Lebensraum

The German political party, the Nazi Party, is overwhelmingly portrayed to all of non-German history’s as one of the most notorious, radical, insane, and overall ruthless political parties to ever arise. However, to the German population that had been left to deal with the aftermath of World War I, the Nazi Party gave them a new opportunity to restore the pride within Germany and satisfy the meaning of the Völk. Following World War I along with the Treaty of Versailles, Germany had been made…

implement this method by Hitler several years later. It should be studied today because he was the significant economic leader during the Nazi period, who helped strengthen the forced labor and compelled the Jews to work under wicked condition. Lebensraum It was a concept proposed by Karl Haushofer that served as a guiding principle for military and racial policies of Nazi Germany. Spielvogel mention its doctrine that “a nation’s power depended on the amount and kind of land it occupied”…

The Führer, on the other hand, had a more nebulous relationship with Nietzsche’s writings. While Hitler appropriated Nietzsche’s ideas into his ideology, he never actually read his works personally. There were, however, stories and rumors spread throughout Germany regarding the two. Viennese actress Rosa Albach-Petty, for example, reportedly heard a story from a friend of a young workman named Adolf Hitler who asked to borrow Thus Spoke Zarathustra and another book by Nietzsche, saying, “‘almost…

security. If we address Islamic extremism from a political, rather than religious perspective, we begin to see parallels between this decade and the interwar period. Just as Hitler sought to expand the German State through the ideology of lebensraum; the Islamic State, and it previous iterations, seek to establish a global Islamic Caliphate. Hence, The Caliphate’s center of gravity is its ability to hold and expand terrain, enabling the spread of a political ideology known as…

wanted more living space for German people. His first move was to bring all of central Europe together to make a larger Germany and to form more room so they can eventually take over Poland. Allowing Germany to grow and get the German nation to seize lebensraum. Hitler tested European by going against the treaty of Versailles many times. Going against the treaty of Versailles was very common and actually was one of the main causes of why it failed. His second goal was to eventually get a final…

WW2 was, as we all know, one of the most infamous wars in history. With over 60 million deaths or injuries, it is definitely one of the wars with the most casualties. It is memorable because of its outcome, purpose, and many war heroes. It was the axis powers vs the allies in an all out war against each other. Nearly 21 years after WW1 the war officially began. After World War 1 a treaty called the Treaty of Versailles was signed, it stated that Germany would have to take responsibility…

Adolf Hitler is the epitome of evil. He was a monster, villain, and a lowlife. The Holocaust changed the world forever. But how did Hitler do it? How did Hitler convince 70 million innocent, normal, rational thinking German people to follow and support him and the Nazi movement? How did Hitler convince and alter the thoughts of ordinary people and succeed in creating an obedient army that followed and listened to anything he said, no matter how outrageous it might have been?[i] While Hitler…

offered to him” (Taylor, Page 132). To illustrate, when the German Chancellor signed the Munich Agreement with the English and French, Germany received the Sudetenland and, in return, vowed not to annex anymore territories. However, the Nazis pursued “lebensraum” (living space) by invading Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, France and the Soviet Union (which violated the German-Soviet non-aggression pact). To summarize, resentment sparked plans for…

The answer to this perplexing question lies on how the French viewed the outside world. By turning Egypt into an object to be visited and observed, the event organizers created an image of Egypt as something set apart from Europe that could be acquired. In a very real sense, the exhibit made the French ponder how their own unique culture compared to that of the Egyptians. As a result, this had the unintended consequences of stirring French nationalism and a desire for empire, especially when…

While there have been numerous perspectives and pathways to explain what causes wars, some theories are more substantial than others. Of the three different levels of analysis, the domestic level, followed by the systemic level of analysis, is much more coherent and compelling at explaining what causes major war than the individual or small group level of analysis. According to Copeland, major wars are, “wars that involve a vast majority of powers in a system and where there is a possibility…