...Many people are confused on what exactly the Hindenburg is. Some say it’s just a big balloon filled with helium, others state that it’s just aluminum foil filled with air. So, what really is the Hindenburg? It’s a huge airship (bigger than the titanic, to give you an idea) with metal framework, and is filled with hydrogen, a highly flammable gas that is lighter than helium, which is what blimps are filled with. The Hindenburg was founded by Hitler, and was operated by the German Zeppelin Airline Company. The Hindenburg was being used for a commercial passenger flight touring in North America. The Hindenburg was headed for Lakehurst New Jersey on May 6, 1937. But, it was delayed for 12 hours because of the poor weather conditions out that...
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...T he Hindenburg, or the LZ-129,was originally going to be model LZ-128. But because of the devastating crash of the R-101( a British model that used hydrogen, causing the hydrogen fire, killing 48 out of the 55 crew and passengers ) in October of 1930. It made the Zeppelin Company change their future designs for the LZ-128 from a hydrogen filled zeppelin, to a helium filled one. Thus designing the LZ-129, or better known as the Hindenburg. Construction of the zeppelin began in the Fall of 1931, but because of the Great Depression, funds for the build slacked. Once completed, the Hindenburg was 803.8 feet long, and had a diameter of 135.1 feet. Although it was designed for helium, the Hindenburg was still filled with the traditional zeppelin...
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...How important was fear of communism in explaining why President Hindenburg invited Hitler to become Chancellor in 1933? Intro Communism was a political idea which was beginning to become popular in Germany. However it was very much disliked as communist were seen as unruly because of street battles with police. People feared the way the USSR discriminated against the middle class and in the process of becoming communist countries had taken land away from farmers and many peasants had been killed or imprisioned. Hitler was appointed chancellor on the 30th January 1933 and this was partly to do with the publics fear of communism however it was not the most important factor. One way the fear of communism explained why Hindenburg invited Hitler to become chancellor was pressure from big businesses. Originally Hindenburg had not wanted to appoint Hitler as chancellor, he feared he would dismantle democracy and as a former leader of the imperial german army Hindenburg strngly disliked the S.A. However he was getting older and struggling to keep the republic together. The army favored Hitler to protect the state from communism and the former president of the reichsbank, Hjalmar Schacht, made it known that the business and finical world saw Hitler as the ‘lesser of two evils’. This put huge pressure on Hindenburg to pick Hitler as chancellor because he needed the support of the army and business world. Along with the army and business world, support for Hitler in the public was...
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...Structural Engineering Mishaps and Disasters Hindenburg: An Unnecessary Disaster In the 1930s airships, better known today as “blimps”, were the main source of air travel. During this time, the airships were used for various different reasons such as: bombing enemy targets, patrolling coastal areas, escorting naval ships during the night or through unsafe bodies of water, or used to make luxury flights across the Atlantic. The Hindenburg was believed to be the biggest and most sophisticated aircraft ever built. The Hindenburg was built with metal framework and balloon like covering. It was as long as three football fields and weighed more than 240 tons. This airship looked ravishing, however, it possessed a significant flaw that eventually caused it to ruin. The outer skin of the Hindenburg was filled with hydrogen, which is extremely flammable. Passengers preparing to board the aircraft had to remove all lighters, matches, and/or any other objects that would cause it to catch fire. Traveling all the way from Europe, the Hindenburg was expected to arrive in the United States and land in New Jersey on May 6, 1937. Max Pruss was commander, there were thirteen passengers, and twenty-two crew members on board . Hundreds of people waited for the Hindenburg, including: relatives of the passengers, news reporters, photographers, New Jersey citizens, and ninety-two ground crew members. The flight’s landing was slightly delayed due to thunderstorms and aggressive...
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...The Hindenburg the mighty air ship that crashed on May 6 1937 killing 13 passengers 22 staff and 1 land member and 62 survived the crash. The cause was never found of the Hindenburg crash and the air ship was never rebuilt there are many ways people say the fire has started by a spark and a leaky air bag some said a smoking staff some even said someone did it on purpose but sadly we will never know the true cause of the fire but we do know one thing it burnt in 30 seconds The disaster happened May 6 1937 in Newark New Jersey it was man built by the Germans it was as long as the titanic the ship was held up by hydrogen a very flammable gas when fire hit the gas it exploded into flames when the news got out people were devastated family of...
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...communist named Van der lubbe was caught red handed with matches and fire lighting materials and hitler used this and claimed that Hindenburg was under threat by the communist party and so Hitler arrested most of his communist opposition and so this gave him the advantage in the election and win most of the seats. Due to the Reichstag fire and the idea of the communist being a threat to Hindenburg and the country, this allowed Hitler to start promoting this idea of communist being the worst for the country and so this links to Hitler getting the advantage in the elections, if he promotes this idea of the communist being this bad party for the country then the people would only have to vote for the next best thing which just so happened to be the Nazis.On the other hand the Reichstag fire didn't give Hitler the full control he needed to put forward his great plan of stopping democracy and changing back into a dictatorship ran by him. Also Hitler didn't get rid of all the communist in order to get control, there was still some communist who pose a threat to hitler and his party. The enabling act on the other hand was more important because the Reichstag itself voted itself out of existence due to this act and also passed all powers to Hitler allowing Germany to turn from a Democracy to a dictatorship. Also it allowed Hitler to get rid of Hindenburg who was a potential threat to him and a big obstacle to Hitler getting full control and power. It also allowed Hitler to create his...
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...Depression Throughout the beginning it was almost The depression also had a big impact on Certain that Germany would have won however Germany. They had already suffered A careless mistake was made that cost their due to the reparations and people Win. Germany then lost the war and was forced were starving. They began to draw The accept the the terms of the Treaty closer to extremist ideas. They looked Impact of the Versailles help with Hitler. He began to rise to The Versailles was a huge impact in the lives power and was appointed chancellor of the people in Germany. Germany was after the death of Hindenburg. forced to except war guilt, after thinking they won the war. They were also forced to pay All these things led to Hitler reparations, which completely damaged their becoming leader. He wanted absolute economy. £6.6 Billion to be exact. They had to power and got it. But the question is reduce their army and split their territories. Will this happen again? These completely hurt Germany so they felt As though they were betrayed. This led to the blame on Jewish heritage and the aims to exterminate a whole race. Characteristics Hitler's talents were opportunism, craftiness, deceitfulness, rage, and aggression....
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...Reichstag Fire happened on 27th February, 1933. Inside the burning building was found a Dutch communist called Marinus van der Lubbe. He was accused for starting the fire in the Reichstag and was arrested, and after an unfair trial, he was executed. Hitler immediately blamed communists for this. He went to Hindenburg and persuaded him to pass a law called the “Emergency Decree”. This meant that the government were very powerful and that power was wide-ranged. It also took away civil rights and freedom, giving the police a lot of control. But the reason Hitler managed to convince Hindenburg to do this was because he said that this could be the start of a communist revolution which no one wanted. When the next elections took place, in March 1933, over 4 000 communists were arrested by the SA. They also shut down the communist newspaper, broke up any communists meetings and this could all happen because the Emergency Decree was around. Hitler had a lot of control at this point. He had power all over, especially in the police force. If there was someone he didn’t like then he could have them killed. He could do nearly anything he wanted and Hindenburg agreed as he didn’t want a communist attack either. The Enabling law was a part of the Weimar constitution that stated, if two thirds of the Reichstag agreed, that the Chancellor could rule alone. But the difficulty for Hitler was that the Nazi’s didn’t have a majority vote in March 1933, meaning it would be...
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...1. TO WHAT EXTENT WAS THE RISE TO POWER OF HITLER AND THE THIRD REICH, THE RESULT OF PREVIOUS POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS? Introduction Paragraph: Hitler was able to become Germany’s chancellor in 1933 and after 6 months he was already able to establish a dictatorship. It is surprising how such an abominable personage was able to gain total control over Germany, which had been able to become a democratic republic. As Kershaw stated, “the future of Weimar looked promising. And without the onset of the world economic crisis from 1929 it might have remained so”. Thesis: The rise to power of Hitler and the Third Reich was to a large extent the result of previous political and economic problems, such as Germany’s authoritarian origins, the minimum support the Weimar Republic had, WWI and the Great Depression. Body Paragraph 1 – Political and social structure of German authoritarian origins Germany had always favored nationalism, militarism, and anti-Semitism; all emotions in the German people that went back to Germany’s roots and history. Before the Third Reich and the Weimar Republic, Germany lived a prosperous period known as the Second Reich, during which they became a great empire due to the authoritarian traditions and the military success. This is a view extremely supported by the “structuralists”, who believe that Nazism and Hitler were simply products of German history and that they were forces that still dominated...
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...Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the opposition deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than out shooting them, at least the results will be guaranteed by their own constitution. Sooner or later we shall have a majority, and after that- Germany. (Heiden, 142)' Adolf Hitler spoke these words in 1920, soon after becoming leader of the newly named National Socialist German Workers' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. There are many contributing factors, which lead to Hitler's gain in power over the next thirteen years. The recent history of post-war Germany, and the events that would follow were of perfect conditions for the rise of an extremist party such as the Nazis. World War One had left Germany in defeat. Germany was put under immense pressure by the treaty of Versailles, which contributed to the disastrous and politically unstable early twenties. Hitler was a strong and manipulating character, with extraordinary leadership skills and his party was very tactical. He was very much underestimated by opposing political parties. All of these factors lead to Hitler and his Nazis' becoming the sole political party in the Reichstag in 1933. The German Empire was formed in 1871 and soon became one of Europe?s most influential countries. It dominated in industrial and military power, and the German people were proud of their achievements. Up until the end of World War One, a Kaiser ruled Germany...
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...The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933-34 The initial consolidation of the Nazi power in 1933-34 takes form in three points: the German situation, the Nazi rootlessness, and the political acts and people that made it all possible. The German situation helped account for the initial consolidation of Nazi power in 1933-34. Due to the Wall Street Crash in 1929 the economy crashed all over the world, but none worse than in Germany. Due to the World War 1 payback, Germany was already suffering economically and they were only keeping afloat with the funds from US investors, but with the Wall Street Crash the investors withdrew their money from Germany resulting in businesses all over Germany collapsing; bankruptcy becoming nationwide and unemployment levels leapt upwards. The economic impact of this led many counties to move to protect their own domestic industries, resulting in high tariffs. In March 1930 and May 1932, the German Chancellor, Heinrich Bruning, pursued an orthodox economic policy of ridge deflation. The deflation involved increasing taxation and decreasing government expenditure. Then in July 1931, Germany suffered a major banking crisis. The country’s biggest banks, the Danat, went bankrupt. The impact this had for families meant that they were forced into poverty, Living on the streets, Health levels deteriorated, Children were forced to leave school early, Families broke up as men left to seek work...
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...government, Adolf Hitler created a political and social environment susceptible to his control. The direct consequences of the fire were great, both in terms of political gain and the restriction of rights for the Nazi party’s adversaries, which at that point was predominantly the communist community. These greater holds on power were provided chiefly through the instigation of the Reichstag Decree and the Enabling Act along with the utilisation of political alliances between the police force and the Nazi Party. To understand the resounding effect of the fire, the general political environment in Germany before the fire must be examined. On the 30th of January, 1933 Adolf Hitler was appointed as chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. In this new position of power, Hitler appointed Herman Goering as the new Minister of the Interior for Prussia, which effectively gave the Nazi Party a powerful influence over police actions and let them utilise its power in the future as well as providing...
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...World War II Research The First World War started the decline of European power all over the world. At the end of the war, social equality, and joint defenses seemed to conquest however this optimism did not survive. The weakness of new democracy and the Great Depression pushed the continent back into war. Germany's Weimar Republic, born on November 9, 1918, in Berlin could not please the conquered people of Germany following World War I. German’s were fuming about the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles, which provided that Germany restore lands to other countries, admit accountability for starting the war, and return war criminals to the Allies. Large cash payments for the damages made were to be paid to the Allies. The Treaty of Versailles sternly limited Germany’s military. The Republic signed the treaty on June 28, 1919 from that day forward the German people viewed the Weimar Republic as a two-timing government for having signed a contract of terms they believed to be unreasonable and degrading. The United States stock market crash in 1929 was the final straw that set the world into a depression. A depression is a severe economic turndown marked by sharp declines in income and production as buying and selling slow down to a crawl (Kishlansky, 2008). The predicament of the United States rippled all the way through world markets. The U.S. Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930 which shaped an unfathomable toll against agricultural and manufactured imports...
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...Part 1 - Weimar Germany 1918-1929 1) The Treaty of Versailles ▪ Kaiser abdicates November 9th 1918, Armistice (cease-fire) signed November 11th ▪ Treaty of Versailles signed June 1919 ▪ It is a DIKTAT – something forced on to Germany. Allies say that they will carry on the war if Germans do not sign. ▪ For many Germans the defeat in WW1, national humiliation, the Treaty of Versailles, the Weimar constitution & democracy are all linked – helps explain why democracy is weak in Germany ▪ Terms of the Treaty – ▪ Germany has to pay REPARATIONS (fixed in 1921 as £6600 million) ▪ Germany loses all its COLONIES (overseas parts of their empire) ▪ German army limited to 100,000 men with no air force & a small navy with only 6 battleships and no submarines ▪ 13% of Germany is now transferred to neighbouring countries as the map is redrawn ▪ Germany loses land to France (Alsace-Lorraine), Belgium, Poland (Posen & West Prussia) & Denmark ▪ 15% of German coal mines are lost in map changes ▪ Many Germans blame the defeat in the war on “the stab in the back” (DOLCHSTOSS) – i.e. the Socialists / Communists / Jews betrayed Germany & the army was never defeated. This myth makes it harder to accept the Treaty ▪ Treaty weakened democracy in Germany and the German economy ▪ Friedrich Ebert appointed Chancellor in October 1918 2) The Weimar Constitution ▪ A National Assembly was elected to write this new constitution ▪ It met in Weimar because Berlin was...
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...How Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 Hitler, the very name of the man is no more than a whisper in the new Germany that was born out of the fires and humiliation of WW2 and foreign occupation. Historians such as Ian Kershaw even dare to ask; “Has this been Hitler’s century?” .The very fact that one could even consider a century to be defined by one man is testimony to this man’s lasting effect on not just Germany or Europe, but the world. The common view of history is that Hitler forcibly took power by means of extreme violence, fear and propaganda. There is some truth to this assertion, but the reality is that Adolf Hitler actually came to power by democratic means. The question I am going to answer is how and why a man like Hitler was able to make a mockery of the democratic system we uphold as the pinnacle of government, by getting himself appointed as chancellor of Germany in January of 1933. In understanding how Hitler was able to become chancellor, it is impervious to bring to light the conditions present in 1920s and 1930s Germany. To begin with Germans were deeply bitter about the humiliation they suffered as a result of losing the First World War. The perceived truth believed by most Germans was that they had not started the First World War, or lost it! The resulting blame for this deep embarrassment fell on the shoulders of communists, capitalists, weak politicians and Jews. Finding the NSDAP’s intentions to target these groups with the help of their vicious Sturmabteilung...
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