I. Introduction to Wilhelm Groener:
Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener was born on November 22, 1867 in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Groener joined the German army in 1884. He was the head of his class in 1896 when he
completed the Kriegsakademie. Groener eventually rose to the head of the railroad department of
the German general staff. He later became the chief of several departments of the War Office,
such as the Army Food Supply Office. He was also made responsible for maintaining production
for the war economy. Under Groener, the army established the principle of collective bargaining
for labor. In 1918 Groener left his position as Chief of Staff of Army Group Kiev to become first
Quartermaster General. Groener helped to bring home
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The Assembly included both republicans, called the Weimar
Coalition, and conservative anti-republicans. The distribution of votes, however, favored
the creation of a Republic. The constitution of the new Weimar Republic was later
ratified and signed into law in August of 1919. It established a federal republic with a
parliamentary system, called the Reichstag, and a president. The President was given the
ability to appoint a chancellor and the cabinet ministers. The cabinet was forced to align
itself with the Reichstag, which was elected through universal suffrage. However, the
president could dismiss the cabinet, dissolve the Reichstag, and had veto powers. The
president could also allow the cabinet to govern independently of the Reichstag, as
outlined in the emergency clause. These provisions weakened the legislative powers of
the Reichstag.
The Weimar Republic experienced problems from its outset. The president,
Friedrich Ebert, and his government had to contend with both leftists, such as the
communists, and rightists, such as the royalists, in addition to economic issues. The
government’s supporters, who included the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Central
Party, and the German Democratic Party (DDP), failed to act responsibly and many
Germans refused to accept the Weimar Republic’s legitimacy.
The right, supported by the army, elite class,
In World War 1, Hitler volunteered for service in the Bavarian army, where he proved to be a dedicated courageous solider. After Germany’s defeat in 1918 he returned to Munich, where, in 1919 he joined the Nazi party. In 1921 he was elected party chairman with dictatorial powers. He soon became a key figure in Bavarian politics and by January 1933 he was appointed chancellor.
Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn served as a midshipman in the German Navy during World War I and was a member of the German Navy’s secret police from 1928 through 1930. Kuehn also studied to become a physician after World War I. When the Nazi party took control in Germany, Dr. Kuehn became a minor official in the Nazi secret police, or Gestapo, and formed close ties with the head of the organization, Heinrich Himmler. Kuehn was married to Friedel Kuehn and had two children, Hans Joachim, six years old, and Suzie Ruth, seventeen years old (Jamison, 2014).
The Federalist Papers established the definition of a Republic that would govern by the representation of the people and the interest of the society. Based on the principles of Democracy, the Federalist Papers established the acquisition of power by the decision of the population to “choose a body of citizens whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of the country and whose patriotism and love of justice will be at least likely to sacrifice it to temporary and partial considerations”, the principle of democracy established on the Federalist Paper advocated for the recognition of power given by the popular decision of the people to attend the interest of the whole community. The principal development of the Republic was distributed in
ratification on March 1, 1781. After a few years, the country started evolving and growing,
Constitution went into effect on January 16, 1920. People tried to control how much alcohol
after it declared independence from Great Britain. However ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all thirteen states did not occur until March 1,
This newly spoils system differs from the previous one in that the new system allowed president to remove cabinet members for political reasons. Although this newly rotation system increased civil jobs and active national campaigns, such patronage system expanded the power of the executive by placing the president in the position to enforce conformity within administrative
This gave rise to the Articles of Confederation, the United States first attempt at a constitution. (www.archives.gov).
This was achieved even though the economy lost millions of skilled workers to the armed services. He introduced a system of reserved occupations which gave skilled workers exemption from the armed services. In June 1943, he took over all war production except aircraft. In March 1944 this changed and Speer created the ‘Fighter Staff’ for the emergency production of aircraft. In January 1943, he introduced civil conscription of women. By 1944, women made up 51% of the native German workforce, he cut the civilian economy to the minimum. In August 1943, he introduced the underground factory program. This was devised as a measure to combat the increased targeted Allied bombing raids. This became mandatory in 1944 and in May, 1945, he was named Minister of Economics, despite his failure to take part in Hitler’s “Scorched Earth Policy”. Speer’s leadership had a remarkable effect on German armament manufacturing, without Speer, Hitler would have lacked the power to stage his fight to the finish.
1941 he was the commander of the 2nd Armored Division. He was assigned to seize
After his release, Adolph Hitler put his treacherous plans into action. He began working inside the German government and his power within the system increased rapidly. Yet Hitler was always hungery for more. With support, the crazed man changed the law so that when the chancellor died, all the power of the country was to be given to him. As a result, one would not be surprised to learn that Germany's chancellor died soon after this law was created, leaving the power of Germany within the dirty hands of Adolph Hitler.
Then in the 1916 election those who favored national prohibition won the two thirds majority of the US Congress. This allowed Congress to have enough voted to ratify the 18th Amendment. There were several loopholes built into the amendment that made enforcement
The first most interesting thing I found in the article was that, Brown, a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau was thinking about Oskar Groening, a former Nazi SS sergeant who was a guard at the camp. Brown was just seventeen when she and her parents were stransported from Hingary to Auschwitz- Birkenau. Both of her parents were killed in the gas chambers, and she was sent to a work camp in which she escaped from a death march from which she was freed. The thing I questioned about this is that why would someone that Brown has no compassion towards suddenly come upon her mind? Groening was charged with being an accessory to the 300,000 murders of prisoners, most of them Hungarian Jews, at the camp. He said that he never personally harmed a prisoner
Volunteering Bavarian army in World War 1 in August 1914, he works as a dispatch soldier and he was in the first battle of Ypres, the battle of the Somme, the battle of arras, and the battle of Passchendaele. By being wounded in Somme, he received Iron Cross in 1914. On May 1918, he received the Black Wound Badge. He was imprisoned in 1923 for attempting to snatch power in Munich. He gained popularity after his first volume of biography i.e. Mein kalf (My Struggle), attacking treaty of Versailles, and publicizing Pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism. He was appointed as a chancellor for Nazi party on January 30, 1933. His aggressive foreign policy was the crucial cause of the start of World War 2 in Europe. He became the head of
Weber lived with his parents for the first twenty-nine years of his life until he left to study law at the University of Heidelberg in 1882. He had to leave school to fulfill his year military service obligation. He was stationed in Strassburg, where he became close to his aunt, Ida Baumgarten and her husband Hermann, who was a professor of history and who, in time had a deep