The Weimar Republic Key features and issues * successes and failures of democracy * nature and role of nationalism * influence of the German army * changes in society From this tutorial you will learn about the political‚ economic and social issues in the Weimar Republic to 1929. The following are extracts from an article which first appeared in Teaching History‚ July 1998 and is expanded in the HTA Modern History Guide 2006. Political and Economic issues In order to understand
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Describe the personal background and the historical context of the personality you have studied. Leni Riefenstahl was regarded as having led five separate lives‚ but the life of Leni Riefenstahl is one that is characterised by remorseless passion and incessant desire to convey herself artistically in any way‚ shape or form. Leni demonstrated a certain single-minded fervour in the search of artistic brilliance until the day of her death at 101 years of age‚ and the greater excellence of a number
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2013 Totalitarian Essay In a democracy‚ people are free to do what they please and cannot be punished‚ persecuted‚ or terrorized for expressing their beliefs by the government. That is why democracy is a better form of government than Fascism‚ Nazism‚ and Communism. People all over the world are terrorized for what they look like or what they believe in and this is even enforced by some forms of government in the world. Under the U.S democracy‚ every person has the right to life‚ liberty‚ and
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Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor in 1933 brought about the beginning of the end to a brief democratic government in Germany. He worked hard to return to the old Totalitarian rule with himself as dictator‚ and also for ‘Machtergreifung’ – the seizure of power. Hitler had no intention of sharing power and his aim was to achieve complete control over Germany and to build a German Empire through the Nazi Party. His personality and manifesto were extremely convincing to people of all age groups and
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while at other times such advancements were not within her control. Historian Steven Bach argues in his book‚ ‘The Life and work of Leni Riefenstahl’ that Riefenstahl was obsessed with her career and moulding her image. He believes she knew more about Nazism than she would have liked people to believe. Riefenstahl was so driven to be worldly famous and recognised that she didn’t care what the cost. Through the exploitation of people and their money and the use of her beauty and charm Riefenstahl would
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and no opposition to the government. Germany gained territory by taking over weak countries that it had lost in the Treaty of Versailles. But it’s not a haphazard that The Nazi appeared in the 1930s of Germany. Germany has suitable conditions for Nazism of the emergence and development of social conditions. First‚ Germany is a strong feudal autocratic and traditional country‚ although it built the bourgeois democratic republic-the Weimar Republic after WW1‚ there was no more stable and powerful
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"Propaganda is the art of nearly deceiving one ’s friends without quite deceiving one ’s enemies." F. M. Cornford once offered this as an offhand explanation of what he believed propaganda to be. In reality‚ the human behavior of propaganda has grown from its origination into a complex web of technique and strategy. It can be traced back to as early as written accounts could have been taken‚ such as the Arthashastra‚ which was written around the 4th century BCE. Written by Chanakya‚ it discussed
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- Essay - The Origins of the Second World War Text 6 by A.J.P. Taylor Professor: Luciano Amaral Assistant: Duncan Simpson Francisca Ennes 11731 Mariana Ascenso 11677 Alan John Percivable Taylor was born in March 1906 in Birkdale‚ England. His parents held left-wing views‚ which he inherited; and were pacifists‚ which made them send his son to Quaker schools‚ as a way of protesting against the First World War. Taylor was described as being an “arresting‚ stimulating‚ vital personality
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Germany and the unification of German-speaking individuals into one cemented jingoist group. Hitler believed he could restore German to the greatest historical glory it once had before. Because of its extensive racist content and historical effect of ‘nazism’ on Germany during WWII‚ it is considered a controversial piece of writing. Criticisms came from several sources‚ one of which being Italian dictator and nazi ally Benito Mussolini; claiming the book to be boring and unreadable. The content of Mein
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Goodbye to Berlin (1939) is a fictionalized memoir set in Weimar Germany and written by Christopher Ishwerwood. It is semi-autobiographical‚ following the authors travels through Berlin in the pre-nazi era and the people he meets along the way. During this time‚ the author was making a precarious living teaching English and becoming a firsthand witness to the Nazi’s rise to power and the beginnings of the Third Reich. The book functions as a collection of short stories collected over the years of
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