Nazi Germany

The Hitler Youth (commonly referred to as HJ) was a youth organization of the Nazi Party in Germany. By 1939 Hitler Youth had over seven million followers ranking the largest youth organization in the world. Hitler and the organization's leader, Baldur Von Schirach, believed children were the face of our future generations. Furthermore The organization was a gathering of children and teens that were impressed into playing vigorous games to train themselves. The organization was most commonly…

Hitler’s Germany Question 13 In the years 1933 to 1945, different Germans benefited in different ways from Nazi Rule. Throughout these years, the benefits the German workers received is hard to conclude due to fabricated Nazi figures and schemes, such as the Volkswagen scheme, along with realistic economic success, such as the Labour service Corps. Unemployed people benefited from these schemes, becoming employed, and so did Nazi part members, but many Nazi opponents such as political members…

The Nazi party not only used a positive representation of Hitler as strategic propaganda but also for German life. There is a Nazi propaganda poster that depicts, “an idealized image of family life and values” the poster has the letters NSDAP on it and says; “The NSDAP safeguards the Volksgemeinschaft, Comrades, if you need any advice or help, Turn to your local party organizations” (Sax 245). This photo is the Nazi party’s attempt to make their followers and non-followers feel like they can be…

It can be noted that the geopolitical theories of Halford J. Mackinder influenced Karl Haushofer’s investigations of Mackinder’s “heartland” theory and other studies that Nazi Germany would later employ in their political campaign from the 1930’s until 1945. Mackinder’s “heartland” theory suggests that parts of eastern Europe and Asia make up for a continental piece of land known as the “heartland”, which after examination and study, Mackinder was convinced that it provided that most national…

Staatspolizei, was the secret police force, created by the Nazis, that “protected” Nazi Germany. The Gestapo originated in 1933 shortly after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. Herman Göring was the creator of the police force. He created the force to eliminate anti-Nazi forces in germany. The purpose for the Gestapo was to hunt those who were considered a threat to Nazi Germany. They often went door to door interrogating innocent citizens of Germany. At the start of WW2 they often hunted Jews,…

what it was like to live in Nazi Germany and how easily and quickly people were changing. It is fascinating this book is fiction due to careful and meticulous writing. Kressmann had taken the initiative in writing this and understood how important it was for the public to see on a personal level the impact Nazi Germany was having on not just German citizens but citizens everywhere. Many American’s did not care nor believe the stories and what was happening in Germany. Kressmann herself had seen…

Why did Nazi Germany invade the Soviet Union in 1941? Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 for several reasons, the most extenuating factor in the decision making process to invade the Soviet Union was the desire for Lebensraum. I will also be taking into consideration there standing in the Second World War at that time, the economic factors, Hitler’s racial ideology and his hatred of communism. I will then come to a conclusion upo my finding summarising the reasons behind the invasion of…

This German artwork from the 1930’s is one the most famous depictions of Nazi propaganda in its time. This source is useful for a historian investigating the period 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…

The term Holocaust refers to Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of European Jews. In the 1850s, European Jews were facing a new form of anti-Jewish prejudice. This hostility and discrimination of Jews came to be known as anti-Semitism. The huge amounts of suffering that took place after the Great Depression and World War I caused several people to search for someone to blame. The theory of anti-Semitism helped many Germans to find the pride they had lost before. Adolf Hitler was a key figure in…

leading figures of Nazi Germany, impacting how Germany was recognized by foreign countries during the reign of Adolf Hitler. Speer was an apolitical architectural technocrat who was of significant importance during Nazi Germany. Speer was given the title of ‘the first architect of the Third Reich’, and was in charge of the design and structure of several propaganda based structures that contributed greatly to the rise of Adolf Hitler to power. Not only did Speer contribute to Nazi Germany from…