LZ 129 Hindenburg

Just over a month later, the true short-term significance of the Night of the Long Knives became even more apparent given Hitler's smooth takeover of full official leadership when Hindenburg died. A newspaper source describes how within hours, Hitler "hastened back to Berlin to declare the following law: The office of President will be combined with that of Chancellor. The existing authority of the Reich President will be transferred to the Führer, Adolf Hitler 16." Being of a reflective style…

Papen upon Hindenburg, the Nazi propaganda, the ‘Red Scare’ and its associated flood of votes towards the Nazi party (as opposed to the communists), the sheer popularity of not only Hitler with the people, but also the ideologies of the Nazi party and finally, the popularity of his racist views. Another technique by which he would increase compliance and support was through intimidation via his private army (the Sturmabteilung or SA) or the Gestapo. The role of von Papen and Hindenburg in…

Jewish religion and its people. He used his anti-sematic views as a scapegoat, in which to fuel his change. Hitler was very charismatic and a fantastic public speaker and was appointed chancellor of Germany January 30th 1933 by President Paul Von Hindenburg. Hitler’s party, the Nazi Party used a variety of propaganda, political laws and regulations, and social manipulation tactics to get people to follow them, and with the depression people knew change needed to happen and were more apt to…

Michael Hart, in his book The 100: A ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History, ranked Hitler number 39 out of the 100. Hitler’s environment played many factors in how he dictated Germany. The way he was brought up influenced his mindset and goals for rule. After Hitler became the dictator of the Third Reich of Germany, he had many influences on society and caused genocide throughout Europe. After his rule, Hitler’s influence was obvious. Over 6 million Jews were killed in the…

The Holocaust was a point in time which included mass genocide of Jewish Europeans and other people Germany felt should be extinguished. The tragedy was also given the title “shoah”, which is Hebrew for the phrase “the catastrophe”; however, the term “Holocaust” was used more often to describe the events that took place. This paper will cover three topics: Who was Adolf Hitler, what was the Holocaust, and the statistics of the tragic events. The Holocaust had its beginning in 1933, when the…

depression was the most important reason why Hitler was able to become Chancellor in 1933. It was the cause of all the other significant factors, such as the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic, Nazi policies, propaganda campaigns, and the scheming of Hindenburg and von Papen. The Great Depression was the most important factor that lead to Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933. It caused major economic issues in Germany such as businesses going bankrupt, workers being laid off, massive increase in…

The startling question you have to ask yourself from reading Peter Fritzsche’s book Germans into Nazis, is what made the ordinary man in the crowd into the “Führer of the Third Reich”. In one of the most famous pictures in the European history you will see a young Adolf Hitler standing in the enormous crowd of people in the “August Days” celebration in Germany 1914. In this celebration you will see the everyday German anxiously waiting to hear the Kaiser speak. This is happened to take place a…

spread Nazi ideas. From 1930 to 1932 President Hindenburg and Chancellor Brüning governed Germany by making decrees. This was not a democratic form of government but it was not illegal. However it did mean that democracy started to die in these years. It also meant that friends of the President, such as army officers, had more influence over law making than the elected Reichstag. Despite the backing of President Hindenburg, Brüning was very unpopular. His policies not…

Throughout the years, thousands of million people were manipulated because of Adolf Hitler’s power. When Hitler came into power in the 1930s, he did what was necessary to make Germany better again. Hitler had many plans to expand Germany regardless of the restrictions put into place after the Treaty of Versailles. This meaning, he went beyond by expanding Germany territory and the old territory that was taken away with the treaty. Adolf Hitler made sure Germany did everything possible so no…

Hugo Bettauer was a very influential man for his time; he was a journalist and many of his novels became bestsellers. In the 1920’s, a couple of his novels had been made into films. His most notable film Die Freudlose Gasse is about the life of prostitutes in Germany. Sadly, Hugo was murdered because of his strong controversial views on March 26, 1925 in Vienna, by a man named Otto Rothstock. Rothstock was a dental technician and had very close ties to the Austrian Nazi Party. The murder was the…