Anschluss

The Great Depression did not only affected United States but also all over the world in late 1920s and early 1930s. Germany was demanded to pay reparations in return after defeated World War I due to the Treaty of Versailles. German economy was devastated after the war, and the Great Depression. Adolf Hitler gained power during this period announcing rebuild Germany’s military forces. In 1938, Germany began annexing neighboring countries such as all of Austria and most of Czechoslovakia. Most…

7.2.2 Accommodation. Hitler’s modest living quarters prior to the 14-18 war have been noted above. On leaving the army he rented a sparse two-room apartment in Vienna which he would stay in between 1920 and 1929, by which time he was a significant political figure. At this point, Hitlers asceticism changes to becoming more grandiose. In 1929 he bought with party donated funds a luxury apartment , the Nazi party eventually buying out the whole building. This is the apartment where Geli was…

Two courses of action, it was argued, were required. First, crypto-Judaism could only be overcome by the introduction of an Inquisition; second, Jewish influence over the conversos could only be overcome by their expulsion. These ideas, adumbrated in works such as Alonso de Espina's Fortalitium Fidei, continued to gain ground, and on 27 September 1480 the Catholic Monarchs appointed Inquisitors in Castile who began their work in Seville shortly after (1481). Conversos, often subjected to torture…