power‚ recent study has also turned away from just Hitler and his henchmen to include lower levels of Nazi party members and ordinary people. This study of ordinary people in the relam of Nazi Germany includes women. Perhaps the most well known of the debates in the field of women’s history in nazi Germany is the Historikerinnenstreit‚ perhaps all the more well known because of its two opponents-Claudia Koonz and Gisela Bock. Though multifaceted in depth‚ one major theme of the arguemtn is the role
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Explain how the Economic Policies of Lenin changed 1918-1924 8 marks Lenin changed his economic policies during the Civil War to introduce communism and to ensure he stayed in power. He enforced these changes using terror from the Cheka and Red Guard Lenin centralized the government because of the civil war as it meant that only one man was approving all orders from the army which made them more efficient. He centralized the economy to Moscow and introduced Gosplan‚ which was the central planning
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"Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany" by Michael Kater There has only been one moment in history when jazz was synonymous with popular music in the country of its origin. During the years of‚ and immediately prior to World War II‚ a subgenre of jazz commonly referred to as swing was playing on all American radio stations and attracting throngs of young people to dancehalls for live shows. But it wasn’t only popular amongst Americans; historian Michael H. Kater‚ in his book
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The delineation of human life is perceiving existence through resolute contrasts. The difference between day and night is defined by an absolute line of division. For the Jewish culture in the twentieth century‚ the dissimilarity between life and death is bisected by a definitive line - the Holocaust. Accounts of life during the genocide of the Jewish culture emerged from within the considerable array of Holocaust survivors‚ among of which are Elie Wiesel’s Night and Simon Wiesenthal’s The Sunflower
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Bismarckian Germany has undergone extensive transformation‚ as historians have had access to a wider variety of sources and evidence‚ and have held differing social and political presuppositions influencing their portrayal of the German unifier. The changing historical interpretations can be seen over time‚ as differing contexts and sources influence the portrayal‚ as early interpretations of Bismarck from the 1870s to the 1920s portrayed Bismarck as a man in charge and as a necessity for Germany to move
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would keep Germany weak and did not expect another worldly attack‚ but little did they know. Putting all the blame and consequences on Germany also led others to predict World War II. The peace settlement after World War I made Germany very angry and desirable for revenge‚ thus leading to World War II. The Treaty of Versailles put germany in a very poor state. The document consisted of fifteen parts and four-hundred and forty parts. Part one created a new League of Nations that germany could not
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During the years following the death of Lenin in 1924‚ there was an immense power struggle in the politburo of the Communist Party‚ as its leading figures competed to replace him. By 1929‚ Joseph Stalin had defeated his rivals - and therefore become leader of the party - through three stages: the defeat of the left opposition (and therefore Trotsky)‚ the united opposition (Zinoviev‚ Kamenev and Trotsky)‚ and finally the right deviation (Bukharin). Stalin gained power due to a number of factors‚ particularly
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motive and logic behind the control of music in the Third Reich. The second subject to be discussed is the various ways in which the Nazi party controlled and used music. Finally‚ we will analyze the effectiveness of the control of music in Nazi Germany. Why was music controlled and used by the Nazi Party? To answer this question‚ we must first look at the significance of music in Germany’s cultural history. Many of the great composers were German; Mozart‚ Bach‚ Beethoven‚ Haydn‚ Schubert and
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The Holocaust was the methodical persecution and murder of Jews‚ carried out by the Nazi regime. In 1933 the Nazis came into power in Germany. Hitler had wanted to create a master race of the Aryan race. They had the belief that they were racially superior to Jews and that they were a threat to their race. But other groups were also deemed inferior‚ including the Roma‚ homosexuals and physically disabled. Hitler wanted to exterminate theses groups so he slowly implemented the “final solution”. The
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The appointment of the first Labour government in January 1924 was widely regarded by contemporaries as an event of great political and social significance. The new Prime Minister‚ Ramsay MacDonald‚ lacked the governmental experience of his predecessors and had risen from obscure origins. Many on the political right expressed alarmist expectations of attacks on private property and established institutions. Among the more extreme predictions was a claim that women would be nationalised and free love
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