The Nuremberg trials were the result of the Soviet Union, Britain, and the United States seeking legal action against the Nazi’s who played important roles in the Holocaust and the war. Before they came to the conclusion that they would hold the trials “Allied opinions divided over the use of trials or courts-martial with summary […]
The last survivor from the Nuremberg Trials is alive. His name is Benjamin Ferencz, he is 95 and was one of the lead prosecutors at the trials, specifically the Einsatzgruppen, also known as the speical S.S. unit designed to mass murder, trial. In class only part of the trials were covered so I followed the […]
Even with all the evidence of Nazi war crimes, many former members of the regime either deny it happened or refuse to accept any responsibility, citing duty as a soldier and that they were just following orders from the Fuhrer. There have been numerous times when many have denied the holocaust as well as refusing […]
One of the pieces of Nazi Germany that has been discussed over and over this semester and has interested me is the idea of conscience. In Sophie Scholl, we see that her and her brother encouraged the Nazis they encountered to think about what they were actually practicing. It was in her interrogation where the […]
With finishing up the last couple classes of the semester, all of the instances that lead up to and contributed to World War II come into place. The Nuremberg Trials were interesting to say the least. In multiple cases, The Nazis continued to put the blame on other people. They claimed that they were just […]
A common theme that the Nazis used during the Nuremberg Trials was blaming others for their own charge. Those that had done the actual killing stated that they were just following orders. Those that ordered the killings, reported that they did not murder anyone. I feel that no matter what situation a soldier is in, […]
If you asked the average American citizen the question, “Who were Hans and Sophie Scholl”? They would not have a clue. If you asked the average American college student the answer would be the same. If you asked this question to a student who had a major or minor in Modern European History or […]
The story of Sophie Scholl is a powerful one to say the least. She was a smart and determined woman, who made her own choices in life. She was around twenty years old when she was put to death for doing just that, being a stong minded woman. She and her brother were apart of a […]
In the face of Nazi persecution and acceleration of the fascist police state, very few voices were recorded to have openly opposed Hitler and the injustice of the regime. Well known are small groups such The White Rose, and The Edelweiss Pirates. One moral authority that is highly criticized for not speaking out against the […]
Resistance has and will continue to be a vital part of society. Resistance brings about change. The change is not always necessary or positive, but resistance would be present. During the Nazi regime, resistance was uncommon but needed. People of the likes of Sophie Scholl and everyone else behind The White Rose had stones to […]
One of the most important takeaways from Sophie Scholl and the Nuremberg Trial transcripts is the real-world application of critical thinking, and what that actually means. The common refrain from the Nuremberg Trials was “I was just following orders”, in one form or another. This could be either their way of passing the blame or the […]
When Hitler and the Nazis gained power in Germany, they instituted many means of controlling the lives of German citizens. One of these methods was eliminating the right to free speech. How effective was this? What happened to those who stood up against this? The film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days answers these questions. In […]
I just wanted to take time during this last blog to discuss this class as a whole. I have always been interested in the Nazi Regime and how it functioned because it truly amazes me how they did so much is such a short period of time and how they affected the culture. Now that […]
The IMT famously sentenced 10 prominent Nazi members to death after the conclusion of the Nuremberg Trials, and established a credo that “crimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and only by punishing individuals who commit such crimes can the provisions of international law be enforced.” Now that the IMT […]
Looking at the trials that took place in Europe for war crimes against humanity had many moral and ethical ideology within the trials itself. A major moral issue of the trials was connected with how do the allies punish the Nazis. In doing so some people were thinking how to punish them for crimes against […]
In another class I am taking called Japan during the Second World War we’ve been discussing the Tokyo war crimes trials that took place after Japan surrendered the war. Which is where most of the information I’m using for this post comes from. The Nuremberg trials were very different than the Tokyo War Crimes trials […]
Military historians debate to this day the wisdom or folly of Adolf Hitler’s decision to invade the Soviet Union. Hitler, in effect, created the two front war that he so desperately wanted to avoid. So why did he do it? Many historians believe Hitler invaded the Soviet Union to capture Lebensraum, the living space that […]
The entire transcript of the Nuremberg Trial was certainly an interesting read. What really struck me from the start of the transcript and from reading the testimonies, particularly from Goering and is how firmly he believed in Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. What I mean by this, is how Goering repeatedly referred to Hitler […]
In the past week we have covered topics related to the resistance during World War II, specifically the White Rose. As I recently wrote my term paper on the resistance in Norway I became intrigued with looking more at resistance at universities in Norway. In Spielvogel’s book, Hitler and Nazi Germany: A History, he stated, […]
After watching Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (and having also seen Die Weiße Rose) I am so amazed at how Sophie handled everything. She took the risks knowing fully well she could be arrested at any moment, but she believed the cause was greater than her. For example, when she offers to take the suitcase of leaflets […]
Recently on Netflix I found a documentary titled Treblinka: Hitler’s Killing Machine. I watched the entire thing. It was only an hour, but it gave me a new insight to what it was really like inside of these death camps. The main objective of the documentary was about Caroline Sturdy Colls who is a British […]
One thing that I always find fascinating is footage from events rather than recreations. Mein Krieg is a perfect example of something that I would watch for the use of being able to actually see what people back then saw, with the exception of color. Photography of war became really popular with the Civil War. […]
The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act. – Stanley Milgram, 1974 After world war two, many people wondered what kind of people did it take […]
Many people believe that they have a high set of morality. They believe that if given negative circumstances then they would make the right decision. That is how many of those serving in the German Armed Forces felt during World War II at the onset of their service. Many of the men did not wish […]
In the film Mein Krieg, we see how veterans of the German army reflected on their service during Germany’s invasion of Russia. All of the German veterans had filmed some part of their experiences and were questioned on what their thoughts were at the time and what they think about it now. Most of the […]
War time is hell no matter how a soldier experiences it. The numerous violent deaths and wounds that survivors have witnessed seems unbearable to me. Knowing how war affects people and along with the ideology of fighting till success or failure that Hitler had established within Germany, German commanders would break down the spirit of […]
Mein Krieg was a striking and very powerful movie. Even more so knowing that the main film in the movie was taken by actual soldiers in the war. It touches on the idea that these soldiers were just ordinary men, people like any other. I always wondered how the soldiers who survived the war and […]
Browning states in his book that, “Most dramatic and distressing to us was the observation of the ease with which sadistic behavior could be elicited in indiviudals who were not ‘sadistic types’.” 1. We all have had “bad days” when we said or did something to a family member or friend that we later […]
The conversations that we have had in class about “Ordinary Men” in the Reserve Police Battalion 101 I think really show what they were capable of from the charts in the back of the book in Browning. Table Number One shows the number of Jews shot by Battalion 101 and table two shows how many […]
Over the past few classes we have discussed the war on the eastern front, particularly on the atrocities committed by the Nazis. Through reading the book Ordinary Men and watching the movie Mein Krieg, we have seen how normal people can become callous killers. In Ordinary Men, only about a dozen men originally decide to avoid […]
We had talked in class last week about the trouble and hesitance of some of the soldiers in battalion 101. How when it came to shooting Jews, they either opted out or turned to drinking and other means to forget about their actions. Some didn’t want to admit to what they had done, and I […]
In the film Mein Kreig, many of the individuals interviewed commonly used the defense of superior orders. Some were more open about acting in error during their war service despite the insistence of their superiors that they carry out their duty. Others appeared ambivalent to the idea that their actions may have constituted immoral or […]
Memorial for the victims of the Jedwabne Pogrom In reading Ordinary Men, I learned many difficult truths about the enactment of the Final Solution in Poland. Yet of all the atrocities committed by the Germans, what I found to be especially impactful was the level of collaboration and complicity among Polish citizens. We often think that […]
As we all know the Nazi’s were extremely brutal in their treatment of Jews during the war. What most people don’t realize was that the Nazi’s were also horrible to any Soviet POW’s they captured throughout the war. The Nazi’s actually said that they were “under no obligation for the humane care of prisoners of war […]
As we have discussed in class, many of the men who took part in the atrocities of the war and the Holocaust were ordinary men. One of the explanations for their participation in these is based on the situation they were put into. In Christopher Browning’s novel Ordinary Men, one officer recalls that his lieutenant […]
Photo Journalism, Business, and other careers were where some of the men in Mein Krieg wanted to go with their lives. Instead they were drafted into the military. We all know how harmful this draft was, whether for those who wanted field jobs or desk jobs all wound up with a different kind of field job. […]
Watching the documentary “Mein Krieg” was certainly something that made me puzzled. After I was done watching the documentary, my reflection upon it was “why?” Why were these boys, at the time, allowed to record this “journey”? This was essentially a compilation of home videos of what these boys went through, and some of the […]
I am going to make this blog post a bit different. I read Olga Lengyel’s book Five Chimneys which is her story of survival in Auschwitz. There were many moments in the book where my jaw dropped and I literally had to put the book down because it was so horrific. I want to bring […]
Jozefow was one of the Jewish Ghettos that is mentioned in Ordinary Men. Originally, Jozefow was not a community created by the Nazi’s to alienate the Jews, rather a community created by Jews and Poles in the 18th century to live in harmony together. It was originally settled by the Zamoyski family, who owned and […]
In the film Mein Krieg, a German WWII veteran recalls the logistical nightmare facing the German Army as it raced through the Soviet Union in lightning speed: “It’s always a problem, no manual says what do you do with 90,000 prisoners? How do to shelter them, feed them?” (1) The short answer is the Nazis did neither. The […]
Operation Harvest Festival, in German called Aktion Erntefest, occurred on November 3, 1943, and was the largest mass killing of Jews by Germans in the entire WWII[1]. There is only one massacre that is larger, and that was the 1941 Odessa massacre, where Romanian troops killed more than 50,000 Jews. During the Harvest Festival, […]
German soldiers are often represented as cold and heartless in history books I have grown up with. They are represented through photos similar to the one shown here. In this photo soldiers look through massacred Jews for any possessions that can be deemed valuable. Although, in class we actually addressed the burden many of the […]
The video Mein Krieg was a very powerful film of the Eastern Front in WWII. The film shows a few survivors from the German army filming what they saw and talked about their experiences. In Mein Krieg, some of the film shows kids from the Hitler Youth program as well. In those films and what […]
Throughout all the history classes that I have taken here at UWGB, this class has to be my favorite. Learning about the European history especially during the Nazi Regime has been truly eye opening. Last week Thursday and this week Tuesday the assigned reading was the novel Ordinary Men by Browning. This novel was interesting to […]
In April of 1045, American troops of the 4th Armored Division of the 3rd Army were the first of the American troops to discover a concentration camp. This camp was called Ohrdruf and was a subcamp of Buchenwald, a larger camp in the area.1 In the late of 1944, around 10,000 prisoners were being housed […]
Rudolf Hoess was the commandant of Auschwitz and wrote an autobiography while awaiting his trial in Poland. In Hoess’ autobiography we can see that even after he had been caught, Hoess still refers to inmates of the camp as “vermin” and as a disease that needs to be “disinfected”. Hoess has no problem writing about […]
Its sad to think despite the liberation of the Death Camps so many Jews still died. The lack of nutrition and hardships they endured still followed them after the camps and led many to their deaths. I know it is morbid and terrible of me to say, but it is almost as if this outcome […]
Ideology is an impressive force. A look at modern-day America can show you exactly the power of a pervasive ideology, used for good and bad, depending on who you ask. What the story of the Reserve Police Battalion 101 shows two things: a hard limit of ideology and an aspect of the Nazi management that […]
The Einsatzgruppen was a section of the Order Police charged with carrying out the killing of Jews in Russia, they were split into four units that varied in size between 500 and 900 men. These units followed the main army’s push into Russia to seek out and destroy as many Jews as possible “3000 men […]
War is not an easy thing to live through. When one is a soldier it is expected that you will have to fight your fellow human beings and in the worst case even have to kill them. Being a soldier you can expect that war will be horrible. However, the men of Reserve Police Battalion […]
It’s very rare to hear a story of someone who escaped from concentration camps. However, in the memoirs of Samuel Willenberg, we get that exact experience. The story of this rebel is even more shocking when one considers that Samuel was merely 19 years old when he was deported to Treblinka (Sax & Kuntz 448). […]
For a different course, I had to examine an article about a topic of my liking. I chose to look at doctors in Nazi Germany and their role. The article from the other class really reminded me of the topics we were discussing in class this week. The article spoke about the practices that doctors […]
In order for the Jewish Holocaust to take place, the Germans had to dehumanize the Jews. Many reasons were given to murder that were insane rationales. Historian Christopher Browning gave a report from one of the German murderers, “I made the effort, and it was possible for me, to shoot only children… because I reasoned […]
Over the past few days in class we have been studying the most disturbing part of the war, the holocaust. One of the scariest things to me, besides the murders, was how despite some people thought what they were doing was wrong still participated in it anyway. Not all people however joined in with the final […]
Just imagine, you wake up one morning and there is a police officer at your front door. You and everyone who lives in your home are all brought into the living room. The officer then proceeds to tell you that you must pack a bag with only essentials. You are only allowed to one […]
Our textbook author, Spielvogel, states, “At Auschwitz, camp doctor Josef Mengele was especially notorious for his experimental surgery”.1. I would like to share a personal experience with you having to do with Dr. Mengele. In 1990 the Army sent me to Fort Bliss, Texas to attend the Sergeant Majors Academy. The course was a six […]
In the afterword of Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men, the author makes a rather spirited defense of his book against the sharp criticism of another historian and author, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen. Both men have written about the same topic, even the same Battalion 101, with significantly different conclusions. In Willing Executioners, Goldhagen argues that the vast majority of ordinary […]
How does one stumble onto the path of losing one’s humanity? One stone in the path, is the unforeseen seduction of the power of “enemy.” The concept of enemy – a being, force, object, or idea, that threatens “the good,” is a pervasive phenomenon present in all human communities. The need for enemy is […]
In primarily talking about the Death Camps of Nazi Germany this week, I thought it would be a good idea to turn towards the concentration camps for a little while. There were countless other people imprisoned in the concentration camps: political opponents of the Nazis, homosexuals, gypsies, and more. In the concentration camps, prisoners were […]
As we talked about major Trapp in class today I thought of another reason why Trapp stayed in his unit. To restate the discussion from class. Trapp stayed in service because he feels committed to Germany even with all of these in-human actions ordered by Hitler and the Nazi Party. He tries to rationalize why […]
Pressure from authority figures can cause many to do things that we would not desire to do. This can be anything from a small task or assignment to something as large as killing another individual. That being said, not all pressures are the same. Pressure of being reprimanded, receiving a bad grade, and being killed […]
As we discussed earlier in the semester, much of the basis for the continued survival was their philosophy of a “pirate economy” as the Nazi war machine stretched across mainland Europe, they plundered both agricultural, mechanical, and human resources from the lands where the Wehrmacht rolled through. In the latter years of the war, however, […]
It is easy to think about the individuals who took part in the murder of the Jews as mindless killers. We tend to forget that these people were humans and had feelings about what they were doing. Not everyone agreed with Nazi ideology, and many did not agree with the orders they received. As we […]
When I first began to read Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, I felt completely lost within the first few pages as to how many police organizations there were and who was sent where, how many groups of men there were, and what they did. Thus, I […]
When Hitler became the leader of Germany there was only one main goal that he wanted to achieve which was the creation of the perfect Aryan society which involved the destruction of the inferior race in society, the Jews. Hitler could not create a solution that would remove the Jews from the Germany. He first believed that it was […]
The reading that we did for Tuesday about the Death Camps was certainly a hard pill to swallow, and definitely one of the more emotional topics I have ever read about before. It was certainly sickening to read accounts, and try my best to understand how someone could have what seems to be absolutely no […]
As the Germans closed in on their “final solution” or the mass extermination of the Jews, they realized that it could not be done in Germany. Instead, the majority of the final solution was carried out in other countries as Jews were put on trains and transported around: “The Jews were then taken to train […]
The reading about death camps is one that is not easy. It makes you question your faith in humanity, how people can be so cruel, and many other things. When doing these readings seeing acts of resistance can be rare. The Jewish acts of resistance have not been highlighted in readings I have done in […]
For my final project I read Primo Levi’s book Survival in Auschwitz. I had just started reading the book and was reading the author’s preface and I was extremely taken back by something that he said. ” It was my good fortune to be deported to Auschwitz only in 1944, that is, after the German […]
Tattling, blabbing…denouncing. Seems with every riff in the status quot there is a battle for information; those who can keep it and those who can give it. Those who can give the information tend to survive longer even if surviving means giving up your best friends or family. As talked about in class the Nazis […]
The Night of Broken Glass took place November 9th and 10th, 1938. Tomorrow will mark the 77th anniversary of Kristallnacht. This blog post seemed fitting considering we just entered the Holocaust in our Nazi Germany class. The article, Kristallnacht 75th Anniversary: Germans Commemorate Nazi ‘Night Of Broken Glass’ With Vigils And Tributes [PHOTOS] written by […]
The place of women in Nazi Germany has been a theme I have been fascinated with all semester. Hitler made it well known that women’s place in society was in the home. He even cited them as being the “guardians of the nation’s source of life” (Sax & Kuntz 264). However, in a memorandum from […]
When we hear about the Jews and the Second World War, we often think of the Holocaust, death camps, and to a certain extent Jewish ghettos. Something that we don’t often hear about or remember is how the Jews, who were still inside the Third Reich and not yet removed, were treated during the war. […]
Anti-Semitism is not unique to Nazi Germany as we’ve learned throughout this semester. Anti-Semitism was also thriving right here in the good ol’ U.S. of A. From class, we know that Anti-Semitism existed in plenty of other places in the pre-war age. However, it is important to note that Anti-Semitism did not stop with the […]
Many view the atrocities and crimes committed against the Jews by the Germans as one practiced by a group of unfeeling, unemotional executioners who did not think twice about killing their fellow human beings. The picture painted by most history books portrays the Germans as merciless and uncaring about their extermination of the Jews. However, […]
For the Nazis Race and Ideology played a major role in their political endeavors. They believed that Germany needed a pure Aryan race, and that the “Jewish Problem” was hindering that ideal. This leads me to the question of, how can you tell who is Jewish and who is not? The Nazis thought they had […]
One of the most prominent strengths of the Nazi campaign is the speed at which they moved. They did not move too quickly in most things, and they did not move slowly. They knew exactly how quickly they needed to move for optimal effect. Hitler knew that to accomplish his goals, he would have to […]
After the Einsatzgruppen proved to be “inadequate” and too hard on the soldiers charged with the killing of Jews, causing frequent alcohol use among many, the death camps were organized. The death camps were constructed as a means to carry out the “Final Solution” in a more efficient way. “The general plan was simple. The […]
In class we have discussed the idea of “guns and butter,” and how Hitler refused to cut back on luxury goods from the German people in order to concentrate more on the war effort. This obviously proved to be a fatal mistake. Instead, the Nazi’s decided to steal and plunder to help support the economy. […]
The Third Reich’s national laws against the Jews were outrageous. Hitler and Nazis were trying to ease the history and culture from the German state. In class, professor Ganyard talked about that the 1st stage in the removal of the Jews was “Exclusion.” The Nazis went to the extreme in this stage. For example, scholars […]
The mental state of the ordinary German in the late 1930s and all of the 1940s during the Nazi times is encapsulated by our textbook author, Benjamin Sax. He writes, “Mere suspicion of opposition or lack of enthuisaism caused the police to act. Not only the Gestapo but also the Criminal Police Force held this […]
I feel like this week in class was just a start of what’s to come in the image of the Holocaust. Hitler carried out the Holocaust in three steps. These steps are exclusion, concentration, and extermination. The Nazis tried to exclude the Jews AND others from society. By 1939 there are over a thousand laws […]
The final solution that the Nazi’s implemented to annihilate the Jewish people was an ideology that Hitler believed need to happen in order for the Aryan race to succeed in their mission.[1] Hitler and the Nazi’s believed that as the war was going on this was the only way for them to rid the Jewish […]
As discussed earlier in the course, runaway parallel bureaucracy was one striking result of Hitler’s unique leadership style of encouraging infighting and struggle between different organizations. By fostering competition within the ranks, leadership of various organizations would expand beyond their original purposes. One example of this is the SS, who begin as a small group […]
The Final Solution was something that if it were not for history textbooks, would sound like something out of a very twisted novel of film. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Having been to Dachau and seeing what just a concentration camp looks like, not even a death camp, I can assure anyone who has […]
Sophie and Hans Scholl with fellow member Christoph Probst When I was in middle school my German teacher had us watch the film Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, which is a remarkable film detailing the days leading up to the arrest of the White Rose members and their execution. From then on I was vastly interested in […]
Operation Barbarossa, or better known as the Nazi Germany invasion of the Soviet Union took place on June 22nd, 1941. The tactics in invading the Soviet Union was justified by the Nazis quest for power, Hitler believed that his growing race of Aryans would need space, therefore the Soviet Union would be suitable. The Nazi’s […]
Summer, 1941. Heinrich Himmler, Leader of the SS, Gestapo, and all other police forces in the Third Reich, wrote a Letter to Rudolf Hoess, commander of Auschwitz. It stated, : The Fuhrer has ordered that the Jewish question be solved once and for all and that we, the SS, are to implement that order(1).” What […]
When I was in 8th grade, we read the Diary of Ann Frank in my Language Arts class. I attended Washington Middle School here in Green Bay, which is an inner city school (and a culture shock for a white kid from the suburbs AKA me). Being young and mischievous, jokes were being made about […]
Adolf Hitler’s Final Solution was a plan for the extermination of the Jews. The Final Solution also became connected to World War II. Part of this connection was the elimination of Jews in places other than Germany, mainly the Soviet Union. The Einsatzgruppen were units that followed the German army through the Soviet Union, but […]
Escaping from Nazi Germany as a Jew was hard to do. As discussed in class, it was hard for many Jewish people to run away from Germany. The few main reasons include the other nations not letting them into their countries, money issues, and nationalism. Nazi’s made it very difficult for Jewish people to leave […]
This might be a little bit of stretch but in class today while we were discussing the Nuremberg laws I thought about the comparison that could be made between the Nuremberg Laws in Germany and the Jim Crow laws in America during the 1950’s and 1960’s. Both of these laws had a goal of eliminating […]
The Nazis believed they were the superior race, the one set aside from all others. Yet, they behaved like any other conquering horde when sweeping through Western Europe. While focusing on natural resources in the East, the Nazis spent much of their time in Western Europe plundering some of the world’s great artworks and treasures. […]
At the beginning of Hitler’s takeover of Germany, he had talked of the lebensraum or living space out to the East. By developing this living space, would also allow for Hitler to complete another task which was getting rid of the Jews: “Hitler had emphasized that this land would be found in the east, and […]
Throughout the Jewish history, many people can remember specific events that occurred causing great panic in the Jewish communities especially during World War Two. During this time there was great distress for the Jewish communities because of the Nazi’s SS members brutality. This brutality all began with the Nuremberg Laws which lead to the Kristallnacht […]
This picture is of one of Munich’s memorials for the members of the White Rose. It is of their distributed leaflets and personal profiles. My sister took this picture approx. 3 weeks ago while she was traveling through Germany. The White Rose was a non-violent resistance group whose primary members were Hans and Sophie […]
In class on Tuesday we briefly touched on some of the amazing ways Jews managed to escape the Nazis. Denmark did an fascinating job of organizing a movement which allowed almost all of Danish Jews to survive. Once we discussed this in class I was curious on how Denmark pulled off this large-scale operation. How did they […]
The documents that we read for this week were certainly eye-opening and definitely disgusting as to even fathom how Jews were treated and not thought of as humans. The documents started off of course with anti-Semitism and the protection of German blood, which of course the Jewish were not considered as. What first struck me […]
Superheros and American Propaganda World War II may have been an incredibly hard time for many Americans; however, the opposite was true for superhero comic books. The time period from 1938-1954 would be coined the Golden Age. Hitler, the Nazis, and the threat of fighting escalating to involve the United States would present the building block […]
When I think of the German annexation of Austria, I think of the Nazi trucks with the German soldiers driving through Austrian towns with roaring cheers. I just assumed that that was the same feeling that all the German’s felt back in Germany. I thought the German people were just as excited as the Austrians […]
June 22, 1941. Adolf Hitler orders Operation Barbarossa into effect. The invasion of the Soviet Union. over three million German soldiers made up of 180 divisions, 20 panzer divisions, 8000 tanks, and 3200 airplanes and six hundred and fifty thousand allies invaded the Soviet border(1). Hitler hoped to invade, subdue, and conquer the whole of the […]
“You guys burnt the place down, turned it into a single column of flame. More people died there in the firestorm, in that one big flame, than died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.” –Kurt Vonnegut, Jr I found this quote to be particularly interesting, because when we talk about the atrocities of World War II […]
As we have already discovered in class, Hitler did whatever he could to gain power, including using people for his benefit. Hitler did the same thing with the Soviet Union. Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with the Society Union on August 23, 1939 (Sax & Kuntz 351). In this pact, Hitler agreed that Germany would […]
“This tempo, this pace – no one expected this. Hitler is a master politician… greater than Napoleon, because he is conquering the world without waging war” (Sax 350). Knowing what we do now, we know that Hitler was not the Napoleon 2.0, considering he made the same mistake of invading Russia when winter comes around. […]
In class, when we were talking about the bombing raids in Germany, specifically Dresden, I was reminded about my time in Germany when some of the staff of the University of Kassel took the international students to a nearby city of Göttingen. The reason they took us there was to give us the opportunity to […]
\What is psychological warfare? According to the British definition it is, “the military application of psychology, esp to propaganda and attempts to influence the morale of enemy and friendly groups in time of war”1. This can also be thought of as attaching the civilians of an enemy country to try to bring down the moral and […]
Adolf Hitler’s main ideology was to keep the Aryan race alive and eliminate all others to make a “superior” human race. Throughout the 1930s, he was able to swiftly take control of Germany and create a nation in his own image with very little resistant at all. With the ease of takeover in Germany, Hitler’s […]
There are many regrets we make in life. Many times they are things we wished had done or just did not do. However there are those instances when a person(s) look back and regret wholeheartedly a single event. My question is should the bombing of Dresden be one of those moments the Allies should look […]
The road to war began in Europe with the aggression that Germany had towards its neighbors in trying to fold them into the Reich, using peaceful means of not. There was an attempt to stop this however through peaceful terms by the Brititsh and French. In November of 1937, Neville Chamberlain the British prime mininster, sent […]
What’s up doc? Bugs Bunny is famous and probably the most well known rabbit around. With his silly antics, costumes, and personas, Bugs Bunny plays numerous different characters. This week he ended up in Germany, getting in a tiff with a German Nazi soldier, and ended up himself playing Hitler and Stalin. This was […]
A universal idea that exists in every country on earth is parents do not want to see harm come to their children. Parents the world over tell their children that if you can talk your way out of a fight that it is a good thing. Mothers feel that it is better for your pride […]
War is horror. There is no way to change the fundamental nature of combat, which is a competition of attrition, against a foe who has avowed to extinguish the life of his opponent. When survival is at stake, the normative laws of fairness seem always less important. There is a question of whether or not […]
In class this week we discussed how war had become a civilian concern by the time the Second World War broke out. World War II was a total war because all aspects of a nation were involved in the war effort. “Derivation, uncertainty, and insecurity caused by dislocation and family separation as well as the […]
Nazi Germany during WWII started off with early victories in the taking of Poland using the Blitzkrieg, shortly after the attack on Poland, Britain and France declared war on Germany. Germany also invaded Norway and Denmark where almost half of their iron ore was coming from, after their victory in Norway the Germans had their […]
World War I was the first war in which most nations in the world were engaged in warfare. It was also fought in a different type of way, known as trench warfare, where both sides were in a trench and then one would charge the other side. With this, World War I was also the […]
We don’t much think of war now as the gentleman’s conflict. However, WWII had a Nazi, of all people, who would prove to be one of the last glimmers of civilization. We discussed in class how Erwin Rommel earned the respect of his enemies by not just pure strategic value, but in his gentlemanly approach […]
Hitler made good and bad decisions when going to war with the rest of Europe. One of the biggest mistakes Operation Barbarossa. The operation was the invasion of Russia. Opening up two fronts in any war is a poor choice but this was more than just a nation opening two fronts. History may teach others […]
What happens when to say “no” to Adolf Hitler? If you are Field Marshall Werner von Blomberg and Army Commander-in-Chief General Werner von Fritsch, you find yourselves drummed out of the military amid personal scandal and sexual allegations. Both saw their military careers end in January 1938. Their fall from grace was orchestrated by Adolf […]
By 1937 it was becoming clear to many of the leaders that Hitler was planning to expand Germany past its boarders that had been set by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. It had already occupied the demilitarized Rhineland and was beefing up its armed forces as well as support Fascist regimes such as Nationalist […]
Hitler was known by many people as being a strong and dedicated military leader. Before and during World War Two Hitler achieved many great military conquers of other countries. Hitler believed that gaining all these countries would provide him enough land to support his ideal community and begin his process for world rule. Hitler believed that […]
For this week we read a lot of interesting stuff, but what really interested me most was the short bit that we read about Hitler’s Bunker, which made me want to look a little bit more into information about this Bunker and what else I would be able to find. I personally found Hitler’s Bunker […]
February 1945 the city of Dresden saw something that could not ever be erased from history. The British air attacked with incendiary bombs and the Americans attacked with explosive bombs leaving Dresden a pile of rubble. This city that used to be the center of German culture now was done to bricks and […]
We didn’t have class on Tuesday so my blog post relates to the material we will be discussing in class on Thursday, specifically the major events of World War II. In my term paper I will be addressing the invasion and resistance of Norway, so when Spielvogel discussed this topic I was intrigued. As I’ve […]
Throughout World War II the Allies had been bombing all over Germany: Berlin, Essen, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, and Munich[1]. Many Germans believed, nevertheless, that Dresden, widely considered the heart of German culture, would be spared during the air raids. There were also rumors that it would be spared due to its large number of hospitals […]
The one band allowed in the Third Reich was indeed controlled by the Nazis and Joseph Goebbels indeed used that band for propaganda. After jazz was outlawed in the Third Reich because it was considered degenerate, Goebbels found a way to keep one band and use it to his full advantage. The large jazz band […]
Physical Education In the American education system today, schools are constantly facing budget cuts and the painful decisions that arise because of them. Educators are stuck with schools cutting the allied arts including, music, band, art, home economics, and physical education. Many schools offer a half hour or forty five minutes of P.E. once or twice […]
While Nazi Germany is full of ideologies that don’t come through in practice, one hypocritical notion that is astonishing to read about and discuss is the treatment of young mothers. Women were highly praised for being the bearers of the future. It was even stated that the women’s place was as “guardians of the nation’s […]
Like in my previous posts about Hitler covering all the bases in Germany, this post is about another specific population that Adolf Hitler successfully targeted; the children. The Nazis’ school curriculum consisted primary of physical education. Hitler’s plan was to have the German people be the strongest and fastest people. By doing this strategy, Hitler […]
Over the time I have spent in this course the idea of how organized the Nazi’s had been, has been brought up on multiple occasions. For me it had never rang as true, as it did while I read a section in Sax and Kuntz. This section was a mandate that Hitler had written in 1936, […]
In class this week we talked about the educational system in Germany and how it suffered greatly under Nazi control. The Nazis would reform the learning environment to anti-intellectual and to focus on ideology. Approximately thirty percent of teachers were members of the Nazi party. In the late 1930’s ideological training centers were set up to instruct […]
Imagine you are a male born in Germany in the 1920s or 1930s and that you are attracted to the Hitlerjugend 1., the Hitler Youth Program. At ten years of age you become a Pimpf.2., the starting point of your Nazis journey that will ultimately lead you to a position in the Wehrmacht, the German military force or […]
The Hitler Youth programs at their star held a mass appeal for young people in Germany, but later became a victim of its own success as these groups became more mainstream and less popular. Just as impetuously as the various Hitler Youth groups sprang up and received massive support, they started to loose members. This […]
Hitler Youth had a huge impact on the German youth during the Nazi regime. Reading Spielvogel and Redles they discuss the way the Hitler youth gave a sense of comradery amongst them, but also had hardships for parents and other adult authorities. So why was this so great yet so detrimental for families involved in […]
A photo of the exterior of a Lebensborn home. Note the SS symbol on the flag. As we have seen before, the Nazis supposedly supported the “traditional values” of older Germany, yet one can often find very blatant contradictions in the Nazi ideology between their “strong and good” morals and the morals they actually practiced. Prostitution […]
During the era of the Second World War, America held itself up on a pedestal as a sacred defender of freedom in the face of authoritarianism across the globe, whether it be fighting the Nazis and their racially-based ideals in the European Theatre of war or the aggressive and militaristic Japanese in the Pacific Theatre. […]
Hitler and the Nazis took control of all aspects of social life. This included the lives and education of German children. The Hitler Youth or Hitlerjugend was formed in 1926 subordinate to the Storm Troopers, but it was given independent status in 1932.(1) This did not mean the organization was free from the plans of […]
It’s March, 1946, a little less than a year since Adolf Hitler committed suicide and World War Two came to a merciful end. Dr. Herbert Lewin is asked to outline in the Journal of Educational Sociology what must be done to rehabilitate Germany’s fascist Hitler Youth. Dr. Lewin, a German Jew, spent the war years […]
It is interesting that the children of the Hitler youth became less involved in their families and lean more towards the Fuhrer as a role model. The text by Sax and Kuntz suggest that the Hitler Youth was a moral revolution over their parents^1. The Hitler Youth went to great lengths to lower education and […]
Young German girls in many ways were incredibly important to the future of Nazi society. They were responsible for carrying on the Aryan race, when teaching German girls their educators informed them that they basically were around to have children and ensure that those children were raised with Nazi ideals. The physical activities that German […]
I have already done a post about Hitler Youth and how children were put into groups that essentially taught children all they could about how to be the perfect Aryan and how to be the perfect Nazi for the party. We made me of course think about what kids were taught in school, which made […]
Throughout the Third Regime under Hitler’s rule, Hitler knew that to make his ideal society work and live on forever was through the youth in Germany. The first Nazi youth league was founded in 1922 and by 1932, the Hitler Youth membership was up to 100,000. The children involved in this group were primarily from […]
When the nazi party started their reign, they envisioned their existence lasting for over a hundred years. With this long lasting vision, the Nazi party started to invest in their future, that investment for this long term plan, began with what was known as Hitlerjungend or Hitler’s Youth. The Hitler Youth was an organization created […]
I strongly encourage everyone to watch this film it is beautiful and very eye opening. I first just want to start off by saying WOW!, what a powerful film. This film was done absolutely beautifully and I love how simple yet how deep the concepts got. Anna/ Ida the main character transformed in front […]
At the end of class on Tuesday we briefly discussed Hitler, how he never had any children, and for the most part seemed to have no personal relationships. However, he did have one important relationship, not often highlighted in history books we have read. To have a better understanding of Hitler’s personal life, it’s […]
Women were considered crucial to the existence and survival of the Aryan race. They were the ones who made the Aryan race at all possible, and for that reason, they were considered great. However, this was also considered their only role; women were useful solely for the purposes of reproduction and their roles as […]
Nazi Germany during the time of the third Reich was pushing to abolish all forms of art that didn’t conform to the Nazi ideals. Controlling the population through propaganda was the primary reasoning for this extermination of intellectualism. Most of the liberal artists and intellectuals either emigrated or supported the Nazi regime, for much the same reason, […]
The state of women’s rights in the Third Reich revolved around their ability to reproduce the future leaders of the Reich. However, was this a degradation of women’s abilities in society or could women draw some power in society as the mother? As was stated in the Principles and Organizational Guidelines of the National Socialist […]
On the topic of propaganda and Hitler’s war efforts during class, I was reminded of a documentary that I watched this past week. It was a documentary about the Atlantic Wall that Hitler built on the west coast of Europe to stop the Allied forces from making a landing and gaining a foothold in Europe. […]
The League of German Girls was a female youth group in Nazi Germany. Not only was it a female youth group, it was the only female youth group in Nazi Germany. Not only was it the only female youth group in Nazi Germany, it was the mandatory female youth group in Nazi Germany. The League […]
Women’s role in Hitler’s Volksgemeinschaft was a place of mother and wife. The world of women in the Volksgemeinschaft was made up of only looking after “her husband, her family, her children, and her house”. [1] Women were expected to raise children to protect the racial purity of Germany and be supportive of their husbands. […]
During our readings and class discussion, we talked about how the Nazi’s placed a high emphasis on the visual arts. Hitler was even quoted as saying “art is the only truly enduring investment of human labor.”[1] However they believed that modern art was considered “degenerate art or Jewish art,”[2] and they decided to replace it […]
This week we talked a lot about art and that being looked down upon for being modern. A nazi viewpoint looked at modern Jewish art/music as bad. The new look on things wasn’t approved because it was almost seen as defiant. New wasn’t a good thing, it expressed new ideas which meant individualism. And the […]
In class, while we were talking about the Charlie Caplian movie, something was said in passing that struck a chord. Whenever anyone talks about the Nazis, a sigular picture comes to mind: a person in a German uniform raising a hand to der Fueher. But what should not be forgotten is that Germany wasn’t the only […]
During class this week, we spoke of the Nazi belief that the blood that pulsed through a person’s body mattered more than their intelligence. As we have learned, the Nazi’s were anti-intellectual. In Spielvogel, when speaking of intellects, Hitler is quoted as saying, “Unfortunately, one needs them. Otherwise, one might-I don’t know- wipe them out […]
The ideology of Nazi Germany was putting the group (Aryan) first over the individual. This way everyone was the same and there were no outcasts to rebel against the Nazis. The sense of belonging to something great was the overpowered feeling in Germany. A huge component to the people’s community were the Aryan farmers. Adolf […]
Art is sometimes a reflection of life, but other times art is what influences life, but always they are locked into a symbiotic relationship leaving markers of a society. Analysis of the art an individual prefers, or avoids can tell a story. In the case of Hitler and the German people, Hitler’s ultimate artistic ambitions […]
“Just as man risks his life in battle so too does the mother bravely and faithfully offer her life for the nation when she fulfills her sacred duty.” this is a powerful line from a song sung by a group at a ceremony honoring the mothers receiving the gold cross on Mothering Sunday. This day […]
The topic that most interested me this week was in reference to the article in the New York Times that Dr. Ganyard sent out on Nazi Germany and gun control. I was curious as to if and how the Nazi’s regulated gun control, and if they did, did gun control have specifications if you were […]
Hitler, Magda, three of six Goebbels children, and Goebbels. 1938. http://tinyurl.com/pxgwgxg Learning more about Nazi Germany society and propaganda got me stuck on Joseph Goebbels. The man was quite powerful, to say the least. I even stretched to say that he was as powerful if not more powerful than the Fuhrer himself. I say […]
“More than 100,000 were euthanized. Men over the age of 70 are to receive no medical treatment. Who is still worthy of life? Only the National Socialist.” (^1,Bishop Ludvig Sebastian, 19 August 1942) Though it was only roughly covered in class, I took a form of interest in Aktion T4 due to my grandfather having […]
This week the class learned about the Volksgemeinschaft, the people’s community. Doesn’t that sound great? A community where everyone belongs. A group of people who have shared ideas. A group who have a shared interest in creating a happier better working community. Yes, it does, but as I read the section, the role of women […]
For the Nazi party women played a very crucial role, at least if they were of the Aryan race they did. The Nazi’s were very focused on maintaining the pure Aryan race so women who were Aryan were expected to have multiple children to help the race remain and grow. While the Nazi’s did encourage […]
Coming from a country blessed with many freedoms, including the freedom of speech and the press, it is hard for us to imagine that a government could sanction the burning of books. If this happened in today’s age, there would be an outcry over the violation of our rights. In Nazi Germany however, this was […]
This week in class we discussed the idea of volksgemeinschaft. This was the attempt to create community in Germany. The Nazis did this several ways. One way I believe they did this was through art. The theory of volksgemeinschaft is that “the organization must not only prevent the emergence of thinking individuals from the mass; […]
With the emergence of industrialization, many countries in a sense belittled the importance of farming. Industrialization was the force that was going to move many countries forward. But in Nazi Germany, there was still a big emphasis on the farmer: “German farmers, like women, held an honored position in the National Socialist ideology. More than […]
Just like many other aspects of German culture, Hitler had an ideal for the visual arts. Hitler was so fond of art that he created the House of German Art in Munich.(1) Hitler changed art in Germany to serve “political purposes” and reflect his ideology.(2) This ideology revolved around Hitler’s racial ideas. ”This art would […]
Standing on the grounds of Congress Hall in Nuremberg is a memorable experience. Your first thought is how small and insignificant you are in relation to the granite walls that tower 128 feet above you. Your second thought is what kind of people would build this mammoth building and why. The unfinished Congress Hall was built […]
Within every society there are specific ideals and practices that happen during a specific time in history. One of the most common changes of culture in a society was during the Third Regime when Hitler was ruler. During this time Hitler created Mein Kampf, a novel were he wrote his ideology for his ruling of […]
As I pointed out in class, I’m fascinated with the book burnings that were “organized by German student groups” (1). As a student now, the thought of ever burning my books has never came to my mind, but as we discussed in class, it was a different time and people had a different mindset. Although, […]
This week’s reading in Sax and Kuntz about the roles of women in the Volksgemeinschaft actually was interesting to read and analyze because this was truly how women were seen in the eyes of Nazi Germany. I find this very interesting because although these roles were more or less traditional womanly duties in most societies […]
Our textbook author, Sax, states, “…..theater performances and concerts, exhibitions, films, dances….”1. and other fringe benefits like trips were the benefits from the Strength through Joy Program, “Kraft durch Freude (KdF)”. We all want to be fairly compensated for our labors, besides wages the benefit package is very integral to our compensation renumeration. The fringe […]
In 1933 the Third Reich planned to build a monumental museum for all of the “Germany’s” (Nazis’) greatest works of art and propaganda. Taking four years to complete, it opened July 18, 1937. It highlighted Germany’s greatest works of art in contrast to the modern art, considered also as “degenerate” art, that was on […]
The KdF was a program put into place to help improve the lives of industrial workers that were in the Volksgemeinschaft. The program was under the direction of Robert Ley who was also the leader of the German Labor Front. The Nazi Party highly publicized the KdF because it attempted to make the workers join […]
One of the most important ways that Hitler was able to hold onto power, despite the obvious flaws in the Nazi platform and the new German state structure, was his control of the minds of the people. But, that is not exactly correct. Hitler did not care about the ‘minds’ of the German populous as […]
It’s no surprise that Jud Suss is seen as a very offensive Nazi propaganda film. However, it is worth noting that the Nazis didn’t only use film to give the Jews a bad name in Germany but also used other forms of media. One of the most popular forms, and the easiest to produce and […]
Germanin is a propaganda film from 1942 directed by Max Kimmich, Goebbels’s brother in law, portraying Germany as savior of the African colonies which were rightfully theirs. The film centers on the mysterious “Sleeping Sickness” that has developed in the African colonies, crippling and killing off the native population, and the Germany’s path to curing it. Germanin […]
Nothing is seen without a bias and those with power know it. That is why the entertainment industry has been so crucial in politics. Whether or not we have been aware of their persuasions, the continuous subtle or not so subtle portrayals are still intriguing. As I watched Jud Suss it was hard not to enjoy […]
Jud Suss is undoubtedly one of the most anti-semitic films ever made. The title character is cast as a deceptive, sneaky fellow who assaults women and gets in the good graces of those in high places for his own benefit. [1] On top of this already inflated image of the stereotypical “bad guy” the Nazi’s […]
Spielvogel states, “Adolf Hitler came to regard himself as a man singled out by Providence for a special mission, and he clothed himself in the mantle of a messiah.”1 Hitler had a deep rooted belief that he needed to serve a higher purpose, which stemmed from his experience being temporarily blinded in 1919. Hitlers […]
Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany was a powerful nation with one ideology. Hitler was after “blood purity” of the Aryan race. Contrary to the propaganda of the “People’s Community” in Germany, this concept did not matter unless the community was Aryan. His thought process was that Aryan people were the superior humans while all other races […]
Earlier this week in class we touched on Victor Klemperer, who was a Jewish man who lived in Germany. Klemperer is known for keeping diaries and journals of his day to day experiences, but especially for his entries during the Third Reich. His journals eventually were bought by a Berlin publisher and turned into a […]
On the issue of Hitler as a charismatic leader, it is often difficult to fathom how even the most charismatic of individuals would be able to influence, persuade, or justify some of the atrocities that the Nazi regime is responsible for. Hitler’s rise to power was greatly attributed to his skills as a public speaker, […]
I think Hitler’s link back to nature was particularly interesting. His support of Darwin and “survival of the fittest” was seen over and over again in his speeches and talks. Hitler believed in a class division. He knew one had to be on top and then others to follow below it. And with this idea […]
Still shot from Jud Süß of the Jewish religious ceremony While abundant in many different Jewish stereotypes, one of the most interesting stereotypes contained within the film Jud Süß was the idea that the Jewish religion was fairly occult in its nature. In the film, the Jewish religious ceremony is portrayed as a very nonsensical and wild ceremony. The Jews […]
“…Don’t you have walls covered with books that you’ll never read?” The words of the Rabbi in Jud Süß to Oppenheimer once he is in the palace. I took a lot of meaning from this text in two forms. One form is that Hitler as the “Messianic Leader” as quoted in Spielvogel would want his […]
As portrayed in Jud Suss, we know that Jews have suffered persecution and hatred in Europe and indeed across the world before Nazi Germany, chiefly because many in Christian circles believed that the Jews killed Christ (Wrong, because he was killed by the Romans). However, a less-discussed and equally as absurd theory that was […]
Throughout the movie Jud Suss we see how the Nazi’s used religious symbolism to expand their anti-Semitic viewpoint. When Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary on December 15, 1939 “This will be the anti-Semitic film,”[1] he was not kidding around. We see that the character Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is like the serpent in the Garden […]
While reading chapter 5 in Hitler and Nazi Germany, I came a crossed something that really hit home with me. It was the idea that Hitler though of himself as a “great simplifier”. He prided himself on that fact that he could take very complicated ideas and put them into small enough words that everyone […]
Being an opportunist it was natural for Hitler to make an alliance with Japan even though Asians are considered to be inferior they do serve a purpose to protect the Pacific from the Americans. This ultimately serves as a distraction for the United States so that they don’t get involved in the war in Europe […]
In class this week we discussed the nazi ideology and racial views of the third reich. Trying to follow the train of thought used in these ideas is extremely confusing. We talked about Hitler’s theories of racial purity and distinctions in class, but not very much on the nazi policies on the mentally and physically disabled. Nazis […]
His ability to manipulate the crowds could be seen as the least obvious of his characteristics. When talking about Germany, one is unable to describe its history without referencing Hitler and his destruction. Everyone who encountered him always underestimated him. He could remember the smallest details and facts and used that to his advantage in […]
Ever wonder what it would be like to psychoanalyze Adolf Hitler? There’s plenty of post WWII material from psychiatrists and psychologists, all speculating on Hitler’s pathology. But there seems to be at least one Norwegian psychiatrist who diagnosed Hitler in 1933 and published his opinions in the press. In addition, he became a resistance […]
Charles Darwin’s theories about evolution are well known: he formed the idea of survival of the fittest. Herbert Spencer formed a theory of social Darwinism where he applied biology to society. Darwin’s ideas of struggle in nature were used by Spencer to describe class struggle. Hitler then brought these Darwinian theories into his Mein Kampf […]
As Sax and Kuntz point out in the introduction to Chapter 6 of their book Inside Hitler’s Germany, “Hitler prided himself on seeing, with a clarity that no one had before possessed, that the essence of any culture was an expression of race” (185). Hitler was not interested so much in the religious aspects of […]
It is very ironic in the last scene of the film Jud Suss that Joseph Ben Susskind Oppenheimer says, “I was only following orders”. If only Joseph Goebbels could have known that these very same words would be mouthed by some of his fellow Nazis at the Nuremberg War Crimes trials. In every Army in the world […]
Hitler was underestimated by the public and other nations at the time of his rise to power in Germany. Hitler being underestimated was a major factor that helped him to rise up. Some saw Hitler as a diabolical leader under his own lust for personal power^1. However, he used that factor to help him get […]
This week I am going to go a bit conspiracy theorist about Hitler and the Nazi ideology, because that is all I could think about on Tuesday when we were discussing the confusing nature of Nazi ideology in class. It is definitely safe to say that Hitler was not a stupid man, kind of crazy, […]
Hitler and Stalin were two furious leaders during the 1930’s and 40’s. Both shared a fairly similar dream in transforming their countries. Hitler had dreamed that Germany would be a country of the ideal race, the Aryans and he went to many lengths trying to exterminate Non-Aryans. Using various techniques like the concentration camps to […]
As I was reading chapter five of Spielvogel I started highlighting things about Hitler’s personality that seemed unusual or radical. As I highlighted more and more crazy things about his personality I soon realized I was thinking of the word crazy. Referring back to my notes from class on Tuesday, I saw that I wrote […]
As a political leader in any country making speeches is important technique to keep the people of that country connected with the leader and the leader’s ideology. During the Third Regime in Germany the use of speeches by Hitler was a way of propaganda that Hitler succeed in the most as a leader. Hitler’s speeches focused […]