Lebensraum

Many people believe the Holocaust was a single man 's beliefs, in the right place, at the right time. Those people, however, would be wrong. The Holocaust wasn 't just a single man 's belief; instead, there were many men throughout the years who contributed to the culmination of the vehement hatred of the Jewish people. By examining various time frames, such as the Middle Ages, more modern times, and even Hitler’s Germany, it is evident that there was a clear buildup of the anti-Semitic…

Political Ideology Under Hitler and the Nazi Party: Police State Following the passage of the Enabling Law, the rest of the political system was Nazified, turning the former Democratic government into a single party police state. With the death of President Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler combined the role of Chancellor and President into a uniform role, dictating his role as the Fuhrer of Germany, and by 1934, Hitler was enforcing Nazi doctrines and ideologies on all aspects of life in Nazi…

Jurgen Zimmerer, a professor of history at the University of Hamburg, has studied the theory of continuity in relation to settler colonialism and the Holocaust. His research concentrates on German colonialism, comparative genocide, colonialism and the Holocaust, critical prevention studies and environmental violence and genocide, and shows that there is an underlying connection between past experiences and their association to future outcomes and decisions. Schaller and Zimmerer both hold to a…

The main aim after World War I was said to be to prevent another major war from occurring. World War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which ironically can also be argued to have been the beginning of the World War II. From 1919 to 1939, the countries agreed on the need for peaceful communication. They were to replace militarism with more civilized forms of agreements. This desire for collective security, agreement of nations to not attack each other and defend each other in…

To a certain extent Adolf Hitler did aim for global domination but he mainly focused on gaining the control of Europe between 1925 and 1945. This was because he thought he could expand the third Reich and he wanted to re-claim Germanys territories that was lost in world war one. Adolf Hitler started with the invasion of Czechoslovakia and continued with the invasion of many more European countries. Adolf Hitler tried to gain control of North Africa. The start of the Third Reich was when the…

The author of the source is questioning to what extent should nations respond with diplomacy to the aggression of other states? A modern government has a responsibility, pointed out in the source, to protect its citizens and national interest. There are many ways for a government to carry out this responsibility through their foreign policy, such as diplomatic or military actions. This author believes that force is the best and only way to defend a nation. In the past, using force was seen as…

At the conclusion of the great war world leaders came together to support the international movement for peace. The peace treaty they created, The Treaty of Versailles, was created to reprimand the nations responsible for the war and to stop any future wars from happening. The Agreements outlined in the Treaty of Versailles at the conclusion of World War One created a brief period of peace, yet it ultimately led to the rise of Fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler and the beginning of World War…

became more appealing. With the promise of glory, Hitler advocated for expansion and stated “’Today Germany; tomorrow, the world!’” (Farah and Karls 736). This Nazi ideology was later demonstrated in Hitler’s keen interest in the acquirement of “Lebensraum” or living space. German nationalism could have been decreased by allowing Germany to maintain most of their colonial possessions. The Treaty of Versailles took the colonies as mandates in a quest for revenge and weaken Germany unjustifiably.…

of ways the choices Hitler made only eight years later when he later gambled on world conquest.’ However, historians are divided on the influence of Hitler’s worldview on foreign policy. The aggressive foreign policy can be first pinpointed to ‘Lebensraum’ outlined in Mein Kampf. Hitler believed that history was a constant process of racial struggle and this linked to his foreign policy. The main racial enemy was the Jew, who he regarded as ‘the personification of the devil as the symbol of all…

them. As well, the EU ensures citizens’ rights, so citizens would not need authoritarian governments to do this instead. In Germany, the Nazi regime enacted a social policy of uniting all ethnic Germans under a singular government, Anschluss, and Lebensraum, all of which predicated on the invasion of nearby countries. Western countries countered the Nazi invasions with a policy of appeasement in an attempt to prolong the start of the impending war. As countries appeased Germany longer, they…