Lebensraum

Throughout the war each army grew in numbers due to alliances and friendship treaties. By the late 1930’s Hitler was the most powerful man in the German Government. (study.com 2003-2016.) He had many goals for Germany, but his main focus was known as Lebensraum, which translates to ‘living space.’ Hitler wished to expand the German borders…

One might argue the Second World War was the greatest and most horrific war in the history of this world and a major impact to modern everyday life. It was the most international and fatal war in history with many detrimental causes to many countries. Thus, proving how crucial it is to know about specific historical events in history and to apply past mistakes to future decisions. Leon Trotsky says, “You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.” This quote signifies the…

It is difficult to comprehend that Adolf Hitler was not always an antisemite, right? Well, according to his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf (My Struggle), it was not even until he moved to Vienna that he opened up to the idea of anti-semitism. That seems peculiar, considering the fact that today, Hitler is most famously known as the heinous totalitarian dictator of Nazi Germany, and the core of an immense amount of drastic atrocities, including the Holocaust. Born in Austria, Hitler grew…

Jews, gays, slavs, and romas…’ (Lecture 18, November 19), Nazi Germany was able sabotage these minorities as scapegoats. The Aryan was the greatest breed of humanity and all other human beings were therefore racially inferior. The ‘Jewish problem’, Lebensraum, and Anschluss therefore became essential in the unity of the Aryan race. In having a common domestic enemy, Germany united in the name of racial purity to cleanse itself of the inferior races infecting Aryan society. The extremism of…

political party Hitler tried to overthrow the government, but he failed and was put in jail for 8 months but got out in 6 months - During his time in jail he wrote a book called Mien Kampf, meaning my struggles, the two major themes in this book were lebensraum which meant living…

While I’m sure we can all agree that Adolf Hitler wasn’t the best human being ever, Hitler may have been one of the best leaders of the twentieth century. Born April 20th, 1889 and died April 30th, 1945, was an Austrian-born German politician who was a leader in the Nazi party, Germanys chancellor from 1933 to 1945 and Fuhrer of Nazi Germany from the year 1934 to 1945, (David 1998.) He can be attributed to be a good leader because of various reasons: He was a leader with visions; he was a…

leader with complete power. Both countries abandoned democracy, and neither Fascism or Nazism could grasp the idea of religions. Hitler wanted to expand the German Empire, and believed that the people of Germany (Aryans) needed more room to expand (Lebensraum). Italy had conquered Ethiopia, and like Germany was also was looking to expand their empire. Another major similarity between Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini is that they both encouraged a “cult of youth” to impose their Fascist/Nazi…

placed special emphasis on subjects in order to produce the ‘ideal Nazis’. For example, History books were exaggerated and focussed on the unfairness of the Treaty of Versailles and the wickedness of Jews. Geography was mainly concentrated on the Lebensraum and PE was trebled to make youth more disciplined and capable of being soldiers. Also, he…

From the moment the idea of power was born into existence, mankind and animals alike have fought for the ability to rule and to control; they’ve fought for power. Since the dawn of human organization and civilization, humans, although thinking of themselves as civilized and formal have done nefarious and malicious things to obtain the illustrious control that is power. Throughout history, the ability to rule has enticed mankind to turn on each other and to engage in brutal conflicts often…

He wanted to help make improvements of the teacher’s knowledge and make other resources available to their students. Vidal also contributed many works over his years such as 17 books, 107 articles and 240 reports and reviews (Wiki). He had written a famous elementary book for geography but is his two best know works are probably the Tableau de la Geographie de la France written in 1903 and Principles of Human Geography written in 1918. He like other Geographers we will talk about like Ratzel saw…