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  • 6THE EVENTS — introduction European Jewry in the Early 1930s Germany in the Early 1930s the expansion of the reich …

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  • 7The Bolshevik Myth — Infobox Book name = The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) title orig = translator = image caption = Title page of the first edition author = Alexander Berkman illustrator = cover artist = country = language = series = subject = Bolshevist Russia,… …

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  • 8The Holocaust — Holocaust and Shoah redirect here. For other uses, see Holocaust (disambiguation) and Shoah (disambiguation). Selection on …

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  • 9The Story of an African Farm — For the 2004 film of The Story of an African Farm see The Story of an African Farm (film) The Story of an African Farm (published 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron ) was South African author Olive Schreiner s first novel. It was an immediate… …

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  • 10The Caine Mutiny — infobox Book | name = The Caine Mutiny title orig = translator = image caption = First edition cover author = Herman Wouk illustrator = cover artist = country = language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Doubleday release date = 1951… …

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