Schutzstaffel

Fascism attained a mass following in Germany because of the psychological tactics employed by the Nazi party. In the interwar period, Germany was a nation humiliated and impoverished due to its defeat in World War I and the harsh conditions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles. Along with the worldwide depression and the looming threat of communism, Germany was a breeding ground for extremist political parties such as the Nazi party. Hitler promised to stop reparation payments, to give all…

The demise of the Jews is something that is taught in schools and described in history books yet few people know what led up to the eventual annihilation of six million Jews living in Europe, Russia and Poland. What started off as a thought with “good intentions” by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party turned out to be one of the deadliest genocides in history. The events that initiated the “final solution” can be traced back to the Nuremburg laws created and enforced by Adolf Hitler and his party.…

Nuremberg Trials The Nuremberg Trials were held by the four major Allies of World War II which included the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and France. After the war was over, Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Leader, Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the U.S., and Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of Britain signed the Moscow Declaration which stated that the Axis power were to take responsibility for the war. In 1943 US Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson got the four…

"Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.” - George Santayana. All throughout history, the inability to learn from one’s mistakes has led to great disasters. An example of those in history ignoring the result of another’s actions, can be found when comparing Nazi Germany concentration camps and North Korean Internment camps. Although these two types of camps were created around the same time, Nazi camps were liberated unlike North Korean camps that still occur in present times.…

During the interwar period of 1919 to 1939, the European political arena witnessed a radical change in governmental organization. Historically this period has been defined by authoritarian Fascism and Nazism. In fact, Gino Germani a professor at the University of Buenos Aires hypothesizes that the structural tension inherent in all modern society between growing secularization and the necessity of maintaining a nationalist centred government was sufficient for the integration of causal factor in…