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- 111: The Holocaust
- ... against Jews and other "lesser races". This war came to a head with the "Final Solution" in 1938. One of the end results of the Final Solution was the horrible concentration and death camps of Germany, Poland, and other parts of Nazi-controlled Europe. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, people around the world were shocked by final tallies of human losses, and the people responsible were punished for their inhuman acts. The Holocaust was a dark time in the history of the 20th century. One can trace the beginnings of the Holocaust as far back as 1933, when the Nazi party of Germany, lead by Adolf Hitler, came to power. Hitler’s anti-Jew campaign began soon afterward, with the "Nuremberg Laws", which defined the meaning of being Jewish based on ancestry. These laws also forced segregation between ... European Jews. Anti-Jewish aggression continued for years after the passing of the Nuremberg Laws. One of these was the "Aryanization" of Jewish property and business. Jews were progressively forced out of the economy of Germany, their assets turned over to the government and the German public. Other forms of degradation were pogroms, or organized demonstrations against Jews. The first, and most infamous, of these pogroms was Krystallnacht, or "The ...
- 112: Hitler's Weltanschauung (World View)
- ... in the world. The elimination of the Jews was but one item on Hitler's agenda, however. Hitler wanted to do away with the Versailles Treaty which he saw as criminal. He also believed that Germany should not ally itself with any other nation, except perhaps Italy and England. Italy, because of its Fascist regime under Mussolini, and England, because it could be considered a Nordic region. While he would go ... very hostile towards France and saw the French as a hereditary enemy that was always looking for a chance to annex the left bank of the Rhine so as to have a "natural" frontier with Germany. Hitler was ready to support a war against France at any time and any cost. England was portrayed as one of Germany's absolute enemies, even though Hitler had considered making an alliance at one point. Hitler thought that England had been the Weltmacht, or world power for too long and was not a worthy ally ...
- 113: The Invasion Of Poland 1939
- ... forgotten. The invasion lead to a great amount of bloodshed, but Hitler needed to be stopped and if he wasn't there would have been even more innocent people murdered. In the early 1900's Germany was part of the axis countries. Poland was in a decent state of affairs. The two countries had some minor disagreements, yet they lived in a nonviolent manner. In 1925 there was a peace treaty signed by the two countries called the Locarno Treaty. They signed another non-aggression treaty in the year 1934. Hitler even early in the year 1939 talked about how Germany and Poland could work together in peace and harmony to make Europe a better place. Yet even in this early time there were people being greatly discriminated against in Germany due to Nazi influence. Before the war there were many different people living in the boundaries of Poland. There were 750,000 Germans living in Poland prior to 1939. Natural Poles discriminated against the ...
- 114: The Cold War
- ... and mutual distrust and constantly competed for power. USSR wanted to spread Communism; a social system marked by the common, throughout Eastern Europe and created a “buffer zone” of friendly nations as a defense against Germany. In 1946, USSR controlled Eastern Europe and U.S influenced Western Europe. This division created an “iron curtain” that separated Europe. Many places were involved in the Cold War but the main places were the ... eventually they came out on top. The USSR took major damage from the crises such as the Cuban Missile Crisis and Berlin Wall, and eventually their economy collapsed and they converted to a capitalistic economy. Germany and the rest of Europe was a chessboard that the two powers played on. The U.S. was allied with West Germany, and the Soviet Union was allied with East Germany. When the Berlin Wall was built here, the Soviet Union took a major hit in their political opinions across the globe. Eventually in 1990, theBerlinWall ...
- 115: WWII
- ... In the 1930's widespread unemployment and acute distress strained social relationships in Europe. The communist movement soon overwhelmed Europe. The triumph in 1933 of fascism, under the name of National Socialism, or Nazism, in Germany ended the threat of revolution in that country. However, the triumph of the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler would prove to be more disastrous as time passed. The German society was transformed into a totalitarian state, which had withdrawn from the League of Nations. The League of Nations condemned Germany's action for denouncing the Versailles Treaty, which provided the disarmament of Germany. Hitler wanted to establish Germany as the dominant nation in Europe and one of the leading economic, political and military powers of the world. Hitler's conquests would eventually lead to war. Essentially, the ...
- 116: Literary Themes In All Quiet O
- ... the story of All Quiet on the Western Front . One of the most prominent themes book is also the most saddening. That theme is the institutionalization or depersonalization of war. Remarque begins the story with Germany s soldiers fighting an institutionalized war. Soldiers were trained to destroy and kill the enemy. By institutionalizing the war, it was made easier to kill someone just like you for no reason. But by depersonalizing ... and wishes no more of a part in the war. The institutionalization of the war led to people thinking how futile this war really is. Because the war was so depersonalized for the soldiers of Germany, they start to feel this isn t their war to fight. Their loyalties are lost. What could have been solved between world leaders in a peace meeting had been made into an all out war ... Paul and his comrades come into a conclusion that the war was just a matter of one countryland offending another countryland. But yet they wonder, how can a mountain in France offend a mountain in Germany? The war was really just a matter of pride. Germany s high officials were just out for blood and did not exactly want peace. Germany just wanted to show it was better than any ...
- 117: America's involvement in World War Two
- America's involvement in World War Two When war broke out , there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of this guerre. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies would have to be stopped. America's Involvement in World War two not only contributed in the eventual downfall of the insane Adolph Hitler and his Third Reich, but also came at ... only gather a mere one hundred thousand, when the French, Russian and Japanese armies numbered in millions. Its weapons dated from the first World War and were no match compared to the new artillery that Germany and its allies had. “American soldiers were more at home with the horse than with the tank” (Overy 273). The air force was just as bad if not worse. In September 1939 the Air Corps had only 800 combat aircrafts again compared with Germany's 3600 and Russia's 10,000 . American military Aviation (AMA) in 1938 was able to produce only 1,800, 300 less than Germany, and 1,400 less than Japan. Major Eisenhower, who was ...
- 118: Nazism
- ... political ideas. But many among the middle class admired the Nazis’ muscular opposition to the Social Democrats. And the Nazis themes of patriotism and militarism drew highly emotional responses from people who could not forget Germany’s prewar imperial grandeur. In the national elections of September 1930, the Nazis garnered nearly 6.5 million votes and became second only to the Social Democrats as the most popular party in Germany. In Northeim, where in 1928 Nazi candidates had received 123 votes, they now polled 1,742, a respectable 28 percent of the total. The nationwide success drew even faster... in just three years, party membership ... chance to join Vienna academy of fine arts. When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer’s army as a Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices, including a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of ...
- 119: The Use Of Propaganda In The N
- ... the Jews was not an issue. The issue in this case was its power of persuasion. Although to achieve this goal the Nazi party deemed it necessary to monopolize the communications, media, and entertainment industries, Germany already had a strong anti-Semitic background. European anti-Semitism is an outgrowth of Christianity. Since the time of the Roman Empire, Christian leaders preached boundlessly against Jews. It escalated from generation to generation, for ... as the symbol for everything awry in their declining economy, even though they made up but a mere one percent of the population. Soon the cultural taboos that had formerly shaped the moral fabric of Germany at the time lost all influence. It was then that German anti-Semitism reached a high point: false, cruel, yet indisputable accusations. Prostitution, sexual degradation and depravity, and the sexual assaulting of unsuspecting German virgins ... their collapsing economy, the belief of Jews being evil and a source of great harm. This new type of anti-Semitism was of a savage nature and a logic that it was necessary to rid Germany, along with the rest of the world, of Jews by whatever means necessary. Already having a foundation for their cause, all the Nazis had to do was execute their strategies. Even before gaining full ...
- 120: Adolf Hitler
- ... example, the “raw majesty of life under fire, the beauty of comradeship, and the nobility of the warrior.” His soldiery dreams of victory and fulfillment were shattered, however, by German defeat. He became convinced that Germany had been “stabbed in the back” by Jews and Marxists. So now you can see that this started his extreme hatred if the Jewish people and the realization he needed to become involved in this ... stir street crowds with his speeches. Hitler had too much control over the Nazi party; for example he attacked the government and assured that the Nazi party would assure jobs for workers and greatness for Germany. So in concusion Hitler was proving to be a good organizer and politician. Hitler organized a private army of hoodlums who became known as storm troopers. They fought Communist and others who tried to break ... with machine guns and rifles. Next, to identify these men as special Nazi party members, he gave them brown shirts with swastikas on them to distinguish them as part of the Nazi party. In 1923 Germany was deep in trouble; first it’s money had lost almost all of it’s value because of severe economic problems. Second, France and Belgium had sent troops to occupy the Rhur valley of ...
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