1. To What Extent Could Nazi Germany Be Considered A Totalitarian State In The Period 1933-45?
It was customary for them to burn crosses on hillsides and near the homes of who they wished to frighten. ... By a law enacted on Dec. 1, 1933 the Nazi party was "indissolubly joined to state." ... Party members of "Pure" German blood 18 years or older swore allegiance to the Fuhrer and according to the reich law were accountable for their actions only in special party courts. ...
As the nation neared revolution and civil war Hitler skillfully rode national emotions. ... On March 23 1933, Hitler presented the Reichstag with an enabling law empowering him to rule by decree, the Social Democrats were the one group to vote against it. ...
This strategy, mixed with the near perfect timing of the depression, would be used by an aggressive minority, to overwhelm and persuade the easily impressionable majority into mass conformity. ... This gave him authority to make his own laws without the approval of the Reichstag thus giving him dictatorial powers and assuming the official title Fuhrer of the German people. ...
Hitler gave them a chance to be thugs and gave them an idealistic purpose built around revenge for the fatherland he also put them above the law able to commit any crime to serve his purpose. ... Near the end of the war he created an atmosphere that convinced the Germans that they could not give up or they may face the rape and plunder of the country. ...
As private citizens, they complied with the laws and tried to avoid the terrorizing activities of the Nazi regime. ... Elie had remembered something, "He had felt that hius father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival" (Night 87). ...
Introduction: The Weimar Republic was created after World War I with Germany in a state of near-anarchy. ... But the problem became even worse when in 1923 French and Belgian troops invaded the Ruhr which was a heavy industrial area for Germany, the French and Belgians were perfectly within the law to do this under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles since Germany had been late in making a payment. ...
If there were no abiding laws, cloning would go beyond the realms in which it belongs and could possibly cause major destruction to our society. ... Society should take strict precautions in order to prevent a "master race" from rising again in the near future. ...