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9
Chapter

The Manhattan Project

Albert had spent his whole life believing that

armed conflict of any kind was wrong, but his
beliefs were about to be tested.

Albert was a strong believer in pacifism,
which means that he was against war and

thought that people should find peaceful ways
to work out their differences. Following the

rise of Hitler, however, his beliefs were
challenged. In Germany, Hitler and the Nazis

were targeting and attacking Jews in many
different ways. They destroyed Jewish

synagogues and businesses, and they arrested
and murdered people of the Jewish faith.

By the end of the 1930s, Hitler’s Nazis had
taken over many of Germany’s neighboring

countries. This lead to the start of World
War II (1939–45).

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