst crimes ever committed against human beings: the Holocaust. Under the orders of German dictator Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust was the organized killing of an estimated six million Jews. The horror extended to millions of other people. They had the misfortune of being different from "normal" Germans. The Holocaust was a Monumental Milestone in that it made people recognize the importance of human rights and realize how easily fellow humans can violate those rights. It stands as a warning for future generations.
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