...The German State was left in turmoil throughout the nineteen-twenties as a result of the aftermath of the First World War. During this era of political and economical dishevelment the state provided an ideal setting for the rise of extremist ideologies and firebrand political leaders that worsened the state as a whole but at the time appeared to be the best choice – These leaders came in the form of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. It seemed that the German residents residing within the state were forced to relinquish their earnings for the reparation fee that was set after the First World War by the victors themselves, and with the threat of hyperinflation looming, the political chaos and disablement, and the possible Communist takeover certain parities and leaders such as Hitler offered them scapegoats and quick solutions....
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...Their misfortune ranged from being evicted from their homes to having to see family members die in front of their eyes, and all of this happened because the Nazis feared that their religion would harm their racial superiority. The Nazi Holocaust impacted the world in a horrible way and if America didn't help what would’ve happened? This is what this essay will be finding out. Before we can examine America’s impact on the Holocaust we should go over it’s history. The holocaust was a persecution and murder of over six million jews in the world. The Holocaust was ran by the Nazi’s and their collaberating partners. The holocaust started in 1933 because the Germans or Nazis believed that they were racially superior and that the jews were inferior to them and they posed a threat towards the Nazis. Because of this the Nazis basically enslaved them and put them in concentration camps to work or be killed. The nazis forced the jews out of their homes...
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...According to Fredrich’s “six point syndrome”, a totalitarian state must consist of an official ideology, a single mass party, terroristic police control, monopoly control of the media and arms and central control of the economy. During the Nazi Reich between 1933-1939, under Hitler as Fuhrer (supreme leader), the Nazi regime was able to successfully achieve aspects of totalitarianism by exerting tight control of the media and police; leading to control of certain aspects of German social, political, legal, economical and cultural life. However, there are significant features of the Nazi regime that simply fail to fit Friedrich's six, all encompassing concepts of totalitarianism. Central to the concept of totalitarianism is an official ideology encapsulating a monolithic party led by an omnipotent, almost God-like figurehead. Whilst Hitler, supported by the Fuhrer myth, certainly fits the totalitarian leader definition, the Nazi Party structure contradicts the characteristics of a coordinated central party. Within, power rested on individuals and not in party structure; leading to increasingly fragmented party policy and intensifying interpersonal frictions as individuals radicalised in attempts to please the Fuhrer. In this structure, accountable and rational decision making in the long term became impossible; leaders lost any sense of stability and improvised agencies and policies to enact the amorphous will of the leader. The most radical policy of all, the extermination...
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...the Reichstag Fire? On the night of the 27th of February, 1933, the Reichstag building in Berlin burned down in an act declared by the Nazi Party to be the inception of a widespread communist uprising. The Reichstag Fire, as it was called, can be observed as one of the most significant events in the formation of Nazi Germany through its pivotal role in the reduction of civil liberties of Germany’s citizens and the emergence of a near dictatorial regime within the Weimar Republic. The significance of the fire lies in its role as a catalyst towards effecting the power that the Nazi Party would hold throughout the 1930’s as a result of the various decrees and laws passed in response to it. There is little doubt that the party would have come to similar power with time, but by utilising the fire as part of a communist plot to overthrow the German government, Adolf Hitler created a political and social environment susceptible to his control. The direct consequences of the fire were great, both in terms of political gain and the restriction of rights for the Nazi party’s adversaries, which at that point was predominantly the communist community. These greater holds on power were provided chiefly through the instigation of the Reichstag Decree and the Enabling Act along with the utilisation of political alliances between the police force and the Nazi Party. To understand the resounding effect of the fire, the general political environment in Germany before the fire must be examined...
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...Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future ”-Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler and his regime is a great example of how a society based of hate will not last. After reading Book One in 1984 by George Orwell, one fundamental question is brought to mind, can society based on hate survive? In the book, the main character, Winston, believes that a society based on hate would basically kill itself. Another character in the book, O’brien, said that their society would last because they were founded on hate unlike other society founded on love and peace that eventually disappeared. No society based on hate can survive because history has proven that to be true. One example of a society based...
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...The Nuremberg Laws: A Giant Step Backward Josh Portnoy The West and the World Period 7 5/10/13 In 1935, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party’s anti-Semitic ideas were gaining strength in many parts of Germany. Many restaurants and department stores displayed signs that forbade Jews from entering, and some areas of Germany banned Jews from using public transportation or public parks. Thousands of Jewish teachers and civil servants had been laid off, national boycotts enforced by paramilitary forces regularly barred Germans from buying from Jewish businesses, and citizens were discouraged from visiting Jewish doctors and lawyers. These actions were intended to cause a mass emigration of Jews from Germany. During the annual Nazi Party Rally held in Nuremberg in September 1935, Adolf Hitler passed two new laws, the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor. These laws—to be know as the “Nuremberg Laws”-- deprived Jews of German citizenship and many civil rights. Unresolved in the initial Nuremberg Laws were the actual definition of Jews. The first of thirteen supplementary decrees, all designating the biological composition of Jewish blood, was published on November 14, l935, and defined Jews in terms of their lineage. These laws enforced a new morality on Germans that made it acceptable to ostracize, discriminate, and expel Jews from society. According to Hitler, the...
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...The creation of a nazi mass movement In july 1932 the nazi gained 13,745,000 votes and their voters represented 37.3% of the electorate, making hitlers party the largest in the Reichstag. The results of the elections 1928-32 showed the changes in political parties. It was clear that the Nazis made gains from parties with a middle class/protestant identity. Catholic, communist and social democrat parties were able to withstand the Nazi advances. Geography and denomination Nazi support was higher in the North and east of the country and lower in the south and west. Across the North German plain from east Prussia to Schleswig Holstein, the Nazis gained their best results and reflects the significance of religion and degree of urbanisation. The areas with significant numbers of catholics, was were the Nazis gained the less support but the more protestant regions was were they gained more support, and didn’t do so well in large industrial areas but did well in rural areas. The Nazis did the worst in the west catholic areas such as Cologne. And it was at its highest in areas such as Pomerania. Class Nazi voters reflected the rural/urban division in terms of their social groupings. They gained the most support from peasants and farmers, the mittlestand (lower and middle class shop keepers), established ,idle class- teachers and white collar workers. High proportion of the middle class supported the party, but although the working class did join the Nazis in smaller proportions...
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...The twentieth century was marked by genocides on an monstrous scale. One of the most terrible was the Holocaust wrought by Nazi Germany, which killed an estimated six million European Jews and almost as many other victims. During this dark time, the Catholic Church was shepherded by Pope Pius XII, who proved himself an untiring foe of the Nazis, determined to save as many Jewish lives as he could. Yet today Pius XII gets almost no credit for his actions before or during the war. Anti-Catholic author Dave Hunt writes, "The Vatican had no excuse for its Nazi partnership or for its continued commendation of Hitler on the one hand and its thunderous silence regarding the Jewish question on the other hand. . . . [The popes] continued in the alliance with Hitler until the end of the war, reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in payments from the Nazi government to the Vatican."[1] Jack Chick, infamous for his anti-Catholic comic books, tells us in Smokescreens, "When World War II ended, the Vatican had egg all over its face. Pope Pius XII, after building the Nazi war machine, saw Hitler losing his battle against Russia, and he immediately jumped to the other side when he saw the handwriting on the wall. . . . Pope Pius XII should have stood before the judges in Nuremberg. His war crimes were worthy of death."[2] One is tempted simply to dismiss these accusations, so wildly out of touch with reality, as the deluded ravings of persons with no sense of historical truth...
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...SECTION 1: THE SUCCESSES AND FAILURES OF THE WEIMAR GOVERNMENT 1918-OCTOBER 1933 |9 November 1918 |Abdication of the Kaiser | |January 1919 |Spartacist Uprising | |February 1919 |First Weimar elections | |28 June 1919 |Treaty of Versailles signed | |July 1919 |Weimar Constitution announced | |March 1920 |Kapp Putsch signed | |January 1923 |Occupation of the Ruhr | |January-November 1923 |Hyperinflation | |8-9 November 1923 |Munich Putsch ...
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...Holocaust DBQ How did the Nazi’s chnaged the lives of Jews living in Europe politically, economically, and socially? How were the Jews treated in Nazi Germany? How did the Nazi’s implement their final solution ? The Nazi Party profound impact on the lives of many people throughout Europe. The Nazi Party are a group of people not liking Jews by the way they look. In Europe 1933-1945 there are millions innocent children suffered by hands of Nazis. Between five and six million Jews were killed. Nazis changed life of Jews from them living the impossible as they were not important. The Nazis politically labeled the Jews and economically destroyed their business , synagogues , and homes. As a way of identifying the Jews. Nazis created the “Jew”...
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...As for beliefs held by the Nazis themselves, the officially recognized view of Christianity was one of “Constructive Christianity.” They also claimed to be in favor of religious freedom amongst Christian denominations, but at the end of it, the Nazis saw the Church as a threat to their policies. Hitler’s Long-Term Attitude towards Christianity: Hitler obviously viewed the Church and religion in general as a threat and was keen on getting any sort of power away from those institutions as quickly as possible. With regards to the Catholic Church, there had been issues in 1933 with priests speaking out openly against the Nazi regime and this resulted in about 400 of them being sent to Dachau concentration camp . In order to combat any issues...
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... The Power of Language In “A Handmaids Tale” by Margaret Atwood we see the establishment of a new world. This new world has taken over what was previously known as The United States of America. We see a world where women are oppressed, restricted in their rights, and where government has total control over it’s people. These acts of oppression and restriction of rights by the government stand alongside another period in time (though this one not being a work of fiction) which is that of Nazi Germany. In “A Handmaids Tale” within the new society of Gilead we see the use of language being used as a tool of power. The government constructed these new sets of words in order to hide the bitter realities of what they were doing, as well as to serve societies elite. They invented a new set of laws and language that would be used to persuade the public that their new “empire” would be better and improved than the last. Women do not have a true identity in Gilead, as they are simply defined as a “Wife”, “Handmaid”, or “Martha”. A wife is simply a married woman, while a handmaid is the woman who is hired to carry the wife and her husbands baby due to infertility rates. A Martha is a woman whose ovaries are deemed unusefull and acts as a cook or servant in the house of a commander. After the United States government was overthrown, a chemical spill took place that extremely lowered fertility rates. “Handmaids” are kept under control over the “Martha’s” until they are assigned to a family...
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...unpleasant state after the WWL. The Treaty of Versailles, to take full blame for the war, had forced it. This meant that Germany would have to pay reparations for all of the other countries. Reparations were even harder to pay since Germany was in the midst of one of the worst stagflation epidemics in history. Not to mention a brand new government, one that had nothing to do with the signing of this treaty, had taken over power. All of the people of this once superpower of a country was in a state of perplexity because they had lost a war at had been fought entirely on enemy soil. Germany was searching for an answer to its insurmountable problems, and found that answer in a Nazi named Adolf Hider. Hitler was born in Austria, into a troubled house. He had aspirations of becoming an artist, but those subsided when he was rejected from the college of art he planned on attending. He had started listening to a man named Lueger who was at that time the mayor of Vienna. Lueger was a Nazi, with strong anti-Semitic views, which seemed to be a logical answer for Hider and his problems. It was around this time that Hitler was drafted by the army. Instead of going to fight for his country, he chose to flee to Germany. Which is a bewildering thought seeing as how he voluntarily joined the German army when he got there. After the war, Hider joined up with a right wing campaign whose job was to spy on other government groups. Upon spying on one of the parties, the N.S.D.A.P. or Nazi party...
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...The most obvious effects of Nazism are World War II the Holocaust, the loss of millions of lives, and the displacement of millions more. Germany as a whole also faced consequences for the actions of the Nazi Party. Germany lost about 20% of her land. All Germans living in the lost land were expelled, killing nearly 1.8 million people in the process. One of the most obvious and direct effects of Nazism was World War II, beginning on September 1st, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland. It was the deadliest military conflict in history, killing over 60 million people, or 2.5% of the world's population. War raged for nearly six years, from the invasion of Poland to Hitler's suicide in his bunker on April 30th, 1945, alongside his wife of 40 hours, Eva Braun. The Holocaust was one of the largest acts of genocide in history, running from 1933 to 1945, and killing about six million Jews, two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The Nazis killed by taking Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's witnesses, and the physically or mentally disabled from their homes, relocating them to concentration camps. They traveled to the camps by train, hundreds of people crammed into one train car, with no food or water. The journey took days, and many died before they even arrived at the camp. Once in the concentration camps, the able-bodied men were forced to do hard labor, while women, children, and the elderly were killed, usually by gas chambers. The workers...
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...Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he along with his Nazi Party took advantage of their powers, using the law, propaganda and indoctrination to pursue their anti-semitic views. From then on, life for Jews would become harder, as Germany was now under the Nazi...
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