the notion that Plato was a totalitarian‚ evident in his conception of the kallipolis which drives forward a totalitarian and utopian dream for a ‘natural class rule of the wise few over the ignorant many’3. On the contrary‚ a literary reading of Plato’s Republic could dismiss such ideas as independent of Plato’s voice in the first place. Furthermore‚ it has been put forward that Plato’s idealistic state is based on virtue and the happiness of the people‚ unlike totalitarian states. This essay will
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Economic conditions 1933 Trade * Germany depended heavily on its ability to sell manufactured goods. * The demand for German exports declined and its sale of manufactured goods‚ collapsed * The value dropped from 13.5 billion Reischmarks in 1929 to 4.9 billion in 1933. Employment * The industrial contraction was mass long-term unemployment. * Even before the Great Depression‚ workers were being laid off and in 1929 the unemployment was 1.9 million * The length and severity
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THE AFTERMATH OF NAZI RULE Report from Germany HANNAH ARENDT waste the moral structure of Western society‚ committing crimes that nobody would have believed possible‚ while her conquerors buried in rubble the visible marks of more than a thousand years of German history. Then into this devastated land‚ truncated by the Oder-Neisse borderline and hardly able to sustain its demoralized and exhausted population‚ streamed millions of people from the Eastern provinces‚ from the Balkans and from Eastern
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satire of Soviet Russia. In a more general sense‚ however‚ the story traces the rise and fall of any totalitarian regime. All of the animals on Animal Farm somehow contribute to either the creation‚ destruction‚ or temporary success of the totalitarian government. The original goal of the Animal Farm society is a socialist society‚ but it turns bad. As the animals begin the Animal Farm society‚ everyone is equal. As time passes‚ it is realized that of all the animals‚ the pigs are the smartest
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The people in a totalitarian society are persistently fed false information and are punished if they do not exhibit agreement with that information. Propaganda is a tool used by these governments in order to promote anything they want. Propaganda is primarily spread through the media‚ and is also presented to large organized groups to increase its impact. According to the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia‚ “The North Korean government subjects its population to intensive ideological indoctrination and
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How effective was Hitler’s control over every aspect of German life between 1933-1939? The Nazi regime was "Hitler’s regime‚ it was Hitler’s policy‚ Hitler’s rule of force‚ Hitler’s victory and defeat - nothing else" Hans Frank‚ Hitler’s lawyer. If the regime was to be Hitler’s and no one else’s then he would need complete control over every aspect of German life‚ from schools‚ churches‚ courts‚ and people. This essay will examine each of the aspects of every
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What was life in Nazi Germany from 1933-39 by Joe Hui In this essay i will be talking about life in nazi Germany from 1933-39. This include the job they have‚ education‚ health care‚ vacation‚ youth‚ motivation‚ crime‚ effective governance‚ political‚ union and last but not least the army. In those paragraph i will be talking about the good side and the bad side. First let talk about the youth of Nazi Germany‚ youth is the most important part of your life because it can affect your behaviour. The
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Republic account for the growth and rise to power of the Nazi Party to 1933? The instalment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor‚ the ever continuing rise of Nazism and the final fall of the Weimar Republic. Events of 1933 in Germany through which the birth of the Third Reich was to begin‚ National Socialism implemented through Gleichschaltung and Hitler’s Weltanschauung would be a reality. A pivotal year indeed‚ through which The Nazi Party was able to legally gain control of government and wipe away all traces
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in the beginning of the 1930s‚ Germany was suffering from the consequences of the Great Depression. In this period of economic and political difficulty‚ Germany had become susceptible to extreme parties who offered any solution to their continuing problems. Consequently‚ through luck and perseverance‚ Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 with the promise of making Germany self sufficient and providing relief from the pains of the Depression. Between the period of 1933-1939 Hitler adopted a policy of consolidating
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On 30th January 1933‚ Hindenburg received Hitler in audience and appointed him chancellor. It came as a shock to some people but many believed that Hitler’s rise to power was inevitable. Some state that Hitler could not have risen to power in any country other than Germany‚ implying that he was nothing more than a product of German culture. Others say that Hitler rose to power by means of his political genius. And yet still others claim that it was the weak democratic government of the Weimar Republic
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