Provide three specific pieces of evidence in your answer. “National Socialism appealed to members of the lower to middle classes: ruined ______________ and artisans, impoverished _________________, discharged white collar ________________, and disenchanted _____________________. The impact of the _______________________ and political infighting led to bloody street battles, shaking the foundation of Germany’s fragile young _____________________. The leader’s of the nation’s democratic and liberal parties groped for ______________ to mounting _______________ but were hindered by lack of consensus and the public’s loss of faith in the __________________…
How important was the use of legislation in the Nazi consolidation of power by the end of 1933?…
The second World war is understood as having been started and ended in various fashions. We know this to be true as there is copious amounts of literature analyzing, explaining, investigating, and theorizing "the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich", or as some may prefer , " The Fall and Rise of the 3rd Reich". From these books and works produced on the subject matter, an underlying fundamental truth has been scribed for all to accept at the true story of WWII--or more accurately the allied version of WWII. The general public around the world has some knowledge of the story of Hitler and the Nazi's campaign ending with an Allied victory. With this undeniable knowledge granted to us by hindsight understanding the allied victory is often seen as inevitable. The supporting justification for the Allied victory is the notion…
7a) Do you think source C was published by a supporter or opponent of the Weimar Government?…
The "very roots of human life" were being neglected by Germany's imperialistic government which portrayed acts of aggression and tyranny toward their people and neighboring countries which posed a threat for world peace and democracy. Germany's imperialistic government overlooked the well-being of their people and put them in hardships without their approval.…
The changes in Germany society between 1918 and 1933 can be accounted for by a multitude of reasons. After World War 1 the Kaiser abdicated and new liberal republic was formed known as the Weimar Republic. After this due to the Treaty of Versailles, France occupied the Ruhr leading to a period of hyperinflation crippling the standard of German society. Recovering from this during the Stresemann years allowed a new rise until the Great Depression caused a massive change in German society. The rise of the Nazi Party afterwards caused a large stir and this was shown completely once Hitler became chancellor causing a complete shift in society.…
The Ruhr Crisis, hyperinflation and the Munich (beer hall) Putsch; these catastrophic events were great threats to the Weimar Republic. The Ruhr Crisis occurred in January 1923 when Germany missed a reparations payment to the French in 1922 therefore French and Belgium troops decided to invade the Germans raw materials and goods so the German workers went on a passive resistance. This event was a humungous threat for the Weimar Republic as they would automatically receive a bad reputation and some countries might not want any imports and exports from Germany which would affect the economics therefore makes it a gigantic threat.…
As the onset of World War II approached, Adolf Hitler’s secret police began to systematically arrest enemies of the regime. As the regime evolved, so did its desire to control incarcerated political enemies. The concentration camps meticulously kept records of its prisoners: Ethnicity, who they were, why they were imprisoned, and other facts and figures. As the regime turned towards mass killings as its solution to the “Jewish Question”, Nazi’s began the systematic killing of Jews in concentration camps. The Nazi obsession of organizing ethnicities reflects Nazi superiority and racism, as they saw many ethnicities to be used for exploitation in labor camps. The Nazi obsession of data and record keeping reflects Hitler’s wish for proof that the Aryan race would achieve dominance. Nazi organization is historically significant because it began the world’s first deliberately recorded genocide, and provided the evidence needed to prove the Holocaust occurred.…
Through much of the nineteenth century nationalism was used as tool in political propaganda. Nationalism is the extreme patriotism or love for one’s country. In the past few centuries nationalism has been used a justification for many wars and genocides. Nationalism has also been used to fuel the desire for imperialism. Imperialism is when one country takes over another.…
Assess the view that the most important element in maintaining Hitler's regime in power between 1933 and 1945 was the consent of the German people.…
Where Koonz attempts to cover different aspects of women's lives, the next text read for this study focuses on individual lives/stories of everyday women of the Third Reich: Alison Owings' 1993 text Frauen: German Women Recall the Third Reich. Much of the text was original research done Owings' herself, but for preliminary and background information Owings utilized the Koonz text and work (not read for this study) by Jill Stephenson. By presenting the individual stories of over twenty women who were alive under the Third Reich that she was able to obtain through four years of personally interviewing the women herself over a four-year time span, Owings set out to fill the gap of testimony of 'average' German women of the Third Reich. Because…
You may refer to historical facts and developments not mentioned in the documents and assess the reliability of the documents as historical sources where relevant to your answer. In constructing your answer DO NOT simply summarize, paraphrase, or repeat the contents of the documents; instead use the documents in a historical context and draw conclusions from them. Construct a coherent essay that integrates the analysis of documents into a treatment of the topic.…
Learning about the choices people made during the Weimar Republic, the rise of the Nazi Party, and the Holocaust can teach us about the power and the impact of the choices we make today. These three events were a big part of history, and impacted several parts of Europe as well as the rest of the world. Learning about the choices made during the Weimar Republic teaches us about how these types of decisions can change how a nation is run, the choices made during the rise of the Nazi Party can teach us how propaganda can change one’s opinion drastically and finally, by observing the choices people made during the Holocaust, we can learn how people have the right to resist against things that are unjust. Firstly, learning about the choices made…
Sources Y, Z and AA all bring different arguments to the opinion that ‘The Nazi regime enjoyed broad consent brought about by popular policies’. Arguments such as the people of Germany could see through the policies, that they took advantage of the policies but did not believe in the Nazi Regime and that the Nazi Regime did enjoy broad consent brought about by popular policies are all presented in the sources and will be analysed in order to come to an evaluated conclusion.…
“To forget the [a] Holocaust is to kill twice.” (Ellie Wiesel) Many words within the past 80 years such as Wiesel’s has impacted history and civilization’s structure to its core. With this in mind, several survivors of the calamitous genocide known as the Holocaust have also expressed their assorted speculations, which can be deemed bias in some eyes. In Canadian history, the Holocaust is represented and taught as a significant catastrophe. Although Canada was not involved with the execution of the Nazi party’s plans, they did however provide assistance in many altercations and uprisings such as the Battle of Ortona. In class Canadian students, such as myself are taught various facts towards the entire genocide in perspective of countries such as Britain, and Italy which played major roles within the era. Forthwith, the standard curriculum has altercated within the past years as gruesome facts of the Jewish minority struggle are not as focused on as the battles which occurred. In addition, several museums in Canada that I have visited such as the Canadian War Museum has reduced the amount of graphic content and information given and presented throughout the World War ll exhibit over the last 5 years. On the other hand, during the early 1960’s, German students were taught minimal knowledge of the Holocaust as a whole, due to the fact that the Berlin wall was still in place until 1989. In addition, teachers did not want to teach the cause of the Holocaust nor leave information out to protect the opinions and standings of the youth in the classroom. Within the last few decades, German students were taught more and more about the Holocaust. In a modern German classroom today, students are taught the Holocaust as a whole, as it is illegal in Germany to deny Nazism. The difference still stands as German students focus more on the psychological trigger and motivation as to why…