Nazi Party

“‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’” (Orwell 34). George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel set only 35 years after it was published, establishes this statement as a continuous central theme of its government, often referred to as the Party. As long as one is powerful enough in his or her words, one can make an audience believe an utter lie about a real event, no matter the amount of people that saw it happen before…

many other things. This war caused people to write about what they went through or life in general during both post and pre war. These poems were written during World War II. There are many symbols and elements in the story that references to The Nazi Party and Hitler. European literature had a theme of person vs. society and this was found by the use of hardship, discrimination, tone of no motivation. The hardship in the society with a common theme or tone in the selection poems and stories…

set up to cleanse and strengthen the Aryan race. When enrolled into Hitler Youth boys prepared for the military, while girls prepared for motherhood. “ The Hitler Youth was a type of scouting organization that emphasized the values and skill the Nazi party deemed necessary for the advancement of the German race” (‘Hitler Youth’). I find this interesting because kids are being relied on as the next super race; and I can’t imagine how stressful that must of been. Hitler believed they were the…

factors throughout the novel. The protagonist is also often dealt with the antagonist, or the opposing force in the novel that tries to against the change that the protagonist is trying to bring. The antagonist of the novel is no doubt Hitler and the Nazi party, as they take away the things Liesel pushes for like learning to read, and her family and friends. In the book the Book Thief, there is arguable perspective on which the protagonist of the novel is. In…

that the audience has a knowledge of the World War II time period during which Germany was under the control of the Nazi Party. During this time, Adolf Hitler took over Germany, and brought a rise to a dangerously extreme nationalism. This is important for readers to understand, because Hitler’s iron-fisted control plays a major role in the book. It is important to know that the Nazis got rid of anyone they suspected to be anti-German by putting them in concentration camps or getting rid of them…

overseer of the design, regulations and the policies of the concentration camps. Himmler chose members of the SS that was a political offshoot of the Nazi Party to enforce his policies and guard the inmates in the concentration camps. These guards were ruthless in their treatment of the prisoners as they were not your average soldier, but hard core Nazis and veteran military. The mentality of the SS was that they were performing the ultimate duty and to use any use of force that they saw fit to…

Nuremburg trials were considered revolutionary because of its impact on human rights. Its sole purpose was to bring Nazi war offenders to justice. It was thirteen trials in Nuremburg, Germany during the period of 1945-1949. Party bureaucrats, German business owners, lawyers and doctors were accused of crimes against peace and humanity. Pressured by the trials Adolf Hitler committed suicide not to go to trial. A known thief of not wanting peace and killing humans. Hitler and his government were…

to control the world and warp perspectives and establishes how word can be used as a hammer to build something incredible, or as a sword and shield to break something down. The Book Thief spends a length of its time detailing how Hitler and the Nazis were able to use their words to build something…

In the midst of world-wide depression and backlash of WWI , the German economy was at an all-time low, with records of unemployment reaching 30%. The value of money was decreasing due to inflation while the price of food soared to unimaginable numbers , families lost their homes, and a countless number of people died to hunger. Wherever you look it would seem that the world would never get better, but in every situation people look for hope, peace, and a strong threshold to hold onto. The German…

In Propaganda Under a Dictatorship, Aldous Huxley explains how the advancements of technology along with an increase of psychological studies have created a pathway that allows forms of mind control to be easier than ever. Huxley looks at Hitler to analyze how a dictator during the introduction of mass communication through technology managed to successfully control the minds of over eighty million people and strip them of any intellectual thought. Through replicating parts of the Church…