Robert Gellately tackles an interesting question in his recently printed book Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany. Gellately writes this book in concern of how people could carry out the inhumane orders of there leaders. ... The book's content is organized through ten chapters, each covering a different theme. ... Not only does he vaguely ever talk about communism, but he very briefly mentions Jews in the book as well. ... I would not suggest this book to a person that is looking for a history lesson, since it disagrees with popular knowledge. ...

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The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak is a powerful novel following the life of Liesel Meminger during the harrowing years of Hitler's reign over Germany. The Book Thief portrays many heart wrenching themes, reinforced through strong symbols such as color, Hans' accordion, and books. ... The symbolism of color in The Book Thief was evident throughout the entire novel. ... Death states "Summer came for the book thief, everything was going nicely. ... Throughout the novel, The Book Thief, the presence of symbolism doesn't go unnoticed but several stand out due to how they...

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His masterpiece, a Latin translation and modification of his first major book - Das Buchlein der ewigen Weisheit (The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom), Horologium Sapientiae (The Clock of Wisdom), uses the clock as a metaphor for the Eternal Wisdom of Christ (Blessed Henry Suso 3). ... Suso originally penned The Little Book of Eternal Wisdom in German, and published it in 1328. It rapidly became the widest read meditation book in Germany in the 14th century. ... The seated writer, though not in motion, is clearly watching (and discoursing with) Wisdom - and seems also to be putting his open book...

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For such tragedies to happen during WWII, the Holocaust's deep darkness is exposed from reading War and Genocide, a Concise History of the Holocaust by Doris Bergen, through her powerful use of writing that she does throughout her book. ... These four points are the most important parts of the new insights that I have learned from reading Bergen's book about the war and genocide that happened during the history of the holocaust. ... " While reading further into the book, it also appears that Hitler only wanted to control the German race. ... After reading this explanation that...

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The Jewish community, has been victim of persecution and segregation for their high economic power and their great intellectual level since the beginning of modern history. The best example of this anti-Semitism, was the Nazi Germany of Hitler. During the holocaust, millions of Jews were killed and ...

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Caricature pictures of these minorities were displayed throughout Nazi Germany - in public space, on magazine papers, at the workplace, and even in the book for young kid. Those pictures, such as The Poison Mushroom (see attachment) and The Sly Fox, were used as the children's book cover. ...

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In the 1890's, antisemitism in Europe took the form of violent oppression in Eastern Europe. It was a political movement in western Europe, and eventually because of a deplorable economic situation, reached its peak of brutality in the form of Nazism. In Eastern Europe, Jews were seen as outcasts an...

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Nazi ideology had a momentous impact on Germanys foreign policy during the period of 1934 to 1939. The Nazi worldview was the belief of force that was defined by struggle. Hitler aimed to restore Germany to a position of international prestige with force and aggression being necessary components to ...

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In many different places throughout the book, Hitler takes great pains to identify Jews with everything wrong in Germany. ... From this point onward, throughout the book Hitler would take great care in associating Jewishness with Communism, Communism with Jewishness. ...

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National Socialism between 1920 and 1945 can best be described as an era of constant change. Hitler's enrollment in the German Worker's Party provided him the foundation needed to propel his idealistic views of anti-Semitism and Aryan superiority. Soon after Hitler's enrollment the party's name was ...

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This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ...

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Introduction Over the course of time, several agreements and treaty play an important role in the development of the modern world. In world history there were several agreements among various countries that change shape of the world and till date several historians are discussing about the importance of the same. One such agreement was Treaty of Verdun. It was one the most significant treaty in the history of Europe as it changes the shape of the Europe for time to come. If one analyzes the history of the European countries the rule of law or the agreement among various nation changes the str...

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Not only was did he write his book "Mein Kampf", but gave him time to come to this telling conclusion: "...Instead of working to achieve power by an armed coup we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. ...

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" (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) Streicher was also responsible for the publishing of the well-known Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Sturmer as well as a children's book series Der Giftpilz. ... In the children's book the Jews are described as a "poisonous mushroom" that looks beautiful, but should not be trusted and one should not be persuaded by its image. "This book taught German children how to attack the Jews in three anti-Semitic ways: by their physical appearance; by religious beliefs; and by moral values....

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1.a) Explain how the Nazi Party consolidated its power in Germany in the period 1933-1939. The Nazi Party is now known as the most callously notorious political party of our modern times. Its life spanned only twelve years and three months, which was brief, yet sustained enough for the most savage turmoil the world had ever known. The Nazi Party would have never been born and raised without the single man known as Adolf Hitler, who possessed iron-willed, coldly ruthless, and power-fanatic characteristics that they have adopted. The Nazi party was the very quintessence of Hitler himself. ...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. Roosevelt, fascist Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Italy under Benito Mussolini. Schivelbusch examines the rise of three separate political systems, all with different goals, that have some unexpected yet unde...

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History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way...

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