Document 10, written by Heinrich Mann, describes the spirits of the German People. He says that their spirits are so worn down because of the conditions that they don’t really care about a democracy anymore because they are so tired and worn down. If no one cares about the democracy than no one is supporting it and that creates instability. Document 3 where a major communist leader calls the Weimar Republic "bloody class terror of the bourgeoisie." Though she is a communist and has very extreme views other in Germany may have had these views of the bourgeoisie as well, such as the lower classes because of their miserable conditions. Clara Zetkin, who was a Communist, has these views and is writing this editorial because she has communist views and believes in a communist state. She would not want a new democracy in Germany; she would want a Communist state. In Document 5 an artist shows how working class misery had the people "arising in armed revolution”. A revolution of the lower class is exactly how the communist believed a Communist state would eventually come to power. Both the picture and the editorial are offering those in the lower classes a view of the world if the communists came to power. Because of the misery of the lower class at the time people did not like the democracy and instead favored the equality and better life of a Nazi ruled Germany…
After the first world war, Germany was almost at breaking point with the ramifications it was subject to after signing the treaty of Versailles. By the 1930s Germany, along with the whole of Europe, had been forced in a state of economic crisis as a result of the Wall Street Crash. This caused hyper inflation, widespread unemployment and poverty across the whole of Germany. The economic crisis was adding fuel to the flames of the already present anti-Semitic bonfire. A scapegoat had to be found and the Jewish-Germans were chosen. At the time of the Nazi takeover in 1933, the Jewish religion made up about 0.8% of the German population and the historian Daniel J. Goldhagen in his book ‘Hitler's Willing Executioners’ preposes that the remaining majority of Germans and Austrians knew and approved of the extermination of the Jewish race and that most would have actively participated in it had they been asked to do so. Goldhagen argues that one person cannot be responsible for the wrongdoings of a whole country and that the German people…
During Nazi Germany, the Nazis first priority was taking over the state and controlling and dealing with their political enemies. However during the years 1933-1945, policies against the Jews were introduced. In 1938, German Jewish children were prohibited from attending German schools. Additionally in 1942 all Jewish residents had to wear the Star of David which segregated the Jews from the Germans. The Nazis obsession with creating a biologically pure, Aryan society deliberately targeted Jewish children, and the Laws introduced had a severe impact on the lives of children. The segregation didn’t allow the young children to live their lives, which affected them physiologically growing up. They would grow up to believe that they were different from others and that they were a complete different species, and no longer German.…
Although there are misconceptions about German society in that time period a percentage of Germans were opposing Adolph Hitler. For many Germans they believed that in destroying Hitler, Germany and their families would have a greater chance of survival. The Third Reich which translates to mean "Third Empire" was from the years 1933-1945, when Germany was under the control of the national socialist German workers party, also known as the Nazi Party. It's false knowledge to say that every German was behind Hitler. That is where the misconceptions of non Jewish- German citizens come in. Starting from the beginning with how Hitler managed to get into office to begin with. How from the very beginning the election was based on propaganda. Hitler promised with him in charge German would successed in getting out of their economic…
Even though the Nazi party was strong they still had trouble. There was a violent group called the Edelweiss Pirates. They were a group that consisted of young adults. They believed that the Nazi’s should not be in power. They were very open with their views and committed acts of violence. They beat up members of the police force and even killed an important person. Their actions showed that the Nazis weren’t as strong as everyone thought they were.…
We all know the Nazis were defeated in WW2, but do you know the battle that led to the Allies finally defeating them? According to Michael Peck, an award-winning author with an MA in political science, The Battle of Moscow stopped Hitler's army. One of the main reasons this battle is a big deal is the soviet union crippled Germany’s army and made it possible to defeat them, but this was not surprising considering the fact that the Soviet Union had 20 million soldiers and Germany only had 13 million and they weren’t all at that battle. Hitler’s original plan was to capture Moscow in the hopes that with the heart of the soviet union gone the rest of the nation would fall apart and would be Germanys for the taking. So they used Blitzkrieg and blasted through multiple Soviet armies.…
As the impact of World War One took its toll on Europe countries like Russia, Italy and Germany were in dire need of a change. Germany was most impacted by the war and was left in a state where everyday citizens were homeless, jobless, and starving. Looking for someone save Germany, Germans were in a desperate need for change and turned to group of radicals that were rising in power at a rapid rate known as the Nazis. Looking for someone to “save Germany” the Nazi’s unconventional but radical beliefs gave many Germans a strong sense of hope. “One of the reasons the Nazi ideology was so successful in eliciting support for the party and consensus behind its program was that its structure was built central concepts that, in the…
They blamed the Jews for the Bolshevik Revolution and the collapse of the German army and Imperial Germany as a whole. To the Nazis the Jews were a force of evil that was coming to take them down. Not only that, they also have a stranglehold throughout the entire world. This way it would make the Jews look like the most terrifying group of people on Earth, a group of people that not only were pulling the strings of governments around the world, but were also a demonic force that were willing to take anybody down. The German people were led to believe the Jews should be stripped of their power and annihilated.…
During 1939 to 1945, two governmental superpowers ruled on opposite sides fought with similar ideas but ironically tried destroying one another. These groups were the USSR Communists of Russia and Nazi Germans of Germany. The Nazis and Communists battled over the Eastern front during World War 2 due to their political and mission goal. However, these groups shared a common evil and execution of their ideas.…
Nazism was a combination of both nationalism and socialism; this was evident in a large amount of the Nazi ideology. After the defeat of Germany in the first world and the signing of the treaty of Versailles, the German people had received a major loss of morale. Hitler and his new found influence over the Nazi party meant that many Nationalist beliefs had an effect on the Nazi ideology. However, whilst Hitler had always been unreceptive to socialist ideas they had become very popular in German politics after the First World War. Hitler therefore saw that to appeal to the working class and socialists, the Nazi party had no option but to include socialist concepts.…
Germany was longing for a united nation with a stable economy. The Nazi party, lead by Adolf Hitler, came to power. "And then there is another fundamental error: they have never got it clear in their own minds that there is a difference or how great a difference there is between the conception 'national' and the word 'dynastic' or 'monarchistic.' They do not understand that today it is more than ever necessary in our thoughts as Nationalists to avoid anything which might perhaps cause the individual to think that the National Idea was identical with petty everyday political views. They ought day by day to din into the ears of the masses: 'We want to bury all the petty differences and to bring out into…
In their rise to power, Hitler and the Nazis came up with wide ranging but loose collection of ideas which, might be described as an ideology. During this period of time Hitler made many speeches and gave occasional interviews to journalistic, these gave an insight of Hitler’s thinking. While he was in prison, Hitler wrote Mein Kamf, his most complete statement of his ideas and aims for Germany. During the year 1933 delivered many speeches which were the key elements in Nazi Ideology, Including the power of the will, Struggle Violence and war, Social Darwinism and the master race, people’s community, National Socialism and anti democracy and a belief in dictatorship. All contributed to the Nazi’s Ideology. Nevertheless part of the Nazi’s appeal was based on their constant repetition of a number of simplistic ideas which found a receptive audience among many section of German society. But during the Ideology, one of the Nazi party’s main leading ideologists was Alfred Rosenberg; he was the writer of many nationalistic, anti-Semitic pamphlets. His writings included the 1930 book "The Myth of the Twentieth Century" which declared the existence of two opposing races: the Aryan race, creator of all values and culture, and the Jewish race, the agent of cultural corruption - a viewpoint taken literally by Hitler and the Nazi. He also fed Hitler ideas about the inferiority of Jews, which ultimately led to Hitler declaring that Germans represented a superior, Aryan Race.…
This is demonstrated throughout the 20’s in which Germany had shown any interest in voting for Hitler even with his vehemently anti-Semitic ideas, but after the Great Depression the number of Nazi seats in the Reichstag rose from 12 in 1928 to 230 in July 1932. This suggests the German people voted for Hitler, because of the failings of Weimar and not because they agreed with his anti- Semitic beliefs. This is corroborated by Browning “For the Jewish issue was but one among many, neither top priority nor source of the greatest fear”.[7] This is also supported by the poor sales of Mein Kampf before Hitler came to power. Similarly, an abridged English translation of Mein Kampf was produced before World War II and the publisher removed some of the more anti-Semitic and militaristic statements. This implies that Hitler’s desires were genuine rather than pragmatic as his ideology was not particular popular until he was in power. However, Hitler once in power, this desire was to be the inspiration behind the legislation he…
Europeans, in the 18th century experienced changes in marriages and families, children, and food and medical care. Unlike the early years when the people married at young ages, more and more Europeans began to marry at much older ages and form families with an established household. In the early 18th century, children were often neglected; however, as time went on, parents began to express their love more openly for to their children. The diets and medical care of the Europeans improved through new sources of food and experiments. During the 18th century, Europe and its people were beginning to experience a change where people were marrying at a young age, ignoring the children, and improving in their nutrition and medical care.…
Nine new slave states entered the Union in the region of 1789 and 1860, rapidly developing and changing the South into a district of fiscal progress in light of slave work. Endless slaves stack payload onto a steamship in the Port of New Orleans, the business motivation behind the meeting of the war in the South, while two in vogue white men stay by talking. Business development relates the degree that the eye can see. By the mid-nineteenth century, southern business centers like New Orleans had ended up being home to the best centralization of wealth in the assembled states. While most white southerners did not have slaves, they endeavored to join the spots of world class slaveholders, who recognized a key part in the complete issues of both the South and the nation.…