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The United States is a country founded on ideals and unfulfilled aspirations of a perfect nation in which all are equal and no one group of people has too much power. Our history is filled with the constant struggle between fulfilling those ideals and maintaining status quo and allowing the nation to stagnate or regress allowing inequality to reign and certain groups to control the country. While our nation has struggled on this point it bears to ask whether real political and social change is…

In 1922, just four years after the war to end all wars, an unknown Austrian then living in Bavaria planned a pamphlet to be called Settling Accounts. In it he intended to attack the ineffectiveness of the dominant political parties in Germany which were opposed to the new National Socialists (Nazis). In November 1923, Adolf Hitler was jailed for the abortive Munich Beer Hall putsch along with men willing and able to assist him with his writing. With the help of these collaborators, chief among…

Two mighty leaders, two totalitarian governments, but two different ideologies. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were two supreme leaders of their own totalitarian countries. They both used similar methods to control their people and their increase in income. They had very different ideas in mind though. So how were they different? Let’s take a closer look. The political ideology originated in an interesting way. In prison, “Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (“My Struggle) (p.552). The book was…

Auschwitz Somewhere in the month of April in 1940, something terrible was birthed. A concentration camp known as Auschwitz where Jews were killed and kept under bad conditions. Some were malnourished or riddled with diseases. The camp was run by the Third Reich in the Polish city of Oswiecim. In it, over 1,100,000 Jews, 140,000 Poles, and 20,000 Gypsies were in the camp but only 200,000 had made it out of the camp, either by liberation or escape. On January 27,1945, Soviet Solders of the First…

Heinrich Himmler was one of the most notorious villains that lived in the twentieth century. As proof of his mental instability he thought he was a reincarnation of a german emperor and that Germany was going to win the war against all odds. Himmler was an early member of the Nazi party, and started a friendship with Hitler that would last throughout one of the darkest times in the history of the world. After being named Reichsfuhrer SS and chief of german police he secured a centralized…

Income inequality is one of the most important issues in today’s society. Economists and social scientists have always been arguing about the repercussions of inequality on nation states. Although for many years inequality was seen only strictly as an economic phenomena, Recently major scholars have been arguing that inequality is a threat to democracy and political representation. Regarding this growing topic, different books have been published in order to increase awareness among the ignorant…

He was arrested and sentenced to death in 1938 after trying to educate himself about the German military. However, after Sudetenland became part of Germany as part of the Munich Agreement, the Reich pardoned Schindler, who rose through the ranks of the Abwehr. Then, in 1939, Germany invaded Poland, marking the start of World War II. In an attempt to capitalize economically from the war, he left his wife for Krakow, Poland, and became involved…

The first of Stanton’s stages, that of classification, is certainly applicable to the genocide against the Jews during the Holocaust. Stanton depicts classification as a process of ‘othering’, the aim of which is to distinguish the differences between desirable and undesirable demographic groups. In this case you have the polarities of the ideal Aryan race and the Jews. The Nazi regime sought to ensure as little confusion as possible as to which category an individual belonged. In September of…

Two of the greatest men in modern history, Otto von Bismarck and Adolf Hitler were determined to transform Germany into a great power. Despite being Prussian, Bismarck was nonetheless driven to unify Germany due to the fear of liberal ideology in a fragmented Germany. In essence, Bismarck was violent and would not stop at anything until his goals were realized with the eventual formation of a German state. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler, an Austrian, sought to rid the nation of any race that was not…

instrument for acquiring and maintaining power and implementation of the Nazi policies. The persuasive use of the propaganda by the Nazi’s is largely responsible for the word propaganda, giving it its negative connotation later down the road. The Third Reich established a Ministry of Propaganda,…