Essays on German People

Hitler and the Nazi party came to power in 1933 by 1939 they had begun their quest to invade and rule all of Europe. During this time, unknown to the rest of Europe Hitler and the Nazis were also implementing their “final solution” which was the systematic execution of Jews and any others that they deemed not suitable to exist in the ideal society that Hitler had been selling to the German people through his speeches and propaganda (Kershaw, 2008, pgs. 36-43). Once the Allied forces defeated the Nazi forces and Hitler escaped his judicial fate by committing suicide. ...

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was in a time when Germany was experiencing a grim political and economic condition. The economic depression that hit the world economy during the 1930s had adversely affected the country, that extreme poverty leads the people to near hopelessness. This was in addition to the still fresh and humiliating defeat of the German military in WWI, and historians claimed that the defeat became the fabric that propelled Hitler’s political and military agenda. People were near the brink of helplessness that they believed anyone who convincingly talked about getting them out of their ...

Is Schindler’s List Trivializing the Holocaust?

The movie, Schindler's List, has an essential place among the films about the Holocaust. The film is about a German saving almost 1300 Jewish people from the Holocaust (Leibovitz 2011). The story is a little confusing for some viewers because despite what many had learned about the Germans during the Nazi regime, it was a German who was helping the Jewish people. This implies that there was communication between the Jewish people and the Germans (Weinraub 2016). The existence of the communication between the two social groups might mean that a social solution could have developed during the Holocaust ...

In his book “the Origins Of The Second World War In Europe” AJP Taylor makes the argument that the underlying causes of World War II, in contrast to popular sentiment, was the general complexity of political will and international relations at the time, rather than Hitler's dominating influence alongside Fascism and Nazi ideologies. Instead, the various powers, with their individual desires and relational struggles, embarked on the same path which nobody, not even Hitler, had wanted to pursue. Despite the devastation of the Second World War, it is difficult to pin its inception on any one individual. While Hitler ...

The Great War was the bloodiest war in world history up to that point. Many historians claim that the buildup to the war was caused my militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism (MAIN). This might be the composite indicator, but special importance should be placed on the Dual-Alliance between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire. The two came together for a myriad of reasons, most importantly a shared fear of Russian aggression, and remained together for over thirty years. Thus, an entire generation grew up recognizing that the two Germanic empires were closely allied, and the knowledge pervaded the culture of ...

Hate among men has had long and very deep historical roots. It has taken many forms by pitting people against each other. Its cultivation propagated by decades of fueling irrational fears against a particular race of individuals. Inbred ignorance has been the easy way to woo people into arousing hatred. There is now a mutual realization that most people possess inadequate knowledge about other nations and culture. In the days of old, fault lines were drawn along military pacts, geographical identities, and political ideologies, however in the recent centuries, it has taken a total shift and embraced one drawn ...

Insights into German’s History on the example of the movie “Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler”

In the 20th century, Germany was troubled, because long term warfare, which made the German citizen exhausted, crumbling social system and the high costs of war put enormous pressure on the people. In spite of the above-mentioned situation and the horrible consequences of the two World Wars, in which Germany was the main participant, at that time, German cinema was developing, German films dominated in the Central Europe, and the number of companies and filmmakers was increasing. The German government realized the importance of film in terms of publicity, so that it has set up a special agency under ...

Introduction

Regarded as the icon of German militarism, Paul von Hindenburg was one of the most popular field marshals, politicians and the second president of Germany. Hindenburg, a man of discipline and fortitude, served gloriously in the Prussian army retiring from the military in 1911. However, during the World War I, he was called back in service to serve the nation and he, with the help of his deputy, Erich Ludendorff, fought the Russian army victoriously bringing glorious victories in the eastern front of Germany.

Because of his immense popularity as a war hero, he was nominated to run for the German ...

As a cohort study, the article “Development and evaluation of a short 24-h food list as part of a blended dietary assessment strategy in large-scale cohort studies” provides information about how German residents were used as samples for developing a longitudinal research on their food intakes in the last 24 hours. Freese, Feller, Harttig, Kleiser, Linseisen, Fischer, Keitzman, Six-Merker, Michels, Nimptsch, Steinbrecher, Pischol, Heuer, Hoffmal, Jacobs, Boeing and Nöthlings aimed to investigate the validity of dietary assessment. The authors of this study followed two objectives: to identify the foods consumed by German people during the previous 24 h and to assess the ...

World War II is up to today considered the largest and the worst war to ever happen in history. It started in 1939 from Europe and ended in 1945, spreading to almost all parts of the world and leaving about 70 million people dead. The figure included men, women, soldiers, children and civilians who died mainly due to illnesses, starvation and bomb attacks. The WW2 involved two opposing military alliances, the Axis and the Allies, formed from great nations that participated in the war. Axis was the alliance between Germany, Japan and Italy where as Allies alliance was between ...

German Revolution 1918-1919

Abstract The paper seeks to discuss the famous German revolution of 1918 to 1919 that led to the adoption of the system of republicanism by the German government (Haswell, Ralph, 12). There were different schools of thought accrued to the ideas that shaped the aspect of the revolution. Some of the thoughts were documented in a sourcebook that discussed the revolution and subsequent birth of a German republican government. The paper will look at the different schools of thought from the Spartacus manifesto, Heinrich Mann, and Rosa Luxemburg. They had a consensus on the purpose of the revolution, which was centered ...

The Second World War of 1939-1945 is often known as the war that redefined the international balance of power with the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union as the world’s first superpowers and the decline of Europe. Others, on the other hand, would remember the war because of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and the eccentricities of its leader, Adolf Hitler. In terms of his military and political strategy, experts were torn from lauding Hitler for his ingenuity and elaborate schemes to criticizing him because of the impacts it brought to Europe. However, it ...

How Ordinary Men Became Genocidal Killers in the Holocaust

Introduction The Second World War was a watershed even in the history of the world. Over a period of six years, the War brought to the fore some of the worst excesses of mankind in a purgatory of hate and violence in the form of the Holocaust. The Final Solution, mass extermination of the Jews, left deep scars in the psyche of humanity. While the contours of the Holocaust may have been the product of the skewed brains of Adolf Hitler, the sole blame of the entire saga of mass murder cannot be left at Hitler’s doorstep alone. Millions ...

Harvey Dent is the District Attorney for the city of Gotham during a tumultuous period. Aaron Eckhart plays his character. The city is receiving the help of a mysterious vigilante and hero, the Batman, in combating the serious crime problem in the city. He made this statement to shore up his confidence before embarking on a life threatening transport to a holding facility after he falsely took credit to being the Batman in an effort to stop the Joker, a mentally unstable villain, from killing innocent citizens. This statement was made to his colleague, Rachel Dawes, a prosecutor who was unafraid to prosecute the crime ...

Nazi Propaganda Themes from The 1930s

Propaganda is the dissemination of biased or misleading information. It is a tool used to influence large groups of people so as to promote a political cause. The Nazi regime, which was an authoritarian regime, used propaganda to ensure that power was consolidated in the party. One of the main themes of Nazi propaganda was the theme of appeal to national unity. This was based upon the principle ‘The community before the individual’. It allowed the Nazis to consolidate power and ensure that their aims were coordinated with those of the German people. The propaganda of national unity was to help ...

- Introduction & Thesis Statement Nazism was a key socio-political ideology that thrived across Germany in the 1920’s. Adolf Hitler was the political figure at the epicenter of this ideology. Many scholars have sought to explain the factors that led to the growth of this political ideology among the German political sphere at the citizenry. In the light of this continuous research and literature coverage regarding the emergence of Nazism in Germany, this paper intends to look at the key factors that led to the growth of Nazism in Germany in the 1920’s. - Arguments - ...

Livre, Hatchette. “Nazism of Adolf Hitler”. MEMO – Travel through history. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 June 2013. Hachette’s article “Nazism of Adolf Hitler” provides a refreshing overview of Nazism thrive under Hitler in the 1920’s. It paints a clear picture of the factors that motivated Hitler to adopt the Nazi strategy in Germany. He states that Hitler’s main motivation was his dream for the establishment of an “Aryan” state which would be comprised exclusively of members from a ‘single special’ race. The other motivation was his dislike for minorities like the Jews. However, Hachette’s article does not discretely ...

The settlement in the German states recognized Roman Catholics and Lutherans but did not do the same to Calvinists. Calvinists who had made gains in most of the states began to demand for their rights. This brought the thirty years war due to the conflict. The conflict has been one of the most complex conflicts that have been documented in the German history. The war consisted of horrifying events which devastated the battle ground of the Holy Roman Empire. The length of the struggle contributed connection between the initial cause, outbreak in the year 1618 and finally the peace ...

History is an fascinating course to read. This proposal will look at the rise of Nazism in the 1920s specifically looking at how and why it started, and why it was allowed to occur. I like reading and searching about the history of the world as this is my passion. Nazi party had a brave but brutal leader, Adolf Hitler who overturned the government in order to fulfil the promises he had made to people when they won many seats in the government. He had a desire of bringing German speaking people together. German people saw him as a selfless leader who ...

Type of paper

Introduction The Holocaust refers to the mass persecution and genocide of the Jews carried out by the Nazi Party under the rule of Hitler throughout Germany and the territories under German occupation. Not only Jews, Holocaust also claimed the lives of disabled people, homosexuals, Romani populace and prisoners of war. Holocaust is infamous for nearing extermination of the Jewish race with about 5.5. to 6.1 million Jews killed in the massacre. The mastermind of the holocaust was Adolf Hitler who shifted the religious anti-Semitism to racial and ethnic anti-Semitism making use of the mass sentiments against the Jews ...

Triumph des Willens (1935)

Introduction:

This paper seeks to examine the film Triumph des Willens (1935) which was a Nazi propaganda film produced by Leni Riefenstahl. This paper seeks to show that the film portrays Hitler and Nazi’s as strong movements that would unify Germany and help Germany redeem the power that Germany had lost after its loss in World War 1. The film also seeks to portray Hitler as a leader who is loved by Germans. The film portrayed the Nazi and Hitler as the heroes and revolutionists in Germany. It depicts them as individuals who sought to restore the ...

Source Criticism

Source Criticism: “American Infantrymen Win World War I” In 1918 at the end of World War I (WWI) the American journalist, George Seldes, with three other American journalists, interviewed the German General and Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg. The interview may have been the most important interview of WWI but ironically, none of the major newspapers ran the story. This was an incredibly important interview because Hindenburg had been the Army Chief of Staff starting on August 29, 1916. After Hindenburg was appointed to that position he appointed Erich Ludendorff to be his Quartermaster General. Hindenburg and Ludendorff ...

Abstract

As a central figure in the government of Adolf Hitler, the role of Paul Joseph Goebbels in world history cannot be understated. Goebbels was born in Catholic family in the Rhineland, Germany in 1897 and went ahead to become Germany’s minister of Propaganda from 1933-1945. His aspirations in his youth days were to become a novelist but the parents wanted him to be a priest. However, his lack of success in writing made him discover his true qualities in public relations and propaganda. After joining the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1923, he rose fast to become the party leader ...

Textbook Write-up of Dr. Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels was born to a Catholic, working class family in the Rhineland, Germany in 1897 and attended Heidelberg University on a church scholarship, receiving his PhD in 1921. In early life, his goal was to become a novelist or playwright, but he had limited success in this field and soon found that his true talent was for propaganda and public relations. He joined the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1923 and was made Party leader (Gauleiter) of Berlin in 1926, a post that he retained until his suicide in 1945. Goebbels was strongly devoted to Adolf Hitler and hostile to ...

Definition

Nationalism is the social or political philosophy which calls for the need of the welfare of the whole nation or state to be considered as an entity which is paramount for its development. This requires all the citizens to have the consciousness or collective state of mind, that most importantly all their efforts, duty and loyalty solely belongs to the state. This requires people to demonstrate, concern, and love for their nation. The emphasis of nationalism overemphasizes the love and loyalty to one’s nation which may result in the neglect of the rights of other nations which at ...

Adolf Hitler’s National Socialism was a system without any redeeming features at all, although it obviously appealed to the majority of Germans who were pleased that the regime ended unemployment and made Germany a great power again. Nazism was a racist and militaristic ideology rather than a form of socialism in the Western sense, and was based on Hitler’s own delusions and paranoia, and his obsessions about the Jews infecting the body of the ‘healthy’ Aryan Volk. Unlike most of the other Communist and nationalist revolutions, it also took place in a highly urbanized and industrialized economy that was second only to ...

The scope of this thesis shall be limited to explaining why the anti-Nazi Germans, Croatians, and Hungarians supported Hitler’s anti-Semitic agenda despite the fact that they did not subscribe to the same ideology. Despite the fact that history largely pins the blame on the Nazis for the Jewish holocaust in Europe, questions have risen about the role played by the ordinary citizens in perpetuating the injustice. Specifically, the thesis shall be concerned with what compels the masses to follow and to accept narcissist leaders such as Adolf Hitler. Many historians might argue that most Germans, Croatians and Hungarians ...

Introduction

Propaganda is a form of communication whose major aim is to influence the attitudes of a group of people or community to support the beliefs or values of another person. The information is provided with the key aim of influencing the person who is receiving the information. It does this though selective presentation of facts and loaded messages aimed at pursuing a particular political agenda. During the Second World War it was used by both Axis and Allied forces to pursue their political agendas.

The Axis Powers:

The Nazis used propaganda to influence the public opinion on the Jews and the war (Kallis, 2005). Public ...