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  Conscription Encyclopedia @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Conscription is regularly postponed for students until the end of their studies, as long as they apply before they turn twenty-eight years of age.
Conscription can create the "we-spirit" in the nation, unifying the people: as all able-bodied males have had the same experience and are soldiers, it creates immense unity and team spirit in the nation, thus effectively preventing rioting and uprisings against the government.
Conscription is seen also signaling inequality; as men are required to risk their life and limb without any compensation while women aren't, it is a clear signal the society values far more the lives of women than those of men, and men are just expendables.
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 Conscription
Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require (very often, male only) citizens to serve in their armed forces.
Conscripts often face brutal hazing and bullying upon their enterance into the military known as dedovschina, some dying as a result.
Conscription of men into the armed forces of New Zealand came into effect in 1940, and was abolished in 1972.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/conscription.html   (8763 words)

  
 Conscription - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Conscription is the involuntary requirement of a government that certain of its citizens serve in the armed forces.
Conscription is regularly postponed for students until the end of their studies, as long as they apply before they turn 28 years of age.
Some Egyptians evade conscription and travel overseas until they reach the age of 30, at which point they are tried, pay a $580 fine (as of 2004), and are dishonorably relieved of their obligation to serve in the army.
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 Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The treaty also declared Germany the culprit for all the horrors of the Great War, as a basis for later imposing not yet specified reparations on Germany (the amount was repeatedly revised under the Dawes Plan, Young Plan and the Hoover Moratorium).
Germany had lost economically important territory in Europe along with its colonies and in admitting to sole responsibility for the war had agreed to pay a huge reparations bill totaling 32 billion marks.
The display of swastikas or other Nazi symbols is prohibited in Germany and political extremists are generally under surveillance by the Verfassungsschutz, one of the federal or state-based offices for the protection of the constitution.
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 Adolf Hitler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
He led Germany from the depths of post-World War I defeat to be one of the most powerful nations in the world; however, the war he started was ultimately lost, and the planned "thousand-year Reich" ended shortly after his death, reportedly by suicide, in the Führerbunker in Berlin during the final days of the war.
He was a master orator and with all of Germany's mass media under the control of his propaganda chief, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, he persuaded most Germans he was their saviour from the Depression, the Communists, the Versailles Treaty and the Jews.
Adolf Hitler with [[Benito Mussolini in Munich]] In March 1935 Hitler repudiated the Treaty of Versailles by reintroducing conscription in Germany.
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 Articles - Conscription   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
"Conscription" has also sometimes been used as a general term for non-military involuntary labour demanded by some established authority; for example, some translators of Old Testament commentaries use the term to describe the levies of labour used to build the Temple.
In Singapore, the NS (Amendment) Act was passed on 14 March 1967, under which all able-bodied male citizens of 18-21 years of age were required to serve a compulsory military service of two years (down from two and a half years, amended in 2005).
Conscription even ends up mirroring many of the infamous traits of chattel slavery in the America South; one´s life is in the hands of those giving orders, to be sacrificed at will, one can be severely punished, even imprisoned, beaten, or killed, for trying to escape.
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 Swiss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Compared to these extensive costs, some would argue there is very little benefit, if there ever were a war conscription and basic training could be completed quickly, and in most countries where conscription is compulsory...
Conscription - Conscription and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In particular: Art.1: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
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