While the American eugenics movement spread‚ Germany was eager to embrace the new pseudo-science‚ as well. In 1923‚ Dr. Fritz Lenz‚ a German physician-geneticist and an advocate of forced sterilization‚ would “berate his countrymen for their backwardness in the domain of sterilization as compared with the United States.”4 Furthermore‚ American eugenics supporters became active participants in the global expansion of eugenics. For example‚ the Rockefeller Foundation‚ one of the largest supporters
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The Nazi Party had as its expectation the formation of what we would see as a totalitarian tyranny‚ yet the vital inquiry is the means by which far they accomplished this objective. The Third Reich was a totalitarian state as in it was a ’one gathering state’. A law was passed making illicit whatever other political gathering other than the Nazi Party. All political gatherings other than the Nazi party were canceled; the Social
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of this report is to analyze the control and use of music by the Nazi party from 1933 to 1945. The first point to be considered is the motive and logic behind the control of music in the Third Reich. The second subject to be discussed is the various ways in which the Nazi party controlled and used music. Finally‚ we will analyze the effectiveness of the control of music in Nazi Germany. Why was music controlled and used by the Nazi Party? To answer this question‚ we must first look at the significance
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“Events in Germany in 1933-1939 support the Structuralist view of the Holocaust more than the Intentionalist view.” How far do you agree with this statement? The Intentionalists interpretation focuses on the intentions of Hitler‚ they view Hitler as the absolute centre of the Holocaust. The Structuralist view on the other hand view Hitler as a weak dictator‚ and focus on the disorganized structure of the Third Reich. The Structuralists believed that since the rising of the Nazi Party‚ Hitler
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In Nazi Germany‚ women had very little rights compared to other women in democratic societies. In a democratic society‚ women had a less enforced traditional gender roles and had more freedom. During World War 1‚ women were recruited to work in jobs usually occupied by men. This was because most of the men who occupied that particular job often went to fight in the war‚ some of these jobs would include conductors‚ postal workers‚ police‚ and firefighters1. In Nazi Germany‚ women were forced into
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"Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany" by Michael Kater There has only been one moment in history when jazz was synonymous with popular music in the country of its origin. During the years of‚ and immediately prior to World War II‚ a subgenre of jazz commonly referred to as swing was playing on all American radio stations and attracting throngs of young people to dancehalls for live shows. But it wasn’t only popular amongst Americans; historian Michael H. Kater‚ in his book
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Hitler Youth was a logical extension of Hitler’s belief that the future of Nazi Germany was its children. "The weak must be chiselled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be as swift as a greyhound‚ as tough as leather‚ and as hard as Krupp’s steel." Movements for youngsters were part of German culture and the Hitler Youth had been created in the 1920’s. By 1933 its membership stood at "100‚000." "After Hitler came to power‚ all other
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Book Burning In a reaction to the Nazi book burning‚ Helen Keller once wrote in a letter to the students of Germany saying‚ “History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that often before‚ and the ideas have risen up in their might and destroyed them.” Right before World War II students from universities across Germany gathered to burn books. Book burning is lighting of fire to books or other written material‚ in a public area. It is usually done
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Life in nazi Germany June 10 ‚ 1939 Dear Michael Jordan‚ I know i haven’t replied for a while now but I am really confused and scared of the condition my country is in today‚ life is not the same as it used to be when our grandparents where children‚ before your family moved to England. Germany has changed dramatically. The brownshirts (SS troops) are very intimidating and do anything that Hitler orders them to do‚ they all have guns with them and have been trained in military trainings
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The Role of Women in Nazi Germany Women in Nazi Germany were to have a very specific role. Hitler was very clear about this. This role was that they should be good mothers bringing up children at home while their husbands worked. Outside of certain specialist fields‚ Hitler saw no reason why a woman should work. Education taught girls from the earliest of years that this was the lifestyle they should have. From their earliest years‚ girls were taught in their schools that all good German women
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