Hitler Youth

• Winston Churchill’s memoir “the gathering storm”- “Hitler had conjured up the fearful idol of an all-devouring moloch of which he was the priest and incarnation” • Heinrich Himmler a mass murderer convinced he was a great king reincarnated • Source of this story was Adolf Hitler himself- In ww1, 28 September 1918. Near marcoin, France. Hennery Tandy becomes Britain’s highest derecrety private of the war. During the battle a lone German enters his sights, Private Tandy sees him as a desperate…

child Hitler suffered from disorders , according to the reading, “A Psycho-Historical Analysis of Adolf Hitler: The Role of Personality, Psychopathology, and Development” , we have read in class tells us that Hitler had many aspects during his early life ,in other words his characteristics has influenced him in many ways. One of the ways it has influenced Hitler was the way he grew up under a parenting style defined as an authoritarian .On page 60 of Psycho-Historical Analysis of Adolf Hitler”…

Hitler had a great sense of pride for Germany, even though he wasn’t actually German. He joined the National Socialist German Worker’s Party because he wanted to get Germany back on top like he believed it should have always been. Hitler excelled in his ability to appeal to the emotional side of Germans by sharing his passion and igniting the same passion in others (Kershaw)…

of Nazi Germany as it is a visual representation that depicts many of the ideals around Hitler in a time where Nazi Germany was at its peak of power. Further, this propaganda that presents one German view of Hitler, by presenting an underlying message and bias with this Christological representation of Hitler, a Historian can gain an understand of some of the views in the 1930’s and what type of influence Hitler had over Germany and its people. This source limits a Historian’s investigation as…

Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann. The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Michael Burleigh is a Distinguished Research Professor in Modern European History at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Wolfgang Wippermann is a Professor of Historyat Freie Universitat, Berlin. Burleigh’s and Wippermann’s book, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945, documents the link between Nazi policies and ideals, with focus on racialism as the most important aspect…

else, or you are doing things so that you feel like you are part of the community. Last but not least, Stereotyping. Stereotyping is when you are judging people/things by who/what they are. These behaviors have been a part of the Holocaust because Hitler was using propaganda, and telling different classes of people different things, and all the people he talked to were doing something, and other people did it because others were doing it. To say that Blind Obedience has been…

Furthermore, this lead the Germans to have a greater hatred for the Jews. Through the whole process of using propaganda, Hitler took the opportunity to build up a great amount of hatred with both groups of people. This in terms lead the Germans to want to kill the Jews, and torture them. An article published by the USHMM community states, “Shortly after the rising to power in 1933, Adolf Hitler created the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (RMVP), headed by Joseph Goebbels.…

Germany was hit hard by the economic depression which caused millions of people to be out of work and lacked confidence because of this defeat. Due to these conditions, it allowed for Adolf Hitler to rise and make himself be heard as he was a powerful and spellbinding speaker who promised Germany a better life. Hitler was then appointed chancellor in 1933, guided by racist and authoritarian ideas he removed the basic rights for Germany and sought to create a ‘volk’ community. To establish this…

Individuals are more likely to conform when someone with more power than them tells them to. This is because they are motivated by the promised perceived or tangible positive or negative consequences the higher power can instate. This hypothesis is supported by a number of existing theories and experiments related to social conformity, particularly The Milgram Experiment and the French and Raven's Bases of Power Theory. Milgram’s experiment, though better known for its Agency Theory of…

only elites (blond haired and blue eyed Germans). Moreover, an important factor to make note of is that internment camps and mass genocide of the Jews was not a part of the initial Nazi agenda as it was something that had been later decided among Hitler and a select few. Correspondingly, the use of internment camps and mass genocide became something that was very need to know and normally unspoken of, additionally, as a result of its secrecy it is not until after World War II that the Nazi…