The City of Ember and Nazi Germany: Two Great Things that Came to an End

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.

At the highest level, the division that persists in most democracies transforms into conflict over power. In these situations, there is a constant struggle over popularity and legitimacy, both of which are necessary components for power accumulation and consolidation. As a result, severe issues arise when either or both of them no longer lie in the hands of elected officials. A prime example of this was Germany during the Great Depression, where the democratically elected government collapsed because of economic crises. While they were losing power and popularity, Hitler was rapidly gaining on them. After going through several other candidates, the political elites were desperate for change, so they resorted to elevating him to the position of chancellor. They believed they could control and use him to regain a political foothold over the nation. Although such an event did not ensue, it revealed that, “If a charismatic outsider emerges on the scene, gaining popularity as he challenges the old order, it is tempting for establishment politicians who feel their control is unraveling to try to co-opt him” (Levitsky and Ziblatt 15). This was the final nail on their democracy’s coffin. By supporting an extremist like Hitler, the elites gambled away the future of Germany. They thought that

Imagine a world where there were no problems, and everyone is happy. Few societies have not even been close to being this perfect. Great societies fail due to weak security systems, poverty, and inequality. The failed societies of Ancient Rome, Africa, and the dystopian novel Divergent by Veronica Roth, are all examples of great societies failing because of these three reasons.

It has become blatantly obvious that history repeats itself similar events reoccur and have nearly identical outcomes. The rise and fall of civilization comes as the ocean, rising to its highest point and then falling down to its knees but only to find itself climbing back up again. The book Anthem shows the extent a government and its citizens are willing to go to preserve the idea of a perfect society. But with this great society come sacrifices and challenges the people must find ways to accept, examples are, having complete trust in authority figures, the idea that the group as a whole is more important, and they must accept that there is only one way to achieve this “perfect” society. Through fear and propaganda, the citizens begin to have a closed mind and only see what they are told to see and question nothing.

purpose: Highlights the collapse of several historical societies and the factors that caused their collapse.

The society can be affected because of these precarious situations. If more and more people can’t find the strength to get out of these tough situations, our society will become less diverse. A less diverse society is usually caused because the controller wants others to be like them. They want others to have the same thoughts, do the same things, and act in a similar fashion. This results in common thoughts and actions creating a less diverse society. Hitler was a master at manipulating people’s minds to get them to do what he wanted. Hitler had one plan in order to pay back the war debts of WWI. According to Anna Tollar, Hitler was able to exterminate people because of his power: “There was no one who could stop Hitler from committing these crimes because he made himself seem more superior” (Tollar n.pag.). One can not control another if they do not have authority over them. Hitler’s goal was to get thousands of people thinking on the same page. He did this by gaining power. Nobody would listen, or carry out his deeds for him without some authority. In addition, Hitler also used fear to brainwash and control his people: “Hitler saw that as an opportunity to persuade people by bringing fear into people’s lives so they would obey him” (Tollar n.pag.). Hitler became so powerful that he started using fear to control others. He established

Hey..Hey buddy, You think that your society is perfect, without any flaws or worries? Well, that's what the Romans and what Nazi Germany thought, and where are they now? Gone. That's where they are. Even in the fiction book, Ready Player One, they thought they were so tough, but not anymore. These Societies may have been powerful and wealthy, but they all suffered the same fate. Corrupt leaders, turned the society upside down. Poverty, affected the moral of the civilization, bringing it down. Wars destroyed the society, making it weak to attacks. Even the most powerful and beautiful civilizations, fall due to Corrupt leaders, Poverty, and wars.

As stated before political leaders prospered through money that they were born into and were brought into power. Many of them used their power to abuse of the people and minimize the voice of the people. Whilst in their power they used propaganda to make it seem as if they, the leaders were the saviors of the country. During the time of World War II Germany was in its economic crisis and Hitler blamed

A civilization featured on hate and suffering will eventually cease to exist. Nazi Germany failed to survive as a

As the Second World War progressed, so did the Nazi regime’s inhumane treatment towards the Jewish population. While World War II fought on, Operation Reinhard was initiated by the Nazi government with the intention to dispose of Jewish victims. Previous to Reinhard, Jewish people were already enduring extremely malicious conditions and targeted as the source of Germany’s problems. Deemed poisonous to the German “master race,” the majority of Jews were put into harsh concentration camps, where they were forced to work in unsparingly brutal conditions. But in the autumn of 1941, Operation Reinhard, also known as “The Final Solution,” took the horrors of the Holocaust a thousand steps further. Reinhard created new death camps throughout Nazi

The absolute power Hussein possessed led to the absolute corruption of Iraq for nearly twenty-four years. During Hussein?s rule, 200,000 people were killed or ?disappeared?. Another major dictator was Adolf Hitler who dictated and killed countless human beings. Hitler?s philosophy of thinking made him kill retarded, crippled, and disabled children along with homosexuals and Jewish people. The power that Hitler received when he became leader corrupted him and made him kill six million Jews, nearly committing genocide on the Jewish population. The corruption increased, with Hitler?s desired to expand Nazi Germany. In addition, the dictatorship and corruption caused by power is also expressed in fictional stories.

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

On the other hand, if this were to have existed in a dictatorship, one would merely get used to how something went because that was how life would be from now on if there was a dictator present. With all the mess and distress already present, the body of laws present in a democracy is much slower to be established, while it usually took much less time with a dictator. Rather than one person having to agree on a law or come up with one, a democracy requires the whole body instead to ratify or accept it. This is due to the fact that your own personal needs must be given up in a dictatorship, while they are respected and valued on the other hand in a democracy. Therefore, seeing from all these changes, the alteration in government that the German government faced must have produced overwhelming challenges for Germany as a whole. They must completely abandon the norm for them and accustom themselves once again to a new way of life. Not only will these bring upon conflicts within the human population, but in all aspects including political, social, and economic qualities. In specificity to all these problems, it was many problems that accumulated and grew through time that presented a chance for Hitler to rise to power. Adolf Hitler was not only a strong and powerful leader that could have rose to power completely on his own, yet many of the inhabitants in Germany was tired of everything and needed a changed

Hanover is a city located in Germany. This city became the capital of the newly formed state of Lower Saxony after the II World War It lies on the Leine River and the Mittlelland Canal. Hanover is the major trade and industrial center. In here Manufactures include iron and steel, tires, machinery, chemicals, textiles , electronic equipment and auto mobiles One of the largest international trade fairs annually here. This city is well known for its Gothic architecture, wooded parks, gardens, museums and institutes. Hanover was badly damaged in World War II, including many of its medieval buildings.

A perfect society. Something we long and hope for, and work towards to achieve for our future. We picture this society in many different ways, including things like equality, no poverty, and everyone being taken care of among many things. However, we have not become this perfect society yet. This makes you start to wonder, what is preventing this perfect society that we all share a vision of? The perfect society would contain things like equality, happiness, and unity. However, these things are counteracted by greediness, other’s misery, and the fight for power.