Einsatzgruppen

Many events made Hitler very successful in exporting war and terror. With little to no resistance from major European power, and the United States, primarily staying out of the conflict the Nazi regime easily infiltrated much of Europe and the Soviet Union. Had the Ally forces stepped up early in the war, it may have saved millions of innocent lives and countries from German control. With the victory of Poland under Hitler’s belt, and many more able-bodied fighters for Nazi military, he was…

Over 60 million people were killed in World War II, but it is estimated that Adolf Hitler cause about 16 million of those deaths. What if Adolf Hitler realized that his action are cruel and that he would've ended the war by pulling his troop back and surrendering? He could've saved many lives and forgive the Jews and not hate them. In the book, "Number the Stars", Things would've been different for Annemarie, Ellen, and their families.Things could've gone another way if Hitler knew that his…

Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, pg 239-262. The book of Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners published in 1996, reflecting some an issue that concerned many Germans. This about the predators of the Holocaust, including groups and individuals who made the major decisions establishing the policy of extermination the Jewish people under Nazi regime, executed and supported it. The author illustrates to the role of anti-Semitic ideology that led the "ordinary" Germans…

Hannah Arendt, a political theorist, once said “The masses have to be won by propaganda.” This quote exemplifies one of the ruling methods utilized by both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. Joseph Stalin ruled Russia from 1924 to 1953, while Adolf Hitler ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. Given that Joseph Stalin ruled for more years than Adolf Hitler, one may reasonably conclude that the impact of Stalin’s rule would be greater than that of Hitler. However, Hitler was much more impactful on his…

When the Nazi party won a huge percentage of the electoral vote of 1932 in Germany, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg on January 30th of 1933. The Nazi party took advantage of the political unrest to rise up in the electoral vote. They created propaganda campaigns against political opponents, the weak Weimar government, and the Jews that were blamed for all of Germany’s problems. Once Hitler had become the chancellor of Germany, he and the Nazi party had…

National efforts after WWI to mobilize more civilians in war effort. Country’s had different methods but many included elements of gender, race, and ethnicity. Civilians are attempted to be controlled by a government using fear or a scape goat which single out a single or group relating to gender, race, or ethnicity. In the US social and cultural mobilization by the government was spurred by using fear and the astrocytes Germany committed in Belgium. The American mainland Homefront was never a…

explains who the murders are what was the real intention of them killing the Jews and what really happened to the Jews that live in the small town of Jedwabne. Gross investigation to the 1941 mass-murders was blamed on the Nazi killing squads, Einsatzgruppen. Neighbors documents the murder of the Jews living in a small town in eastern Poland during the German occupation, not by the Nazis or the German army, but by the non-Jewish Polish residents of the town, who had lived alongside their Jewish…

World War II is considered to be the most tragic, fiercest and broadest battle in the human history. The war is between two sides which are the Allies, led by Britain, China, Soviet Union, and the United States and the Axis Alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party began to consolidate power and jail his political opponents. At the same time, Germany also spent a great deal of money researching dangerous weapons and building a strong military…

The Holocaust was the genocide of approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million other people such as the disabled, communists, homosexuals and Soviet prisoners of war by the Germans leading up to and during WWII under the command of Nazi Party leader, Adolf Hitler. Historians have problems putting a date on the Holocaust due to the fact that there are three different views all backed with their own evidence and subjective interpretations to support them. The views are the intentionalist view, the…

What is antisemitism? It is the hatred of Jewish people. Anti-semitism has not just been around for the last one hundred years; it has been around since the medieval times. Many laws were passed to isolate and persecute Jews in the medieval period (The Holocaust Explained). Jewish people were seen as a threat to Christians. The laws passed did not allow Jews to own land (The Holocaust Explained). Because of being prohibited from owning land, they could not become farmers. Also, another…