Many people since then feared a communist takeover. ... Every communist official must be shot. All communist deputies must be hanged this very night. All friends of the Communists must be locked up and that goes for the Social Democrats and the Reichsbanner as well!" ... The Nazis then went on to burn the Reichstag on 28th February, blaming the communists for it. ...
In prison he wrote the Mein Kamph (My Struggle) It talked about his hatred against Jews and Communists. ... During the summer of 1932 Nazi`s and communists fought it out and died on the streets of every major city in Germany. ... As soon as Hitler learned a of the fire, he blamed the communist. Van der Lubbe did have the communist sympathies, but he was not a member of the Communist Party There was no evidence that party members, let alone communist deputies in the Reichstag were part of a conspiracy to burn the parliament building. ... Then within a few days, three thousand communists ...
In prison he wrote the Mein Kamph (My Struggle) It talked about his hatred against Jews and Communists. ... During the summer of 1932 Nazi`s and communists fought it out and died on the streets of every major city in Germany. ... As soon as Hitler learned a of the fire, he blamed the communist. Van der Lubbe did have the communist sympathies, but he was not a member of the Communist Party There was no evidence that party members, let alone communist deputies in the Reichstag were part of a conspiracy to burn the parliament building. ... Then within a few days, three thousand communists ...
January 5th 1919 saw an unprepared and badly staged Spartacist putsch, where the communist's led by 'Red Rosa' Luxemburg, captured the headquarters of the governments newspapers and the telegraph bureau. ... Most importantly, Rosa Luxemburg and fellow Spartacist Communist leader Karl Liebknecht were murdered, stripping the communists of their leaders. Not only did the failed and fruitless rising influence people further from the communists, due to such unreliable politics, but the loss of both leaders suppressed the communist movement such that they didn't recover. Both fac...
In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. ... At first, they took away the rights of minority groups, such as the Communist and the Jews, then they took away the rights of trade unionist, and other groups until eventually the German citizens had no rights left in which to stop the government from further impinging on their freedom. ... Nazi Political Opposition Among the first groups to be targeted by the Nazi's, were oppositional political parties, such as the Communist. Upon taking office in early 1933...
Hitler justified his decision by arguing that he was attempting to save Europe from "communist barbarism". ... The Soviet Union provided considerable help to the Spanish Communist Party to improve its position in the Popular Front government. This included the removal of the socialist Francisco Largo Caballero as prime minister and replacing him with the communist sympathizer, Juan Negrin. ...
With the current environment and situation of Italy and Europe of this time, help could be found within Communists and slowly people began to support Communism and it's popular ideals. ... Mussolini was using the idea of national rebirth to rally his countrymen behind him and promoted racial superiority & ethnic persecution where as the Italian communists believed in equality of all people. ... In comparison to the Communists in Russia, the Blackshirts resembled the Soviets used as the arm behind the meaning. ... Just like the communists, Mussolini used organized violence to spread opp...
Then by that conviction, Hitler's supporters roamed the country, harassing Communists, Socialists and any others judged to be a threat to ensure that the Nazis achieve absolute power in the Reichstag. ... By March 1933 the Communists had been banned from taking their seats, and the Enabling Act gave the Cabinet a variety of legislative and budgetary powers and the authority to suspend the constitution. ... Germany had experienced governments of every kind of political amalgamation and character, had suffered a terrifying national bankruptcy, paralysing inflation and a Communist Putsch...
Rumors of revolution and a government take over by the communist shattered Hitler. " I lay there broken with great pains, although I did not let on how I felt; for it was repugnant of me to cry out at a time when you could feel that a collapse was coming." ...
In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. ... One of the essential step to the full dominance of the nazi party was the Reichstag Fire, which the Nazis blamed the Communists for, even though the origin of the fire is unclear and it's supposed that this was just a dishonest mean planned by Hitler to gain more power. ... The teaching of school subjects was changed to brainwash the young people : History was distorted to celebrate the Germans and blame the Jews and the Communists for the disasters, biology tau...
As if from nowhere, in 1933, a black cloud of hate began to rise over Europe and quickly darkened the sky. Before the storm was over, twenty years later, some forty million people lay dead in its wake. As a result, the map of the world had been reshaped. The only way to explain how such a thing coul...
Hitler turned to still wealthy and powerful German industrialists for money to fund his rallies and campaigns and in return promised a disciplined work force ( trade unions would be abolished) and protection against communists. ... It has always been thought that the fire was deliberately burnt by the Nazi party, but Hitler blamed the communists. ...
World War I, a war fought to "destroy the axis of evil" and to resolve conflicts between belligerent countries, brought nothing but turmoil and numerous dilemmas to the warring nations; politically and economically. Immediately after the war, many people thought the war had made a safe environment for democracy in all countries. Peace was thought to have been restored among the world. People's views of the world were tainted and many nations began to struggle. In the years following the end of World War I, Americans found themselves in an era, known as the "Roaring Twenties," where the...
Hitler was appointed as Instruction Officer and given the task of introducing anti-Communist attitudes in selected officers and men. ... Hitler took donations from anti-Communist businesses and with this money in December 1920 Hitler bought a bankrupt newspaper calledVolkischer Beobachter?. ...
Later that year Lenin introduced the "New Economic Policy" and the country seemingly began to regain control of the economy, despite the dismay of the communists. ... He says that Orff first employed his primitive idiom, the one now associated with his "Nazi" pieces, in songs predating the Nazi regime, to words by the eventual Hitler refugee Franz Werfel and the eventual Communist poet laureate Bertolt Brecht. ...
Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. ...
The task of explaining why appeasement, has been continuously addressed by historians over the years. To date, there is still no single cause identified. Nonetheless there is however a general consensus amongst historians that the frightful events of world war one, distilled a sense of fear and regret amongst British society, and consequently Britain strived to prevent any future war, through whatever means necessary. In the aftermath of World War 1, lay a mutual understanding between the British government and society that never again should a catastrophe such as World War 1 occur, it was...
