Turks in Germany

genocides for a number of reasons. The two share a similar aspect when it comes to the intentions of extermination. The way the genocides began both started with military tactics in mind. For the Nazis and the Turks, their first actions were…

and deported over 1.5 million Armenians, following a premeditated and systematic campaign to exterminate the entire people. The decline of power in the Ottoman empire coupled with the fear of domestic conflict had provoked new government, the Young Turks, to idealize an exclusively…

chancellor of Germany, life of Jews changed very significantly. Starting in Germany, and later through majority of German-controlled lands, Jews were forced into ghettos and then killed in the gas chambers, in many places throughout Europe Jews were gathered together, they were forced to dig a pit and were killed right there. Places like Babi Yar, Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek will forever remain as symbols of most evil crime ever committed by humans. Countries like Poland, Germany, Austria,…

the first world war was still being heavily felt in Germany in 1924. The war had caused Germany a whole heap of problems that they were struggling to solve and deal with. They had pay reparations to France and Britain which they didn’t have the money for due to the fact they did not find a way to pay for the war. Whereas for example Britain raised taxes. They had to pay the reparations as part of the Treaty of Versailles which said that Germany was at fault for the war and therefore had to pay…

Another family infrastructure that dominated traditional China was the concubinage system (Engel, 1984). It is not uncommon to have men acquiring multiple wives in ancient China during the dynasty era. Yeh-Shen, was born into a family with two mother figures and one father figure (Yeh-Shen). This coincides with the traditional family structures that the society at the time adopted. The women in the house all considered the children’s mothers regardless of whether the wife is the child’s…

by altering their moral values. Cruelness became more accepted by the people of Germany because Adolf Hitler pushed his interpretation of justice on his citizens. The proof of the situation can be seen in some of the acts that took place during WWII with the Germans killing over six million Jews during the Holocaust. That could not have been done under the same justice that we hold in the modern era. Citizens of Germany were indoctrinated towards a different interpretation of justice, but it was…

Often times, humans have the tendency to oppose those who they believe are irrational or distinctively different than them. This was the case in the newly unified German nation during the late nineteenth century. Under German chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the infant German state began to develop a growing sense of nationalistic pride, as the National Liberals became a dominant political force for political and social activism. When Bismarck and the Prussian-controlled German government tried to…

manipulative people, may have seemed great to many people of Germany and Russia at first, but in the end they were known as very evil. After World War I, Hitler entered politics and realized his ability of giving great speeches. His speeches were powerful and very believable, the people believed that he really would make Germany great again. Hitler soon became the leader of the Nazi party, and in 1933 Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, not much later, he became the…

In the article “The Battle for Divorce in Italy and Opposition from the Catholic World (1861-1974)”, Daniela Saresella argues that following World War II, the “processes of secularization” (Saresella, 411) that were altering the western world, took hold in Italy and set the stage for the 1974 referendum on divorce. The referendum was an integral moment as it marked the first division of the Catholic world and allowed Catholic citizens the understanding that they were not required to vote in…

Europe’s Last Summer that Germany would manipulate the events leading up to WW1 for a war to have Austria as an ally. A major component to this argument is the idea that WW1 started with a minor war in Serbia against Austria and Germany gaining Austrian assistance to help them in their war against Russia. (Fromkin, pg271-273)) If anyone could delay if not prevent WW1 it would be a diplomat from Germany. The events that if changed could prevent a world war and instead France and Germany by…