The Death Of The Nazi Party

"Hitler Youth:Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow." 2005. Studysync: Reading & Writing Companion. Sonoma, CA: BookheadEd Learning, LLC, 2015. 397-99. Print.

The readers of the article “Liberating the First Nazi Camp,” an interview with Jim Martin, WWII veteran will begin to understand the personal hardships that service members experienced through the war. In the given article the reader can begin to see just how bad the conditions where for people that opposed the Third Reich, and where thrown into these concentration camps. The interview also show the haste that the Nazis would get into when the Allied forces, leaving helpless victims in the gas chambers, hastily executing them via machine gun, and even storing the remains in warehouse to be disposed of at a later time. The article also shows a more human side of the rough and tough solider who literally had to do this depressing job every single

History has detrimental spots. As millennials, we remember horrific social spots in history’s timeline in comparison to economic and political tragedies. Elie Wiesel, a recently deceased human rights activist and a target himself in the Nazi Final Solution, in his Nobel Peace Prize winning speech said, “When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.” When growing up, one of the horrific social spots that we recollect is the events of World War II and the Holocaust. We do not remember the detrimental effects on the economy or the rise and

Within Germany, a country torn between the rise of a totalitarian party that determined a superior race, Nazism, and the survival of the oppressed, young Germans face a test between a sense of self and society. Individuality would be suppressed within this new type of society, and being different would be the deadliest obstruction to life. The violations of the rights to life, religion, and speech are relived through the stories of the German youth that lived through this haunting time, whose name would be tarnished in their struggle to survive. In their fight, their morals would be challenged and influenced until the Nazi regime ended, and the violation of human dignity would leave them wondering if life was worth living after all. The Nazi Party grew under its leader, Adolf Hitler, which struggled not to use violence against those that disagreed with their views, starting with armed groups known as the Strum Abteilung, who pledged to be ready to sacrifice their life in the aims of the Nazi Party and absolute loyalty to their leader. Their cruel intolerance began by their strong nationalism and their hatred of democracy and communism, and they gained power through the economic depressions around the world, controlling the media by instilling fear and propaganda that influenced a strong belief in their leaders. This belief in the leaders would soon seem to override Church influence when the official body of the Church failed to do anything significant

"Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow." Studysync: Reading & Writing Companion. Sonoma, CA: BookheadEd Learning, LLC, 2015. 398-400. Print.

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

Paul Bäumer, at the age of 19 lives in a world where killing is the only way to live, and one of a friend would be no different, but yet a common occurrence. No longer does he or any of the solders consider themselves as the mere teenagers they once were when entering the army. “We are none of us more than twenty years old,” he says. “But young? Youth? That is long ago. We are old folk” (18).

At the foundation of Nazi ideology is a strict adherence to the racial purification of the ‘Aryan race.’ Nazi propagandists and racial fanatics created ways to limit the rights of people who were deemed racially inferior; the majority of such policies focused on solving the ‘Jewish Problem.’ In an effort to increase pressures on the Jewish population of Europe, the Nazi regime imposed laws and edicts to remove any legal rights of Jewish citizens. In order to purify the German race, the Nazi regime went a step further and implemented legislation to separate the Jewish and Aryan populations; a separation of these groups would provide a quicker way to racial purification. In the mid-1930s, laws, like the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, were enacted to inhibit marriage and sexual relations between people of Jewish and Aryan descent. This particular law focuses on the purification of German blood, the Jewish-German marriage policy and the display of Reich symbols. Looking at its historical context, however, we see that this law is only a small piece of the Nazi policies focused on the persecution of Jews.

Throughout the crucial years of World War Two, many individuals had sacrificed themselves to liberate their countries from Germany’s dictatorship. It may have seem impossible since Adolf Hitler wanted to dominate, not just Europe, but The United States and other foreign countries. Hitler wanted to create a “perfect” race of Germany with impeccable, obedient soldiers, exceptional mothers, and resilient children. Unfortunately, the human race of Germany allowed this gruesome terror to commence by Germans eliminating anyone who was not similar to their kind. “All the Lights We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr illustrates an orphan boy from Germany, Werner Pfennig, and a blind French girl, Marie-Laure LeBlanc. The adolescents struggle through the

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.

Led by the Hitler Youth as young as 15, kids became spies, saboteurs, attacked in battalions, and destroyed bridges. What they didn't know was that the armies Hitler commanded no longer existed. They had been demolished by the Allies. They were the last line of hopeless defense. As the Allies pushed farther into the city and hope dwindled even further, boy soldiers committed suicide, rather than face the Fatherland defeated. To those captured, Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945 and their cherished Fürher’s suicide couldn't have been more devastating. Nazi Germany had been the only thing they'd ever known. To make their demoralized lived worse, the truth to all the lies Hitler’s regime told came to light. A generation that once held such a

Some worry that having built their lives on the foundation of Nazi Germany is enough to assume some guilt, and whether that is true or not usually comes down to people’s own view on the issue, but it demonstrates that the fear of war guilt not only creates a false sense of history, but prevents people from being able to truly move on. Whether it is someone like Sonja, who just discovered that their town and neighbors had a role in Nazi Germany, or someone like Spiegelman who feels guilty for having a relatively easy and successful life when someone he cares about went through some of the worst imaginable trauma, it is hard to make any progress without having to confront that that progress was made in the shadow of human

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

Shortly after the start of WW1, young Paul Baumer was a high schooler with his friends graduating soon. Flyers and rumors were everywhere about the war, encouraging people to join the German army. It wasn’t until they were being influenced by their teacher’s stirring patriotic speeches that they were really entailed to join. Thus started the beginning of these boys road to the end. After experiencing ten weeks of brutal training, Paul realized that the ideals of nationalism and patriotism for which he enlisted are simply empty promises. He no longer believes that war is glorious or honorable, and he along with his friends live in constant physical terror. When Paul’s company receives a short reprieve after two weeks of fighting, only eighty

Composition. The Nazi Party had roughly two thousand men situated throughout Munich in several of the larger beer halls. The State police charged with upholding the peace in Munich had patrols throughout the city. There is no reporting of any military operations taking place during this time. In the final exchange Kershaw stated that the police and local military totaled one hundred thirty. Von Lopp states that the force numbered closer to three hundred and fifty. Regardless of which author was correct the Nazis had the advantage of numbers (Kershaw 2008) (Von Lopp 2011).