Germany the Good and Evil: Bismarck and Hitler

Joel Wingrove
Seminar leader: Anna
Student id: 5030069
Friday February 17, 2012
Hist 1F91
Seminar Wednesday February 15 11:00 am

1880 was a time in which there was a busy time in eastern Europe industrialization was quite new and things started moving more quickly technologically. That wasn’t the only thing to be on the rise new soci-economical factors were starting to pop up around Europe at the time to replace old monarchies and hereditary kingship. Things were no different in 19th century Eastern Europe. Germany a new contender on the world stage was making her first appearance. Skip forth fifty years into Nazi Germany and there a whole different picture defines the people of Germany. This essay looks to determine the differences between imperial Germany against that of Nazi Germany. First looking upon how the government was lead differently. Then how the expansion/unification was conducted. Finally looking into how they dealt with people under their authority.

The systems of government at the different times in German history were quite estranged from each other. The government of the two times held very polarized views when it came to socialism. On one had at the time of Otto van Bismarck was against fascism as explained by this quote “the anti socialist law that Bismarck passed…banned socialist meetings and publications” on the other hand Nazi Germany had the socialist democratic party as their main party during the years of Hitler, the socialist party was something that Bismarck worried about because of its fascist aspects. Secondly was the way the country went about trying to expand their boundaries. While Bismarck used less than popular political tactics to fire up German patriotism the Nazis had much more ruthless antics as expressed by Hitler’s forceful invasion and control of Poland . While