the German people. They hoped to achieve this through organization and to discourage any form of thinking that was not part of the state approved ideology. The Nazis impacted on the German people by controlling key institutions such as the army‚ the education system‚ the church and employment. There is strong debate as to whether the Nazis provoked a social revolution in Germany and if they had a lasting impact on the lives of the German people. Modern historian Ian Kershaw would argue that “it seems
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The masses in Germany were crushed by the problems that they had‚ especially the Treaty of Versailles‚ which left Germany in debt. The hyperinflation left a lot of people unemployed. People were looking for answers and someone to blame. The Nazi party had the policies that the German people wanted to hear. Hitler offered the easy answer for Germany’s problems. The skills that Hitler had were that he was a manipulator‚ and could trick people into believing his views‚ which they did. He
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WOH 2001 September 25‚ 2014 Nazi Germany Empire The Nazi Germany Empire is a topic that draws attention to historians from around the world. Adolf Hitler formed his empire from just a couple people and into a world-dominating masterpiece. Nazi Germany is “the 12 year period” in which the people of Germany dealt with Hitler and his extremely uniformed government. The Nazi Germany Empire had great power because of an ingenious leader and loyal followers. It went on to be one of the greatest and
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During World War II‚ German doctors and physicians conducted harmful and cruel experiments with victims of the Holocaust; mainly in the concentration camp “Auschwitz.” Nazis’ goals were to improve their medical science‚ prove that they were the “Master Race‚” and they also wanted to have better treatments for the personnel of the German Military. The experiments performed were often deadly‚ but the physicians didn’t care‚ and tested the prisoners anyway. Some of the many victims were Jews‚ Romans
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Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany In Between Dignity and Despair‚ Marion Kaplan describes the everyday struggles of the Jewish people in Germany. From beatings to starvation‚ Jews suffered everything in between. Kaplan makes two main arguments throughout the book‚ that one; women played a very large role in the survival of families‚ and two; non-Jewish German neighbors were oppressors‚ not just bystanders. As a whole‚ the book travels along in chronological order but Kaplan
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Nazi Germany and 1984 A totalitarian government is one in which the state‚ usually under the control of a single political person‚ has no limits to its authority and strives to control every aspect of public and private life of each individual. Control over attitudes‚ values‚ and beliefs enables the government to erase any distinction between state and society. It is almost as if the population under totalitarian government is broken down and brain washed so much so that the government has complete
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Nazi ‘medical’ experiments The medical malfeasance I have chosen to write on is the research medical personnel conducted on the captives under rule of the Nazi’s authority. The medical professionals of Germany and Austria added a lot of research to the Medical Universities in their counties. The Nazi medical science through the application of heredity and racial hygiene‚ created classes of inferior human beings. This created an opportunity for inhuman research. By defining some human beings as
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government‚ police and the courts The country was divided into 42 Gaus‚ each with a Nazi Gauleiter with the power to make laws. Each street and block of flats had a Blockleiter who reported ‘grumblers’ to the police; the Nazis successfully encouraged the idea of Volksgemeinschaft (national community). German people enthusiastically reported troublemakers to the Gestapo. April 1934: ‘People’s Courts’ were set up with Nazi judges who gave the ‘right’ verdict. The police were put under the control
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December 2008 Art as Propaganda in Nazi Germany Having been an artist himself‚ Hitler understood the potential power of imagery in moving the masses. “We shall discover and encourage the artists who are able to impress upon the State of the German people the cultural stamp of the Germanic race . . . in their origin and in the picture which they present‚ they are the expressions of the soul and the ideals of the community” (Hitler‚ Party Day speech‚ 1935‚ qtd. Nazi Approved Art). It is true that‚ with
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‘The Nazis tried to control every aspect of life -including the mind’ Do you agree? In this essay I am going to be discussing my opinion on the statement‚ ‘The Nazis tried to control every aspect of life including the mind’. I am going to include aspects such as: Family life‚ jobs‚ education‚ leisure time‚ and socialisation‚ by countering factors such as mind control and behaviour control. I am going to start with ways in which I agree that they were trying to control the mind. They used 3 main
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