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    ADOLF HITLER BECOMES CHANCELLOR OF GERMANY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS EVENT IN HITLER'S RISE TO POWER  HITLER’S YOUTH On the 20th of April 1889 Adolf Hitler is born to a penurious family. From a young age Hitler is pressured by his father to follow a career into civil service. In 1913 Hitler is faced with military service for the Habsburg Empire. His cowardice persuades him to evade this by moving to Munich in Southern Germany. In Munich, Hilter’s life continues no differently, until world…

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    power. By the middle of WWII, the SS was made up by more than 52,000 people and was running concentration camps all around Germany. By the end of World War I, the Allies were the victors and Germany was defeated. To end World War I, the Treaty of Versailles was created. Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was to take the blame for the start of World War I. Germany was forced to pay 31.4 billion dollars to make up for the damage. They also had to give up most of their army…

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    Maginot Line Failure

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    In the end, it only took Germany a total of six weeks to capture France. Certain problems occurred with the construction of the Maginot Line in regards to the budget of the entire project, and how long it would take. The cost of the Maginot Line came to about one billion francs.…

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    doomed to fail. It was created in the midst of vast and widespread political and social unrest as a result of the war. The Weimar republic was ultimately destined to be an unstable form of government due to the difficult economic circumstances facing Germany in the post war era; the violence that occurred from the extreme political left and the extreme political right. Firstly, it can be argued that one of the main problems facing the new Weimar government was an economy that was entirely…

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    Deputies! Men of the German Reichstag! A year of world-historical events is coming to an end. A year of great decisions is approaching. In this grave period I speak to you, deputies of the Reichstag, as the representatives of the German nation. In addition, the entire German nation should also review what has happened and take note of the decisions required by the present and the future. After the repeated rejection of my peace proposal in 1940 by the British prime minister [Winston Churchill]…

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    powers in World War Two. This essay will discuss Hoess’s early life and education, his life during WWII, his death, and his identifiers. On the 25th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1901, in Baden-Baden, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire, Germany, Rudolf Hoess was born his father Franz Xaver Hoess and his mother Lina Née Speck. He was the eldest out of his two other siblings and was the only son. His father was a former army officer, and because of that, Hoess was raised in a rigidly…

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    The economy within Germany after the First World War was not functioning well. Germany was in massive debt due to the stipulations in the Treaty of Versailles. While no monetary value was put on the damages that Germany had to pay for during the proceeding to the Paris Peace Conference, it was later determined that they owed over six billion euros . That was, and still is a lot of money, which Germany did not have. Their money had been funneled into their own war efforts. Germany began printing…

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    French invasion. On the other side of the encounter is a bruised and tired French force that was still relying on tactics from World War 1 with the idea that if there is ever going to be a war, it would most certainly be another trench war. While Germany was taking over Europe piece by piece with massively successful tank tactics and an ever changing and improving armored and aerial technology, France decided to dig in and create a line of fortifications known as the Maginot Line to repel a…

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    the first world war was still being heavily felt in Germany in 1924. The war had caused Germany a whole heap of problems that they were struggling to solve and deal with. They had pay reparations to France and Britain which they didn’t have the money for due to the fact they did not find a way to pay for the war. Whereas for example Britain raised taxes. They had to pay the reparations as part of the Treaty of Versailles which said that Germany was at fault for the war and therefore had to pay…

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    Another family infrastructure that dominated traditional China was the concubinage system (Engel, 1984). It is not uncommon to have men acquiring multiple wives in ancient China during the dynasty era. Yeh-Shen, was born into a family with two mother figures and one father figure (Yeh-Shen). This coincides with the traditional family structures that the society at the time adopted. The women in the house all considered the children’s mothers regardless of whether the wife is the child’s…

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