...• Mussolini differed from Hitler in regard to Jews and Homosexuals and other groups from power. • Mussolini faced more opposition from Liberals and leftist groups, while Hitler adopted totalitarianism with a lot of nationalistic pride. • Both used something called Secret policy. • Yet both policies were different in nature. Hitler focused more a pollution of the German state and influences from the Aryan race. While Mussolini utilized bandits and hooligans to keep and strengthen his power. • Hitler and Mussolini placed fear into the hearts of the general public. Trepidation was present but for different reasons. • People beneath Hitler were afraid of not fitting in. conformity took over and wanted to be apart of the Aryan race. Because if you did not fit in, the consequences were grave such as death camps, and so...
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...Bailey Q. Elwood 4-15-10 PLS 240 Educators and Their Influence on German Youth Leading Up to the Holocaust Teaching is a profession that is very influential. I.L. Kandel describes how education is an instrument of social control and he was right. When Adolf Hitler came into the power of Germany the entire educational system tried to transform the youth into non-Aryan hating, militaristic, strong, and very obedient members of the Nazi society. If a government can control the educational system, it can most likely control society a lot more easily. However, some of the nationalistic views that many of the main Nazis had were brought to them during World War I in the classroom. Many classrooms celebrated the military aspect of war and they celebrated and taught nationalism for Germany. Classrooms did not really do that until the war. It was after the loss in World War I that the attitudes perpetuated by the enormous let down where teachers helped with the Nazi effort and taught the essentials to the Nazi party. Teachers did not do much to fight the Nazi effort and even though not all of them directly participated in the Holocaust, they did breed a nation of young extreme German nationalists whose ideals perpetuated the event. Extreme nationalism was a very popular topic for classrooms during and after World War I, which played a contribution to some of the main Nazis during the Nazi era. A large percentage of the Nazi base was born between 1900 and 1908 including...
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... B, C and D. (8 marks) (c) Why do sources A and B give a different view to sources C and D? Explain your answer using the sources and your own knowledge. (d) How useful is source E for understanding ......... ? (8 marks) Explain your answer using the source and your own knowledge. (e) How did .......... ? (10 marks) Question (a) – ‘What do sources A and B suggest about .........?’ (4 marks) All questions are marked in levels. The levels for q. (a) are: Level 1 ‐ Answers which repeat details from the sources (1 mark) Level 2 ‐ Answers that draw a simple inference from the sources (2‐3 marks) Level 3 ‐ Answers that draw a complex inference from the sources (4 marks) An inference is learning something from the source that it does not directly tell you. In other words reading between the lines. Look at the example on the page opposite. Source A ‐ From a Social Democrat account of the Hitler Youth movement in 1934. Youth adores the drill, the uniform, the comradeship, the fact that school and parents take a back seat compared to the Hitler Youth. The parents cannot forbid the child to do what all children are doing, cannot refuse him the uniform. Young people follow the instructions of the Hitler Youth. They demand...
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...Hitler’s Children “One of the main aspects of society that Hitler and the Nazi Party focused its efforts towards was that of the youth.”, as stated by Jake Cmarada. Hitler had a huge amount of influence on the German children in during World War II and although he mainly focused on the boys, he also had a hold on the girls too. The Nazi ruler, Hitler, was able to control all of the German children by using many methods of persuasion like propaganda and showing anti-semitism, as well as playing on the youth’s emotions. To start, propaganda was one of Hitler’s main tactics in persuading the youth of Germany. Many times, Hitler would state fake facts or tell stories that were almost entirely untrue. The definition of propaganda, according to Merriam-Webster, is “ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.” To the male students in school, Hitler would technically change history by rewriting it to “emphasize Nazi themes of racial struggle and German pride” (The History Place). As for the women, they were separated in school, but still had propaganda in their lives because they did still go to school. In school, females were taught about the perks of motherhood and about being a Nazi because the German army needed such a huge population to keep up with what they were doing. Many posters in Germany were made during this time showing kids that were extremely happy about school to even...
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...How did the Nazis influence WWII? More like how didn’t they. They started World War II. Adolf Hitler didn’t start it himself though. It was the whole Nazi party. The whole thing started because Hitler started going against the Treaty of Versailles. The Nazis did a lot before England and France reacted. They were still suffering from the effects of WWI, so they just stood back and watched. That was until the Nazis invaded Poland, that is when Churchill declared war on Germany. The Germans were also upset by the loss of World War I, but the thing that made them the maddest, is the punishment enforced on them as a result of the Treaty of Versailles. Such as redistribution of territory, reduction of Germany's fighting power and imposition of harsh conditions, which meant Germany, had to pay 6600 million-pound to the Allies in 1921. Germany thought that the punishment was too harsh. Hitler’s rule started on a night in 1932. Then German President Paul von Hindenburg was awoken with the news that he had defeated Adolf Hitler, and was reelected as president of Germany. In January of 1933 Hindenburg made Hitler Chancellor, thinking that it would keep him quiet. A year later Hindenburg died and Hitler took over Germany. Hitler proclaimed that his reign would last for a thousand years. Hitler attained power on January 30, 1933 as the result of a complex set of factors. He was...
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...Eidem Eng 669 World Film: Germany Prof. Macanear Sept. 2014 German National Cinema: Nazi Propaganda Films German propaganda films were used by the Nazi party and Adolf Hitler in order to convey a message to the citizens of Germany. The messages would vary depending upon what Hitler and his party wanted to tell the people of Germany at that particular time. If it was pre-war propaganda it was Hitler on his rise to power. If it was wartime propaganda it was to keep Germany unite in their fight against the enemy and to keep them inspired with hope and promises of victory. "One of the most philosophically fascinating uses of cinema, is a vehicle for propaganda. Granted all mass media-books, television, music, newspaper, radio and nowadays the internet - can be used for propaganda, that is, as tools for getting a message broadly accepted in a target audience. But, it has been argued that film-as opposed to literature, the plastic arts, music and the other performing arts-has a unique power as a tool for propaganda" (Jason203). "The films of a nation reflect its mentality in a more direct way than other artistic films because films are never the product of an individual and the films address themselves and appeal to the anonymous multitude" (Kraucer, 5). This is why Hitler and the Nazi party decided to use film as a method for spreading their ideology. Film allowed them to reach the masses in a way that other mediums just couldn't do. Plus the...
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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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...Tynnia Williams Mrs.Bacoum Elar 8-8th 25, May, 2015 Hitler’s youth "All great movements ace popular movements. They are volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotion stirred into activity by the ruthless goddess of distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the mist of the people.” Everyone knows Hitler was the most feared man in Germany , however do you know how it all started, and who was hitless influence? Thing and why would the Nazis think that it was alright to kill Jews when the Jews didn’t do anything to the other Germans or Hitler? Although you may not believe what I am about to say may sound off Hitler wasn’t always that powerful ,respected , or feared . He used to be a young boy who wanted to be an artist. Adolf Hitler was born April 20 1889 when he was a young boy Hitler’s father died leaving him and his mother. Not too long after when Hitler was only fourteen his mother died of stage four breast cancers. Hitler was an orphan after both of his parents die he dropped out of high school to become an artist , after both of his attempts to get in an art school and failing he began living on the streets . He started to a radio station blame everything that had happened to him on the Jews.”with the right propaganda you can make people think that living in the wrench is like living in paradise and bad is great” Hitler did just that with no problem he just blamed everything on the...
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...Book Review Parallel Journeys Parallel Journeys, by Eleanor Ayer with Helen Waterford and Alfons Heck, compares the life of two young people in Germany during the rise of Hitler and the outbreak of World War II. They were born within sixty miles of each other, but their lives took dramatically different paths. Alfons, is a boy who grew up on a farm in Germany. When Hitler came to power he became involved with the Hitler Youth. Alfons grew up on a farm but was a Nazi boy who became a commander at age sixteen. This book truly depicts Hitler's impact and influence on the youth of Germany. Alfons was brainwashed by Hitler's promises, a full pledged Nazi youth is how it is presented in the book he participated in all rallies. He started his training to become the future of Germany and eventually of the world. There he learned discipline and order. He trained to become a soldier and he learned the ways of warfare. He was taught to be a follower of anti-Semitism and was told to hate the Jewish people. He along with millions of Nazi’s believed that they were the reason for Germany's problems. As years went by, Alfons rose through the ranks of the military until the end of the war where realized what atrocities had been committed, he than took off his uniform and went on to help people. On the other side of the spectrum we have Helen Waterford a young Jewish girl who grew up in Frankfurt, Germany. She married Siegfried Wohlfarth and moved to Amsterdam because of tension brewing...
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...In 1933, Hitler said, “When an opponent declares, “I will not join you,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already. What are you? You will pass away and your descendants now stand in a new camp”. The Nazis uused the education of young people to indoctrinate them and to create soldiers who would later go on to fight for the Reich. Education was carried out not just at school but in youth movements. The Nazis understood that adults were harder to influence than children, so indoctrinating the young with Nazi beliefs was essential if Nazism was to continue and develop in the future. The Nazis changed the curriculum and rewrote all textbooks to indoctrinate and reinforce Nazi ideology. Subjects underwent a major change in schools. Some of the most affected were history and biology. History teaching was based on the glory of Germany – it had to be taught in a nationalistic way. The German defeat in 1918 was explained as the work of Jewish and Marxist spies who had weakened the system from within. The treaty of Versailles considered to be the work of nations jealous of Germany’s might and power. The hyperinflation of 1923 was the work of Jewish saboteurs. In geography, pupils were taught about the land that had been taken away under the Treaty of Versailles, and that Germany needed Lebensraum (living space). Children studied the German language to create a 'consciousness of being German'. Biology became a study of the different races to ‘prove’ that the Nazi belief in...
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...recognized. Highly influential individuals have used conformity as a tactic to brainwash and control massive groups of individuals. People such as Adolf Hitler and Jim Jones are notorious for their ingenious ways of causing wide scale conformity. Their schemes affected the way their followers thought, leading to global change. To begin with, Adolf Hitler’s approach to expanding the Nazi population required intense propaganda and brainwashing. In his book, Mein Kampf, he addresses the importance of propaganda and the correct psychological implementation it requires. He states: “Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses.” Hitler clearly understands it is important to reach out to the majority, and the material must be presented in a way that is comprehensive. It must also cause the audience to truly think about the matter at hand, but also in agreement with how the message is intended. He would go on to say: “Propaganda must not investigate the truth objectively and, in so far as it is favourable to the other...
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...The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933-34 The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933-34 takes form in three points: the German situation, the Nazi rootlessness, and the political acts and people that made it all possible. The German situation helped account for the initial consolidation of Nazi power in 1933-34. Due to the Wall Street Crash in 1929 the economy crashed all over the world, but none worse than in Germany. Due to the World War 1 payback, Germany was already suffering economically and they were only keeping afloat with the funds from US investors, but with the Wall Street Crash the investors withdrew their money from Germany resulting in businesses all over Germany collapsing; bankruptcy becoming nationwide and unemployment levels leapt upwards. The economic impact of this led many counties to move to protect their own domestic industries, resulting in high tariffs. In March 1930 and May 1932, the German Chancellor, Heinrich Bruning, pursued an orthodox economic policy of ridge deflation. The deflation involved increasing taxation and decreasing government expenditure. Then in July 1931, Germany suffered a major banking crisis. The country’s biggest banks, the Danat, went bankrupt. The impact this had for families meant that they were forced into poverty, Living on the streets, Health levels deteriorated, Children were forced to leave school early, Families broke up as men left to seek work...
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...evaluating as they have different definitions for people’s consent. “Silent opposition” is the term used for the people who passively opposed. Dick Geary proposed, “Consent can only be measured in situations in which individuals can choose between real alternatives.” and opposition till death was not a real alternative. Therefore, “silent opposition” does not count for people’s consent. This hugely undermines the role of people’s consent in maintaining the regime as the most people were not actively involved in Nazi action despite its “overwhelming success” [1]. In the first interpretation, Flenly emphasized that although the German people were well-educated, they were blindfolded from the truth of what was really going on. The Nazis did make the German people more literate, for example, scheme of the People’s libraries where every parish of over 500 inhabitants was to have its own library allowed people to have access to books and further education[2]. However, strict Nazi censorships control and brainwashing propaganda “produced a full rather than a wise man”. The German public were persuaded into believing and following ideas such as “social Darwinism” and “anti-Semitism” rather thinking for themselves. Censorship meant no alternative theories and ethics to follow....
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...of his career, the invasion of Soviet Russia on June 22, 1941, despite both of them had a deal of not invading each other’s territories Hitler didn’t care. The United States by the end of 1941 had entered the struggle against the Axis powers. United States enters the war because Japan bombs Pearl Harbor which they had their supplies and military forces. Hitler proclaimed in October 1941 that the Soviet Union had been "struck down and would never rise again." In reality he had overlooked the Russian winter to which his own troops were now forced to abandon. On April 29, 1945, he married Eva Braun and dictated his final political testament, the following day Hitler committed suicide, shooting himself through the mouth with a pistol. Economy * Hitler was able to take Germany who was on a crisis to a world power in 6 years * Hitler established a new economic system where he could increase 50% the GDP * In two years Germany went through 6 million (43%) unemployed to less than 800.000 (12%) Transport * Hitler start with the idea of a new family car that any family could afford, it had the same price as a motorcycle, in this time only rich people were the ones able to buy a car. So he called for a meeting with Ferdinand Porsche, he said to Hitler he will made the designs. After war, England took the factory. * Hitler ordered to make new highways, so during his time in government there were 12.000 kilometers of highways that are...
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...this freedom once it is no longer obtainable. This liberty was stripped by the Third Reich from the citizens of Germany during World War II. Adolf Hitler was keen on restrictions because, without it, he would not “succeed in imprinting [his] idea on [the public’s] mind” (Hitler); thus, strict censorship in Nazi Germany was enforced. Those who did not abide were punished severely. A college student named Sophie Scholl despised the Nazi Regime and fought back in the form of anti-war leaflets; she was discovered distributing these leaflets, and, consequently, she was sentenced to...
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