Geoffrey Evans. Tannenberg 1410/1914. London: Hamish Hamilton. 1970. Pp. 182. Can two events that took place over five hundred years apart from each other have a connection? Geoffrey Evans, a former Lieutenant General in the British Army, says that they can. In Tannenberg 1410/1914 Evans attem...

Adolf Hitler What is greatness? Who can be considered as a great person? When we talk about a person being great, we often think about a good or a hero type of a person. We sometimes think of greatness as a heroic title to a person. A person with good qualities and a person that has great...

Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. Only 6 years later, Germany was fighting in a war which lasted 6 years. Hitler was an evil leader, and this essay is to show why people voted for him in the first place. Hitler joined the Nazi party in the September of 1919 and in 1920 he became its leader. In 192...

The Cold War laid its effects on many countries and nations, however, for some parts of the world the end of the cold war had a much greater effect. Of all the countries and nations that were left with an everlasting impression of the Cold War, Germany was left with much more. The rise and fall of t...

Introduction Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. He was an important part of German history, but led one of the most well known massacres of the German country. In all, he killed about six million people of the Jewish community. He was insanely psychopathic, for he wanted a "perfect&q...

Nazi identity In July 1932, Hitler and the Nazi party won 230 seats in the Reichstag elections, becoming the single biggest party in the Reichstag. "Ein volk, ein reich, ein fuhrer". This phrase, which means "one people, one state, one leader" forms the elemental foundation ...

By late 1943 the Germans war efforts in Russia where looking more and more bleak. With a large number of German forces still entrenched in the Russian heartland problems that they faced where surmounting quickly. One would have to look back at 1942 to see the beginning of the difficulties the German...

The seizure of power in Germany and Italy by fascist movements in the 1920s and 1930s was based on a weak and inexperienced government and the humiliation of both countries by the winning powers (United States, France, and Great Britain) after the Great War. These totalitarian right wing movements f...

HISTORY ESSAY How did the Nazis ensure that the changes made during the 1930s had a constant public support? Why did they think this support is necessary? The Nazis ensured the changes made during the 1930s had constant public support is by a number of reasons. Germany, being a totalitarian ...

The film cabaret shows the extremes of cultural and political life in Germany up to 1933 by the representation of Jews, women, the clubs, goals of life, as well as the representation of the communists, the Nazis, and general Hindenburg suggests that Weimar Germany's hedonism and indulgence by i...

"Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel was born in 1891. As field marshal he was known best for his capture of 9,000 allied forces during World War I. On the Germans invasion of France in 1940, Rommel commanded the well-known Ghost Division or otherwise known as the German 7th Panzer Division. P...

By the beginning of 1939, the gradual and mounting campaign against the Jews was prepared for the achievement of its ultimate violent ends. The German people had been indoctrinated, and the seeds of hatred had been sown. The German state was armed and prepared for conquest and to carry out th...

There was widespread support for Luther's ideas in Germany because they appealed to all the classes, highlighting current weaknesses of the church that had been abhorred for years and developing complaints already noted by other dissidents. But more than that they proposed a change, a reform, w...

QUESTION A: TO WHAT EXTENT DID THE NAZIS SUCCEED IN BRINGING ABOUT A SOCIAL REVOLUTION BETWEEN 1933 AND 1939? On the 30th January 1933 President Hindenburg offered Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist Party, the position, Chancellor of Germany. From this day forward, the future o...

The rise of totalitarianism, to some historians, was a logical process, but still has caused much discussion over the years. Many prominent dictators had fulfilled the yardsticks of totalitarianism to a large extent and one of these yardsticks is the use of propaganda. As for many of the yardsticks...

World War I was supposed to be the war to end all wars- but it wasn't. The war was not necessary and to some unjust. How could such a terrible war start over an assassination? The truth is that it wasn't. The real cause of WWI a single isolated incident, but rather though a series of...

Little Biography Ida Tarbell: She was born in Erie County, Pennsylvania. She was born in1857-1944.She was an American writer, leader of the muckraking movement in journalism. Tarbell was an associate editor (1894-1906) of McClure's magazine (1906-1915) and editor of the American Magazine....

Introduction President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany on January 30th 1933, having successfully campaigned to make the Nazis the most popular party. He had been legally elected and chosen to form a government. Why was he able to capture the hearts and minds of the German people ...

In chapters 7-8 of Valhalla, Calvary and Auschwitz, author Giora Shoham examines the social characters and relationship of Jews and Germans prior and leading up to the Holocaust. Shoham believes Jew's participant qualities clash with German separant identities which contributed to the Jew's vicitim...

Was Adolf Hitler an ideologue or an opportunist? I believe that Adolf Hitler was the perfect model of an opportunist. He took advantage of every opportunity given to him. He was an ideologue also, but he took every opportunity to shout his ideals to the people. His life began simply enough, but he...

The book Mein Kampf (My Struggle) was written by Adolf Hitler before World War II (1933). Hitler was an evil genius, which wrote of how he felt about racial elements and how he felt they were differently situated. Hitler also wrote of the importance of propaganda, and the correct use of the lies p...

Economic Transitions for the European States After 1945The greatest challenge for Germany after World War II was economics. Nothing remained of Germany except rubble and graves. It was impossible for the Germans go get food and clean drinking water. It was even more impossible for the Germans to ...

After the devastating effects of WWII, Europe's economic and social conditions where in shambles. The personal suffering and internal upheavals threatened chaos. There was a lack of coal, steel, electrical power, railroad cars, locomotives, trucks, oil, and grain. All of the West European countri...

 Nazi RuleNazism held total control over Germany from 1933 - 1939. The Nazis dominated the everyday life of ordinary people and made it impossible for people to escape the influence of Nazism in their work, their family life, and in their t...

Most of us probably agree that belonging and being respected as a member of society are very important to us. In my opinion, being prejudged is not very pleasing. All people have the right to eat, to breathe, and to be respected. Being a member of society, I have these rights but it has not always b...