this was good for normal Germans as it meant that there shops could prosper from more business as the Jewish department stores were no longer there. But if you were a Jew, it was the first move of Hitler's towards wiping them out. Therefore, if you were German and a non-Jew you bene...
After the invasion of Poland in 1940, Hitler sent a group of archaeologists to try to prove that the Germans had lived there first and had legitimate claim to the land. But the quest to prove Germany's superiority didn't start with World War II; it started quite a few years earlier. ...
Moreover, it wasn’t like the Axis Powers were a real alliance in the same way that the Allies were. They never planed anything jointly and they never really worked together. The Japanese never gave advance notification to the Germans that they were going to launch a surprise attack on the...
FRANK MCLYNN
Rise of the Nazi Party So, how did Hitler come to power? The grim atmosphere of the early 1930s greatly contributed to the rise of Hitler’s Nazi Party as it left the Germans desperate for a strong leader. They considered the German government to be weak and the actions of Bruning, the...
and conquer surrounding countries, the support he received from German citizens made it easy for him to proceed with the agenda. The deteriorating economic conditions for the German citizens and Hitler’s promise of restoring Germany’s power and wealth made him a viable leader for the Germans. ...
Everyone knows that the Frenchmen are romantic, the Italians are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail?
Everyone knows that the Frenchmen are romantic, the Italians are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail? At least one group of people is certain...
Why did Hitler build motorways? At the time, it seemed clear that very few Germans would be able to afford their own car in order to drive on the new motorways. So Nazi propaganda promised the people full mobility. Theidea was to enable everybody to travel- not just the rich. This was...
people of certain races. They started with the Nuremberg Laws when Hitler became the most powerful. Hitler was a strange man who blamed Jews for the fall of Germany. There are several reasons as to why we study the Holocaust, the most important is so we never face something like this ...