The plan for operation Sea Lion started when Hitler’s occupation of Paris made him look ahead and set his eyes on the invasion of Britain. “Nazi Germany had already conquered Poland, Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries and France. In the latter part of 1940, Britain was the only nation still trying to stop the advancing Germans.” Operation Sea Lion was the plan for invading Britain through the English Channel.…
Admiral Stark and Major Wedemeyer shared similar views on the design question of how to change their environment from its existing state to their desired end state. They both strove for victory over totalitarian powers in Europe and the Pacific. Both men advocated an alliance with Great Britain and prosecution of an allied strategy to defeat the Axis powers. Stark envisioned a pursuing an allied strategy with Britain across multiple theaters.…
In the film A Soldier’s Story based on a book written by Charles Fuller, Sargent Waters, a character in the film and the story is a hard boiled man with a savior complex. He has character traits similar to another man with the same problems. That man is Adolf Hitler, the chancellor of Germany during World War II. Adolf Hitler’s destructive path started with the results of World War I.…
Hitler believed that there were four main ideas that would create a supreme Germany and for it to be seen as a great nation again. He believed that he needed to expand Germany to grow his following. He wanted complete power to redeem WW1 and get revenge on the people that discriminated against Germany. It did not help that Germany had to abide by the Treaty of Versailles laws. The Treaty laws were mostly aimed at Germany and how they could pay for WW1.…
Ian Kershaw’s article “Hitler and the Germans” analyzes the approach used to assert Hitler’s position in German politics. The main theme of this article is the creation of the “Hitler myth” and its spread throughout German society. This critique will discuss Kershaw’s argument and how effective it was. Kershaw argues that Hitler’s personality was not the key to his success and neither was his own personal Weltanschauung. He believes that it would be more accurate to study the popular image of Hitler, what the average German would have experienced.…
Georgia Lindstedt The Great Depression A time where countries were bombed, when suicide was a daily thing, and a time where Jews were killed and shunned in Europe; it was a time known as The Great Depression. The Great Depression was a gruesome decade for families, countries, and nations. Franklin. D. Roosevelt once said, “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”…
In Ian Kershaw’s The ‘Hitler Myth’ Kershaw goes to argue the facts behind the myths about Adolf Hitler and his position in Nazi Germany. Kershaw does not try to focus on the man himself but more along the lines of “It is not, in fact, primarily concerned with Hitler himself, but with the propaganda image-building process, and above all with the reception of this image by the German people-how they viewed Hitler before and during theThird Reich;…” The book itself is split into three parts. The first part taking place in the year 1920 and ending in the year 1940.…
The Vindicated Victims of the Treaty of Versailles: Analyzing Hitler’s September 1, 1939 Address Adolf Hitler entered the Kroll Opera House on September 1, 1939, as his troops prepared to invade Poland. Hitler’s speech is an example of the Nazi propaganda that would be commonplace during the war. Propaganda was a major facet of Nazi Germany’s success and this speech reiterates the plight of Germany, Hitler’s beliefs on who was to blame for their failing economy, and what must be done about the crisis. This address was known as a Reichstag Extraordinary Session, a council meeting called upon by the President of the Reich or a majority of the council members. Like many of Hitler’s speeches, nations all over the world had tuned in via radio…
On July 1st 1916 the battle for the Somme began. This battle would be one of the bloodiest battles ever fought. Among the men who were there was a war correspondent by the name of Philip Gibbs. This battle had a great loss of life that Gibbs recalls seeing wave after wave of infantry go over the top.…
Persuading the British to unite in a war against Germany, Churchill uses rhetoric devices. He attempts to have a connection with the people. He intends on making them feel like he is one of them, even after being a prime minister and that he will work hard to achieve more success. This is present in his words “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat”. Churchill uses vivid language to incite emotions in the people.…
With the aggression of the dictators in Europe the Democratic European leaders wanted to find a solution to the growing problem. Hitler and Mussolini violated the Treaty of Versailles and built up their armies to invade other countries. Italy invaded Ethiopia to start another Italian empire. Germany built up its army, created a new air force, the Luftwaffe, and sent troops into the Rhineland. Japan left the League of Nations and invaded Manchuria.…
Whereas Bismarck promoted a more peaceful doctrine for German unification, Hitler sought the destruction of entire races to meet his goals. In fact, while Bismarck continued on a unification process centuries in the making, the ideology of Hitler was new to the German people. “But so far as what actually happened is concerned-not what might have happened-the evidence seems to leave no doubt. . . [none] comparable with that of Adolf Hitler. . .”(Bullock 1).…
“The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin” Winston Churchill. The Battle of Britain was an aerial battle between Great Britain and the Nazi’s, a battle between Churchill and Hitler, and a battle between the Royal Air Force (RAF) and The Luftwaffe. The Battle of Britain had an affect on World War II because of the Airstrikes on British cities, the first uses of the air force, and the Nazi’s first big loss.…
It is well known that Adolf Hitler is a master of persuasion and in his Reichstag speech of December 11, 1941, he shows why. In this speech he gives reasons for the outbreak of war in September 1939, explains why he decided to attack the Soviet Union in June 1941, and announces that Germany was now in a war against the United States. Throughout this speech, he was able to maintain an air of righteousness while successfully manipulating his people into fighting for him. To accomplish this task, he cunningly uses a persuasive format for organizing his points, tone, and rhetoric devices, such as pathos, false dilemmas, and ethos, to gain support and loyalty of the German nation and maintain it.…
Lloyd George’s private thoughts were much more realistic and composed, as he wanted justice but understood that if Germany was punished until destitution, the loss of dignity would cause retaliation ultimately resulting in another war. Privately, he appreciated Germany as a major trading partner, as his plans to increase Britain’s trade and subsequently expanding the British Empire, therefore Lloyd George successfully hoped Germany would remain a viable trading partner following the Treaty of Versailles peace agreement. The Prime Minister’s concernment with the rising level of communism in Russia, also influenced his arguments in the treaty negotiations, as his anxieties grew regarding it spreading to Western Europe. In his eyes, communism posed a greater threat than Germany, and therefore should allow the German’s to act as a barrier resisting the spread of communism, as he knew Germany was their only hope.…