Neo-Nazism

The Lincoln standard written by David Brooks outlines the criteria for anyone who wishes to become a successful president. But it also can be applied to anyone who wishes to be in a leadership role within the world, or history. Adolf Hitler was histories top controversial figures in the 20th century, sparking war, and the depressing holocaust. How does Hitler hold up to the Lincoln Standard? Hitler had a vision from the inception of his beginnings in the Nazi Party, writing Mein Kampf would…

world were based on struggle being a way of life and the Germans needing a leader who would help create an Aryan racial state that would control and dominate Europe and quite possibly, the world. In opposing movements many other countries believed in, Nazism was expressing its contempt for shared values of western…

The youth were the one way that Hitler could affect most of the population of Germany’s beliefs. The only future of the Nazis was the German youth. This idea was introduced by Hitler and the government. The German kids were seen to be so susceptible to Hitler’s beliefs. The children were basically brainwashed by Hitler. At first, the Hitler Youth Movement was just a small bud, but it grew larger and larger very quickly. In the early 20’s the Nazi party instituted a youth movement led by Kurt…

Propaganda is the art of persuasion-persuading others that your side of the story is correct. Propaganda takes on many different forms, especially in the 1930’s. Some forms of persuading include making your military look like it is too great to be challenged like the Soviet Union. Both Germany and the Soviet Union used propaganda for their political gain. In some ways, they used it in the same way, to make other religious or political groups inferior to the main party. Germany used it to create…

Nazi Medicine is, or at least thought to be, the mass practice of racial hygiene coupled with the phenomenon in which the Nazi Party performed thousands of medical experiments on non-consenting individuals during the Holocaust. Though some of these practices and experiments had legitimate purposes, most were fueled by prejudiced values. These practices were indeed some of the greatest disgraces in human history, but the widely-held belief that they were unprecedented or completely unique is…

The great dictator of the Fictional country of Tomania has finally taken over the country. Before days before his finale parade he is mistaken as a Jew and arrested and sent to a concentration camp. His lookalike, the Jewish barber Schultz, is dressed up in the dictator’s attire and told to assuade the masses at the victory parade which will be televised throughout the world, even though he’s never done public speaking. Ultimately, the speech was received with thunderous applause and unending…

The Holocaust, which was also known as the ‘Ha-Shoah’, that is the Hebrew word for ‘catastrophe’. The Holocaust was the genocide ran by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi regime in which killed six million Jews during World War 2. The word ‘Holocaust’ originated from the Greek words “Holo” meaning whole and “Kaustos” meaning burned (The Holocaust). The Holocaust began in 1941 and lasted until 1945 during the time of World War 2 and originated in Germany, which then spread across Europe. The Holocaust is…

of control and likewise exhibits the fearful psyche that wants, needs, and produces such a fantasy. If National Socialism had logic, it accorded with the logic of a dream, the dream of an unassailable identity vested in a race’s transcendent power. Nazism sought to transform the mythic image of the all-powerful Aryan into a living reality” (Rentschler 210). The invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 produced inflated visions of German colonization in the east. Hitler spoke of the ultimate aim of…

making him homosexual as well. This was viewed as a threat for Nazi cult of family where men and women had reserved and strict gender roles. Further on, already at that time there existed an opinion that homosexuality can be an inborn quality. For Nazism it meant that people who have inclinations towards homosexuality should be persecuted and not allowed to have families. Through having children homosexuals were believed to pass their “deviation” to further generations. In addition, the theory…

What could be so terrible about a book, that it has become one of the most frequently banned/challenged books? Of Mice and Men is a fictional book written by John Steinbeck in 1937. The book has been banned in many schools due to racism, profanity, foul language, violence, and for seemingly promoting euthanasia. The book was usually read by high school students around the age fourteen or fifteen, however many parents have gotten upset when hearing about what their kid was reading. Many parents…