Gothic Cathedrals "Throughout the earlier half of this millennium, one of the grandest stories in European history was written primarily in stone,"" (Gothic Dreams 1). The Gothic age was a time of overwhelming change in the area of architecture. The origin of intellectual and religious life...
Soldiers working at concentration camps committed horrible acts of cruelty and brutality against Jews and others. Most soldiers enjoyed their job while a few others actually tried to help the prisoners. The soldiers working at the camps were called the Schutzstaffel, or SS for short. The SS began as an elite group of bodyguards for Hitler. The job of many of the SS was to kill every communist party official and every Jew they could capture. ...
Germany's condition after the Second World War was harrowing. The destruction was evident; entire families were separated or destroyed, food was scarce, towns and cities lay in ruins, the economy had plummeted and unemployment was at an all-time high. Other European countries faced the same emergenc...
The setting was perfect because the people of Germany were itching for any leader that would tell them just what they wanted to hear. World War I was over and the people of Germany were in an economic depression that crippled the country. The German mark had lost so much value that it took a wheelba...
