Germany

Nazi Germany was Adolf Hitler 's unsuccessful attempt to emulate the Roman Empire. While he did successfully recreate many aspects of the Roman Empire (most of which led to his ultimate failure), Hitler failed to recreate aspects that could have created a successful regime. The Nazis’ (and Hitler’s) image of the Roman Empire was nearly entirely incorrect. As a result, their recreation was a weak, distorted version of what could have been a long lasting empire. Adolf Hitler’s ill-fated quest…

Resist When one thinks of World War two, they tend to think of how awful Nazi Germany was (which it indeed was) and how the Germans seemed to fully give into Hitler's false radical statements regarding the “race impurity”. Yet, the ones that resisted, are indeed overlooked, and seemed not to be recognized. The ones that rose up and spoke out against the false statements. People like Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Society who peacefully spoke out against the Nazi Regime in a peaceful manner.…

The Murder Methods of Nazi Germany In 1933 when Nazi Germany came into power, the Jewish population was over 9 million. By 1945 nearly two out of every three Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust. This methodical genocide targeted mainly the Jewish population, but also the Gypsies, the disabled and some Slavic people. Various other groups were targeted because of political, religious and behavioral grounds such as Communists, Socialists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and homosexuals. The German…

arrival of two transports each week, until July when arrivals were increased to daily. The last train ferrying children from Germany departed on 1st September, 1939, just two days before the eruption of the Second World War. Saamuels (n.d, p.6) establishes that at least 10, 000 children of whom at least 7, 000 were of Jewish origin were evacuated from Nazi controlled areas in Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. However, despite this fact, a further unknown number were thought to have been…

France is secure, and we have positioned troops to take back Paris in the coming months. Interviews with many generals and troops alike of the allied forces reveal that moral is moderately high, and expectations are that with the USSR closing in on Germany…

Hermann Göring was a NAZI war official and commander of the Luftwaffe during World War 2. He planned and plotted the deaths of many individuals and groups. Under the rule of Hitler he was one of the most notorious men in all of NAZI Germany. Göring committed many war crimes in his time in office and will be remembered accordingly. Hermann Göring was born on the 12th January 1893 in Rosenheim, Bavaria. He was born to a well off family with his Dad, Heinrich Ernst Göring, being appointed by Otto…

The Mengele Experiments took place in Nazi Germany during World War II, starting in 1943. The main person who conducted the experiments was Dr. Mengele. He did experiments mainly involving identical twins due to the identical genetic material. Many of his experiments were unethical and were seen as crimes against humanity (Muller-Hill, 2001). This experiment that was performed in Nazi Germany was unethical in many ways. A few ways was the lack of informed consent, and protection of the patients.…

The agreement of Versailles was phenomenally striking to Germany since the German economy crackled by the crisis of the Wall Street Crash in the United States. The American economy was doing extremely well which caused more buyers than sellers at the beginning. It was easy to become rich, anyone could buy shares, and have to increase their values because of their success and continue doing so. By 1929 there was twenty million out of the population of one hundred twenty million were shareowners.…

When discussing the history of Germany, it’s impossible not to bring up the topic of the Nazi’s. Nazi is short for the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, which was a political party that started in the early 1930’s and ended in 1945. This party was ran by Adolf Hitler that believed the Aryan race was the perfect race, and took out anyone who disagreed with their views. They saw the Jewish people as their biggest threat and tried to eliminate all Jews. This is what led to the…

Anti Semitism has been around since ancient times. Around the mid 1900's Germany was predominantly Christian. These Christians received most of their ideology from the Christian churches. Christian anti Semitism was hatred of the Jews for reasons such as believing they were responsible for Jesus' death. However, there is more than one kind of anti Semitism. Another kind of anti Semitism is National Socialist Anti Semitism. This is hatred of the Jews for reasons such as believing they were the…