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  • Insignia of the 80th Infantry Division

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    Insignia of the 80th Infantry Division. The nickname of the 80th Infantry Division, the "Blue Ridge" division, reflects the home states of the majority of soldiers who formed the division during World War I: Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia. The Blue Ridge Mountains run through these three states.

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    Insignia of the 80th Infantry Division

  • Artist on the Blacklist: Ludwig Meidner

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    Ludwig Meidner was an Expressionist artist and poet. He was on the list of banned writers and artists in Nazi Germany. Monographs about him were burned in 1933.

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    Artist on the Blacklist: Ludwig Meidner

  • Werner Hegemann

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    Werner Hegemann was a city planner and author. The Nazis opposed his views of American architecture and German historical figures. His book was burned in 1933.

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  • Morris Hillquit

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    Morris Hillquit was a prominent theoretician of the socialist movement in the United States. His work was burned in the Nazi book burnings of 1933. Learn more.

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    Morris Hillquit

  • Vladimir Lenin

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    Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the new Soviet government after the Russian Revolution of 1917. His works were burned in Nazi Germany in 1933. Learn more.

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    Vladimir Lenin

  • Kurt Tucholsky

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    Kurt Tucholsky was a German satirist who criticized the Nazis during their rise to power. In 1933, his works were burned under the Nazi regime. Learn more.

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  • The Weimar Republic

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    Series of articles on the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), a liberal democratic republic founded in Germany in the aftermath of World War I.

  • Lvov

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    Nazi Germany occupied Lvov, Poland in 1941. Learn about Lvov during World War II, the establishment of the Lvov ghetto, and deportations of Jews from there.

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    Lvov

  • The Holocaust in Subcarpathian Rus and Southern Slovakia

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    Learn more about the history of the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine (historically known as Subcarpathian Rus) during World War II.

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    The Holocaust in Subcarpathian Rus and Southern Slovakia

  • Joseph Greenblatt

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    Read the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation's short biography of Joseph Greenblatt.

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    Joseph Greenblatt

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