Within this semester's lessons we as a class have learned a lot about the Nazi party in Germany during World War II. Hitler and the Nazi party seemed almost unstoppable until a certain point in the War. Something that gave us this illusions was due to the fact that Hitler and the Nazi party were allowed to rearm. They were able to do so because no one would/did stop them; almost turning the other cheek when Hitler started to do so. They did not stop Hitler and did let him get away with things because of how badly they did not want another war. Not stopping Hitler because a strong Germany would become a huge "buffer" against the Soviet Union. Although the Munich Agreement was appeased, this did not stop or slow down Hitler. The agreement did …show more content…
stop an outbreak of war but gave Czechoslovakia away to Germany. The British and French misters tried to get Hitler to not use his military, and Hitler did agree got sign but did not keep his work, leading him to rearm. Germany was so unbeatable because they had very fast moving tanks, air and ground attacks, a signed treaty with the Soviet Union, got away with everything including rearming, weaker opponents, and they also had an unbreakable pride towards Hitler and the Nazi party leading Germany to stop at nothing. The Winter War impacted the German invasion of the Soviet Union because at the end of the war, both the Red Army and League of Nations were humiliated and seen as nearly powerless due to their loss. Hitler broke his ties with the Soviet Union and invaded. Hitler's mind set way more land, more power. German now breaking their ties with the Soviet Union and creating one with the Finns go gain up and go against the Soviet Union. Although it seems doubtful that the German initial invasion was successful due to their loss in the end, in the beginning it was very successful. One thing that made it so successful initially is because of how unexpected it was. Stalin refused to believe that German was invading , even as Hitler was knocking on Stalin's door. This caused Hitler and the Nazi party to have one of the quickest advancements in history. Germany was initially succeeding and had assumed it would be a very quick win. However something did end up slowing down the Germans . A few reasons why they were slowed down was, the Germans were not technologically advanced and many of their weapons were not up to the same standards as the Soviet Unions, they also have a lack of resources and could not get the supplies needed, leaving them unprepared for further battle. After reading Michael Cherniavsky's article, the author feels that the War in the East has been misrepresented.
Michael Cherniavsky main focus of his article was to examine how and why the Germans lose in Russia. According to Cherniavsky ” Unlike Hitler, the generals did not understand ( and still do not) that their great victories in the West were due mainly to non-military factors, that armament production, morale, and training are not militarily determined." ( Cherniavky, par.33). Within this article , Cherniavsky goes into detail about how and why the Germans lost. Some examples given by Cherniavsky were the Russian Climate, the inexhaustible manpower, the primitiveness of Russian communicators, and the Russian himself as a human being. The main point of this article was to share more information about the war and how there is much more to the defeat then shown. It was not all obvious and not all military problems that occurred, "Both Hitler and his generals, however, underestimated hopelessly the resources available to the Russians for their attack."( discussion post). Three myths that Cherniavsky claims that are present when defending the loss of the Germans is because of the climate ( they were not prepared to fight during winter, the number of causalities, and errors made by Hitler himself such as inexhaustible man power Russian
communications. The Soviet Union won due to their many advances in technology. The tanks produced by the Soviet Union were much more powerful due to the fact that they offered better protection, easy to manufacture creating the ability to make a lot at once. They also had better aircrafts as well. The Soviet Union also had more and an easier access to supply, the war was in their country after all. The soviet Union also had a tremendous and powerful leadership politically and military.
In order to stop the fighting between countries, Europe needed to put some actions into effect because appeasement was not working. Germany proved that by disregarding the Versailles Treaty. According to Hitler after disregarding the Versailles Treaty, “I look upon this day as marking the close of the struggle for German equality status…the path is now clear for Germany’s return to European collective cooperation” (Document 3, 1936) This quote explains a vast difference between Hitler’s and the other European countries' views. With Hitler’s affirmation to make Germany equal and even more powerful than the other European countries, the other European countries would have to set up collective security because they would have very little insight on what Hitler would be planning; leading to more destruction. Now, Europe would be more prepared if Hitler decided to attack. A quote from Winston Churchill explaining why collective security is the right answer is, “…I think all of the opportunities to stop the growth of Nazi power which have been thrown away. The responsibility must rest with those who have control of our political affairs. They neither prevented Germany from rearming, nor did they rearm us in time…Thus they left us in the hour of trial without a strong national defense or system of international security” (Churchill). That quote explains how collective security is the best answer to stop war and the destruction Hitler is
After listening to a testimony from Ralph Fischer, a Holocaust survivor I have gained a new level of understanding to what happened in those few years of terror when the Nazi party was at power. On top of that I have learned that they are just like other people in many different ways. As a child, Ralph went to school, played with friends, and spent time with his family. All that is comparable to any other modern-day child. However, as the Nazi party rose to power he was often bullied, left out, or even beat for being Jew. Although not as extreme, I have often been mistreated because I was different, and it’s easy to understand the pain of being left out just because you are not the same. Eventually he had to drop out of school and then had
Hitler blamed the Jews for the evils of the world. He believed a democracy would lead to communism. Therefore, in Hitler’s eyes, a dictatorship was the only way to save Germany from the threats of communism and Jewish treason. The Program of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party was the instrument for the Nazis to convince the German people to put Hitler into power. Point one of the document states, “We demand the union of all Germans in a great Germany on the basis of the principle of self-determination of all peoples.” 1 This point explicates the Nazi proposition that Germany will only contain German citizens and also, that these citizens would display his or her self-determination towards Germany to the fullest.
... control under allied empower, Hitler appeared to look nervous from the actions that had taken place. Hitler’s force couldn’t resist the cold of Russia of which they had pushed too far into for further enhancements. Hitler would soon learn an enduring lesson since the push he had made in Russia would eventually backfire on him. The deceptive strategy by the Soviets would work perfectly on the German force. For example, Stalin let Hitler’s force into Russia but for the better of the Allied union. He knew that Hitler’s army would suffer and die from the extensive cold and lack of nourishment in Russia. He would then play an offensive move by counter-attacking and pushing all the way back into Germany. The devious tactics played by the allied force surely was a significant lesson learned from the raid, which in the end made Hitler surrender to its “Fortress Europe.”
World War II is an important event in history. Adolf Hitler, a ruthless dictator who rose to power, segregated and killed millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Hitler wanted absolute power over all of Europe, so he took advantage of the worldwide depression to gain political power and support, promising to make Germany great again. However, there were many that did not approve of his methods, and opposed his Nazi party and ideals. So, Hitler used two organizations, the SS and Gestapo, to silence his opponents and solidify his regime. These organizations were brutal, ruthless, and played a key role in Hitler’s rise to power. The SS started out small, but grew into a bigger organization that aided in the deaths of many Jews, while the Gestapo
During the Holocaust, around six million Jews were murdered due to Hitler’s plan to rid Germany of “heterogeneous people” in Germany, as stated in the novel, Life and Death in the Third Reich by Peter Fritzsche. Shortly following a period of suffering, Hitler began leading Germany in 1930 to start the period of his rule, the Third Reich. Over time, his power and support from the country increased until he had full control over his people. Starting from saying “Heil Hitler!” the people of the German empire were cleverly forced into following Hitler through terror and threat. He had a group of leaders, the SS, who were Nazis that willingly took any task given, including the mass murder of millions of Jews due to his belief that they were enemies to Germany. German citizens were talked into participating or believing in the most extreme of things, like violent pogroms, deportations, attacks, and executions. Through the novel’s perspicacity of the Third Reich, readers can see how Hitler’s reign was a controversial time period summed up by courage, extremity, and most important of all, loyalty.
Eric Hoffer's True Believer outlines a model that mass movements follow or need to follow in order to succeed. The Nazi Political Movement in Germany is explained well through the use of this framework. The Nazi party rose to power because of the setting of Germany at the time and the people involved in the movement. It is especially interesting to look at how the methods and tactics the leaders used changed throughout the course of the Nazi rule. The difference is especially apparent in how the treatment of homosexuals by Nazis changed over time. These behaviors and laws can be sorted into four main phases of the Nazi rule: coming to power, cracking down, mass killings, and fall of the empire.
The Effectiveness of Nazis' Dealings With Their Opponents After Nazis had control of Germany, the last thing they wanted was an opposition of any sort, aiming to create a totalitarian state where there are no rival parties or political debates. The citizens of Germany were responsible to serve the state and obeying the leader. This orderly state was acheived by providing many positive aspects for people to focus on. This was aimed to keep people's mouths shut and psychologically persuade them to trust and believe in the Nazis.
The first fourteen months of the war had been a debacle of monumental proportions for the Russians. During this time, the Germans had occupied more than a...
The time would soon come for Hitler to seek out his revenge on the nation that delayed his imminent world domination. One year after the siege at Leningrad, Hitler’s once indestructible Axis power had begun to weaken. Hitler began to see his dream fading away. He realized that to maintain hope, he and his army must remain on the offensive, so he decided to go after his most glaring defeat, which was Russia.
The Nazis are infamous for their heavy use of propaganda during their reign in the Third Reich, they used many means of propaganda such as posters, cartoons, radio, film, etc. The German citizens’ constant exposure to all of this propaganda from all directions had a deep psychological and psychoanalytical impact on them, it redefined their identity and who they were as well as what they thought of the world around them. Nazi propaganda often had deep symbolic meaning usually associated with anti-semitism and German nationalism, these elements were already present in the minds of the majority of Germans so it wasn’t hard for Adolf Hitler and the rest of the Nazi party to further provoke and enrage the emotions of people concerning these things, they merely had to tap into these pre disposed emotions in a way that would have the most favourable psychological impact for the Nazis. Some of the opinions and mindsets that German citizens had may have been there even before the Nazis came into power and made it seemed like they were brainwashing people with their propaganda, but with what justification can it be said that Nazi propaganda had a psychological and psychoanalytic impact on the German population to a great extent, rather than it being the work of pre set psychological states of mind of people due to the Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression, Hyperinflation, and other sources which may have led the German population to support and hold anti-semitistic and nationalistic ideologies.
During the 1920's and early 1930's, Germany was unstable socially economically and politically. The government was very often in a state of confusion. The population was disappointed and scared, as the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1923 pushed the economy to a collapse before the people’s eyes. These unfavorable events made a nation in a state of insecurity, while fed up, the people looked for a rescuer. This came in the form of fascism, an ideology in which the individual is controlled by a supreme state under the control of one extreme dictator. The leader to direct the people of Germany out of all the problems and misfortunes was Adolf Hitler, a ruthless fascist dominator. With him, the Nazy party set a dominant force to utilize their propaganda on this puzzled nation and to win the hearts of the people by manipulating their minds.
In conclusion, the policy of appeasement was described by some scholars as ineffective. The fact that the policy of appeasement failed to avert World War 2 is a direct justification that it was a wrong-headed policy. The policy allowed Germany to reconstruct its military slowly and eventually was prepared to go into war to defend its military triumph. Chamberlain was aware of Hitler’s ambitions, but thought that the best alternative to deal with his ambitions was negotiations. This was a misguided move which the world is able to learn from.
The Nazi party was founded on January 5, 1919 by Anton Drexler and Karl Harrer which was taken over by Adolf Hitler it can also be traced under Prussian roots. (When it was founded it was called the National Socialist German Workers Party. Hitler attended one of its meetings that year, and before long, his energy and oratorical skills would enable him to take over the party, which was renamed National Socialist German Workers’ Party in 1920. Britannica). in the same year Hitler invented a 25-point program which stayed with the party until its collapse in 1945. The 25-point program called for Germanys abandonment of the Treaty of Versailles and Hitler wanted Germany to expand their territory. The orientation called for a demagogic topic, so it could get support and new members from the working class. By 1921 Adolf Hitler took over the Nazi party because he had ousted the party leaders.
Hart considers that a legal system is effective even though it is unjust or immoral. The Nazi regime is the best example in this point. Nazi Regime discriminates individual on racial grounds. According to Hart, Nazi regime was valid legal system. Hart give emphasize on the statement that the question of what is law must be separated from the question of whether it is just or moral.