Ernst Vom Rath: The Rise Of The Nazis

In The Nazi Seizure of Power by William Sheridan Allen, the author portrays the power gaining and support building strategies, used by the Nazi party, by focusing on the small German village of Northeim. This gives the reader a more focused example to see how small towns/villages were locally affected. Allen 's thesis is that the Nazi party was able to take control over small towns and villages like Northeim because they were able to reach out to the lower and middle class. These classes took up the majority of the German population at the time, so, the Nazi party sought out what they wanted from government officials and then used that to persuade these lower/middle classes to vote for them.

Hitler’s rise to power was the result of many factors, but Hitler’s ability to take advantage of Germany’s poor leadership and economical and political conditions was the most significant factor. His ability to manipulate the media and the German public whilst taking advantage of Germany’s poor leadership resulted in both the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler and the nazi party. During the early 1920s, Germany was struggling with economic instability and political uncertainty. Germany, after being defeated in the Great War, was forced to sign the unforgiving treaty of Versailles, which the Weimar Republic was held responsible for. This brought forward feelings of fear, anger and

On March 12th, 1938, Germany invades Austria, the small country in which; Karl Adolf Eichmann is from. The fuhrer, Adolf Hitler, announces an anschluss with the small country of Austria. (History.com,1) This is the day that Colonel Eichmann gained responsibility of the SS

Heinrich Himmler was born on October 7th, 1900 in Munich to a middle-class Bavarian family. His father was Joseph Gebhard Himmler, a secondary-school teacher and principal. His mother was Anna Maria Himmler (maiden name Heyder), a devout Catholic and extremely attentive mother. Heinrich had an older brother, Gebhard Ludwig Himmler, and a younger brother, Ernst Hermann Himmler. Heinrich was named after his godparent, Prince Heinrich of Wittelsbach of the royal family of Bavaria, who was tutored by Gebhard Himmler. Educated at secondary school in Landshut, Himmler served as an officer cadet in the 11th Bavarian Regiment at the end of WW1, although he saw no active service. After working briefly as a salesman for a fertilizer manufacturing firm, Heinrich Himmler joined the Nazi party and in the November of 1923 participated in the Beer-Hall Putsch as a standard bearer at the side of Ernst Rohm. All of these roles combined together were a major reason for Heinrich Himmler being chosen for the jobs he received later in his militaristic life. It is surprising, that Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the primary architect of the Holocaust, has not attracted the attentions of more biographers. For all that he had taken part in for the history of the Third Reich, he appears to lack the “infamous charisma” of Heydrich or Hitler, and because of this lack of “infamous charisma” he has been presented only rarely as a primary subject for a book about the holocaust and the

Wiesenthal dedicated his life to tracking down and prosecuting former Nazis who had been in power. During the 1950’s the case of Adolf Eichmann interested Wiesenthal Eichmann was eventually found, captured, tried in Israel. In 1948 Wiesenthal helped an abortive attempt made by three Israeli agents capture Adolf Eichmann in Austria. In March 1953 Wiesenthal told an Israeli general, Eichmann was hiding in Argentina. In 1960 Israeli agents captured Eichmann in Argentina. In 1961 Wiesenthal was credited with helping capture

(Otto) Adolf Eichmann was Lieutenant Colonel in the Nazi Secret Services (SS), and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was in charge of relocating the jews into ghettos and extermination camps. When the Nazis began to invade the Soviet Union, Eichmann became responsible for Jewish deportation to extermination camps, where they were gassed. After Germany invaded Hungary, and transports had stopped, 437,000 of Hungary’s 725,000 Jews had been killed.

Friedrich Jeckeln, born on February 2, 1895 in Baden, Germany was held responsible for the murder of over 200,000 lives during the Holocaust. Very little is none about his early life, but it is known that Jeckeln served in the German army during the First World War, where he was awarded the Iron Cross and the Wound badge in black. After the war he became a farm manager, and married into the Jewish family of the estate at which he worked. The marriage did not last long due to his alcohol problems, but it took only five years for him to become married again. In the same year as his marriage, 1929, Jeckeln joined the Nazi party, and became a leader in the “Schutzstaffel” or the Nazi party’s paramilitary defense corps.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich was a summary of Adolf’s journey from his boyhood to his final decision to end his life. Shirer successfully made his case as he laid down many points that proved the foolishness of the German citizen in becoming aroused by Hitler’s power and not reacting to stop him from getting any more powerful. The point of view must be addressed. Based on the author’s choice of words and writing, it was clear that he had found Hitler distasteful as he uses the words restless, bitter, demonic, and ruthless to describe the Fuhrer throughout the book. Therefore the writings in the book could have been influenced by the fact that he lived and worked in the Third Reich and witnessed Adolf Hitler’s rise of power first hand. The audience of the book, based on the difficulty of reading and the content, should be for young adults and older, historians, and for anyone interested in this topic. The book could be used for further research into this subject or simply for the pleasure of new information that have never been seen before in other famous Holocaust stories such as The Diary of Anne Frank. This book will definitely stimulate further conversation among historians and history lovers and historiography on this subject as the author’s thesis is quite controversial. Overall, I have liked the thoroughness of this book and all the interesting insights in which I have never come upon with other books talking about the Third Reich, I don’t recommend taking this

Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.

Ever since 1933, German Jews were subjected to repressive policies, ever since Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. Before Kristallnacht, Nazi policies have been mainly non-violent and mild. German officials said that Kristallnacht “erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment in response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath” (USHMM). Vom Rath was a German embassy official who was stationed in Paris. On November 7, 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, shot Ernst vom Rath.

First, in a devastating time Adolf Hitler was in control, he was a Germanpolitician and the leader of the Nazi party. Born on April 20th, 1889 and died onApril 30th, 1945. The Holocaust period began in January 30th, 1933 throughoutMay 8th, 1945 during World War II. The Holocaust was the persecution of sixmillion Jewish people, Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah’s witnesses and disabledsimply because they were inferior and a threat to the German community. Also,the night of November 1938 a night of shattered glass called as Kristal Nacht wasa night of German Civilians or Nazi members destroying stores which was Jewishproperty by the morning they’re would be shattered glass everywhere. During,the Nazi’s power Germany took over most of Europe through

The Weimar Constitution was a genuine attempt to create a perfect democratic country. In his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (1960), American historian William L. Shirer described the Weimar Constitution as "on paper, the most liberal and democratic document of its kind the twentieth century had ever seen ... full of ingenious and admirable devices which seemed to guarantee the working of an almost flawless democracy.” The constitution guaranteed equal rights to the German people, yet also contained the fundamental structural flaws that would play a major part in the Republic 's downfall (and thus the Nazi Party’s rise). Two clear examples of such weaknesses were the use of an excessively proportional electoral system and the

Franz Stangl, he was also known as a highly effective and dedicated organizer of mass murder. He even received an award for it as the “best camp commander”. He took pride and pleasure in his work, and even dressed nice in white riding clothes. Many described him as “soft-voiced, polite and friendly”. He didn’t even hate Jews, he just didn’t see why they allowed all this to happen to them. He compares them to animals several times. He probably thought that they had the intelligence of an animal because they just let this all happen to them. When really Jews were just scared and didn’t want there to be any trouble. It was Franz Stangl and everyone else that murdered the jews who caused the problem.

Starving. You are starving. According to Germany during the Great Depression you would have been out of work and hungry for many years now. You take your trillion marks down to the corner store, wait in line, claw and fight your way for the last couple of items and then find out when you get to the cashier that due to the ever growing inflation your trillions of marks won’t be enough for a single loaf of bread, as is life in Germany in the late 20’s and early 30’s. According to Commanding Heights: The German Inflation most people especially the young have grown up in these terrible conditions were it was more cost effective to take the German marks and burn and use them as wallpaper than as actual money. Around this time you hear about a

The reasons for the rise of the Nazi Dictatorship of the 1930’s and 40’s have been a topic much debated upon by historians for decades. Arguably the most prominent theory is the idea of a “Sonderweg” or special path taken by Germany that “deviates from the normal path to modernity… the British way, the first and therefore classical model.” There is ample evidence of a “Sonderweg” throughout Wilhelmine/Bismarckian Germany, from the lack of a real democracy in 1871 to attempts to repress threats through policies such as Kulturkampf and the anti-Socialist laws. There is also evidence in Weimar Germany, such as the structural weaknesses of the constitution, for example proportional representation and Article 48. There is, however, evidence