...Germany was considered Nazi Germany many visions and ideas were spread and shared. One of the dreams shared by the Nazis in Germany was the creation of a German "Garden of Eden." It was to be located in the East, and it save a major evolvement between September 1939 and May 1941. Before this evolvement, Reinhard Heydrich, one of the leading Schutzstaffel officials, was assassinated. Adolf Hitler threatened the Czech Republic with deportation, and blamed an entire town for sheltering the individuals who assassinated Heydrich. This town was destroyed and massacred. The destruction of this town led up to Hitler's ability to start the creation of a German "Garden of Eden." Hitler needed the territory to create his "Garden of Eden" to shelter the pure German people and the perfect...
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...Who was Adolf Hitler? Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau, Austria, a small town across the Inn River from Germany. Soon after Hitler's birth, his father, Alois Hitler, moved the family to Linz, Austria. Hitler attended school in Linz and at first was a good student, but in high school he was a very poor student. Hitler's academic abilities angered his father because his father hoped that Hitler would study to become a government worker as he had been. Hitler, however, wanted to become an artist. In 1907, Hitler went to Vienna Austria. in an attempt to fulfill his dream of becoming an artist. This attempt ended when he failed the entrance exam to the Academy of Fine Arts. When Hitler's mother died in 1907, he decided to remain in Vienna. He took the entrance exam a year later and failed again. He did not have steady work in Vienna, but, instead, took a variety of odd jobs. He lived in cheap rooming houses or slept on park benches and he often had to get meals from charity kitchens. During his time in Vienna Hitler learned to hate non-Germans. Hitler was a German-speaking Austrian and considered himself German. He ridiculed the Austrian government for recognizing eight languages as official and believed that no government could last if it treated ethnic groups equally. In 1913, Hitler went to Munich, Germany and when World War I began in 1914, he volunteered for service in the German army. Hitler was twice decorated for bravery, but only rose to the rank of corporal...
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...Essential Questions: The Schutzstaffeln (SS) A) The Sturmabteilung (SA) functioned as the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s. Their main assignments were providing protection for Nazi rallies and assemblies, disrupting the meetings of the opposing parties, fighting against the paramilitary units of the opposing parties) and intimidating Jewish citizens. SA men were often called "brown shirts" for the color of their uniform. B) Adolf Hitler founded the Schutzstaffel (SS) in April of 1925, as a group of personal bodyguards. Thanks to Himmler, this small band of bodyguards grew from 300 members in 1925 to 50,000 in 1933 when Hitler took office. Between 1934 and 1936, the SS gained control of Germany's police forces and expanded their responsibilities. Because of these new responsibilities, the SS divided into two sub-units: the Allgemeine-SS (General SS), and the Waffen-SS (Armed SS). (Simon) states that unlike the SA, who were considered to be a separate paramilitary organization working for the good of the State, the SS was under Hitler's total control. Easily recognizable by the lightning-shaped "S" insignia on their black uniforms, they soon became known as the purest of all Germans. As the SS grew and became more complex, it matured into the spine of the Nazi regime. C) The Waffen-SS (Armed SS) consisted of three main groups. The first was the Leibstandarte, Hitler's personal bodyguard...
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...Account for the Progressive Radicalization of the Nazi Regime. The power structure of the Nazi regime lacked a legitimate and stable democratic order, being ruled over by a charismatic figure, Hitler, who offered through his propaganda a new and better future for the people. In 1919 Hitler joined the German Workers Party, an extreme right wing national party that played on the Germans hatred of the Treaty of Versailles. In 1920 the party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) and Hyperinflation in 1923 with the Weimer Government ruined the middle class and furthered the dissatisfaction of the German people with the current Government. This presented the NSDAP an opportunity to present a policy that would benefit Germany. The regime offered opportunities to the population with security across the community and a direction of supremacy for their race. Policies of the Nazis did not include involving the broader population in the more brutal and violent parts of their rule, thus the people’s communities were forged through genocide. Hitler was obsessed with having a pure racial community in Germany and an extension of land for Germany eventuating in world domination and he pursued these objectives with ruthlessness and inhuman brutality. Progressive radicalization was inevitable due to the chaotic anti-Semitism beliefs and competitive nature of an elite ruler and a few devout followers. The propaganda campaigns are what paved the way to anti-Semitism...
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...This began in 1933 when the first concentration camps were made.The concentration camps were very dirty places where they would never clean it, there would be piles of dead decomposing bodies. The captured Jews were tattooed with numbers so they could be I.D'd. In the captured Jews confinement they were often beaten with sticks or tortured by the Schutzstaffel (an elite military unit of the Nazi party that served as Hitler's bodyguard and as a special police force). A torture method they often used was them binding the prisoner's hands together behind their back and hanging them from their hand, soon causing them to have a dislocated shoulder.there were many other ways they would torture the prisoners such as putting them in rooms and killing them with gas, starving them, hangings, mass shootings, putting them in ice water until their hearts stopped and much more. He even attempted to influence the children by teaching them to humiliate Jews, practice Nazism and worship Hitler. Due to his actions he caused World War II, which was fought from 1939-1941. An American soldier said "There our troops found sights, sounds, and stenches horrible beyond belief, cruelties so enormous as to be incomprehensible to the normal...
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...Arachnophobia, agoraphobia, and acrophobia are all common fears; however, during Nazi Germany, millions of people are afraid of the Jewish faith. The Holocaust is a systematic genocide of Jewish people and other groups that lasts from 1933 to 1945 under the control of a German dictator, Adolf Hitler. Elie Wiesel is only 15 years old when he and his family are sent to Auschwitz and 16 years old when he is liberated from the concentration camp. In his memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel demonstrates the loss of Jewish identity during the Holocaust through his use of literary devices: personification, foreshadowing, and metaphors. The Jews experience a loss of identity and self value before they even get to the camps due to the dehumanizing acts of authoritative...
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...Protection Strategies Adolf Hitler led with violence, aggression, manipulation, and military strategy, and because of that he became a target of assassination. This developed into an acute paranoia, which led Hitler to implement some of the most brilliant security strategies seen to date. Before an understanding of the reasoning behind the assassination attempts can be deduced, an accurate depiction of Hitler’s early rise to power is necessary. Adolf Hitler was born in Austria on 20 April, 1889. Being the son of a poor young cottager, Hitler was never satisfied with his stature in life. He fled to Germany to avoid being arrested for dodging military service in Austria. This did not define him, as he went on to serve in the German Army during World War I and was wounded twice. He received several medals, and maybe more important, found a direction in life in which he had been searching. World War I left Germany in a state of unease. The sanctions placed on the country left it almost financially crippled. Hitler used this vulnerability to come in and take the nation by storm. This, coupled with his determined necessity to completely rule Germany, was a recipe for disaster. It wasn’t long before Adolf Hitler became a party leader, and from the very beginning he needed, at least some form, of protection. Hitler emerged as not only a politician, but the leader of the most hostile and violent political party in the country. Adolf Hitler’s personal security...
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...The Death of Jews During War World II,(change to World War) Nazi Germany’s leader at the time, Adolf Hitler, wanted to kill Jews, war prisoners, Gypsies;(change to a comma and add and) even children. The Nazi death camps had brutal ways to kill the Gypsies, and many more in the death camps. There are many survivors of this tragedy, which is now known as the Holocaust. A survivor is Elie Wiesel;(change to a period) he was fifteen at the time, along with his family that he was shortly with after arriving. He was separated from most of his family. He only had his father left, and then went to the work camps. He wrote his novel, Night, a story of his tragedy, losing his family at a young age, and the inside story of what was going on in the death camps. A quote form the story Night is “I could never forget the smoke, the faces on the children; I could never forget the flames that consumes my faith” (34 Wiesel). An example of mankind being evil as shown in the novel Night is by staving(Starving?) most of the prisoners to death. Mankind, being an inhering evil, is shown by the deaths of innocent people by...
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...Hitler: Man or Monster Mostafa Emad Tosson Academic Writing, Fall Class 2015 Canadian International College Abstract This research paper will present Hitler’s life from childhood till death, and how his character was shaped by happenings throughout his life. Conducting this research happened by studying Hitler’s biography from different points of view and analyzing the happenings he experienced to prove if Hitler was a man or a monster. Hitler: Man or Monster The man who has become known to many as the worst warmonger in history had humble, even bohemian beginnings. Believe it or not, Adolf Hitler was once a struggling artist, selling watercolor paintings of Viennese landmarks to keep him out of the poor house. How did Hitler go from this penny-pinching life to leading the Nazi Party and eventually Germany itself? Troubled Childhood Born 1889, April 20 – Adolf Hitler was born in an inn in the Austrian village of Braunau-am-Inn. He was the third child of Alois Hitler who was a customs official and his third wife Klara who came from a poor peasant family, but the other two children had died in infancy. Life was financially comfortable for the Hitler family but Alois was a domineering character and young Adolf frequently found himself on the wrong side of his father's short temper. At second Adolf had a half-brother, Alois Jr, and a half-sister, Angela, from Alois' previous marriage. Adolf's younger brother, Edmund, was be born in 1896. Another sister, Paula, was...
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...past. Through information and experiences, history is an excellent learning tool for the betterment of the future. Over the years, numerous leaders have displayed unethical, abusive behavior; such leaders consist of Adolph Hitler, Josef Mengele, Ivan the Terrible, and Joseph Stalin to name a few. Adolph Hitler began his ruling of Germany in 1933. Using manipulation and charm, Hitler convinced German citizens that Germans were superior to everyone and thus, Hitler began his tyranny to pursue complete control (Children of the Holocaust, 2009). Adolph Hitler did not seem to have any compassion for human life; murdering millions, starvation, slavery, and torture are just a few of his deeds. The Holocaust was a time in which ordinary citizens were striving to stay alive, clinging to a beacon of light. Citizens trusted their ruler, seeking an understanding for the lack of work, food. A trust that was sadly, misplaced. Hitler turned Germany into a country of hatred, fear, violence, and aggression where every day would have felt like a bitter hell for the Jewish community. Adolph Hitler was ruthless and proudly abused the power he had over innocent, vulnerable human beings. Josef Mengele was an SS (Schutzstaffel) doctor in Germany during the reign of Adolf Hitler. As an SS doctor, Josef was part of an exclusive group considered Hitler’s personal security, medical, and combat forces. Josef conducted sinister human experiments to further his career in the medical field and sate a lust...
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...The Holocaust was committed by Adolf Hitler. The Holocaust victims were Jews, Slaves, Gypsies, homosexuals, and mentally and physically disabled people. The victims were killed in concentration camps were there were put in gas chambers, they became sick, they didn't have enough food ,so some of them starved to death. The Armenian Genocide took place 1915-1923 in the Ottoman Empire which is today called Turkey. The Armenian Genocide was committed by the young Turk government. The Armenian victims were Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians. The victims were killed in labor camps were they were put in primitive gas chambers, they were killed by relocation with trains, death marches, killing squads, they were being shot and a lot of the victims died because of the living conditions. The Cambodian...
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...during World War II, which is very bias. The year it was published, 2011, is a weakness in itself because about 70 years have passed so the author would obviously not be as knowledgeable about the event if it had been closer chronologically. The second source evaluated is the White Rose leaflets. In 1942, the White Rose group was formed by six German college students with the goal of calling up resistance to the Nazi government and to be aimed towards the educated elite in Germany. Each initial member attended the University of Munich. The founder of the group, Hans Scholl, was a former member of the Hitler Youth until he became disgusted of the aims of this group. Christoph Probst, Willi Graf, and Alexander Schmorell, and Hans’ sister Sophie were the other White Rose members and authors. Hans and an accomplice first wrote four leaflets which exposed Nazi and Schutzstaffel atrocities, including the extermination of Jews and Polish nobility. This is a primary source, which gives value because they were written while all surrounding Nazi idealisms were prevalent and thriving; especially in Germany, where these were written. A limitation is that all of these kids were not directly being affected by Nazism flaws, such as the Jews were. So their accusations and opinions are from an external point of view, not knowing the full extent of the situation. The purpose of these leaflets, however, is a limitation because it is very bias about the opposition to Nazi idealism and only discussed...
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...Adolf Hitler (German: [ˈadɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ]; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was effectively dictator of Nazi Germany, and was a central figure of World War II in Europe and the Holocaust. Hitler was a decorated veteran of World War I. He joined the precursor of the NSDAP, the German Workers' Party, in 1919 and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup in Munich to seize power. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he dictated his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. Hitler frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as being part of a Jewish conspiracy. Hitler's Nazi Party became the largest elected party in the German Reichstag, leading to his appointment as chancellor in 1933. Following fresh elections won by his coalition, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which began the process of transforming the Weimar Republic into Nazi Germany, a one-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of National Socialism. Hitler aimed to eliminate Jews from Germany and establish a...
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...TOPIC: NAZI GERMANY Propaganda, terror and coercion underpinned the creation and maintenance of the Nazi state. Consider this in the period 1933-1939. The adage that perception is often stronger than reality has never been truer than in the Nazi state of 1933-1939, where image played a colossal role in the anti-semitic and Hitler myth propaganda of Joseph Goebbels. Image manufactured the fearful aura of the Gestapo as well as the ubiquitous representation of the law, both of which created and cemented acquiescence amongst the German population. It was through the creation of perception in Nazi society that propaganda, terror and coercion underpinned the creation and maintenance of the Nazi state. Any attempt to gauge the success of Nazi propaganda in the creation and maintenance of the Nazi state is somewhat difficult, as German society during 1933-1939 was so heavily influenced by terror and coercion that reported opinion did not necessarily reflect the true sentiment of the public. Nevertheless, it would be naïve to disregard the significant role that Nazi propaganda played in ensuring that the German public were unified in their support of the government. The most crucial objective of Nazi propaganda in the creation of the Nazi state was to create a new heightened national awareness. This was done through the creation of the Volksgemeinschaft (People’s Community), an institution that established cohesive community values. In order...
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...Part 1 - Weimar Germany 1918-1929 1) The Treaty of Versailles ▪ Kaiser abdicates November 9th 1918, Armistice (cease-fire) signed November 11th ▪ Treaty of Versailles signed June 1919 ▪ It is a DIKTAT – something forced on to Germany. Allies say that they will carry on the war if Germans do not sign. ▪ For many Germans the defeat in WW1, national humiliation, the Treaty of Versailles, the Weimar constitution & democracy are all linked – helps explain why democracy is weak in Germany ▪ Terms of the Treaty – ▪ Germany has to pay REPARATIONS (fixed in 1921 as £6600 million) ▪ Germany loses all its COLONIES (overseas parts of their empire) ▪ German army limited to 100,000 men with no air force & a small navy with only 6 battleships and no submarines ▪ 13% of Germany is now transferred to neighbouring countries as the map is redrawn ▪ Germany loses land to France (Alsace-Lorraine), Belgium, Poland (Posen & West Prussia) & Denmark ▪ 15% of German coal mines are lost in map changes ▪ Many Germans blame the defeat in the war on “the stab in the back” (DOLCHSTOSS) – i.e. the Socialists / Communists / Jews betrayed Germany & the army was never defeated. This myth makes it harder to accept the Treaty ▪ Treaty weakened democracy in Germany and the German economy ▪ Friedrich Ebert appointed Chancellor in October 1918 2) The Weimar Constitution ▪ A National Assembly was elected to write this new constitution ▪ It met in Weimar because Berlin was...
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