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    war time efforts. Because of the Nazi regime in Germany in the 1930’s and 40’s, there was a need for technological advancements to help win the war. Decoding materials, and making precise calculations to aide in air strikes were huge factors in pushing technology forward. The German military was able to acknowledge Konrad Zuse’s talent, and dismiss him from solider to engineer. Thus laying a foundation for the future of technology to advance. Unfortunately the Nazi Regime was only interested in building

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    Apart from the logistics, strategy, or tactics of mass genocide, it is difficult to comprehend how an entire country can bear responsibility for the premature deaths of over six million people. While genocide, including the extermination of Jews by Nazi Germany, has occurred under multiple different contexts and is still present in modern society, there must be a psychological component to the cause of genocide. Where was humanity in the midst of widespread murder? Shouldn’t there have been as many advocates

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    Propaganda played an important part in Nazi Germany’s role in WWII Through the various methods of propaganda, Nazi Germany was able to persuade the citizens of Germany into believing their ideals; therefore it is believed that propaganda served as one of Nazi Germany’s strongest points in WWII (Kathyrn Kinser, 2010). With Joseph Goebbels, an individual who could effectively communicates his thoughts and ideas in the form of writing, he was appointed as the minister of propaganda by Hitler in 1939

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    Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany from the period of 1939-45 could be seen to be the most significant period in the 20th century, and perhaps human history particularly as it led to the holocaust, which saw the extermination of 5.4 million Jews and the creation of the new state of Israel in 1945. Although the Jews had experienced persecution throughout history, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, when large numbers of Jews were persecuted in Europe, and the crusades, where mass killings of Jews

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    Modern China and Nazi Germany appears in their overtly racist government policies towards their minorities, most notably Jews, in the case of Nazi Germany. Throughout history, Europeans have reviled the Jewish people. Wherever they went, the Jews encountered a long history of hatred and persecution directed towards (Wyman and Rosenzveig 391). That vilifying tradition, along with the generally accepted theories of racial conflict and Social Darwinism, allowed early twentieth century Germany to foster its

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    When Heinrich Heine said “Where books are burned, in the end people will be burned”, he knew not of the atrocities that would come from the hatred of Jews in Germany, and eventually the Holocaust. Heine’s quote was in reference to the Spanish Inquisition and the mistreatment of Muslims and Jews, but Heine was acknowledging the bigger picture behind the burning of literature in relation to hatred of a group (Cole). Heine understood that books are representative of an entire culture and that those

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    Mr President, There is a standing issue in the Nazi Germany. Nazi’s have taken over leadership and are killing people just based on if they are Jews, Romani people, People with disabilities, Polish people, Political enemies, Gay people, and Jehovah's witnesses. This is a very serious situation Germany is commiting many war crimes such as Mass genocide, Murder, and Executions. The concern for the countless amounts of Jewish people being being brutally slaughtered grows larger each day. I believe

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    Peter Gay, a German Jew, escaped Nazi Germany just prior to the mass execution toward people of the Jewish faith that is now formally known as the Holocaust. Gay detailed this process in his memoir My German Question Growing up in Nazi Berlin. Like many Jews living as German constituents during the 1930’s, Gay’s family was hesitant to leave their home due to Hitler’s radical rise to power. The Fröhlich’s, Gay’s last name in German, decision to stay in Germany although they began to face immense

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    feature of the regime in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. The term concentration camp refers to a camp in which people are detained or confined, usually under harsh conditions and without regard to legal norms of arrest and imprisonment that are acceptable in a constitutional democracy. THE FIRST CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN GERMANY The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor in January 1933. In the weeks after the Nazis came to power, The SA

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    ‘Resistance in Nazi Germany could not be substantial because of the brutal nature of the regime’. Discuss. When Hitler and the Nazi party gained power in 1933, people did not yet know they had voted for a future full of conflict and a genocide that would plague the country for decades to come. In order to discuss how 'resistance in Nazi Germany could not be substantial', the term resistance needs to be defined first. According to Kershaw (2010, p. 183) historians still argue about how to define

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