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Maybe you started your first job or maybe you gave up the freelance life for full-time employment. Whatever your scenario, if you find yourself filling out a W-4 for the first time, you may be a touch confused by all the fields, worksheets, and forms. Yes, the IRS can make things confusing. Let's take it one step at a time.

Step One: Decide If You're Exempt (You're Probably Not)

When you start a new job as an employee, your new employer will give you a W-4. Your W-4 is a two-page IRS form that basically tells your employer how much money to take out of your paychecks to cover taxes. One of the first instructions on your W-4 is what to fill out if you're exempt. But you're probably not exempt.

Exempt means you're not on the hook for taxes, so your employer won't take anything out of your paycheck for federal income tax throughout the year (they'll still take out money for Medicare and Social Security, though). If you are exempt, you'll simply write "Exempt" on Line 7 of your W-4.

Generally, you can only claim exempt if you earn less than $$10,350 for the entire year. If someone can claim you as a dependent and your earned income is $6,300 or below, you can claim exempt, too.

You definitely don't want to file exempt if you're not actually exempt, though. Again, you won't have any federal income tax withheld from your paycheck. So when you do your taxes in April, you'll have a giant tax bill that includes late payment penalties.

Step Two: Fill Out the Worksheets

The bulk of your W-4 is worksheets. There are three of them:

The Personal Allowances Worksheet (for everyone)

The Deductions and Adjustments Worksheet (for people with a bunch of deductions)

Two-Earners/Multiple Jobs Worksheet (for people with more than one job or married people who both work)

These worksheets give the IRS a general idea of your taxable income so they know much to withhold for taxes from every paycheck. If you don't report a second income via the "Two-Earners" worksheet, for example, they might not withhold enough money throughout the year, which means you could end up owing the IRS money when you do your taxes in April.

Calculate Your Personal Allowances

The Personal Allowances worksheet is for everyone, and it's straightforward. Your "personal allowances" basically represent your deductions. The more allowances you claim, the less money is withheld from your paycheck.

The worksheet guides you through how many you can claim, line-by-line. It's pretty easy to figure out, but the IRS has a withholding calculator that can help you make sure you're claiming the right amount of allowances, too. Roberg Tax Solutions suggests the following allowances, depending on your filing status:

You are a student, either in high school or in college. You're not married and you don't have kids. Your parents are allowed to claim you on their tax return (you're under 24 years old.) SINGLE, ZERO ALLOWANCES

You've got a job, only one job, you're living on your own, and you're single. SINGLE, ONE ALLOWANCE

Now if you have a child, add another allowance for each child. For example, let's say you're single with 2 kids, you'd claim single 3 allowances; one allowance for you and one for each of the children.

You're married and only one person works: MARRIED, TWO ALLOWANCES

You're married and you both work -you'll each have your own W-4 and they will be different. Spouse #1 with higher paying job-claim MARRIED and all the allowances for the family. Spouse #2 with the lower paying job-claim MARRIED BUT WITHHOLD AT HIGHER SINGLE RATE, ZERO ALLOWANCES

Once you have the total number you want to claim, you'll enter that amount on Line H. It doesn't have to be an exact science. You can claim more or fewer allowances if you like because, again, it's just meant to get an idea of how much you should have taken out of your paycheck.

If you get a big tax refund every year, you might want to claim more allowances. A big tax refund generally means you're overpaying your taxes throughout the year, so claiming more allowances can balance that out a bit. Your refund won't be as big, but your paychecks will be bigger.

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On the other hand, too many allowances and you might underpay your taxes. If you claim too many, you may not have enough tax withheld each pay period and you'll end up owing money in April. It's probably better to err on the side of overpaying and not claim too many personal allowances. You can always adjust this number later and turn in a new W-4, too.

From there, you have two more worksheets you may need to fill out: the Deductions and Adjustments Worksheet, and the Two-Earners/Multiple Jobs Worksheet.

Decide If You Need to Make Any Adjustments

This worksheet is for any tax deductions and credits that might lower your taxable income. This will give the IRS a more accurate idea of your tax liability so you don't overpay throughout the year. In basic terms, if y ou take any major deductions or credits that lower your taxable income by a lot, you'll want to fill out this form. If you itemize your deductions, you should definitely fill out the form. Many people just take the standard deduction because it's easier, but Itemizing makes more sense if you have specific, large expenses you can deduct, like mortgage interest payments, charitable contributions, medical expenses, and so on. You might also have credits or other "income adjustments" for things like a IRA contributions, alimony expenses, or student loan interest.

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The worksheet instructs you to visit Publication 505 to see all of the credits you might be eligible for, but the IRS has a handy withholding calculator that'll walk you through the process. The calculator will tell you your total itemized deductions along with your adjustments to income, which makes it really easy to fill out this worksheet.

Fill out "Two-Earners" If Your Household Has More Than One Income

You'll use this worksheet if you have two jobs or if you're married and your spouse has a job, too. The goal of this worksheet is to calculate how much extra you should have withheld from your paycheck, based on the amount of that second income.

This worksheet is pretty easy to follow, though. First, if you filled out the "Deductions and Adjustments" worksheet, you'll enter your total from that worksheet on Line 1 of this one. From there, use the two tables at the bottom of the worksheet to fill in Lines 2-9. Table 1 is for the lowest paying job and Table 2 is for the highest paying job. These tables help you find your allowances based on both your incomes.

Each line of the worksheet is just basic math to calculate the additional amount you'll have withheld from each paycheck, and you'll enter this amount on Line 9.

Step Three: Fill Out Your W-4

Once your worksheets are completed, it's time to fill in the blanks of your actual W-4 Form. Lines 1-4 are pretty standard stuff: your name, address, social security number, and tax filing status. In Line 5, you'll enter the number you calculated from Line H of your Personal Allowances Worksheet UNLESS you filled out the Deductions and Adjustments Worksheet, then you'll enter thenumber you calculated from Line 10 of that.

And if you filled out the Two-Earners Worksheet, find the amount you calculated in Line 9 of that worksheet, then write that amount in Line 6 of your W-4.

From there, you'll sign your worksheet and hand it over to your employer. And that's it! You should have just the right amount withheld from your paycheck. You won't owe a bunch of money in April but you won't get a huge refund, either.

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Whenever you run into any major life changes, you'll want to update this form, too. Obviously, if you get a new job, you'll fill out a new one, but if you get married, have a kid, or get a second job, you'll ask for a new W-4, then adjust accordingly.

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Attention: Voter information and identification requirements may change prior to an election. Please check with the Secretary of the Commonwealth's website to make sure you have the most current information.

Voter Registration in Massachusetts

There are several ways you can register to vote in Massachusetts or update your MA voter registration.

The state offers voter registration by mail and in person at Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) offices and other locations.

You can also register to vote online using the Massachusetts online voter registration system.

Residents of MA living overseas can register to vote through the Federal Voting Assistance Program website.

Read below for more information about MA voter registration.

Voter Eligibility in Massachusetts

You are eligible to register to vote in MA if you are:

A citizen of the U.S.

A resident of Massachusetts.

At least ​16 years old to pre-register. (To vote you must be 18 years old on or before Election Day).

Are not currently incarcerated due to a felony conviction.*

*Once you are released from incarceration your voting rights are restored and you should re-register to vote.

Register to Vote in Massachusetts

Once eligible, you can register to vote:

Online

You can register online using the state's Online Voter Registration System. In order to register to vote this way in MA, you must have:

A valid driver's license or learner's permit issued by Massachusetts.

A valid non-driver ID card issued by the state.
AND

Have your signature on record at the MA Registry of Motor Vehicles.

This page can also be used for several other functions regarding the voter registration process, including:

Changing your name or address for voter registration purposes.

Establishing or changing your political party affiliation.

In Person

You can register to vote in person at:

A local MA election office (see below).

Any voter registration event in Massachusetts.

A MA RMV office when you apply for you your MA driver's license.
If registering at an RMV office, keep your receipt until you get confirmation from your local election official. If you do not receive your confirmation, contact your local election office to make sure you're registered.

When registering to vote in person, you'll fill out an affidavit of registration. You must answer all questions truthfully.

Massachusetts Election Office

City and town election offices provide several services. You can:

Get a voter registration form.

Register to vote.

Send them your mail-in registration form.

Inquire about your voter registration status.

Offices are located throughout Massachusetts.

By Mail

To register to vote by mail:

* NOTE: In addition to downloading the mail-in registration form, you can also:

Request a copy be mailed to you by calling (617) 727-2828 or (800) 462-8683.

Obtain one from any high school, vocational school, college, or university.

Your confirmation notice will be ailed to you. If you do not received it, reach out to your local election office to confirm your voting status.

Proof of Identification

If you are registering to vote for the first time in MA, you must attach a proof of ID to your voter registration form. (Copies are accepted, and items may not be returned.)

Please see instructions of what is identification is acceptable on the instruction portion of the form.

: If you neglect to provide proof of ID when required, you can only submit a provisional ballot. It will be counted later AFTER your eligible voter status has been confirmed.

MA Voter Registration Deadlines

In order to vote and/or attend special town meetings, you must complete your Massachusetts voter registration before a primary, election, or meeting.

The registration deadlines depend on the election type:

20 days before an upcoming primary or election.

10 days before a special town meeting.

Military, Overseas, & Out-of-State Voters

If you are a Massachusetts resident but you are overseas or attending school in another state, you can still register to vote in MA.

Military & Overseas Residents

You can register to vote using the Voter Registration and Absentee Ballot Request Federal Post Card Application (Form 76) if you are:

A military member OR military dependent.

A U.S. citizen who is overseas.

The FPCA can be submitted:

Online

You can complete the FPCA online on the Federal Voting Assistance Program website.

By Mail, E-mail, or Fax

To send your FPCA by mail, e-mail, or fax:

Out-of-State Voters

Most out-of-state voters who remain eligible to vote in MA can register using any of the standard methods outlined above.

If you're a college student attending school in another state, you can either:

You should register from the address you consider your residence. For example, if Massachusetts is your permanent residence, register in MA.

If you registered in your home state, you can request that the state mail you an absentee ballot. Visit the state's website for more information on requesting an absentee ballot.

You cannot register to vote in multiple states.

Changing Your MA Voter Registration

You can easily make changes to your voter registration, including changing your:

Change Your Address

When you move within the state of Massachusetts, you must notify your local election office:

Please see Register to Vote in Massachusetts above for more information about registering to vote.

Change Your Name or Other Details

You have to complete a new voter registration application to change your:

Please read the Register to Vote in Massachusetts section above to learn more about registering to vote.

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Six million Jewish people were murdered during the genocide in Europe in the years leading up to 1945, and the Jews are rightly remembered as the group that Adolf Hitler's Nazi party most savagely persecuted during the Holocaust.

But the Nazis targeted many other groups: for their race, beliefs or what they did.

Historians estimate the total number of deaths to be 11 million, with the victims encompassing gay people, priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists, trade unionists, Jehovah's Witnesses, anarchists, Poles and other Slavic peoples, and resistance fighters.

Homosexual men, and to a lesser extent women, were compelled to renounce their sexuality under the Nazi regime. An estimated 100,000 were arrested and some sent to prisons, while between 5,000 and 15,000 were sent to concentration camps, where some were forced to wear pink triangles on their uniform to denote being gay. As many as 60% of those send to the camps perished, according to German LGBT scholar Rüdiger Lautmann.

Pierre Seel, from the Alsace region of France, was just 16 when he was arrested after a cruel twist of fate. His watch was stolen - in an area notorious for gay cruising - and he reported the theft to police. Without his knowledge, this led to his name being added to a list of known homosexuals.

"The Germans came to Alsace In 1940," he said in the 2000 documentary, Paragraph 175 by Telling Pictures. "And the Germans found the police files. They saw our names on these lists, lists of homosexuals. They were probably watching us. How we live, where we go, what we do. And one day I had to go to the Gestapo with 12 friends."

Police sodomized Pierre with a piece of wood and sent him a regular jail, before he was transported to the Schirmeck-Vorbruck camp near Strasborg - called a "protective custody camp".

"I wasn't even 18," he says in the Paragraph 175 film. "Arrested, tortured, beaten, with no defense, without a trial. Nothing. I was all alone. I don't even mention being sodomized, being raped."

In another traumatizing experience, he was forced to watch his teenage lover Jo, who was also in the camp, being executed by being torn apart by Alsatian dogs.

"It happened in front of me and 300 prisoners. 300," he said. "The death of Jo, my friend. He was condemned to die, eaten by dogs. German dogs. German shepherds. And that, I can never forget."

Gay prisoners in the camp were abused and tormented by guards, and also by other prisoners. "There was a hierarchy, from strongest to weakest," Pierre explained. "There was no doubt that the weakest in the camps were the homosexuals, all the way on the bottom."

Pierre was heralded as being the only French person to speak out about being deported due to being gay, but the horror of those years memory still made him furious and tearful years later.

"Why did I not speak for 40 years? I am 90 per cent disabled from the war. My ass still bleeds, even today. The Nazis stuck 25 centimeters of wood up my ass. Do you think I can talk about that? That it is good for me? ... I am ashamed for humanity. Ashamed."

Pierre survived the camp: he was released without explanation in 1941 and forced to join the German army. He deserted from the army, and finally returned to his home city of Mulhouse, where he felt forced to "censor" his memories for fear of further persecution. He lied to even close family about the reason for his deportation, after his godfather disowned him after learning he was gay.

"I became aware that, in spite of my expectations, in spite of all I had imagined, of the long-awaited joy of returning, the true liberation was for other people," he wrote in his memoir, ' Moi, Pierre Seel, Déporté Homosexuel' [I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual].

Pierre married a woman and had three children. He never told his wife of 28 years that he was gay. After her death, he lived with his partner Eric Feliu for the last 12 years of his life, finally feeling able to live as himself. He died in 2005, aged 82.

Romani gypsies were the second-largest group of people killed on racial grounds in the Holocaust. They were considered outsiders and "racially impure" by the Nazis and up to 1.5 million died in what is also known as the Porajmos ("mass killing" in Romani.) Like Jews, Roma people were murdered, sent to camps and gassed or used for forced labour. But only in the 1970s did the West German Federal Parliament classify their persecution as being racially motivated, and scholars largely ignored their deaths until the 1980s.
Romani gypsies at a campsite in Slovenia in 1943 (silent film)
Ceija Stojka, a Romani gypsy living in Austria, was just nine when the Germans annexed the country and began arresting gypsies.

Her gypsy traveling family worked as horse-traders, but had already been forced to abandon their lifestyle when Germany annexed Austria. "Our wagon was parked for the winter... the Germans ordered us to stay put. My parents had to convert our wagon into a wooden house, and we had to learn how to cook with an oven instead of on an open fire," she said in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum archives.

"[Later], gypsies were forced to register as members of another 'race'. Our campground was fenced off and placed under police guard."

Her father was sent to the Dachau concentration camp for being "work-shy". His ashes were returned to her mother months later. Ceija, her mother and her siblings were loaded onto a train bound for Auschwitz, where a horrific experience awaited them.

"The dead were stacked up in the corners and against the doors," she said in an interview for the film Forget Us Not.

"For endless days, we stood. No food, no water. All the babies and pregnant women were dying. The door opened and the wall of dead and pregnant women fell out. People were trying to catch the rain drops in their mouth and were shot by the SS for not falling into line."

Ceija's mother had sewed pieces of bread into her clothes to help them survive. She hid her children under her skirts to ensure they were sent to work barracks rather than the gas chambers. Ceija worked in a quarry, after her mother convinced guards she was 16 and strong enough, not ten.

Her skin was marked with the number Z6399. "They took my name from me and instead tattooed a number on my arm. I am not going to be ashamed of that," she said years later.

Ceija's younger brother died of Typhus at Auschwitz. Ceija, her mother and one sister were then sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp in Germany, where sadistic female guards abused them. Ceija remembered one, called Binz, in particular:

"She had a large dog she would have attack and kill. No warning. One day we were hanging sheets frozen in the cold and an old woman tripped. Binz stomped her head as she lay on the ground until her brains came out."

Binz planned to torture Ceija's mother by submerging her in icy water, after discovering she had lied about Ceija's age. Learning this, Ceija and her mother fled to a truck headed another German camp, Bergin Belsen - becoming separated from Ceija's remaining siblings in the chaos.

"That is when the real misery began", said Ceija of her first night at Bergin Belsen. The 11-year old slept in a pile of recently-killed corpses. "I asked their forgiveness and buried myself in the bodies to try and stay warm."

She and her mother survived by eating "paper and pieces of leather", until one day, while she was closing the eyes and of the dead out of respect, Ceija heard a loud bang. "The wall nearby me blew down," she said. "There were tanks. A young man stood there in an unfamiliar uniform. He came to me and said: I am your liberator."

The allied forces had arrived and she and her mother were freed. She was just 12. Ceija's mother then pushed her 700 miles in a wheelbarrow to Austria's third largest city, Linz, which was a meeting place for Roma people. Miraculously, her surviving four siblings found their way to the city, and the family was reunited.

Ceija was homeless for nine years, selling carpets because her family occupation of horse-trading was still banned. She later wrote and painted about her experience, becoming a well-known artist and an activist for awareness of Roma killed in the Holocaust.

"I reached for the pen because I had to open myself, to scream," she explained at an exhibition in Vienna's Jewish Museum in 2004. Her paintings included harrowing images of the death camps, and a joyful painting showing her mother and surviving siblings in a celebratory dance, to mark the joy of the liberation. Ceija died in 2013, aged 79.

Josef Mengele, the Nazi doctor at Auschwitz, was fascinated by identical twins and tortured them for horrific experiments, under the precept of furthering his research into genetics.

His procedures included unnecessary amputations, injecting chemicals into eyes to try to change eye color, and intentionally infecting one twin with disease then transfusing blood into the other to see if the second twin survived. A pathologist who worked with him has recalled Mengele personally killing 14 twins in one night, with chloroform injections to their hearts.
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Eva Mozes Kor and her twin sister Miriam were born in Romania into a family of Jewish farmers. Her family was pushed into a cattle van bound for Auschwitz in 1944, when the twins were 10.

When they arrived at the camp's train platform, her father and her older sister disappeared in the crowd. When German officers learned the girls were twins, they dragged Eva and Miriam away from their mother. They would never see the rest of their family again.

"We were both crying, and mother's hands were spread in despair," Eva said in an interview with Vice. "We never got to say goodbye. I had the best mother on the face of this Earth."

'My parents and my older sister died within 30 minutes after arrival at Auschwitz. I never saw them again. They just disappeared. There is no record of them,' she told AFP.

The girls had their heads shaven and their arms tattooed. They became lab subjects six days a week. The pair were undressed, large amounts of their blood was taken, and their body parts were rigorously examined. "They would spend three hours on my ear lobe," Eva told Vice. "They treated me like I was nothing, like I was a piece of meat."

After doctors injected Eva with bacteria through five large needles in her right arm, she became seriously ill. She remembers Mengele smiling over her, remarking that she only had two weeks left to live.

If one twin died in experiments, Eva knew that his habit was to murder the other so he could cross-examine their bodies. "I was thinking, if I die, then Miriam will be murdered as well," she said of her determination to pull through.

Eva and Miriam were among just 200 sets of twins who survived Auschwitz, out of almost 1,500 pairs used for experiments. They can be seen at the front of a line of twins freed in an iconic photo from the liberation of the camp.

They founded the group CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors), to unite twins who suffered Mengele's brutality. Miriam died of cancer in 1993. Eva still speaks about her experience, and says she has forgiven the Nazis. "I realized that the 'guinea pig' had the power to forgive the god of Auschwitz," she said. "No one could give me the power, or take it away from me. I refused to be a victim, and now I am free."

Eva has returned to Auschwitz, and always dances on the platform where she saw her family for the last time. "That's where they took away the joy of my life and my family," she says. "This way, I reclaim it."

Those with mental and physical illnesses were regarded by the Nazis as "unworthy of life", leading to a clandestine program of mass murder, under the cover of 'mercy killings'.

Institutions were turned into mass killing centers, with SS officers wearing lab coats to keep up the appearance of a medical program. Families were told their relatives had died from illness and given faked death certificates, when in reality up to 300,000 people in German and Austria were systematically murdered, usually in gas chambers disguised as showers. Their organs were used for experiments.

The T4 'euthanasia' program pre-dated what is usually referred to as the Holocaust by two years, but continued informally during it, and disabled people were later sent to concentration camps with other groups.
Robert Wagemann describes fleeing from a "euthanasia" clinic where the Nazis killed physically and mentally disabled people
Helene Lebel, nicknamed Helly, was a young legal secretary and law student in Vienna. She was raised Catholic, born to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father who died fighting in World War I. Helene started showing signs of schizophrenia aged 19, and had a breakdown after losing her dog, Lydi. She was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was sent to the Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital in Vienna.

Germany annexed Austria two years later. Helene's condition had improved at the hospital and her parents believed she was well enough to come home. But she was not allowed to return. Her parents were first told she would be released, and then that she had been transferred to another hospital.

In fact, Helene was transported to a former prison in Brandenburg, Germany. She was undressed, physically examined and then led into a "shower room" where she was murdered with deadly gas. Despite this, the aspiring law student was officially listed as dying in her room of "acute schizophrenic excitement."

Helene was just one of 9,772 people gassed in 1940 at the Brandenburg "euthanasia" center, which was one of six in Germany and Austria.

Many members of the Christian clergy were either threatened with deportation and kept in custody, or sent to camps. The Catholic Church was particularly suppressed in Poland, where nearly a fifth of all priests - around 3,000 - were killed between 1939 and 1945, most in concentration camps.

Maximilian Kolbe was born 1894 and grew up in the Polish town of Pabianice. His father was German and his mother Polish. Maximilian's life was shaped by a vision he believed he experienced of the Virgin Mary as a child. He became a Catholic Franciscan priest in his 20s, and founded monasteries in Poland, Japan and India, traveling the world to spread his beliefs.
Paul Eggert, who was categorized as "feeble-minded", Helga Gross who attended a school for the deaf, and schizophrenic Dorothea Buck talk about being forcibly sterilized
When the German army invaded Poland, Maximilian organized a hospital at his Polish monastery. It hid up to 3,000 Polish refuges, many of them Jews, during a dangerous period, and continued to run a religious publishing house and radio station.

As news about the mass murders of the Holocaust spread, he wrote a message of hope in his newspaper at the time: "No one in the world can change Truth. What we can do and and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it.

"The real conflict is the inner conflict. Beyond armies of occupation and the hecatombs of extermination camps, there are two irreconcilable enemies in the depth of every soul: good and evil, sin and love. And what use are the victories on the battlefield if we are ourselves are defeated in our innermost personal selves?"

A month later, Maximilian's monastery was shut down and he was arrested and transferred to Auschwitz. He was subjected to savage beatings in the camp, but continued to act as a priest, offering guidance and comfort to prisoners of all faiths.

Some priests in the camp were assigned to a cruel guard nicknamed 'Bloody' Krott, who forced them to cut and carry huge tree trunks. Krott is said to have developed a hatred of Maximilian and gave him heavier loads than the others. Priests who were imprisoned with him report that when they offered to help, he refused and said "Mary gives me strength. All will be well."

He wrote to his mother form the camp: "Do not worry about me or my health, for the good Lord is everywhere and holds every one of us in his great love."

One day in 1941, three prisoners vanished from Auschwitz. The enraged guards decided to starve 10 men to death in an underground cell to deter further escapees.

One of the chosen men, Franciszek Gajowniczek, cried out when he was selected, pleading that he had a wife and children, so Maximilian stepped forward and volunteered to take his place. In the cell with the doomed men, he continued to pray and minister.

Bruno Borgowiec, an assistant in the underground bunkers, is reported by Catholic writer Mary Craig to have said that: "In the cell of the poor wretches there were daily loud prayers, the rosary and singing, in which prisoners from neighboring cells also joined... I had the impression I was in a church. Friar Kolbe was leading and the prisoners responded in unison. They were often so deep in prayer that they did not even hear that inspecting SS men had descended to the Bunker."

As the men died one by one, Maximilian was the last left alive, and remained kneeling or standing according to eye-witnesses. Two weeks passed, and the guards decided to execute him by lethal injection.

Borgowiec reported that Maximilian held up his arm for the injection, willingly. "Kolbe, with a prayer on his lips, himself gave his arm to the executioner. Unable to watch this, I left under the pretext of work to be done."

Maximilian was later made a saint, and his statue is carved over the door of London's Westminster Abbey. His canonization created some controversy; the pamphlets published by his monastery in Poland were said to have contained anti-Semitic articles, but reports of his benevolence towards Jews and fellow prisoners have remained unquestioned.

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The Century: America's Time - 1941-1945: Homefront

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Click this, are you Isolationist or Interventionist?

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Based on the video, how did the Allies defeat Germany?

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How does this add appeal to people? What is the marketing strategy?

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How does this add appeal to people? What is the marketing strategy?

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How does this add appeal to people? What is the marketing strategy?

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Top 10 Most Watched Ads on YouTube in 2017

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Two of the Ads here topped 100 million views! Here are the top 10 most viewed commercials of 2017. The best ads of 2017. 😃 SUBSCRIBE ► https://goo.gl/JcGwWb ★ Watch "Top 10 Funniest Doritos Super Bowl Commercials of all time 2018" ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdb_E7OCu7I Subscribe! TURN ON POST NOTIFICATIONS!

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Did GM take this out of context? Watch second video

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What are human rights? What difficulties have we faces in human history in achieving human rights?

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Was the internment of Japanese justified?

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This site explores a period of U.S. history when racial prejudice and fear upset the delicate balance between the rights of a citizen versus the power of the state. Focusing on the experiences of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps during World War II, this exhibit is a case study in decision-making and citizen action under the U.S.

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How was the Pacific Theater different than the European Theater?

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Browse | The Digital Collections of the National WWII Museum : Oral Histories

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To get the best possible experience using our website, we recommend that you upgrade or download an alternative web browser. Downloading a new browser will make internet browsing safer as well as more enjoyable.

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How do adds today effect your personal behaviors?

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Ads, Ad Management Tools, Custom Filters, Geofilters, and Lenses * Snapchat

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Take advantage of effective ad solutions to serve your objectives. Drive action, increase consideration or grow awareness with Snap Ads, Filters or Lenses.

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Could the Great Depression happen again?

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Global Wealth Inequality  -  What you never knew you never knew (See description for 2017 updates)

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How can the people at the time relate to this song? Why do you think it became so popular?

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How did this effect American spending?

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Explain in your words the concept of supply and demand

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Supply and Demand: Crash Course Economics #4

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What is a stock? How are stocks related to companies?

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How The Stock Exchange Works (For Dummies)

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Here are class notes. If you were absent or need a refresher.

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Here are class notes. If you were absent, need to study for a test/essay, or need a refresher.

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Here are class notes. If you were absent, need to study for a test/essay, or need a refresher.

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What are his beliefs and strategy?

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President Franklin Roosevelt 1933 Inauguration

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Take a survey and give Mr. Mills feedback

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SurveyMonkey: The World's Most Popular Free Online Survey Tool

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