Germany in the twentieth century had great intellectual power and contained some of the greatest physicians‚ medical scientist and lawyers in the world at the time. The scientist would lead the world in many new studies‚ such as work on cancer and eugenics‚ a widely popular topic around the world at the time. While some areas flourished under the Nazi regime others were corrupted by the hate and ideology of the Nazi party. Most of the medical scientist and physicians did not support the Nazi party
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"Armistice Day" was given to the date when a truce was declared and fighting ceased. Strictly speaking the war ended for Germany with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919. (That was exactly five years after Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo). At 11 a.m. on November 11‚ 1918 a ceasefire came into effect with Germany. A formal state of war between the two sides persisted for another seven months‚ until signing of the Treaty of Versailles
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In 1936‚ Germany used the Olympic Games for propagandareasons. The Nazis promoted an image of a new Germany while hiding the regime’s targeting of Jews‚ as well as Germany’s growing militarism. For the first time in the modern Olympics‚ people in the United States and Europe called for a boycott of the Olympics because of human rights abuses. Although the boycott movement ultimately failed‚ it set an important precedent for future Olympic boycott campaigns. Once the boycott failed‚ Germany
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would not unreasonable to presume that the country had become a totalitarian state under the Nazi Regime. This was not‚ however‚ the case. Nazi Germany‚ although projecting the efficiency and organisation of a totalitarian government‚ was only successful in controlling some aspects of German life. The basic concept of the totalitarian state is best expressed by Mussolini’s well-known phrase‚ "all within the state‚ nothing outside the state‚ nothing against the state". The state is the master‚ and
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The Allied strategic bombing of Germany was very significant in the context of the war but did not have a large effect in the long term. In this essay I will be looking at the considerable effects of bombing on the German people‚ the German economy and the Eastern front in the short term. I will also be looking at the lack of long term impact on these areas and on warfare. Bombing had a huge effect on the people of Germany during World War Two as it significantly affected a large number of people
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‘The Wilhelmine Germany was an entrenched authoritarian state’. How far do you agree with this judgement? The question of whether Wilhelmine Germany was an entrenched authoritarian state has been the subject of much debate. Those who have argued that it was have pointed mainly to the constitutional balance of powers to substantiate this view‚ which indeed appeared to give the Kaiser nearly complete authority over German politics. Some historians such as Wehler have offered an alternate version
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as withIn this essay I am going to justify in the form of PEE why the Nazi party was so popular at the time Hitler criticised the treaty of Versailles for all Germanys problems. The treaty was thought up in 1919 by the winning countries‚ the ideology was that Germany was never to attack again. The treaty included that Germany; had to pay 6.6 billion
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The Air Force can deliver anything (Glines‚ 1998)! That was the response given by Lt. General Curtis E. Lemay‚ then commander of the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE)‚ when asked by General Lucius Clay‚ the U.S. Military Governor of Germany‚ could he haul supplies to Berlin. Little did General Lemay know that he was about to embark on one of the most massive and dynamic airlift operations ever conducted. Faced with the choice of abandoning the city or supplying the city’s residents
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of rule underpinned by racial division and discrimination; the formal exclusion of not only those belonging to “foreign races” in Germany – such as the Jews and the Gypsies – but also included German individuals of “Aryan” race‚ whom they considered asocial. This included but was not limited to homosexuals‚ the disabled and mentally ill. This essay argues that Germany had become by 1939‚ to a great extent‚ a racial state. Nazi radicalism had
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fall of the Weimar Republic. Events of 1933 in Germany through which the birth of the Third Reich was to begin‚ National Socialism implemented through Gleichschaltung and Hitler’s Weltanschauung would be a reality. A pivotal year indeed‚ through which The Nazi Party was able to legally gain control of government and wipe away all traces of the Weimar Republic‚ a move based not only on political promise but also on securing the base of Hitler’s new Germany from the ailments that affected the Weimar Republic
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