On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940-46 was written by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg during the Hamburg air raids of WWII. Wolff-Monckeberg says in her first letter “This war would be conducted with the most horrible weapons and resources‚ its whole justification based on a daily incitement of lies‚ not an honest war‚ but an illegal and mean exploitation‚ as far as we were concerned.”1 The first letter boldly states that Wolff-Monckeberg views Germany’s participation in the war
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promoting colonial settlements for Germans through the Lebensraum in order to rationalize invasions of territories in Poland‚ the Ukraine‚ and eventually‚ Russia. The Third Reich believed in the racial superiority of Germans through the promotion of an Aryan
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human beings claimed that some groups of people were born with superior talent‚ ability and worth. In his book Mein Kampf Hitler argued that the German ’race’ was superior to all others. He wrongly described gentile (ie non-Jewish) Germans as the ’Aryan race’ or ’Herrenvolk’ (’master race’) and believed they had a duty to control the world. Jews were blamed for all Germany’s troubles and were demonised by Nazi propaganda‚ even though Jews made up less than 1% of the German population. The popular
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in a world of unrest and disintegration‚ to carry out the assignment of making safe the foundations of European culture” (para.3). During the 1930s‚ Mussolini would become an icon for fascist ideology‚ which inevitably inspired Hitler to form the Aryan ideology as a motive for increased nationalism and militarism. More so‚ the Italo-German Alliance was another global link between fascist nations that would eventually embrace Japanese fascism as part of this larger Axis of powers before
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one person from a lower caste became richer the a person from a higher class‚ they realized something had to be changed. As people are trading more and more they’re becoming richer‚ and wealth plays a big part in social order. Although the top two Aryan castes always stayed in the highest power‚ the ability to move in the caste system was to a great importance for the Sudra and Harjan castes. By allowing people in the Sudra and Harjan caste to move upward it meant that they were more important in
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sparked a wild fire; the emergence of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party did just that. Hitler‚ a German Nationalist‚ began rising to power due to his promises to fix the corruption and create the rebirth of Germany‚ which included his idea of a perfect Aryan race. Many groups of people‚ including the Jewish‚ Russians‚ and Slavics‚ contaminated Hitler’s pure race. With the rise of the “Jewish Question”‚ what to do with this hated group of people‚ the only answer was the extermination of the vermin like
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Jews‚ Gypsies‚ Homosexuals and mentally or physically disabled people were persecuted. The Nazis wanted to maintain the ‘Aryan’ race so German people were not allowed to interbreed with inferior races. Many ‘ordinary’ Germans shared these ideas and there was little evidence of opposition to persecution from German civilians. There was also a public participation in persecution‚ if an ‘ordinary’ German believed someone to be racially impure they would turn them in to the Nazis. Some ’ordinary’ Germans
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of the Aryan race. Therefore both have proved to have had good relationships with Hitler. The use of
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highly intellectual‚ god fearing‚ and advanced collaboration of people. From approximately 2700 B.C.E to around 500 B.C.E two societies flourished in the northern region of India known as the Indus Valley. The Indus Valley Civilization and later‚ the Aryans - believed by some to have migrated to India from Europe and the middle East - paved the foundation of Hinduism through the influences of their cultures‚ early religions and social structures. Unfortunately‚ there is little to be said of the earliest
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AP English: Literature and Composition Name: Christine Corcoran Major Works Data Sheet Title:Invisible Man Author:Ralph Ellison Date of Publication:_______________ Plot summary:SummaryChapter 4 Zoe Dittmann In the beginning we are introduced to the narrator’s claim of personal invisibility. He describes living in a secret underground hole and freeloading off a local power company. Recounting past experiences
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