right-wing party‚ NSDAP (Nazi)‚ made up of fifty-four members in 1919‚ transformed into one of the most powerful‚ dangerous‚ and influential political parties that the world has ever seen. To understand this phenomenon and the exponential expansion that Nazi party experienced one must look back to the beginning of the 20th century. The First World War left the nation of Germany in ruins. The aftermath and the widespread distraught of WW1 completely changed the German society. The economic‚ political
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Theoretical Models on the Origin of Complex Civilization Word Count: 2593 Complex societies are a relatively recent socio-political development. For the vast majority of its history‚ the human race has lived in hunter-gatherer groups and not in state-level civilizations. In order for a civilization to be recognized as a state level society‚ it must meet certain criteria. There must be centralized political power‚ social classes based on access to resources‚
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Why the state? The state is a faceless entity that is sovereign‚ which consists of institutions that govern the general population of a certain territory. This jurisdiction on a particular territory is practiced through different uses of power. First and foremost the state uses its power to legitimize its actions towards the population under it. It legitimizes all that is what the state think is good for the nation. Pierre Bourdieu discusses these modern tendencies of the state‚ which was
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Period 5 February 13‚ 2012 DBQ #1 The peasant’s revolt in the German states of 1524-1526 was mainly caused by the peasants’ confusion of Lutheran teachings and also the economic depression that was oppressed by the lords. The response to the peasant revolts in German states varied from violent outcries to semi peaceful actions such as marches and gatherings. During 1524-1526 many peasant revolts occurred within the German states primarily caused by the confusion of Lutheran teachings and ideologies
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To what extent was Nazi Germany a totalitarian state Germany was a totalitarian state‚ however‚ only to an extent due to differing perspectives Nazi Germany did not fit the universal criteria of what constitutes totalitarianism. It is unarguably necessary that Germany was ran by a single party‚ had absolute control over mass communication & media‚ had a systematic terror & police control as well as total control over the army. However‚ many have argued that Nazi Germany was not totalitarian as it
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things that were great for the German people; they also did some things that were not so great for the German people. Firstly‚ after using the Enabling Law to allow him to do anything he wanted for the next four years he made an anti-communist law that banned all 81 members of the communist party from the Reichstag. Then he made the law against the formation of new parties‚ this got rid of all parties other than the Nazi party making Hitler a dictator. A benefit to the German people was the fact that
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FOCUS ON GERMAN STUDIES 69 The Poetics of Deniable Plausibility in Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Die Turnstunde” DARREN ILETT ie Turnstunde”1 opens abruptly: “In der Militärschule zu Sankt Severin. Turnsaal” (W 435).2 Provided with only these two terse phrases of orientation — which replicate the harsh‚ clipped commands of the military3 — the reader is already located in the space of action. The narrative begins immediately and relates Cadet Karl Gruber’s atypical athletic performance and consequent
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Successful Was the Indoctrination of the German Youth Under the Nazi Regime? Hitler expressed the need for indoctrination in many speeches from the beginning of his leadership. This is shown in a quote from a meeting with radio officials on 25th March 1933: ’the mobilisation of the mind is as necessary as‚ perhaps even more necessary than‚ the material mobilisation of the nation.’ The Law on the Hitler Youth also emphasised the indoctrination of the youth: ’All German young people...will be educated in
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Nazi Persuasion Throughout WWII Hitler and the Nazi party gained followers extremely quickly. The Nazis knew how to persuade the public and they targeted specific groups of people with different types of propaganda. The Nazis used techniques such as movies‚ posters‚ and speeches to convince the public that the Nazi party was the way to go. One of the main targets of Nazi propaganda was the youth of Germany. Hitler and the Nazi party wanted to gain the support of the public at a young age.
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physically disabled people were persecuted. The Nazis wanted to maintain the ‘Aryan’ race so German people were not allowed to interbreed with inferior races. Many ‘ordinary’ Germans shared these ideas and there was little evidence of opposition to persecution from German civilians. There was also a public participation in persecution‚ if an ‘ordinary’ German believed someone to be racially impure they would turn them in to the Nazis. Some ’ordinary’ Germans even benefitted from the persecution of minorities
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