In a speech given by Hitler in 1936, he outlined the need to prepare the economy for war, yet in the wake of the second world war, the German economy was inefficient due to lack of central planning. Whilst Speer made some improvements to the economy, the allied bombing further impeded production and ensured that the economy would remain unsuccessful. ... Nonetheless, the inability of the government to solely mobilize the economy towards war and the lack of central planning, which sustained an inefficient economy proves that the economy was unsustainable and therefore unsuccessful. ... The...

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After taking power he boosted the economy through agricultural and business programs. ... In 1945 the war was finally over and the world was finally at peace. The world had learned from is experiences and tried to prevent any more such wars. ... Today the UN plays a vital role in most world affairs. ... After WWI many countries of the world were left humiliated and poor. ...

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Manfred Von Richtoffen (Red Barren) was the best pilot in World War 1. ... Their Reich mark (their money currency) was worth almost nothing and their economy was doing horrible. ... They were starving because their currency was worth almost nothing now, their economy was doing horrible and they didn't have any way of defending themselves (their army was very small). ...

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Historians are quoted as saying that although World War I was not inevitable; World War II was due to the unresolved tension between nations. ... The 1919 Treaty of Versailles was one of six treaties that ended World War I. ... The reparations completely destroyed the German economy and caused the whole country to fall into a severe depression. ... In order to help the economy the government tried to print more money to pay striking workers. ... By the 1930's, Italy was beginning to be seen as a large world power that would have a large influence in the world. ...

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In Mein Kampf, Hitler outlined his beliefs that if Germany were to be a strong world power it must be united on the principle of purity. ... He was said to have made early statements in 1939 regarding Jews being completely destroyed if they plunged Germany into another world war. ... Another injustice committed against the Jews by the Nazis was the boycott of their businesses in order to force them out of the economy. ... So barefaced were the horrific inflictions upon the Jews that it seems almost incomprehensible for anyone in Germany and even the world to have been unaware of the horrid cri...

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In Mein Kampf, Hitler outlined his beliefs that if Germany were to be a strong world power it must be united on the principle of purity. ... He was said to have made early statements in 1939 regarding Jews being completely destroyed if they plunged Germany into another world war. ... Another injustice committed against the Jews by the Nazis was the boycott of their businesses in order to force them out of the economy. ... So barefaced were the horrific inflictions upon the Jews that it seems almost incomprehensible for anyone in Germany and even the world to have been unaware of the horrid cri...

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The German economy was also becoming more stable. ... The German people had confidence in this as it was backed by gold like that of most other currencies throughout the world. ... Germany's economy was getting stronger in the period of 1924-29 but there still some problems that faced it. ... The strengthening economy was built on the back of foreign loans that would also have to be paid back along with the war reparations. ... The economy was beginning to recover with an end to hyperinflation and negotiations with the allies underway to rearrange payments of reparations. ...

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One of those butterfly effect scenarios in some ways, starting with, "the shot heard around the world". ... With the help of the United States government, the German economy started to stabilize. ... They could not compete agriculturally, Industrial production output went to 38% of pre World War 1 levels and foreign trade was halted. ... (Bergan, 49) Once again the bad economy takes its toll, even on those in power. ... (Bergan, 50) It didn't take long for Hitler to take over abusing a decree that was influenced by a bad economy. ...

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The Weimar Republic was working through harsh conditions with the task of stabilizing the economy, rebuilding the country after the First World War and having to cope with the account of the Treaty of Versailles; "underlying economic problems remained, and the relative political stability of Weimar's golden years' rested on shaky foundations - (98 Source 1 Worksheet). ... Even though by 1928 industrial production was high, the economy still faced many weaknesses. The economy was entirely based upon American loans. ... Even though economic stability was acquired by 1929, Germany'...

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Response Hitler had given the impression to many of the German people that he had saved their economy after the Wall Street Crash and The Depression of 1932. ... Not only was the idea of an economic miracle sold to the people of Germany, the propaganda element also wanted the idea sold to Europe and to the wider world. ... Hitler thought that by getting people off the street and into work made the illusion of economy recovery. ... Another major factor of why the economy wasn't successful was because of World War II, which started in 1939. World War II ruined Germany's economy as it...

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Nazism, or National Socialism, was born at the end of World War One. ... In the mid 1920s, the economy recovered and inflation fell to single figures. ... They spread propaganda claiming world Jewry wanted to gain power and rule the world. ... The economy slumped as America asked for its loans to be repaid. ... He focused on national unity and destroying internal enemies, and the restoration of the German economy. ...

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Regardless of whether the historian accepts Eberhard Jackel's intentionalist account of Nazism, this writer established beyond doubt that Hitler possessed a "programmatic systematic and inherently coherent" world view or Weltanschauung. ... The final concept of the Friedrich and Brzezinski theory is the centralized beurocratic control over the economy with no organizational pluralism. ... This fundamental failure in the German economy led to their consequent reliance of on the self-sufficient Blitzkrieg Economy. This economy was designed to be self-sufficient, and take over resource...

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When war broke out, there was no way the world could possibly know the severity it would have taken on the people of the world. ... The shock of World War one had still not left, and entering a new war, they felt, would be foolish. ... Yet another factor that led to this decision of Neutrality by President Roosevelt was the American Economy. The health of the American economy could not be jeopardized, whatever was happening elsewhere. ... America was steadily regaining the prosperity that had slowly been lost during World War 1. ...

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After the First World War, the Treaty of Versailles was established. ... Hitler banned trade unions and strikes in order to control the economy. ... Stalin started his plan of turning the Soviet Union into a Communist state started when he implemented the first of many Five-Year Plans and changed their economy to command economy. ... This rejected Economic Freedom, Private Property, Self-Interest and as well as Competition since the state controlled the economy--since it is in Stalin's plan to have a command economy or a system in which the government makes all the decisions involving th...

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Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mass party controlling the economy, the media and the arms of a state controlled through terror and a fixed ideology ; which, according to Carl Friedrich (a political thinker), define the features of a totalitarian state. ...

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The Nazi or the Soviet Economy in the War 9. Soviet women in the Red Army or the Nazi regime's attitude toward women in the war effort the relationship between the Holocaust and World War II 10. ...

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Fascism as a twentieth-century doctrine was the invention of Benito Mussolini, who had been a rising if erratic star in Italy's socialist party before World War I. Mussolini, however, became convinced during World War I of the inadequacy of socialism: it had no place for the enormous outpouring of nationalist enthusiasm that he saw during the war, no place for the struggle between nations, and no recognition of the fact that solidarity was associated with the national community--not with one's international class or with humanity in general.Moreover, socialism had no plan for how a p...

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After the depression France and Britain were hard hit and therefore their priority was to build up their economy again, they had no intention of entering a war and also had no resources with which to do this. ... Lessons had been learnt from world war one and no-one wanted to enter into another war lightly. ... It had also suffered after the economic crisis and like Britain had little or no choice but to spend most of its resources building up its economy, therefore in self interest. ... In retrospect the answer is that Hitler and Stalin were both ruthless totalitarian dictators both pursing d...

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The aftermath of the First World War Europe devastated economically and many Europeans were left questioning their political systems. ... Other European powers were aware of what the Germans were doing but they did not stop them , they wanted to avoid another terrible world war and the western world was caught all up in the great dressing, war preparation would drain their economy even more. ... Hitler believed he could achieve anything and then set foot for Poland , on September 1st 1939 Germany Nazis invaded Poland this was the start of the Second World War. The Fascist Aggression was all...

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Ironical that out of the three, only the one who would grow to wreck havoc in the world lived. ... The Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for the World War and Germany had to compensate for the loss/damage. This put Germany's economy in the state of depression, and the Working Class people grew. ... The holocaust inmates were made up of Jews, gypsies and blacks; those that did not fit to survive in the world (Hitler's Aryan race believes). Hitler believed that in the world, only one race was fit to survive; the Aryan race. ...

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The economy was dreadful, caused mostly by the Treaty of Versailles which made Germany accept full responsibility for World War I and pay reparations. ... Things were going rather well for the economy, until around 1929 when the Great Depression hit. ...

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The first signs of German nationalism were apparent with the unification of Germany which then lead to cause one of the world most extreme fascist movements, Nazism. ... This was one of the main causes for World War I. ... Created by Adolf Hitler, Nazism started out small, and proceeded to become the largest political party of Germany in World War II. Hitler gained popularity for Nazism by promising to improve conditions and the economy in Germany during a terrible economic crisis. ... German nationalism helped cause a major world war, and the attempted destruction of an entire culture...

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The Wall Street Crash in 1929 and the later world-wide crisis hit Germany hard. ... America's economy was in trouble, so the Americans stopped lending Germany money. The German economy collapsed.Thousands of Germans were dismissed. ... Hitler promised to give jobs, ameliorate the economy and make Germany proud and strong again. ...

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As World War I started, Adolf volunteered for service in the German military. ... In 1923 the Germany economy crumbled into a mass of inflation. ... He felt that once German was in control of Eastern Europe's resources and the Jews gone, "The 3rd Reich" would be able to defeat all other nations and could control the world. ... He used "Blitzkrieg" as a means of taking over Poland, which shocked the entire world with its speed and effectiveness. ... He united Germany after it was in a state of chaos and helped rebuild its lackluster economy. ...

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At the end of World War II the Allies were left with the decision of creating post-war policies. They did not want to recreate the treaties of the past which lead to the wars afterward. Germany and Japan gave unconditional surrender, leaving the Allies in the full control of their futures. After t...

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