With conflicting views on life in general, opposing nations are quick to express their ideologies by any means possible, including violence. It is the promotion of this national pride to an extreme degree leads to ultra-nationalism, which does nothing but reek havoc on the international community. ... Another example of conflict caused by the promotion of national pride to an extreme degree is the concept of ethnocentrism. ...

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Initially Weimar Germany was characterised by clashing of political ideals, violence and economic difficulty. ... The political violence that marred the initial stages of Weimar politics was absent and parties of the extreme right and left were subdued, the communists and the Nazi party only gaining a small minority of votes. ... His position as president pleased the army and right-wing groups who became more tolerant of the republic, and eased any notion of uprising or violence from the right. ...

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In Arendt's "Report on the Banality of Evil", she illustrates the frightening reality that it is possible, perhaps even human nature, for ordinary people to perform extraordinary acts of violence and cruelty given the right social or political circumstances. It is easy to be convinced that all members of the Nazi party were psychotic or extreme anti-Semites rather than normal, average people, often with families and friends. ...

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On the night of 17 July 1936, the Spanish army, inspired most of all by General Franco, started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against the Second Republic. A central goal of the rebels was the destruction of left-wing organisations. Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed hi...

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