After Germany's defeat in WWI, Hitler's government envisioned a vast, new empire of 'living space' (Lebensraum) in Eastern Europe. Firstly, the Jews of Germany were subjected to a series of discriminatory laws, including the Nuremberg Laws introduced in 1935, in which the Nazi revoke Reich citizenship for Jews and prohibit Jews from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of German. ... After Germany's defeat in WWI, Hitler's government envisioned a vast, new empire of 'living space' (Lebensraum) in Eastern Europe. Firstly, the Jews of Germany w...

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His opposition party having been eliminated in that way, his next challenge was to undermine the central government of Germany. ... Furthermore, he claimed that the rest of the nationalist Germans supported him in that belief that "the volkisch parties, the monarchists, and the conservatives all continued to view that same government as a collection of Jewish communists" (Flood 85). Whether or not the groups cited by Hitler actually felt that way about the central government, however, is highly doubtful. But this was neither the first time, nor the last time, that Hitler would make direct ...

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From the surrender of the German military in 1918 Germany faced an unfavorable government, a democratic republic, a debt in reparations of 30 trillion dollars, and the one that hits German's the hardest is the blame for World War One. The harsh peace settlement Germany was forced into, left Germans with an even more bitter taste for everyone else other than Germans. ... An unwanted government, inflation, and depression were contributing factors to how easy it was for Hitler to come to power for the Holocaust to even happen. ... The German political myth is one huge German justification ...

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Louis in 1939 (Government of Canada, 2013). ... All though, Canada had allowed a few Jewish refugees to enter, they were still being treated far worse than the German prisoners of war because the Jews fell outside of the protections of the Geneva Conventions. ... The struggles the Jewish refugees faced in order to celebrate their religious holidays, in comparison to the German prisoners of war, in the internment camps reveals the unjust treatment of the Jewish society in Canada as, even when being compared to the German prisoners of war, the Jews in the internment camps were treated far worse...

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This is what some Historians believe the Nazi Government told their people. ... Findings In 1933 when Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany almost immediately he set up Concentration camps. ... This mass genocide, which took place at the Concentration camps, was kept largely secret from the German people, and from Germany's enemies. ... In this book he wrote about his hatred of the Jews and his opposition to the Democratic Government. ... On Hitler's release from prison nine months later he returned to the Nazi party and by 1933 became the Chancellor of Germany. ...

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According to Hochberg (2000), the Holocaust resonates deeply with the American psyche because the issues involved are so deeply ingrained as national preoccupations - these being; abuse of government power, racism, the extent of responsibility of one's neighbour and above all the embodiment of Adolf Hitler as absolute evil. ...

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The Psychological Affects of the Holocaust The Holocaust was a tragic point in history which many people believe never happened. Others who survived it thought it should never have been. Not only did this affect the people who lived through it, it also affected everyone who was connected to those f...

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