Pros And Cons Of Schilling

Finally, there were Army leaders to be dealt with. They were to be taken into consideration for the army was one of the potential groups who was powerful enough to over through Hitler. These, however, were at the moment quite pleased with Hitler’s actions so far, for they shared conservative, antidemocratic and authoritarian views; but still a matter for their concern and distrust was the SA, a paramilitary army run by the Nazi Party which had a bad reputation for being badly disciplined, and particularly their leader being a heavy drinker, openly homosexual who was in charge of an army over 4 million men, and who was presumed to intend to make the SA a second German army and, what’s more, he was also believed to have plotted to over trough Hitler. To grant full support by the army leaders, Hitler sent the SS on a mission to kill Röhm and arrest SA leaders on what was known as the Night of the Long Knives. He made it look as if he had sacrificed a personal friend of his own

After he became chancellor, Adolf Hitler fought his way to become the “Fuhrer”, also known as Germany’s “supreme ruler” (History.com). This gave Hitler enough power to cause Germany to invade its neighboring territories, such as Poland and the Soviet Union. Several years later, the Nazi Party met in Berlin to discuss their plan about the murdering of the Jewish people. They named their plan the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” The Nazis carefully planned each stage of the “Final Solution” before it ever began. This plan also went over how the Jewish people were to be identified from the rest of the crowd (The Holocaust). To put this plan into action the SA, (Sturmabteilungen in German, or Storm Troopers) and the SS (Schutzstaffel in German, or Protection Squadrons) were made to create concentration camps for incarcerating political opponents of the Nazis (Concentration Camps). To get Germans into identifying the Jewish people in their community, the Nazis tricked them

Omer Bartov’s book Hitler’s Army takes an interesting look into the social constructs of the Wehrmacht during World War II. Bartov proposes a question of was the Wehrmacht Hitler’s Army. By that they mean did the soldiers of the Wehrmacht believe in Nazi ideology and what they were told they were fighting for, or were they simply soldiers fighting because they were told too. Bartov’s ultimate answer is yes they are loyal to Hitler and his ideology, and he is eventually correct. After training a generation mentally and physically from the age of ten through Hitler Youth programs the Wehrmacht became Hitler’s Army and their blind loyalty distorted their morality to carrying out war crimes when believed to be necessary. He reaches this conclusion by analyzing the Wehrmacht’s time in Russia and how that devastating campaign effected the enlisted soldiers. He finds that the only way the Wehrmacht’s moral even survived this was their warped mentality and cohesion between the soldiers due to harsh discipline.

They would use harsh words, beat, and even kill Jews. These were clear actions of immorality shown by the SS officers. Furthermore, in the memoir, Night, Elie Wiesel states, “An icy wind was blowing violently. But we marched without faltering. The SS made us increase our pace. ‘Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!’”(Wiesel 85). This shows the lack of sympathy they had; the SS officers were in high command, allowing them to abuse their power and show nothing but immorality towards Jews. Therefore, possessing great amounts of power had lowered the SS officers’

Hitler isolated the youth from the rest of Germany to be able to easily manipulate their beliefs. In 1926 the Hitler Youth was founded to train boys to enter the SA (Storm Troopers), a Nazi Party paramilitary formation. After 1933, however, youth leaders sought to integrate boys, while isolating them from the German girls and from their parents, into the Nazi national community to prepare them for service in the armed forces as soldiers. The Nazi army was such a dominant

Based on their orders and commands, each judgement led the Nazis to believe each prisoner or Jew was a dog, and should be treated with no humanity

Hitler’s generals strongly disagreed with his policies even to the point of attempting an assassination. Multiple times Hitler’s officer tried to stop him from wreaking havoc on the German way of life. Their repeated warnings went unheard, resulting in Germany’s downfall. The German war effort was vastly influenced by the Anti-Nazi tendencies of Hitler’s senior officers.

Rough Draft The catastrophes taking place in Europe during the late 1940s remains embedded in the minds of average civilians as a result of the dehumanization regarding non-Aryan people. Elie Wiesel, a novelist who won the Nobel Peace Prize, wrote the memoir Night, which signifies the important yet distorted facts of this grueling theme. A series of flashbacks combined with flash forwards draw the horrific images in a way that seems hard to conceive. Throughout the concentration camps, animalistic torture never seems to end, leading to the Jewish people accepting and using dehumanization on a daily basis. The ways in which Nazi soldiers exterminated their innocent prisoners, explains how strongly these men supported the German

The SS have complete control over the prisoners. Countless times, the Jews are trained to think that they are less than human. Elie witnesses the brutality of the camps and how replaceable they are when he sees “th[e] children in the flames” (Weisel 24). The Germans have no empathy towards the Jews and make that very clear. Along with the SS emotionally hurting them, they also constantly threaten them with death.

The group was made up of both citizens and career policemen. Major Wilhelm Trapp, a career policeman and World War I veteran headed the battalion. Trapp joined the Nazi party in 1932, but never became an office in the SS. His two captains, Hoffmann and Wohlauf, were SS trained officers. The reserve lieutenants, all seven of them, were drafted into the Order Police because they were

Like hitter the top SS was a group that you volunteered to do, “In either case Himmler found means of enlisting all who volunteered”["The SS Himmler's SchutzStaffel -Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." The SS Himmler's SchutzStaffel - Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.].The top SS knew everything that was going on with the Holocaust. The officers in the top SS knew about the unfairness and cruelty of the millions of people being murdered every day. They had the freedom to kill who they wanted for the reason they wanted to kill them. They used scare tactics to scare the Jewish people to leave their belongings behind, “The incarceration of around 30,000 German,Austrian, and Sudeten Jews in concentration camps, where hundreds of them died,was intended to accelerate their will to emigrate and reduce their inhibitions about leaving their assets behind.”["SS and the Holocaust." United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 20June 2014. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.].The fact that the top SS had the capability to do something so vile and know what they were doing and choose to do it anyway. The top SS also would test and experiment on the Jews, trying to see if they could change their eye color by adding a dye to the eyes, and other experiments that a mostly ended with the victim dying. The top SS has a big responsibility for the holocaust because of the

German propaganda twisted these ideas to manipulate the German population into believing there was “no alternative but to fight on”. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, justified Germany’s “fight to the last man” ideology as their way to “overcome their enemies' military strength” by the means of “force of will”. At the Battle of the Bulge, many of the German soldiers were inspired with this delusional mindset, so by halting the Allied advance they were protecting the rear of their comrades who were ”desperately defending the frontiers of the Reich on the Eastern Front”. Despite their military advantages and fanatical devotion to fight, by the end of the battle the German casualties amounted to 81,834, and when compared to the Allies, who suffered 76,890 casualties, their losses were consequential. German Panzer tanks of this period of the war were far superior in armament and protection when compared to those of the Allies, yet Germany still lost over 300 panzers during the failed

Also among the Jews sent to Theresienstadt, were war veterans or any Jew whom had worn a German uniform. Hitler felt he needed to appease the German army and respect even a Jew who had honorably served Germany.

The Forgotten Soldier is not a book concerning the tactics and strategy of the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. Nor does it analyze Nazi ideology and philosophy. Instead, it describes the

After serving on the 16th Bavarian Reserve Regiment from 1914 to 1918 during the First World War, Hitler gained experience on the battlefield and was later awarded the Iron Cross First Class. Almost 20 years later, German citizens remember Hitler as a Frontkämpfer, a front fighter, and celebrate his courageousness by following in his footsteps of being “the first soldier of the Reich” (Keegan 236). Years after the conclusion of the Second World War however, German citizens found out that Hitler was not a front fighter, but was a humble