World War One: The Holocaust, Internment Camps

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The time of world war one , the holocaust,internment camps and POW camps was a time period filled with terrible sorrow and lost.Millions upon millions were killed, tortured ,and forced to hide because of their religion, race, and beliefs degraded and dehumanized into invisibility .During this war people affected by the war were made invisible and refused to be the resisted.People such as american soldiers , jewish people ,and japanese american citizens.They refused to just be pushed into the shadows without a fight.

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