Nazism

Charisma as Power The Holocaust was the result of Hitler’s extremist attitude and Germany’s need for a leader after the devastating loss of World War 1. Germany needed a powerful leader to instill hope in the people and maintain a strong sense of nationalism. Adolf Hitler never displayed or possessed any strong talents while growing up but he soon realized the power of speech. Hitler captivated millions of Germans by creating a vision of unified Germany that the people had not seen since the…

primarily perceived by the public that Hitler’s rise to power was a step forward for Germany but soon many civilians and officials recognized that Hitler had intentions of war and mass genocide. Hitler’s rise to power resulted in a widespread epidemic of Nazism; an ideology which consists of racist nationalistic notions, which pushes for state expansion at no matter what costs. During the peak of Nazi popularity, there were approximately 8 million people who were card-carrying Nazi party…

The Great Dictator made in 1940, written, produced, and directed, by Charlie Chaplin: was at the time a controversial film because it exposed Nazism and anti-Semitism with humor. Chaplin began his first full-dialogue film after a decade that the rest of the film industry had accepted talking pictures. Chaplin’s film “The Great Dictator”, was ahead of its time because no one could interpret the horrors happening in Germany throughout WWII. In the film, the main subject being Adolf Hitler and the…

whoever it maybe that is threatening them. There have been many instances where nationalism is the focus of the conflict. Major conflicts where nationalism is heavily followed is the genocide of the Jews, the Holocaust, as well as World War II. Nazism represented an extreme form of nationalism. Hitler preached to his people: "Your life is bound up with the life of your whole people. The nation is not merely the root of your strength; it is the root of your very life.”. (Konigsberg, Richard,…

“I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity of Nazism. I just couldn’t stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could, what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do.” this is a quote from Oskar Schindler, a German spy who helped save many Jews during WWII. As this quote states, Nazism is a method of thinking that promoted racial hierarchy made infamous by Adolf Hitler during his reign as Fuehrer or leader of Germany. Hitler was introduced to this way of thinking from…

invade Albania and Ethiopia, both of which were the crown Jewels in the eyes of Italians at that time. 3. Mussolini used anti-communism, anti-strike, nationalistic rhetoric and terror to help him obtain his goals. Germany(Class notes, Fascism & Nazism) 1. Nazism was based on anti-semitism, anti-communism, belief in a single leader, extreme German nationalism, and Social…

church. All of Bonhoeffer’s acting proclaimed the freeing of people from the captivity of Nazism, not only Jews, or Christians, but humanity as a whole. His essay "The Church and the Jewish Question" was an explicit ethical commitment to all those persecuted by Nazism, Bonhoeffer clearly viewed the measures against the Jews as a civil liberties issue and wanted that to be recognised by his people, who followed Nazism blindly (Bonhoeffer & Robertson,…

A.Plan of Investigation (Word Count: 125) To what extent were German citizens responsible for what happened during the Holocaust? Although German citizens were somewhat aware of what Hitler was doing, they were not ultimately responsible for his actions. This paper will discuss how responsible German citizens were for the events of the Holocaust caused by Hitler. Primary and secondary sources will be used to view different ideas people had during the Holocaust, and ideas historians have now of…

Michael Burleigh and Wolfgang Wippermann. The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Michael Burleigh is a Distinguished Research Professor in Modern European History at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Wolfgang Wippermann is a Professor of Historyat Freie Universitat, Berlin. Burleigh’s and Wippermann’s book, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945, documents the link between Nazi policies and ideals, with focus on racialism as the most important aspect…

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder argues that in the geographic region that he entitles “Bloodlands”, the area between Germany and Russia, during 1933-1945 under the Stalinist and Nazi regime resulted in over 14 million deaths committed by brutal regimes. His hope in this book is to look at the two regimes and how they respectively killed so many citizens but also to give Eastern Europe the attention it has not yet received from a historical perspective and…