Essays on Adolf Hitler

It is not rocket science that Jews suffered a great deal in the hands of the German war machine. The Nazis were a dangerous lot. They did not have mercy. However, even though they suffered, many chose to endure the suffering and die while fighting for their rights to exist. If it were me, I would have done the same thing as they did. I would not have gone anywhere. Knowing very well that access to safer grounds like America were denied, I would have stayed and suffered with others. Though the temptation to flee, either to America or

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Introduction

According to Jowett & O’Donnell (1), propaganda is a method of communication which tries to elicit a response that propagates the desired intention of the propagandist. The art of propaganda has been studied in an array of multidisciplinary researches in the fields of journalism, sociology, history, political science and psychology. To study the art of propaganda as history means examining propagandist practices as distinct events and the resultant events as likely effects of propaganda. Nazi films were predominantly propagandist in that they aimed at influencing attitudes on life in a given context, and in terms of particular people and

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The movie “Hitler: The Rise of Evil” clearly depicts the personality Adolf Hitler possessed. The miseries suffered throughout his childhood; the hard relationships with his father and following deaths of both parents have given birth to cognitive dissonance that accompanied him throughout his life. He was more than aware of the lives of Germans in Austria and Germany as he had seen personally the social stratum of both nations. As was noted in the movie, he acted on the pure basis of understanding of the behavior of human-beings. He was a psychologist; the experience of influence of his speeches

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Barth, Emmy. An Embassy Besieged: The Story of the Christian Community in Nazi Germany. Eugene, Or: Cascade Books, 2010. Print.
This book elaborates the efforts of Adolf Hitler and its political system while trying to eliminate Christianity in Germany. The book uses relevant sources of information making it reliable for the study of the history of Germany in relation to the dictatorship of Hitler against Christianity. This is of the essence in ensuring that the historians have relevant facts pertaining to the acts of dictatorship perpetrated by Hitler. The author of this book is an experienced lecturer of political

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In the Night written by the Elie Wiesel, the author describes his misery in the Holocaust. He uses the imagery to demonstrate the dehumanization of the Jewish people in the Nazi camp. These Jews were forced to survive deceitful conditions in the concentration camps. The incarcerated Jews were subjected to the most horrible forms of inhuman treatment. This made Jews lose their mentality and morality because they were pushed beyond their capability of dealing with oppressing brutality, starvation, exhaustion and diseases among others. The change of the character and morality can be attributed to the dehumanization that they experienced,

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Essay for Lesson 6: The Holocaust

Introduction
The mere mention of the Holocaust could already arouse eerily suspicious reactions from those who know about it. The idea of systematically slaughtering the Jewish people because of unfounded accusations against their racial inferiority has heaped condemnation against the Holocaust as perhaps one of the most heinous crimes ever committed in human history. Historians would even go as far as asserting that the Holocaust is the most terrible act ever committed against humans, its impact being unparalleled by any other recorded event in human history. While one could assert the foregoing statement as a subject of an intense

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What is the Holocaust? The Holocaust is by far one of the most brutal and inhumane occurrences within the pages of human history relating to wars, imperialism and power definition in the field of political standards that define leadership and how it affects the overall living stature of humans in particular areas of the world. The Nazi rule during the time specifically affected the thinking of many people towards the Jews and other individuals who did not submit to the governmental administration of Hitler’s primary administration. The violence directed towards these individuals specifically escalated the hate that people

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Essay for Lesson 5: Hitler and the Aestheticization of Politics

Introduction
One of the reasons behind the success of the Nazi Party in taking over Germany is on its extensive use of propaganda. Adolf Hitler, known for his penchant for populism, rendered the strong impact of images, films and other materials attributed to Nazism as essential for the political success of the Nazi Party and its agenda for Germany. As an authoritarian leader, Hitler saw the importance of extracting the patronage of the Germans not through forceful means, but through convincing and motivating measures that enticed their mental faculties. To make such a vision possible, Hitler commissioned the talents

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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta was born on 26th August 1910 in Albania. She was an Indian Roman Catholic sister who is known for establishing many organizations and projects across the globe. she received many awards during her lifetime with the most honorable being the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
Teresa of Calcutta is a person of good character following many awards, a good reputation she created to her subjects as well as to her acts of mercy, motivation and development. Her good character is known to date since people consider her as a humane person because of her care for

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The world is full of symbols and images that, in one way or another, impact our visual experience. However, most of these images and symbols are not original creation but rather a reflection of past cultures that have influenced contemporary art. The ancient Egyptians, for example, are well known for their pyramids. These pyramids primarily serve as a graveyard as well as a grave monument for pharaohs and their families. Ancient Egyptians believe that after death, their pharaohs would traverse the underworld. For the same reason, the pyramids were built because of the belief that the deceased

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One example of the cognitive dissonance was the French Revolution. People of France thought they are being oppressed by the monarchs in the region, and in particular the Queen. As a result of this, violent protests started throughout France. The monarchs tried to curb the revolution by arresting the rebels, and by using fear tactics to make sure that this revolution does not spread. However, the revolution did spread under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte, and the French Emperors were executed by the violent Mob. This is an example of Cognitive Dissonance because the authority in the form of

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"Mein Kampf" is a Hitler's book in which he in details stated his political program. In Hitlerite Germany "Mein Kampf" was considered as the bible of national socialism, it gained fame even before issue, and many of Germans believed that the nazi leader is capable to realize everything that planned on pages of the book.
The racial doctrine of Hitler was the main subject of the book. Germans, he wrote, have to realize superiority of Aryan race and store racial purity. Their obligation is to increase nation population to execute the mission - to reach world supremacy. Despite defeat

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Adolf Hitler started writing Mein Kampf- My Struggle- while in jail. The book discusses his childhood, aspirations, and the internal conflicts arising from his father’s expectations of him following his footsteps to become part of the civil service. As a child, Hitler did not feel challenged with school; however, he aspired to be an artist or painter but his father is not pleased about it. He gained interest in history; he started to study about the Germany-Austria history. Hitler studied Karl Marx and Jewish race theories, his hatred for the Jews starts to grow. In the book, it

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The following paper highlights the role of words or language in the life of the major character Liesel. The introduction shows that general background of the paper and the overall setting of the novel. Zusak integrates his voice in the novel as he use Liesel to show the difference that word make in the lives of individuals. The paper also compares the way that Hitler uses words to manipulate the German people against how Liesel uses language to ease the burden of the characters she interacts with. In addition, there are the influential factors that play an integral role

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The denazification efforts of the United States in Germany after the Second World War were an attempt to transform the Nazist ideals imposed by Adolf Hitler into the democratic ideals laid by the Americans, which turned out to be a failure. The process of denazification began in Germany after the death of Hitler. Germany split up into four regions as per the Potsdam conference. The Soviet Union, the Great Britain, the United States and France gained each part of the country. Though they had their individual agendas on how to address the country, they placed denazification above all agendas.

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The Second World War of 1939-1945 is often known as the war that redefined the international balance of power with the rise of the United States and the Soviet Union as the world’s first superpowers and the decline of Europe. Others, on the other hand, would remember the war because of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany and the eccentricities of its leader, Adolf Hitler. In terms of his military and political strategy, experts were torn from lauding Hitler for his ingenuity and elaborate schemes to criticizing him because of the impacts it brought to Europe. However, it

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How Ordinary Men Became Genocidal Killers in the Holocaust

Introduction
The Second World War was a watershed even in the history of the world. Over a period of six years, the War brought to the fore some of the worst excesses of mankind in a purgatory of hate and violence in the form of the Holocaust. The Final Solution, mass extermination of the Jews, left deep scars in the psyche of humanity.
While the contours of the Holocaust may have been the product of the skewed brains of Adolf Hitler, the sole blame of the entire saga of mass murder cannot be left at Hitler’s doorstep alone.

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The film Schindler’s List features the story of German named Oskar Schindler. The film was about an epic historical drama of what occurred during the tragic period in history—the World War II. However, the focus of this paper is with regards to the character of Oskar Schindler who happens to be a well-witted man who has lured the Nazi’s into believing that he was their ally while saving more Jews from the gas chamber. Nevertheless, Schindler was the typical Robin Hood. Amidst the mask of being a villain, he was in fact, a

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Literature Review

Literature Review
Hitler Youth presents a comprehensive account of HitlerJugend by revisiting the origin of the idea of the HitlerJugend and the situation in the pre-WWII. The book describes the interwar time in the Weimar Republic. The author of this book notes that there existed numerous youth leagues of varied types that joined to change the national politics. Particularly, he argues that these leagues provided the foundation for the establishment of the Hitlerjugend, the league that caused a great impact on the national politics. Kater provides an exclusive review of the governance and the objectives of the Nazi Youth

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Introduction

Overview of Nazism
National Socialism or Nazism is a political ideology which was the doctrine of political leadership in Germany at the time of the Third Reich, and in several other countries. According to many political propagandists has much in common with fascism and communism and usually classified as one of its variants. The term "fascism" is used to refer to a wide range of political movements that have existed in different countries, while the term "national socialism" is used most often in connection with the Nazi Party and the Third Reich. The first systematic and critical analysis of

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Introduction: The Third Reich

When Hitler assumed dictatorship of Germany and became the Fuhrer, he propagated Fascism, then prevalent in Mussolini’s Italy, under the banner of Nazism; wherein the State became all powerful and welfare was entirely in his hands. The Nazis came to power by promising to take Germany out of the post World War I economic depression. The treaty of Versailles was a blow to German pride, the country was reeling under all the war debts and the Great Depression was another blow to their economy. Germans were vulnerable and Nazi propaganda and the Hitler myth was successful in claiming

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Introduction

The Holocaust, a Greek work, meaning 'killed by fire', refers to the systematic mass persecution and genocide of the Jews executed by the Nazi Party under the leadership of Adolf Hitler throughout Germany and German occupied territories across Europe. Jews were not the only victims of the holocaust, which claimed the lives of millions other including disabled people, gypsies, homosexuals and the war prisoners. Infamous for bringing the Jewish race near extermination, the holocaust accounts for the loss of the lives of "eleven million innocent victims" in total, including about 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jewish Nazi victims.

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- As a man obsessed with aesthetic art, Hitler found it extremely complicated to understand the modern art, especially abstract art because of the exaggerated forms and shapes of the subjects.
- Hitler was a frustrated artist. His paintings were mediocre and not that good compared to other artists especially those belonging from the earlier periods. When he became a leader of the Nazi party, Hitler wanted to conquer not only the whole European land but also to dominate the European culture. Hence, by plundering the art museums of Paris and other countries, Hitler immediately started to create a new

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English

Adolf Hitler is the name that is connected with an image of a maniac; a man with direct responsibility for suffering, and death of millions of innocent people. Various studies that have been carried out throughout several years show that the barbarities committed by the Third Reich, and the immediate part of Adolf Hitler in the Final Solution seem to be broadly viewed as both the most vital, and most significant individual occasion in the present history.
Despite the fact that a lot of researchers have given colossal deliberations in an endeavor to explain the actions of Adolf Hitler

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Esi Edugyan’s novel Half Blood Blues, with its tale of mixed-race characters, jazz, and Nazi Germany, focuses chiefly on the presence of ‘undesirables’ – people who the status quo rejects in some form or another. In the case of 1939 Berlin, people of non-white descent (such as the half-white Hiero Falk) were targeted for elimination and arrest. This left others who could mask their ‘undesirability’ (such as the lighter-skinned Sid Griffiths) to have an easier time escaping the horrors of World War II and Nazism. Many things are mixed in Half Blood Blues, as its title suggests – races are

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It has been roughly 7 decades since the Second World War came to an end, culminating in a much-anticipated victory of the Allies over the countries representing the Axis Power. While gradually defeating the major belligerents, as Germany, Japan, and Italy, and fighting their way forward towards the heart of the evil alliance, aka Germany, the forces of the USA, the UK, France, and the USSR would often encounter specific facilities for prisoner detention. Concentration camps used to be detention facilities in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, the year that the Allies inflicted a crushing defeat on the

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The holocaust was the avoidable genocide that was never avoided. Its fires raged not only in Germany but also all the other countries of the world who were touched in one way or another by the happenings in Germany at the time. In fact, the holocaust stands as one systematic and organized effort of a government to destroy part of its population in modern era times. This then leads to many questions about what could have been done in order to stop it. It happened at such a time when all the nations of the world were standing and

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Nazi Propaganda Themes from The 1930s

Propaganda is the dissemination of biased or misleading information. It is a tool used to influence large groups of people so as to promote a political cause. The Nazi regime, which was an authoritarian regime, used propaganda to ensure that power was consolidated in the party. One of the main themes of Nazi propaganda was the theme of appeal to national unity. This was based upon the principle ‘The community before the individual’. It allowed the Nazis to consolidate power and ensure that their aims were coordinated with those of the German people. The propaganda of national unity was

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Research has managed to establish some form of relationship between mass murder in Germany and sexual morality. Despite the issue of sexuality being seen by many as a frivolous subject for discussion in the wake of the horrific crimes related to Nazism, the truth of the matter is that through studying sexuality, the correct perspective in understanding the history of Germany in the 2oth century is met. There is much debate as to which role sexuality and sexual immorality played in the period characterized by the world war. Through such discussion, one gets a proper insight as to the

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A lot of horrific things took place during the genocide of nearly 6 million Jews at the hands of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germans, which is now remembered as the Holocaust. Perhaps that is why singling out and choosing the thing that was the most moving about the Holocaust is not an easy task. Perhaps not the most moving, but the most enduring thing about the Holocaust is the fact the reason it had succeeded was because feelings of detestation and loathing for the Jews had been provoked through the sanctioning of the state, i.e. the Nazi government.
Sure,

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Ernst Lubitsch (1942): To be or not to be
Ernst Lubitsch, a Jewish-German, directed the film to be or not to be in 1942 together with Jack Benny, and Carole Lombard, who act the couple Torra. This is a couple of actors who had led a theatre team in Warsaw and were busy in rehearsing an anti-Nazi play a time when Germans had invaded Poland. In the film, the group becomes an active secretive participant and through their costumes they manage to deceive the Nazis together with their cooperators. The film illustrates the Nazis racism and violence instead

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Synopsis

The movie ‘Casablanca’ is set in the World War II setting. One of the main characters Rick owns a makeshift café in the northern Africa town of Casablanca in Morocco. He refuses to take sides in the war despite his long standing opposition to the Nazis. The movie revolves around Rick and his relationship with a young woman named Ilsa. His short association with her causes him great resentment, even derailing his insurgency against the Nazis. The story runs from a time they were having a good time in Paris. The lived and chose not to reveal too much

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History

The Paris 1937 Expo, formally known as the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (French for “International Exposition dedicated to Art and Technology in Modern Life”), is an international exposition hosted in Paris, the capital of France, in 1937. Most notable about the Paris 1937 Expo is the front view of the Eiffel Tower flanked by the pavilions of Nazi Germany, to the left, and the Soviet Union, to the right, which provides the impression of a magnanimous showdown between both nations providing a vivid prelude to the Second World War that started years later.

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Introduction

The Nazis were among the most powerful people during the Second World War. This was stimulated by the supremacy of one Adolf Hitler. The Jews were unwanted in Germany; this brought about the reason of phasing off all the Nazi inhabitants who lived in Germany. They were considered to be traitors and their effect as well as their take of humanity was undetermined.
The Nazi forced the Jews out of Germany by use of trains. These Nazis were among the remnants of the holocaust of the six million Jews population. These Jews were exterminated from the society due to

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Introduction

History is the study of past human affairs. This area of learning educates people about the significant events that shaped the world into its present state. Today, everyone can learn historical details either through watching films or reading historical books. In this paper, I would like to give an in-depth analysis regarding a historical film of my interest, ‘Der Untergang (Downfall)’ directed by Olivier Hirschbiegel. The film itself is an accurate portrayal of people’ lives during Hitler’s final ten day reign over Germany. Downfall also showed Hitler during his insanity and eventually defeat. It is a historical account

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Introduction
Throughout World War II, the Nazis carried out some of the most unthinkable and horrific experiments upon human beings, often citing science as a valid reason for their actions. As accounts of these experiments began to leak out prior to and throughout the Nuremberg Trials, they had a profound effect upon people’s comprehension of man’s insatiable curiosity and his inclination towards evil. Since there is hardly any precedent or ensuing studies conducted to support the results from these experiments, it has long been conjectured as to whether their findings should be admissible in modern publications or

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Elie Wiesel’s Night, the author’s autobiographical tale of his experiences in German concentration camps during the Second World War, is a harrowing story of family, helplessness and the simple human drive to survive. While the story focuses primarily on the Jews who are imprisoned, tortured and killed in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, one fascinating perspective is how the German soldiers are portrayed. The Nazi soldiers of the book are depicted as largely inhuman monsters, who strip the Jews of their identity and agency; while there are the occasional moments where the Germans are shown to just be following

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- Explain the process of Gleichschaltung and give some concrete examples. What was Gleichschaltung? How "successful" was it before the end of the Nazi regime in May 1945?
Gleischaltung was the achieving of total power in Germany by Hitler and the Nazi Party confirming that there was only one person who was really in command. Hitler set about achieving this through various means which included the complete denuding of state power and parliamentary process and centralizing everything in what was called the ‘FuhrerPrinzip’ which intrinsically meant that the Fuhrer was all powerful (Kershaw p 75).
The process of power consolidation

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When the German Nazis took over the country, they were bent on making sure that the Jews did not have any place in the country. As such, they tried al means possible to make sure that all Jewish works and passions were treated as rubbish. One of the areas in which they touched on was art. This paper looks at how they degraded the works of art, terming them as degenerate and less useful to the country.
Kunst, in the German language, means degenerate art. It was initially used to define the Jewish works by the Nazis. They looked

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Introduction

Nazi experimentations involved numerous medical experiments carried on prisoners without their consents. The experiments were carried out to all individuals including Jews, Roma, disabled non-Jews, and Soviet POWs. World War II prisoners in concentration camps were used as the in the experiments in order to enhance and advance science. Most of the experiments were aimed at improving military personnel’s efficiency during the war. After the World War II, leading experiment doctors faced justice when they were tried in the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. An approximate twenty leading doctors were charged with various crimes against humanity. It was during

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