Question: Why and how did the Nazism party were able to maneuver Germany during the totalitarian period (1933-1945)? After Adolf Hitler was appointed a chancellor of Germany he took every single opportunity he had, to make Germany a one party dictatorship. Adolf Hitler also carefully organized the police power which was necessary to enforce his term policies of what he called his “racial” purifications and also European conquests inside & outside legal framework of the German constitution.…
The Nature of Nazism Studying the history of the Nazi regime requires the understanding of the nature of the Nazi’s themselves. With help from assigned readings, class discussion, and various movies about Nazi’s, these can bring a person to a conclusion on what the Nazi nature is. On some occasions, Hitler, and his followers have been known to make deals with other countries, groups, and religious leaders. The deals that the Nazi’s made were to ensure the other nations and groups felt safe…
A German social-democratic refugee Franz Neumann, produced a comprehensive look of Nazism in a new and holistic manner. It is well-thought and astute; it is remarkably adorned with multiple references and numerous quotes of political thinkers across the span; it encompasses copious amounts of analytical substance; and it has a language style that is irrefutably engrossing. However, the book shows a collection of inconsistencies. The majority of Neumann’s theories, in my opinion, unsupportable,…
Short Response #2 Throughout the rise of Nazism in Germany from 1933 to 1939 social and political laws were being proclaimed that isolated the German race and the Jewish race. Before 1939, many ordinary Germans joined actively in measures of violence and discriminated toward the Jewish’s minority population. Marion Kaplan highlights both virtous and prejudicial elements of German-Jewish relations in Between Dignity and Despair. Kaplan talks about the Nazi’s and Germans themselves who made the…
In The Military Intelligence Training Center and the War against Nazism, Patricia Kollander argues that “works covering the history of German and Austrian Americans during the Second World War era say little about the recent émigrés who fought in the U.S army [against the Nazism].” Patricia Kollander is a professor of History at Florida Atlantic University. She worked very hard to bring the achievements of the Germen and Austrian émigré soldiers to light by publishing many articles including…
1.Give at least one reason for the acceptance of Hitler and nazism by each of these groups: (a) workers, (b) business leaders and industrialists, (c) veterans, (d) supernaturalists and racist. (a) Hitler got the acceptance from the workers because he made jobs for the unemployed. (b) Business leaders accepted Hitler when he showed signs of being anti-Communist and industrialists accepted Hitler when they saw that they were being profited from his policies. (c) Veterans accepted Hitler…
In National cultures, Nazism and the Church by Andrew J. Krzesinski many valid points and references are made about not only Nazism but also the ways, causes, and methods that Christianity is involved within them. Mr. Krzesinski, the author of this book, served in the 172nd tank battalion during World War Two and would write many other pieces, some of which include Nazi Germany’s Foreign Policy and Religion of Nazi Germany. These works paired with the fact that he directly was involved in the…
Inglourious Basterds is a critically acclaimed historical revenge fantasy movie that uses 1944 Nazi Germany to shed light on the biased American view of World War II, following the works of Friedlander and Rosenfield. The movie uses Nazi Germany as a setting, but unlike the mainstream and kitschy Nazi Germany movies, it rewrites the history of the end of World War II, therefore posing the question of “what if?” to the audience. The movie carefully causes the audience to question themselves and…
Following the end of World War I, a new political doctrine emerged in Italy and Germany and was strongly enforced and spread by two extremely influential figures: Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. This new political ideology was named fascism by Mussolini, and according to him, was different than all ideologies before it; he lists in The Doctrine of Fascism ideologies such as socialism and democracy that fascism specifically opposes. Both Mussolini and Hitler rejected most ideologies that came…
impact of three friends decisions leads to either life or death. Overall, the film provided a detailed and accurate point of view of young Germans and their varied reactions to Nazism. The filmmakers portrayed both the point of view of the young Germans supporting the war and of the Swing kids. For instance, Arvid states that Nazism can get away with whatever they want simply because they are in control. Everyone gets out of the Hitler Youth’s way because they get anything they want and go…