Some of the of the main form of mass communication that Hitler used were; large meetings within the Nazi party, large dehumanization camps and a book entitled "Mein Kampf- which sold over five million copies before the start of World War II. Second, he was the main culprit of World War II, and a war criminal by using concentration camps. ... Italy had suffered badly during the war - 460,000 soldiers were killed and the country was heavily in debt. ... It was no accident that Mussolini allied with Hitler during World War II. ...

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Prior to World War II, both Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler rose to power in their respective countries and brought about great change during their ensuing reigns. ... Both men molded their countries into international powers prior and during World War II through sometimes-questionable means; however, Hitler was better for his country than Stalin was for his due to the economic, social, and political changes that he caused in Germany. Although, Germany eventually lost World War II, Hitler did much more with much less in Germany when compared to Stalin. ... After World War I, Germany was the c...

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The previous knowledge that I had on the German in the pre-World War II era prepared me for the information of the difficult times. However, the rate of inflation was astonishing and the absolute distaste and disgust the loss of the First World War produced were two key factors that I had before over-looked. ...

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Italy had been promised extra land by Britain and France during the war, but when the war ended it was not handed over. ... the governments after the war were weak. they were coalitions (made up of more than one party) and were not able to take decisions. ... 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. ... Different strands of the idea Germany, Italy and Japan adopted some variations of fascism by the 1930s until up to the end of World War II. After the war there was...

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Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. ... The humiliation imposed by the victors in the Great War, coupled with the hardship of the economic Depression, created bitterness and anger. ... Fascism offered an alternative to the system of parliamentary democracy which failed to solve the post-war social and economic problems. ... However, it was in Germany that the idea of a "super race- was brought to a frightening conclusion with the killing of 6 million Jews (final solution) by the end of the war. ... The post war years saw strikes and demonstrations ...

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Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. ... The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... It also does not prove that they were not anti-Semitic before the war. ... He does not consider the men significantly affected by the anti-Semitic environment in which they had been immersed over the decade prio...

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He was responsible for the start of World War II and for the implementation and execution of the Holocaust by methodically exterminating nearly eleven million people (History, 2015). ... He fought in World War I, gained the rank of corporal, and won several awards for bravery. ... Soon after the war, Hitler's political career began when he joined the National Socialist German Worker's Party (also known as the Nazi Party), an anti-Semitic, nationalist group. His powerful speeches fueled anger over Germany's defeat of the war by implicating Jews in a conspiracy against Germ...

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Even Mussolini's and Hitler's fascist states - allied Axis forces in World War II - were far from identical. ... Fascist economic programs supported the wealthy, and until he instituted a war economy, Mussolini provided minimum interference to industrialists, cut taxes on business and decreed wage reduction (RoSo, 2002). ...

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Winston in "1984" had observed the ironic language that been used by Newspeaker, which is called doublethink, to gain power from the people: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (17) One of the famous dictatorships in the history of World War II that has threatened so many people's lives in the Holocaust as well as known for his Nazi Party of Germany is Adolf Hitler. ... Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann once said: "Of course the people don't want war. ...

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However, Hitler's further expansion of the Reich without force came to an end when Great Britain declared war on Germany for the invasion of Poland, September 1939. ... World War II officially began after Hitler's march on Poland and the succession of rapid defeats and occupation of France, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, and Belgium became known as the Lightning War due to the German Wehrmacht's ability to strike quickly with little to no resistance. ... Once the US entered the war after the attack on Pearl Harbor by Germany's ally Japan; Hitler declared war on the United St...

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World War II was simply viewed as Hitler's war, and all responsibility for it began and ended with him.' ... In modern days, the personality of Adolf Hitler is usually linked to the Second World War. Historians have tried to re-examine the origins of the war and the dictator's responsibility for it. ... At the end of The Great War, Germany had many restrictions towards armament, army. ... Also, after the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Italy closed an alliance treaty in 1938 called the Rome-Berlin Axis. ...

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They felt it was too harsh, that it was a forceful 'dictated' peace, and most importantly, they felt they had not lost the war, and so did not deserve such severe punishment. ... The treaty required Germany to pay the Allies reparations for the damage incurred during World War I. ... For many Germans hyperinflation caused more suffering than the war, which resulted in festering anger and resentfulness. The blame was not laid on the Kaiser's war government which had started the inflation by its borrowing trend. ...

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