Adolf Hitler was a brilliant man, a charismatic leader, and a harsh dictator. His promises of a better life for nationalistic Germans allowed him to successfully rise to power and attempt world domination. He ruled through terror and left a staggering death toll of six million Jews. Hitler...

Odessa and Die Spinne are believed to be by many, including Simon Wisenthal, an organization created in the wake of the fall of the Third Reich to help Nazi war criminal to escape justice. This is believed because over one hundred Nazis wanted for crimes against humanity escaped. Also the crimin...

Benito Mussolini was an early socialist who later supported the concept of totalitarianism, a method of political practice and the execution of power. He also encouraged the idea of fascism, absolute authority of the state in ancient Rome. The few factors which brought Mussolini to power in Italy in...

1. Title: Fascism 2. Author: Richard Tames 3. Publisher: Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers 4. Copyright Date: 2001 5. Number of Pages: 64 6. How long did it take to read the book? 1 day 7. Why did you choose this book? I wanted to get a better understanding of fascism. 8. What is the main subj...

The young men in Germany had the option of becoming a part of Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth), and the young girls had the option of joining Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German Girls). Until December of 1936, the Hitler Youth organization was voluntary to join, but after that date became mandatory a...

The Nature of the Holocaust The Holocaust provides examples of human nature at its best and at its worst and every level between the two extremes. Gerda Weissmann Klein, the author of All But My Life, supplies a detailed and personal look at what happened during the Holocaust. She describes the vi...

When transposing a traditional text, particularly one such as Shakespeare's "Richard III" – deemed classical and therefore sacred – one will undoubtedly run into controversy – if not blatant opposition. However, Ian McKellen's appropriation of the original play ...

Many protesters of "Operation: Iraqi Freedom" claim that it is pre-emptive and unnecessary. Many of the supporters, on the other hand, are stating the exact opposite of these claims. Many are going so far as to say that Saddam Husein and his regime have been committing such atrocities ag...

1. How important was the concept of race in Nazi ideology and policy to 1939, as opposed to attitudes toward religion, culture, nationality, and politics? Every now and then I will try to organize my files. I will start ambitiously by organizing them into logical groups. English papers will go ...

Rebecca Samuels Who Voted for the Nazis and Why? For years historians have been obsessed with the question who voted Nazi? , this is mainly because of how incredible the Nazis rise to power actually was. The Nazis came to power only fourteen years after the party had been founded, this was...

THE NANJING MASSACRE Since World War II lots has said about the holocaust. Seen as the most terrible thing to happen to a group in history it has inspired books and movies and is now universally known. But not much has been said about the Nanjing massacre. The actions of Japanese troops during...

BENITO MUSSOLINI Benito Mussolini was an ambitious dictator who started Fascism. He was a dictator of Italy from 1922 to 1943.He was the kind of person who needed to prove himself to others and later became the most important supporter of the Fascist movement. Mussolini was also a writer and in h...

The first international war-crimes trials began in November 1945 in Nuremberg, Germany. The International Military Tribunal (IMT) was set up by the victorious Allies (the U.S., France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union) at the end of World War II. Prosecutors from those four countries indicated a ...

How Hitler got into Power At the end of the war Germany underwent a rapid political restructuring. Following this transition from authoritarian monarchy to democratic republic, Weimar Germany immediately began to display weaknesses that it would ultimately never fix. Germany had to create a govern...

Filling three high-level voids caused Adolph Hitler to rise to power as the totalitarian dictator of Germany. With his country in the ferment left from World War One, groups at all levels of politics were looking for a savior. Hitler stumbled upon an awareness of his own charisma, saw the opp...

The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in June of 1914 ignited an immediate tightening of European alliances that resulted in a bloody World War. The people of Germany welcomed the news of the war, and the following frenzy of enlistment in the German army became known as August Madne...

There were many links between the conclusion of WW1 and WW2. A few of these links include; The Treaty of Versailles, the rise to power of the Nazi party, the holocaust, the great depression and many more causes. The main factor which led to WWII though was Hitler, and his racial, anti-Semitism ide...