Hermann Göring

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 von Bismarck the first Reichskomissar (Governor General) of the German protectorate in South-West Africa which is today Namibia. Heinrich’s first marriage was unsuccessful and ended with 5 children to his name. His second marriage saw another 5, of which,…

In his memoirs entitled Inside Third Reich, Albert Speer depicts his time as Adolf Hitler’s head architect and a very close personal friend. Their friendship lasted nearly 12 years, ending when HItler committed suicide in his bunker. After the war Speer was certain that he would be sentenced to death by hanging like many other Nazi leaders. Instead he was sentenced to a 20 year sentence in Spandau prison. He was granted this sentence in lieu of death due to a convincing case made at the…

The allure of power can cause men to turn upon even their closest of allies, often using knives of jealousy to increase their position in society or finalize themselves as a leader. In William Shakespeare’s fateful play Julius Caesar, a group of jealous conspirators assassinate a man quickly rising to power in Rome. Julius Caesar, a honorable general, faces hardship as many in Rome see his rising to the throne as a dangerous threat for the fate of their country. The death of Ernst Rohm in…

SA leader, Axel Schaffeld, was assassinated. By the end of July, the Nazi Party gained almost 14,000,000 votes. This made Hitler want to become Chancellor, but Papen gave him an alternate option as Vice Chancellor. Hitler refused Papen’s offer. On August 9th, Hermann Goring made changes to the amendments dealing with the political violence. They increased sentencing to lifetime in prison, 20 years hard labour, or death. About 35 seats were lost in the Nazi party around November in 1932 after…

If a person was asked to illustrate a physical representation of stupidity they may form the shape of an upside-down cone and write in it, “Dunce.” Success has often been correlated with knowledge, but, measuring how much knowledge someone possesses is tricky. In Charles Dickens Victorian novel, Great Expectations, Pip starts off as a young “common” boy who yearns for a higher station in life. Also yearning, in Herman Hesse’s Interwar novel, Siddhartha, is Siddhartha who leads a nomadic life in…

Natural entities holistically substantialize an explicit secular imitation that is synonymous to the inner workings of the unfastened course of reality. These various actualizations impart guidance and externalize the innate channels that connect human psyches through a mirrored version of life. In the novel, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, the ubiquitous river is a lucid encapsulation of the spiritual progression of the eponymous character, Siddhartha, while simultaneously providing a framework…

In the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, throughout the entire book Siddhartha is taking a journey to what he thinks would help him find enlightenment, peace, wisdom, and knowledge. Siddhartha is taking this journey because he is in denial of his Brahmin heritage, and the teachings of Gotama, which his father gave to him, he feels like there is nothing more Gotama teachings can offer him to reach enlightenment. Wisdom and knowledge are two of the most topics brought up in “SIddhartha By Hermann…

The Samanas are wandering ascetics who have given up every possession they own to find some type of enlightenment. The Samanas are organized beggars, who are barely clothed, and are perceived as holy men. While Siddhartha is with the Samanas his goal is to “to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure, and sorrow--- to let the self-die” (Hermann Hesse, 14). Although, Siddhartha did learn ways of losing the self with the Samanas, the self always came back. Siddhartha…

Silent Teacher Teachers do not always need to have a voice to direct actions and expound intelligence. In the novel Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse, the river serves as a guide that assists Siddhartha on his path to enlightenment. Throughout the book, the river represents something in the outside world that makes Siddhartha grow, but also separate him. By separating Siddhartha’s life into the new Siddhartha and the old, the river shows the growth and change that Siddhartha experiences throughout…

study the immediate experience, which is one’s consciousness. Titchener felt that the goals for psychology were the determination of the what, how, and why of mental life. Titchener said that “the what” was to be learned through careful introspection and analysis. The ultimate goal was to catalog the basic mental elements that account for all conscious experience. Titchener then went on to explain that “the how” was to be an answer to the question of how the elements combine. Titchener stated…