Beginning in October 1939‚ Adolf Hitler secretly approved an experimental program which by intent and in practice sterilized and removed “undesirable” citizens from the German population. These “undesirables” were German‚ Jewish‚ or Gypsy patients who were in most cases handicapped or deemed incurable. It is estimated that the Nazi regime was responsible for over 400‚000 sterilizations and over 70‚000 deaths from euthanasia from 1933-1945. Despite the fact that many of the “undesirables” were part
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How and why was Germany allowed to annex Austria and the Sudentenland? Was there any justifcation for Britain and France’s policy of appeasement? France and Britain worked out an agreement to appease Germany. These lands had been taken away from Germany through the Treaty of Versailles. Millions of Germans were living in these countires and were showing signs that they wanted to be under German rule. Britain also felt that Hitler was up to something and wanted to appease Germany by letting Hitler
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To what Extent was Germany a parliamentary democracy in the years 1900-14? In the period 1900-1914‚ Germany’s political landscape witnessed extraordinary changes in which typical features associated with a parliamentary democracy- such as significant and influential pressure group activity and universal suffrage- were present. It can however be argued that this period also represented a time in which the German Reichstag did not truly represent the population due to old and corrupt voting system
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The antebellum societies of North and South were similar in some ways‚ like their nationalism‚ but the difference outweighs the similarities because of the economic and social difference in these two societies. Both the North and South societies have their own unique economical and Social backbone with the North economy based on manufacturing and the South mainly agriculture. Even doe the values of this two society are different and the difference exceeds the similarity‚ what they have in common
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Industrialization of Germany and Japan Germany and Japan were part of the second wave of modernizing nations. They did not start industrializing until the second half of the nineteenth century. It was nearly a century after the French revolution and the beginning of British industrialization. They did have an advantage in being the second wave‚ for one they could learn from the technologies and techniques that were used in Europe before them and implement these systems into their own industries. Germany and Japan
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The policy of appeasement was widely pursued by Britain and France in the 1930s‚ when it referred to attempting to satisfy Germany’s demands by negotiation and compromise‚ which would avoid war. However due to its failure the policy of appeasement‚ to a large extent was responsible for the outbreak of war in 1939. It is clear that if the Western Powers had retaliated against Hitler‚ war could have been avoided‚ it encouraged Hitler‚ Hitler could never be appeased‚ and that it prompted the Nazi-Soviet
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What was life like for people living in Nazi Germany? In Nazi Germany life for the Germans was terrible. You had to know who you could trust‚ as trusting the wrong person may cause you to loose your life. The Nazis and mainly Hitler really disliked Jews and anyone else that was not their perfect ’Aryan’. Hitler and the Nazis came up with the Nazi Racial Policy‚ in 1933 to try and persuade Jews to emigrate there was the Boycott of Jewish shops. Shop windows got Jewish symbols painted on them‚ members
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Document 1 What did Hitler suggest was needed for Germany? Hitler thought Germany needed to take back the territories that were lost as part of the reparations of WWI. He thought the land was still theirs and they should take it back. How would that lead to war? Hitler wanted to take the lost territories by force‚ so that would easily lead to war. He said protests weren’t enough and they needed to fight which was implied by “a mighty sword” being necessary. Document 2 According to Haile Selassie
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"normal" life during communism. The latter involves commemorative performances‚ such as queuing to buy bananas in socialist-style fruit stands‚ which re-invoke how time was "captured" by the socialist state and the resulting struggles to acquire basic consumer goods (Verdery‚ 1996) . In a similar vein‚ Opona plans to create a Totalitarian Simulator‚ a "large-scale interactive
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The ethics of doing business in countries with totalitarian governments has many pros and cons involved with it. But for this debate I will show the cons of doing business in a country with a totalitarian government with an example. The term totalitarian government can be defined as in political science a system of government and ideology in which all social‚ political‚ economic‚ intellectual‚ cultural‚ and spiritual activities are subordinated to the purposes of the rulers of a state. (http://encarta
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