...Which was the more important in allowing Hitler to strengthen his power in 1933-34, the Enabling Act or the Night of the Long Knives? Explain your answer. I believe the Night of the Long Knives was more important than the Enabling Act in allowing Hitler to strengthen his power in 1933-34, because the Night of the Long Knives warned any rivals of the consequences of challenging Hitler’s leadership, and got key groups such as the army on his side. The Night of the Long Knives took place on the 30th June 1934. SA leaders were rounded up by the SS, and many were executed, including the leader of the SA, Ernst Röhm. Hitler did this because he needed to please the Army generals, who were worried about the SA becoming the future German Army. The SA were also proving to be embarrassing at times, as their violent conduct, which had been so useful in getting Hitler into power, was now seen as unnecessary. Hitler believe that Röhm wanted to claim power for himself, and with the power of the SA, and if united, the army behind him, Röhm would pose a genuine threat to Hitler. All these reasons led to Hitler ordering the Night of the Long Knives. By doing so, the SA were removed as a threat, as their soldiers either joined the SS, led by the loyal Heinrich Himmler, or the German army. The army were so grateful to Hitler, that following President Hindenburg’s death, they swore an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler. It also showed any rivals that Hitler would deal with opposition ruthlessly...
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...‘The Reichstag fire was more important than the Night of the Long Knives for Hitler’ How far do you agree with this statement? Explain your answer. (10) Both the Reichstag Fire and the Knight of the Long Knives were of great importance to Hitler in hi journey towards his consolidation of power. Whereas one can be seen as the straw on the camels back to Hitler's consolidation, the other can be seen as the framework towards the final triumph. The Reichstag Fire was an important turning point in Hitler’s consolidation of power. This incident brought the Nazis many advantages and some disadvantages. When the police managed to enter the building they found a man named Marinus Van Der Lubbe, who was a Dutch communist. The fact that he was a communist enabled Hitler to use this against the communists and have 4,000 communist leaders imprisoned days before the elections. During this period of terror for Germany the police could do anything, more specifically the Nazi police. Hitler made the most out of this situation; he used the police to intimidate voters and to disrupt communist party meetings. The fact that a communist was found burning the Reichstag building made all of this possible for Hitler, although it has been argued that the Nazis might have started the fire and that Van Der Lubbe was framed for the crime. Shortly afterwards Van Der Lubbe was tried and executed. In addition, it allowed Hitler to persuade Hindenburg to pass the “Enabling Act”, which suspended all...
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...events. This coursework thesis will investigate to what degree the burning of the Reichstag and the associated Decree for the Protection of the People and the State’.could be considered the deciding moment when Hitler consolidated Nazi authoritarian dictatorial power. This thesis is based on the decision of the Naizis to use the burning of the Reichstag as a launching pad to eliminate their perennial rivals, the communist. As compared and contrasted with other events such as the Depression, the Chancellorship, ‘Night of the Long Knives’, the Enabling Act and the overall failures of the Weimar Republic. The Reichstag Fire had an extreme impact upon Hitler’s consolidation to power as it allowed the Nazis to confirm that the international doctrine of, Bolshevism, controlled by the aspirations of the USSR were attempting to seize power over Germany, and the world. Thus Bolshevism were not only attempting to seize power over Germany but the world. In...
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...where the thieves carried a knife as a weapon Illegal knives There is a complete ban on the sale of some knives, which are considered to be offensive weapons. These include: * flick knives - knives where the blade is hidden inside the handle and shoots out when a button is pressed; these are also called 'switchblades' or 'automatic knives' * butterfly knives - where the blade is hidden inside a handle that splits in two around it, like wings; the handles swing around the blade to open or close it * disguised knives - where the blade is hidden inside something like a belt buckle or fake mobile phone * gravity knives * sword-sticks * samurai swords * hand-claws * foot-claws * belt-buckle knives * push daggers * kubotan (cylindrical container, holding spikes) * shuriken (also known as 'death stars' or 'throwing stars') * kusari-gama (sickle attached to a rope, cord or wire) * kyoketsu-shoge (hook-knife attached to a rope, cord or wire) * kusari (weight attached to a rope, cord or wire) This is not a complete list. If you think a knife you want to buy might be illegal, please check with your local police force. 2. Using the same website, what does the Government include as Anti-Social Behaviour? What is anti-social behaviour? Anti-social behaviour includes things such as: * rowdy, noisy behaviour in otherwise quiet neighbourhoods * night time noise from houses or gardens, especially between...
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...therefore he didn’t have to get involved in the day-day running of government. It has been argued that Hitler’s image of a powerful dictator made his a ‘non-interventionist’. Structuralist historian, such as Lan Kershaw argued in source 4 Hitler was a ‘non-interventionist dictator’, his image of being erratic was in fact a myth. As a result, his ‘party officials, more often than not, tended to view the will of the Fuhrer’, as suggested by source 5. Ultimately Hitler was weak in that he relied on, albeit a very powerful propangda machinery by Goebbels, to provide a myth. In order to uphold his image created a ‘rival organisation’, as shown in source 5. In fact, he stood aloof from the intrigue of different power groups, example the night of the long knives eliminating the SA. He was prepared to allow other institutions as the SS to emerge and develop their power to the point that they will act as a rival to the state. He was a ‘non-interventionist’ dictator which...
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...Violence and fear was the base of Hitler’s totalitarian state. Document 2, a caricature of Hitler and his army shows how Hitler’s violence has resulted in fear and total control. On 2 August 1934, President von Hindenburg died. The previous day, the cabinet had enacted the "Law Concerning the Highest State Office of the Reich", which stated that upon Hindenburg's death, the office of president would be abolished and its powers merged with those of the chancellor. Hitler thus became head of state as well as head of government. Following the night of the long knives, Hitler was looked upon as the supreme judge of the German people. This particular event is key to Hitler’s Germany becoming a totalitarian state. This is the moment when Hitler eliminated all political opponents. For example, after banning the communist party and...
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...A few months ago, on a Sunday night before school, I had a dream in which I knew I was asleep, otherwise known as a lucid dream. I could consciously control what I was doing, so that made it all the more real. I could also remember it in vivido detail. When I usually get these dreams, they are happy, but this dream was about to haunt my subconscious world for a few nights. I was alone, standing outside of my house in the rain at night and I was thinking to myself I needed to get inside in order to wake up from my dream. When I reached the front door I placed my knuckles onto the door's small window about to knock. I knew that what I was about to do would get me a little bit closer to waking myself up. The moment I knocked on the door, the banging...
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...Tonya Lewis Professor Neissner English 100 12 February 2015 How to Carve a Pumpkin! Ah, Halloween…it is that wonderful time of year when everyone in the neighborhood comes together to adopt new identities, gorge on free candy, and frighten small children. Littering their yards with cheap Styrofoam gravestones. There is nothing more representative of that crisp autumn night than the sight of a plump Pumpkin grinning merrily on one’s front stoop? People get very creative when carving pumpkins some people choose not to carve them but paint them. No one is born wise in the ways of goo and knives. These are learned skills. With this handy guide, a person should gain the ability to carve a wonderful looking pumpkin. To carve a pumpkin a person needs to pick out the one he or she chooses, clean all the goop and seeds out of it, and then carve and display it. First of all, the size, and shape of the pumpkin are very important. Be sure to choose the right size pumpkin to go along with whatever design they wish to create. People will be going to the grocery store or the pumpkin patch to find a pumpkin suitable for a Jack-O-Lantern makeover. One of my favorite memories as a child was going to the pumpkin patch and I would run through the fields looking for the perfect one along with my siblings. Keep in mind that the bigger the pumpkin, the longer it will take to clean it out. So choose a pumpkin that is between 12 and...
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...How successful was Harold MacMillan as Conservative party leader? Harold MacMillan, a man who came from a middle class background studied at Eton. He became a Conservative MP in 1924, six years after serving on the front line during World War One. He held various positions in the Conservative party before becoming the leader. Such positions like: Minster for Housing and Local Government, Minister of Defence, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1957, Harold MacMillan became the leader of the Conservative party and became Prime Minister after Eden’s retirement. Some would deem MacMillan as a saviour for the Conservative party after the Suez Crisis. Even though he was a supporter of Eden and his plans for the Suez Canal, he somehow deflected the blame from the whole party and passed it to Eden, who was former leader and Prime Minister. This didn’t affect Eden too much as he had already resigned as leader of the Conservative party and Prime Minister. If MacMillan didn’t pass the blame, the party would have struggled to keep their majority vote in parliament. In regards to the Economy, Macmillan was lucky to be voted in during the age of affluence where 60% of the population made it into the middle class (due to the loss of working people during the World Wars). It was a time where, compared to the austerity of the war years, wage, exports and investments were all on the rise. For example wage rose by 72% which could mean the population could spend more money on...
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...Leni Riefenstahl Historical Context • Very popular in 1920’s was ‘mountain films’ • Hitler great movie fan and caught attention of Leni in such a film • 1933 – Nazi began consolidating control through propaganda, which was very effective, using the media to present an attractive image of Hitler. • Nazi’s exploited Leni’s talents as a film director – seen in such films as ‘Victory of Faith’, ‘Triumph of the Will’, ‘Day of Freedom’ and ‘Olpympia’ Background • Riefenstahl had a comfortable middle class upbringing • Father Alfred sought to control her life, totally opposed to his daughter’s plan to go on stage • Leni conspired with her mother and took private dance lessons • When her father found out, he threatened for divorce and arranged for Leni to go to boarding school • At age 21 dance career begun – 6 months = 60 performances in Europe • Concluded in Prague when tore knee ligament • Demonstrated her resilience – posting off press cuttings to film director Arnold Fanek, as she set her mind on becoming a movie star • Secured lead in film ‘ The Holy Mountain’ – premiering December 1926 – it was well received Rise to Prominence The Blue Light • 1931 – ‘The Blue light’ was directed and starred in by Leni – meticulously planning the filming of each scene • Premiered March 1932, Leni declared – ‘A courageous women, faithful to her work and to her obsession’ • It won a Silver medal a Venice Biennale Relationship with Hitler • Touring Germany promoting...
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...Germany, especially those who were unemployed were the ones who were benefited by some of the economical changes that the Nazis made. However, German communists, social democrats, Jews, and other people whom the Nazis took a prejudiced view of had to undergo many hardships during the period of the changes. Since the year Hitler became Führer and gained absolute power, many events occurred that changed the course of German history and took a heavy toll of human lives. The following paragraphs are about how Hitler and the Nazi party started the political, economical, and social events, and what kind of effects they had on the people. The political events include ‘Night of the long knives’, Terror Campaign, Nuremberg laws, and Kristallnacht. The first major event that took place in the year 1934 was ‘Night of the long knives’. This was triggered by the increasing power of the SA, the private army of the Nazi party. Hitler needed to stop this in order to gain support from the army that objected to the SA. So, Hitler ordered the SS, his bodyguard, to kill SA leaders and his private enemies as well. After this massacre Hitler became more powerful, and after one and a half months President Hindenburg died, so, Hitler became both Führer and Reich Chancellor. Terror campaign was carried out, too, and political prisoners, Jehovah’s witnesses, Anti-Socials, criminals, homosexuals, emigrants, and Jews were sent to concentration camps and suffered several kinds of cruelty. They were restricted...
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...particular film that has been known to have flared up the “craze” in this genre was Wes Craven's 1984 film, A Nightmare on Elm Street. The storyline unfolds with four teenage kids, Tina, Rod, Glen and Nancy. Each character illustrates several different characteristics of a typical teenage. Tina is seen as the Barbie blonde, Rod is Tina’s drugged boyfriend with a criminal record, Glen is Nancy’s sweet boyfriend and Nancy is the “final girl” who is innocent, vulnerable, self-sacrificing and charismatic. All four characters are a part of a small town in Springwood, Ohio. In this town long ago, held a child molester and murderer named Freddy Krueger. Freddy went on a killing-spree and murdered twenty kids from that neighborhood during Nancy’s mom’s early adulthood. When he was caught, he was burned to death by the town due to his cruel actions and all that was saved was his creepy gloves which had sharp knives sticking out of it. The story of Freddy was held in secrecy since it was an inhumane event that occurred in that town. However, the haunting song about him which young children would sing while playing the game of jump rope still stuck around – “1 & 2 Freddy’s coming for you!, 3 & 4 better lock the door, 5 & 6 grab your crucifix, 7 & 8 gonna’ stay up late, 9 & 10 never sleep again.” No one knew where the song came from, but like any other it was...
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...She was a recording clerk and worked in the Washington, D.C. Patent Office. Barton began helping soldiers of the Civil War in 1861. She took supplies to wounded and discouraged soldiers after a tough defeat. This brave lady eventually received clearance for her to travel to the actual battlefield. “The surgeon on duty, overwhelmed by the human disaster surrounding him, wrote later, “I thought that night if heaven ever sent out a[n] . . . angel, she must be one—her assistance was so timely” (Founder Clara Barton)There, she picked up the nickname “Angel of the Battlefield”. She and her team went onto many battlefields to aid soldiers if they had fallen. She wrote a poem to describe her time on the...
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...while Mom was at the hospital, but a couple of Dad's pals came around with kids of their own and I had to play host. Mom returned home at about ten. She was tired, so Dad quickly cleared the house of visitors. They had a cup of tea and a chat in the kitchen, then went up to bed. I let them drift off to sleep, then snuck downstairs and let myself out the back door. I sped through the dark like a comet. Nobody saw or heard me, I moved so fast. I had a cross in one pocket, which I'd found in Mom's jewelry box, and a bottle of holy water in the other, which one of Dad's pen pals had sent to us years ago. I wasn't able to find a stake. I'd thought about bringing a sharp knife instead, but probably would only have cut myself. I'm clumsy with knives. The old theater was pitch black and deserted. I used the front door this time. I didn't know what I'd do if the vampire wasn't there, but somehow I sensed he would be. It was like the day Steve threw the scraps of paper up in the air with the winning ticket hidden amongst them, and I shut my eyes and reached out blindly. It was destiny. It took a while to find the cellar. I'd brought a flashlight but the battery was almost dead and it flickered out after a couple of minutes, leaving me to grope through the dark like a mole. When I did find the steps, I started straight down, not giving fear time to catch up. The farther down I went, the brighter it got, until I reached the bottom and saw five tall flickering candles. I was surprised...
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...their story, or too much happened and they are still in shock so they have trouble remembering, or they could be trying to block the memory. In most of his killings it seems to be the same, a young couple, kills the girl completely, but leaves the guy just, enough to talk to the police then he dies. I think this means he wants someone to still be able to talk about him. There was one account I read about where he did not kill anyone, Butterfield stated that, He writes letters to the police and the have to unscramble it. He seems to put a lot of time into his letters and his killings, in other words a “psycho-path”. The zodiac killer a time seems to have a moment of sanity and some letters had asked for help, but those moments did not last long, it was clear though that he could not handle himself anymore. For some reason with these murders he would call in to report the murder, and sometimes would give the police enough time to track the phone but would be gone before they arrived. I think he loved the attention these murders brought him, because he would allow one of the victims to be able to give an account of what...
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