Elwood 4-15-10 PLS 240 Educators and Their Influence on German Youth Leading Up to the Holocaust Teaching is a profession that is very influential. I.L. Kandel describes how education is an instrument of social control and he was right. When Adolf Hitler came into the power of Germany the entire educational system tried to transform the youth into non-Aryan hating, militaristic, strong, and very obedient members of the Nazi society. If a government can control the educational system, it can
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TOPIC: NAZI GERMANY Propaganda, terror and coercion underpinned the creation and maintenance of the Nazi state. Consider this in the period 1933-1939. The adage that perception is often stronger than reality has never been truer than in the Nazi state of 1933-1939, where image played a colossal role in the anti-semitic and Hitler myth propaganda of Joseph Goebbels. Image manufactured the fearful aura of the Gestapo as well as the ubiquitous representation of
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The Holocaust: Effects of Dehumanization in Art Spiegelman’s Maus War broke out in Europe in September of 1939. Everything went downhill from then, Germans began to take over and minorities such as Jews were quickly forced to go to concentration camps, these horrible camps were stationed all over Europe. One of the main camps in Poland was Auschwitz. Opened in May 1940, it was an extermination camp located in southern Poland in a small town named Oswiecim. The camp consisted of three separate
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The Rhineland was the areas of Germany west of the Rhine. It was the area that Louis XIV coveted and fought enless wars to make the Rhine the Frenvh border with Germany. The Rhineland had been permanently demilitarized under the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty ending World War I. This was one of the restictions that Hitler railed against in his speeches. The situation in the Rhineland was different than in Saarland. French authorities had been in control of the Saarland. Germany was in control
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At early XX century, the most evil of all the political parties that have existed, the National Socialist Party, came to power in Germany. Guided by Adolf Hitler, the Nazis began to implement their policies aimed at restricting the Jewish population of Germany. This is where the story of Oskar Schindler beings. He is a German bussinessman who, while working for the Nazi, empathized with the Jewish people and saved about 1200 of them from being killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the
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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
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What could have made Hitler so hostile towards the Jews? Could it have been his unhappy childhood, frustrated adolecsnce, his artistic disappointment, rejection from the Jewish society or merely the wound he received on the front during World War I. Adolf Hitler or the incarnation of absolute evil became dictator of Germany in 1933 and prepared his nation for war and a “Final Solution” to the “Jewish problem”. Hitler posed a great threat to democracy and redefined the meaning of evil for eternity. Hitler’s
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How popular and efficient was the Nazi regime in 1933-1939? During the later years of the Weimar republic german society had started to struggle as the economy crashed in 1929 due to the wall crash. This led to the government struggling as they failed to deal with the depression as many different parties disagreed on policies. During that time the Nazi party was very small however rose to prominence in 1932 with 37% of the public vote largely due to the failed state of Germany and the fear of communism
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How far did Mussolini achieve his aims in Foreign Policy? One of the first things that Benito Mussolini wanted to do was to expand Italy and give it and empire to rule over like France and Great Britain. He wanted Italy to be recognized as one of the dominant forces in Europe. The first of his conquests was Abyssinia. This he begun on the 40th Anniversary of the humiliating defeat Italy suffered at Adowa under the Liberals: Mussolini wanted to complete a fete that the Liberals couldn’t. As a
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3/20/2015 Final Examination Stable and unstable democratic outcomes may take many shapes and forms over regions and time and circumstance. Due to its nature, democracy is best fit in terms of incentives. Moreover, it is in a state’s vested interest in terms of democracy to adhere to gradual democratic change, in contrast to a political overhaul such as we see in Germany, France, and Italy. In these cases, democracy simply cannot thrive as democracy, by nature, requires gradual social change
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