Neo-Nazism

Annihilation of caste written by B.R. Ambedkar in 1936 is a robust and compelling speech written for the Jat Pat Todak Mandal’s annual conference. The speech which was deemed “unbearable” by the Reception Committee went on to become one of the most revolutionary texts against the prevailing caste system in India. It’s easy to understand why that is the case once you read it. Interestingly, Ambedkar starts in a very humble manner, unlike most of his extremist contemporaries, which sets a…

What are the Nuremberg Trials? The Nuremberg Trials are a set of thirteen trials held to bring Nazi criminals and traitors to justice. The trials were held between 1945 to 1949; high-ranking officers, doctors, lawyers, and Nazi Party officials were held as the defendants. The trials at Nuremberg at a landmark for an establishment of a permanent international court; dealing with crimes against humanity, such as genocide. These trials lead to new technological development and strategies to deal…

1. How did your perspective of the Polish-Jewish past change during the project? Initially, I primarily excused the Poles and saw them as Germans' collaborators. However, during the project I have come to understand that many Poles took part in saving the Jews during the Holocaust. In addition, I learned that their situation sometimes was difficult too. It was a war after all. Thus, today it seems I less blame them as a whole, but rather understand that in each society there were good and…

Milgram and the Banality of Evil : Controversies of the Conformity Experiment The subject of this essay concerns the Conformity Experiment, also known as the Obedience to Authority Experiment, conducted by Stanley Milgram in 1961. He started studying this phenomenon in order to understand the behaviour of individuals subject to authority, after Adolf Eichmann, one of the major organizers of the Holocaust, declared during the trial held in Jerusalem, that he was just carrying out Hitler's orders…

Who do you say Oliver Cromwell is? Was he a hero or was he a villain? People look back on what Cromwell did for Parliament and glorify him for how he destroyed all the enemies of Parliament. Others look at Cromwell as a traitor who let his ambition do the exact opposite of what Parliament fought for and cause him to kill anyone that opposed him. Oliver Cromwell was an important English military and political leader because of his instinctive ability to lead his men in the English Civil War and…

Adolf Hitler of Germany and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union were authoritarian leaders who had a major impact on the economic state of their respective countries in the early to mid 20th century. Their respective economic policies mainly focused on the industrialisation and modernisation of their countries as both countries had a relatively weak economy in comparison to the rest of the Western world at the time. Furthermore, both countries practiced autarky and rearmament as a means of…

Dictatorship is a form of government where only a political party or a person has power over the state or the country. Dictators use techniques such as propaganda to maintain and increase their power and to convince others to support them. Constitutional, communist, counter revolutionary, fascist, constitutional, communist religious dictatorships and family-based dictatorships were some types of dictatorships described during the two worldwars.There had been many countries under dictators during…

Personality Study: Albert Speer “Describe THREE key events that were influential in the rise to prominence of the personality you have studied.” Albert Speer joined the Nazi party due to an intense reaction to the personal nature of Hitler's call to arms. While Speer was working at a university in Berlin, Hitler came to address the students and teachers. Speer was immediately impressed by the blue suit Hitler wore because how he presented himself was completely different to the…

In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes a totalitarian government that controls every aspect of every citizen's life. The government controls its citizens with science, technology, factories, and an industrial based religion. Throughout the book Huxley uses these themes to show the kind of society the World Controllers are trying to create. He does this to show what science and technology can do to a society. Huxley also shows that when technology is in the wrong hands society can take a…

Ian Kershaw’s article “Hitler and the Germans” analyzes the approach used to assert Hitler’s position in German politics. The main theme of this article is the creation of the “Hitler myth” and its spread throughout German society. This critique will discuss Kershaw’s argument and how effective it was. Kershaw argues that Hitler’s personality was not the key to his success and neither was his own personal Weltanschauung. He believes that it would be more accurate to study the popular image of…