How far do you agree that Hitler’s consolidation of power between January 1933 and August 1934 can be described as a “legal revolution” It is to a certain extent that Nazi consolidation of power in 1933 was due to the use of terror and violence. However the terror and violence was very limited because the Nazi’s weren’t in a strong enough position to exert terror and violence alone. Nazi propaganda against the communists made most Germans fearful of Communism therefore allowing Nazis to consolidate
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It is estimated that one in three Germans was unemployed in the 1930s. The Great Depression was a worldwide crisis that affected the world‚ especially Germany. The impact of the Great Depression was particularly severe in Germany. Unemployment hit millions of Germans‚ as companies shut down or downsized. Others lost their savings as banks folded. The serious conditions of the early 1930s led many German voters to abandon mainstream political parties and look to more radical alternatives‚ such as
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throughout the world. It is one of the oldest symbols of mankind “that predates the Egyptian ankh (symbol for ‘life’)”. When the Nazis used the swastika symbol for their evil ways they stained it forever and now most people believe the swastika symbolizes Nazism and evil. However‚ people do not know that the swastika has been around long before Hitler and the Nazis; and for many centuries been a symbol of peace‚ joy and good luck. Hitler and the Nazis distorted the meaning of the symbol and its very long
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Surprisingly the production of film was not stopped under German occupation. The Germans understood the importance it had to the economy and were allowed to create films with some freedom. This lean way allowed directors to add discrete messages of anti-Nazism. Some films made in this period are still considered classics including LAssassinat du Pere Noel(1941) and La Main de diable(1943). The years after the war were hard on the industry as electricity was being strictly rationed. By 1946 films were
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and Rise of Hitler- Note Guidelines Use pages 63-72 in “Authoritarian and Single Party States” by Waller and Todd to make notes using the following headings: How did the political circumstances of Germany after 1918 contribute to the rise of Nazism? The new government set up after the abdication of the Kaiser • “Stab in the back’ theory • Disappointment at Peace settlement • Proportional Representation • Constitution- especially Article 48 Challenges to the New Government • Spartacus
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probably first used by the Italian philosopher‚ Giovanni Gentile‚ in 1925‚ during the earlier years of Italian Fascist rule‚ to describe a comprehensive socio-political system. Mussolini happily used the word‚ and while in general it usefully describes Nazism and Stalinism‚ Hitler avoided its use and Stalin saw it as applicable to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany but not to Russia. The concept gained wider currency and became prominent in schoolbooks during the post-1945 Cold War period. It was at that time
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When Hannah Arendt completed her work The Origins of Totalitarianism‚ she essentially took a historical approach for her analysis. The stories of Nazism and Stalinism exhibited the power of reorienting the mass for political purpose. However‚ her work foreshadowed what happened 15 years later in China -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The key elements reappeared and constituted another experiment of pushing the regime to be totalitarian. I argue that the influence of mass and the strategy
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To what extent was there a social revolution in Nazi Germany? Was Hitler’s rule reactionary or revolutionary? According to Marx’s definition‚ a revolution is when a change takes place‚ referring to the population’s social status‚ when the worker’s class is able to take part in the political decisions of the country. Although we think that Hitler did cause a revolution in Germany‚ no real changes were made. Therefore‚ we have to compare the Nazi Germany’s social policies and changes with the previous
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etc The nature of Hitler’s dictator ship is also up for debate. Was it by coercion or compliance? Consider Nazi ideology – is it spreading the ideology efficiently have they embraced this element. Probably didn’t win over new people to Nazism. Did not relentlessly persue people who did not show these values. Supplementary propaganda for the already convinced. Birth rates did not rise greatly but the propaganda value of celebrationg the woman fit the nazi ideological aims but as much
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Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt is widely regarded as one of the most important‚ unique and influential thinkers of political philosophy in the Twentieth century. Arendt was greatly influenced by her mentor and one time lover‚ Martin Heidegger‚ whose phenomenological method would help to greatly shape and frame Arendt’s own thinking. Like Heidegger‚ Arendt was sceptical of the metaphysical tradition which tended towards abstract conceptual reasoning; ultimately at odds
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