This obtained a satisfactory effect for that particular audience, but was never completely successful as the music was composed against a set of conditions, and few works provoked any interest beyond the boundaries of Russia, unlike before the revolution. ... His Fifth Symphony is one of the most debated examples of whether or not music can be political. ... As we can see here, it is very common for the audience not to be able to separate the composer from his works, therefore seeing the composers own views in the music, seeing the music as a political piece even though that cannot be told f...

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Under the political and financial support of the Nazi party, eugenics was studied as cure for the sickness of society. ... We need to remember the history, because only then we can understand the lesson history taught us - perhaps there shouldn't be hatred and boundaries between races. ...

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The Nazi Party also encouraged smaller political parties to join them in order to make it the most popular party. ... He also declared the Nazi Party to be the only legal political party in Germany. ... Hitler also worked to eliminate any political power other than his own. ... He justified expanding beyond Germany's territorial boundaries by the need for Lebensraum, living space, to support an ever-increasing dominant German population. ...

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This concept appealed to many Germans after the political and social divisions of the Weimar Republic. ... It was now seen as hanging' outside the boundaries of decency and the pursuit of individualism. ...

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Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. ...

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As a result of the desolation a common consensus was becoming apparent amid the general public, which was that, there were no clear societal gains from the war and the obvious economic, and political decline of the country showed no gains in that sector either. ...

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 'The internal world on the outside. The genesis of violence and aggression.' (First slide) No horror you can imagine has not already been done by someone to somebody else. Similarly there is no horror you could perform that has not been enacted in imagination or fantasy by somebody. Man is a d...

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