Browning has been criticized by other historians who believe that his characterization of the men in Reserve Police Battalion 101 should not be "ordinary men," but rather "ordinary Germans." ... While people are united by many common traits shared by all humans, they are also a product of their societies. ... Therefore, unlike Browning, people cannot discount racial hatred as a motive, and perhaps it was the primary one. ... He cites two famous psychological studies as evidence that this made these men "ordinary." ... Here the distinction between "ordinary men" and "ordinary Germans" is ac...

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These choices, in turn, placed these countries and people into one of four categories: perpetrators, bystanders, resisters and rescuers. ... These people may have been driven to act as they did for a number of reasons; whether out of fear or out of blind obedience, as is often the case, with many Nazi Party officials claiming to have simply been "following orders ". ... Source 13, a photograph of Jews being forced to scrub the streets by Nazis whilst crowds of people looked on is a perfect example of bystander behaviour. ... Motivated by a sense of moral conviction, these groups or individuals...

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The Jews were mostly portrayed as heavy drinkers, smokers, and people who randomly wasted the wealth of the community. ... The familiar styles of the cartoonist were employed in these works to incite hatred and disgust on the ordinary Germans toward Jews and Gypsies. ... The victims of the racism persecution are not only the people who died in the gas chamber, but also the people whose mind are consumed by this hatred. The sterilization and euthanasia programs, for example, relied upon thousands of ordinary doctors, nurses, social workers, and administrators. Later on, the implementation of ge...

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As it is an extremely interesting subject many scholars, historians, writers and ordinary people have taken the time to look back and ask the questions of Nazi Germany. ... Gellately writes this book in concern of how people could carry out the inhumane orders of there leaders. ... Gellately suggests that in his book that the ordinary Germans were already willing to act against those who they thought were making ill of society. ... The book tells about the Nazi's use of propaganda, policies, policing and image as a way to influence people and the enemies from within. ... It's ...

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In the context of World War 2, Jewish refugees were fleeing from Europe to Canada in order to find peace and security, but instead of aiding the Jews, the Canadian people greeted them with an anti – Semitic attitude. ... The vessel had been turned away by many countries and the last hope they had was to either settle in Canada or the United States, but Canada did not want the Jewish people travelling on the vessel. ... Subsequently, refugees were required to follow all the regulations that were implemented on ordinary immigrants, which was difficult for the Jewish refugees to fulfill (Th...

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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. ... A major success of the Third Reich was to create a feeling of normalcy within German society while simultaneously murdering millions of people. Because life c...

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there was rising unemployment and this led to unrest in many cities and many people began to support the Communists. ... As unemployment grew and people became more desperate, they turned to Mussolini to solve Italy's problems. ... after "fasces", the symbol of bound sticks used a totem of power in ancient Rome Which People? ... For the purpose of bolstering governments, their respective military and corporations at the (literal) expense of ordinary citizens, the defined "Error! ... The main fascist threat in the UK comes from the small number of people who carry out and incit...

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There was a series of memoirs written and published in nineteen thirty-four in which ordinary working class people shared their experiences of being unemployed. ... This may be one of the reasons why the majority of history books state that there was a far greater number of men who experienced unemployment than women and young people. ... It is possible that there may have been more women and young people than men suffering from unemployment. ... Unemployment effected many people in society in many different ways, for example health deteriorated for many people, many suffered from disease...

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What exactly is fascism? Where did it come from? What on earth is it good for? Nowadays, fascism is most popularly associated with Mussolini's Italy between the years 1922 to 1943, and Hitler's Nazi Germany between the years 1933 to 1945. However, making Nazism synonymous with fascism would be a...

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Political authority is derived from the people. ... Not only could the people choose their own government, but they also had a vote in who led that government. ... These rebellions were dangerous because the government had very little support form the ordinary Germans. ... Horrified people noticed that they can starve on millions we will no longer submit . we want a dictatorship!- These economic problems caused social problems for the German people as explained. ...

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Negative eugenics seeks to decrease reproduction among people considered inferior or below average mentally and/or physically (Glass 1996). ... The idea of cleansing the genetic pool eventually evolved into the Nazi practice of Euthanasia, the killing of people for the greater good of humanity. ... Army are especially valuable, that they should procreate and not inferior members of American people (Nazi eugenic 1994). ... Even if society desired a hundred Einstein's, there is no guarantee that the clones would find the same path to physics or even become more than ordinary citizens (He...

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They force educated people, like Albert Einstein, to flee Germany fearing persecution by the Chamber. ... The radio department forced similar changes but the German people began "tuning-in" to the BBC and other non-Nazi controlled stations . ... All the cultural changes were helping to found a totalitarian state, which was designed to be a "Volksgemeinschaft", a people's community based on race not class. ... Educated people and the university community were forced to leave Germany or begin teaching and taking pro-Nazi subjects . ... Much of Nazi science theory was illogical, however ...

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The hand to lead the people of Germany out of all the problems and deceptions of these terrible times was Adolf Hitler, fascist dominator. ... Its final acceptance of the treaty earned it unwelcome criticism from ordinary Germans who were of the opinion it should never have been signed. ... Evidently, this began to influence the German people towards the fascist way of thinking. ... This exasperation meant that many people were more willing to listen to extremist party's who called for its over throw. ... People were cast into poverty and deep misery, and began looking for a solution, ...

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