...| How and why did the Nazi treatment of Jews change between the years 1933 and 1945? | Curran De Braganca | How and why did the Nazi treatment of Jews change between the years 1933 and 1945? Most of us have heard of the Nazi party’s horrific, genocidal regime on destroying the Jewish race, but what events led up to their dire judgement? In this study I aim to uncover the events, reasons and changes which led to the Holocaust and the further changes in the treatment of the Jewish race by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. In the aftermath of the First World War, Germany is under the Judgment of the Allies as a result of Allied victory Germany is being blamed for most of the war, The Treaty of Versailles stated that they: * Are to pay compensation to the Allies: £6.6 Million, which was well over Germany’s financial capacity at the time. * Portions of Germany’s land has been claimed and will distributed under Allied power to form new nations and also will be given to allied nations who lost land during the war. * Germany’s army will be reduced to only 100,000 men plus their naval vessels have been limited to 6 capital ships. The west of Rhineland had been Demilitarised and occupied by Allied forces. * Germany was not allowed to join with Austria to boost its economy. These were only just a few of the terms of the treaty. In Germany, many people were ‘pointing fingers’ and putting the blame on others, one group of people however, is taking...
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...achieve power by armed coup, we shall hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the opposition deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than out shooting them, at least the results will be guaranteed by their own constitution. Sooner or later we shall have a majority, and after that- Germany. (Heiden, 142)' Adolf Hitler spoke these words in 1920, soon after becoming leader of the newly named National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. There are many contributing factors, which lead to Hitler's gain in power over the next thirteen years. The recent history of post-war Germany, and the events that would follow were of perfect conditions for the rise of an extremist party such as the Nazis. World War One had left Germany in defeat. Germany was put under immense pressure by the treaty of Versailles, which contributed to the disastrous and politically unstable early twenties. Hitler was a strong and manipulating character, with extraordinary leadership skills and his party was very tactical. He was very much underestimated by opposing political parties. All of these factors lead to Hitler and his Nazis' becoming the sole political party in the Reichstag in 1933. The German Empire was formed in 1871 and soon became one of Europe?s most influential countries. It dominated in industrial and military power, and the German people were proud of their achievements. Up until the end of World War One, a Kaiser ruled Germany. From 1888 the Kaiser was...
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...1889-1945 Nazi invasion of the Rhineland World War I began mid-1914, and ended with a peace treaty, aptly named “Armistice Day”, which fell on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918. In 1919, the Treaty of Versailles had been necessitated as to keep Germany from occupying Rhineland. The treaty was designed to give France an opportunity to regroup to better defend themselves in times of war, and most notably entered into the Versailles Treaty was Article 231, "War Guilt Clause,” which placed blame for WWI on Germany. The article required the defeated Germany to pay reparations to any civilian affected by WWI, to the tune of thirty-three billion in US dollars (valued at that time). Furthermore, the heavy fines were levied to stifle...
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... My favorite place, however, without a doubt would have been Amsterdam. This was a very physically beautiful city with elaborate canal system and narrow houses and many art galleries including the works of Van Gogh, however the city’s history was not as beautiful as its exterior beauty. The Anne Frank house is one of the most famous landmarks in Amsterdam. And rightfully so. Anne is most famous for keeping a diary throughout the Holocaust, and hence became a symbol for the mass murder of Jews during the Second World War. Originally from Germany, Anne and her family fled to the Netherlands after Adolf Hitler and his National-Socialist party came to power in 1933. This house is where they hid when the Nazi’s came to the Netherlands and anti-jewish measures were introduced. The Anne Frank House tells the story of Anne and her families lives and the ultimate destruction caused by Hitler and his extreme right-wing ideas. Upon exiting the museum, I passed the visitors book, where I wrote five words: “Donald Trump should come here.” The Oxford Dictionary defines the word 'trump' as an admirable or helpful person. Does that sound like a suitable word to be associated with such a right-wing extremist? Someone who uses racism to rise to power? Someone who proposes mass-deportation in order to make America great again? Someone who blames a specific group of people for all of his countries problems? Someone who has had no leadership or civics experience at all and is now running for...
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...The Nazi Party The Nazi Party is one of the most notorious hate groups of all time, known for the mass murder of six million Jews and over eleven million people in total were killed by the Nazis. They rose to popularity after Germany’s defeat in World War I and remained popular until the end of World War II. The party was able to persuade Europeans into thinking their hateful ideas were valid. They expanded their party from Germany to other European countries. They wanted to murder all of the Jews in Europe and was somewhat successful. The Nazis became uncommon after World War II. However, their legacy as one of the most horrible groups of all time, is still relevant today. Rise to Power In 1919, World War I put Germany in an economically...
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...historian understand the politics of the time as well as to observe the reactions from the different governments and citizens from all over the world. Though some historians recount the events from World War II from a general perspective and focus on the different military strategies and government policies, others discuss the individuals involved in the war and their influence on the causes and outcome of the war. Further on, historians tend to focus on the major leaders during the world: Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt and De Gaulle. Nevertheless, some historians have paid close attention to those around these great leaders and discussed their influence over them and their respective government policies. Before the beginning of World War II, Adolf Hitler guided the Nazi party into power in Germany during the 1930’s. Hitler did not led Germany into war on its own, but with the help of a few close associates one of them being Joseph Goebbels. As one of the main directors of the Nazi Propaganda in Germany and other parts of Europe, Joseph Goebbels led Germany’s internal affairs during the war especially during the completion of most of Hitler’s objectives during his leadership. It is difficult to imagine Germany’s actions during the war without looking a Goebbels. He definitely changed the outcome of World War II by implementing public enlightenment policies to drive Germans against the Jews and other minorities as well as to encourage the German population to fight the Allies. Goebbels...
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...Adolf Hitler was born on 20th April, 1889, in the small Austrian town of Braunau near the German border. Both Hitler's parents had come from poor peasant families. His father Alois Hitler, the illegitimate son of a housemaid, was an intelligent and ambitious man and later became a senior customs official. Klara Hitler was Alois' third wife. Alois was twenty-three years older than Klara and already had two children from his previous marriages. Klara and Alois had five children but only Adolf and a younger sister, Paula, survived to become adults. Alois, who was fifty-one when Adolf was born, was extremely keen for his son to do well in life. Alois did have another son by an earlier marriage but he had been a big disappointment to him and eventually ended up in prison for theft. Alois was a strict father and savagely beat his son if he did not do as he was told. Hitler did extremely well at primary school and it appeared he had a bright academic future in front of him. He was also popular with other pupils and was much admired for his leadership qualities. He was also a deeply religious child and for a while considered the possibility of becoming a monk. Competition was much tougher in the larger secondary school and his reaction to not being top of the class was to stop trying. His father was furious as he had high hopes that Hitler would follow his example and join the Austrian civil service when he left school. However, Hitler was a stubborn child and attempts by his parents...
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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 end of the rule of Adolf Hitler came about when the Nazi Germany was defeated by the allied British in the year 1945[1]. Although Adolf Hitler was sparked World War II in Europe his defeat came in with destruction of property and loss of German lives because of his obstinacy, tough headedness and selfishness. Hitler’s poise that restricted him from accepting to surrender led to the destruction of infrastructure that he had already built. This paper aims to address the history of the Germans after World War II, the German economy and their living standards. The defeat of the Nazi Germany led to the split of Germany in a period known as the split of Germany after World War II. The country lost its war gains and territories in the East to the Soviet Union and Poland. The German population underwent much torture and suffering, about seven million of the German citizenry left Germany and died during their emigration because of starvation and hard labour. The most affected people were the prisoners serving their time in the prisons. Over ten million refugees who knew the German language well arrived in the country from other parts of the continent such as countries in Eastern and Central Europe[2]. Many of the German POWs were subjected to forced labour with industrial equipment...
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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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...Fire is seen as the preeminent occurrence for the Nazis consolidation of power, others argue the importance of other crucial events. This coursework thesis will investigate to what degree the burning of the Reichstag and the associated Decree for the Protection of the People and the State’.could be considered the deciding moment when Hitler consolidated Nazi authoritarian dictatorial power. This thesis is based on the decision of the Naizis to use the burning of the Reichstag as a launching pad to eliminate their perennial rivals, the communist. As compared and contrasted with other events such as the Depression, the Chancellorship, ‘Night of the Long Knives’, the Enabling Act and the overall failures of the Weimar Republic. The Reichstag Fire had an extreme impact upon Hitler’s consolidation to power as it allowed the Nazis to confirm that the international doctrine of, Bolshevism, controlled by the aspirations of the USSR were attempting to seize power over Germany, and the world. Thus Bolshevism were not only attempting to seize power over Germany but the world. In...
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...Your first step in doing this is to implement a way to cast the Jews out of society.” In the morning Hitler woke with Beelzebub’s words still fresh in his head “I had the most spectacular dream, I know how to make Germany pure once again, I will get rid of the Jews. I will enact laws that will restrict and exclude Jews in society, what a more perfect world could we live in.” Beelzebub introduced new ideas to Hitler every night, “Soon I’ll make Hitler and the Nazi party persecute Jews everywhere, from boycotting their businesses, excluding them from state services, limiting the number of Jewish students at schools and universities, to even limiting the professions they are allowed to be in.” His plan for revenge on God’s people was working and the more it worked the more Beelzebub thought, “If I am capable of all this then shouldn’t I reign in Hell and not Satan, although I guess the only reason I think this way is because of Satan himself than I guess Satan should be the one in...
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...Unlike Hitler, who openly murdered the Jews, Stalin’s involvement in the murder of millions are the results of political decisions, terror, and oppression. Stalin’s notions of “collectivizing” Russia would “destroy” the “autonomy” Russia’s peasant had established since the Russian revolution (Keefe, pg.1). A push to make Russia industrialized and the decisions that were made by Stalin would have devastating effects on the people of Russia. The main reason why Russian leaders had serious incentives to make their economy stronger was to rival Western economies, but unlike the West, Russia had forced its citizens to do what their told to make this a reality (Keefe, pg.1). At the time Stalin was in office he had proposed two five-year plans to transition...
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...genocide of around six million Jews during World War 2. There was extermination by the German Nazi’s who followed their leader Adolf Hitler. On September 1, 1939 was the turning point the people because the most horrifying event was yet to happen. On this day Hitler began his reign and terror with his Autocratic leadership over the people of Germany. Adolf Hitler was on a mission to make the Nazi party the strongest power and have all people follow his reign. Hitler thought the Aryan race was the most intelligent and perfect race and sought out to exterminate all who were not. Hitler believed that the superiority of the Aryan race was being in danger of the Jewish race. Hitler also thought that the Jewish race, who was a small part of the population, were slowly taking over the country. While Germany was starting to take a turn for the worst Jewish owned companies started to take big hits as they were collapsing under financial pressure and declining profits. As part of Germany’s Reign Jewish owners were forced to sell out there companies to the Nazi-German government because of Aryanization policy put in place by the Nazi Government. Aryanization kept the non-Aryans from owning businesses and also made sure that all Jewish property to be owned by the Nazi’s. As all this began taking places Jewish people were losing everything being forced into poverty. Hitler wanted to...
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...Is Propaganda Evil? Most people associate the word ”propaganda” with Nazi Germany in which it was used to unify a nation by turning Adolf Hitler into a demigod, by identifying and demonizing those countries which stood in the way of Germany fulfilling its destiny, and by scapegoating Jews. The result of all that propaganda was the destruction of Europe and the death of some 50 million people, so it is not surprising that propaganda has negative connotations. Propaganda is also used to keep North Korea’s dictatorial Kim family in power by stirring up hatred of the imperialist USA which – according to the Kims – is determined to destroy them. Propaganda was also used to prevent the Soviet Union from fragmenting, also by positioning the USA as a threat. Propaganda leads to deception and that makes it different with Public Relations(PR). This evil technique was used by Nazi party and it is used in advertisements nowadays. I will argue all these points in this text. There are people who believe that there is beneficial propaganda, that supports noble causes such as mobilizing the nation in the face of nation, promoting equal rights for women or racial minorities and for the sake of improved public health, to give just a few examples. One propaganda campaign that might be considered ethical is the one opposing the practice of female genital mutilation in North Africa, a brutal practice that entails surgery performed by mothers or grandmothers on little girls without...
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