to power 1930-1939 Germany was in an exceedingly unpleasant state after the WW1. The Treaty of Versailles meant the people had to take full blame for the war. Reparations were even harder to pay since Germany was in the midst of one of the worst depression the world has ever seen at the time. Not to mention a brand new government‚ one that had nothing to do with the signing of this treaty‚ had taken over power. All of the people of this once superpower of a country was in a state of perplexity
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What has been achieved by prosecuting Nazis alleged to have committed crimes against the Jews? "While fighting for victory the German soldier will observe the rules for chivalrous warfare. Cruelties and senseless destruction are below his standard" ‚ or so the commandment printed in every German Soldiers paybook would have us believe. Yet during the Second World War thousands of Jews were victims of war crimes committed by Nazi ’s‚ whose actions subverted the code of conduct they claimed to
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Impact of Nazi Policy on Jews 1933- 45 Once the Nazis came to power‚ Jews were subjected to increased discrimination‚ though anti- semitic policy developed in a typically haphazard manner. In 1993 some Jews were deprived of their jobs and in 1935 all lost their citizenship. The pogroms of the Night of Broken Glass in November 1938 symbolised the radicalisation of the regime. The Nazis‚ by then politically and economically secure‚ were free to pursue their aim of Jews out of German life. Jewish
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How far is it true to say that German people were increasingly reluctant to support the Nazi regime between September 1939 and early 1943? From the September 1st 1939‚ the start of the war‚ loyalty was crucial to the Nazi regime in order to maintain the war effort back in Nazi Germany‚ especially until the point of early 1943‚ when they were defeated in Stalingrad. This question is difficult to answer as you can’t be certain whether or not people really supported the regime‚ or just pretended
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Alexis Arocha Orient Building: Room 136 Time: 4pm- 5:50pm Professor Casey Hitler and the Holocaust In the year of 1933‚ Adolf Hitler took power and the holocaust occurred. The vigorous dictator had a set of ideas and goals that took place across Europe. Hitler’s ideologies consisted of Germany and Austria having superiority over the Jewish population‚ whom were accused for all the issues Germany faced. Hitler “believed that only by waging a war of conquest against Russia could the German nation
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Death versus fear are they the same thing? There are many differences between death and fear. The Japanese Internment Camps were for fear and the Nazi Concentration Camps were for death. So the two different camps were not the same thing. America had the camps because they got attacked by the Japanese. President Ford said that he did this because they didn’t want to get attacked again. So they relocated the Japanese more inland.The second reason is they sold all of their farms because they didn’t
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To what extent could Nazi Germany be considered a totalitarian state in the period 1933-1942? From Hitler’s election to power in January 1933‚ Nazi Germany although exhibiting totalitarian elements lacked some required factors to characterize it fully as a totalitarian state. George Orwell suggested that totalitarianism is (1984‚ introduction) "the ability for a political system or society where the individual does not exist‚ a single party controls every aspect of life." Paramount to the classification
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coming into power in 1933 it became their aim to create a totalitarian state headed by Hitler‚ under which they could control the everyday lives of the German people. They hoped to achieve this through organization and to discourage any form of thinking that was not part of the state approved ideology. The Nazis impacted on the German people by controlling key institutions such as the army‚ the education system‚ the church and employment. There is strong debate as to whether the Nazis provoked a social
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Nazi officers and politicians had a great influence over what beliefs and principles were ideal during WW2 in Germany. In 1940‚ a series of quotation posters were issued by the Propaganda Office of the Hitler Youth Headquarters in an attempt to persuade the youth of Germany into working towards the future success and maintenance of Hitler’s “empire”. One poster reads‚ “German currency is today no longer the object of speculation by the Jews and financiers‚ but rather the reward of labor. What our
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Throughout the 20th century there were events which involved racial acts toward a certain race. The Nazis were a group run by Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s and were anti-Semitic or in other words‚ racist against Jews. Another group during this time was a group called the Ku Klux Klan‚ which is a white supremacist committee. Despite the fact that these two groups were different in some ways‚ they were also the same in others‚ because they both have a purpose for their group‚ both had a leader which
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