The Rise Of The Military Industrial Complex Of Germany From 1933

To consider the inevitability of allied victory in Europe during World War Two requires a more in depth analysis of Germany’s position rather than just looking at the pure ability for the allies to produce war materials and incalculable streams of soldiers. Ultimately ‘quantity of men and arms tells us little about quality’. Obviously Allied victory was final and decisive but this essay will argue that even though this war was won on economic power it did not mean that victory for the nations that were to be industrial superpowers was inevitable. However Allied victory eventually did become inevitable after certain turning points in the war, this essay will demonstrate how the two most important turning points, the Battle for Stalingrad

In this essay I will assess the significance of strategic bombing of Germany. I will do this by evaluating four key areas of the German war effort. This will include German and British moral, German economy, its effect on the outcome of the Eastern Front and the results of the preparation for D-Day. Overall allied bombing did not have a significant impact on the outcome of the war as for the majority of the war bombing techniques and technology were primitive and so had little effect. It only became a threatening tool latter on in the war, when the allies had effectively won.

Germany was now desperately seeking a strong leader that would rescue their country. The domestic crisis was the source of their anguish and Hitler who called for self determination and the abolition of the Treaty of Versailles appealed to the people. According to the revisionist views “The depression also helped to destroy German democracy and contributed to Hitler’s rise to power, and it was his dictatorship which brought war”. The rise of the Nazis cannot therefore be blamed solely on the reparations, the Weimar Republic and the Wall Street Crash both independent factors from the consequences of WWI highly contributed to the rise of the Nazis.

From the time Hitler and the Nazi’s took control of Germany in 1933 until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, the aim of the regime under the calculating guidance of Hitler himself sought no less than global conquest. This ambitious objective can be further dissected into short term and long term goals that provide insight into Hitler’s character, thoughts and actions.

The first source that will be evaluated is J. Noakes and G. Pridham’s documentary “Hitler’s War | 1939”, created in 2001. The origin of this source is valuable because Professor Adam Tooze is a British historian and was Reader in Modern European Economic History at the University of Cambridge and professor at Yale University. He also wrote a book that provides an interpretation of the dramatic period of statistical innovation between 1900 and the end of World War II. Sir Richard John Evans, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS is a British academic and historian, best known for his research on the history of Germany in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly the Third Reich. He wrote several books about history of Germany and Hitler. Furthermore this source represents a clear point of view and evidence about Hitler’s dreams and beliefs for Germany because Professor Tooze and Sir Richard J. Evans are experts in European Economic and history of Germany. However this source is limited in that Professor Tooze argues that all Hitler wanted from war was to create a new master race to create a stronger Germany but Sir Evans argues that Hitler’s dream was to conquer eastern europe to create an

Around the world, national economies were tanking, the U.S., Germany, England, France, and Italy. People were becoming unemployed and were losing their homes to bank foreclosures as the cost of living was on a high rise at the time. Everyone wanted someone to blame for their problems and Hitler gave them just that. Hitler knew about the weaknesses in Germany at the time and he gave the Germans an innocent race to blame to gain power. He convinced industrialist that he alone could increase consumerism and in turn bring more production. With the increase in production Germany’s pride would begin to restore both in world standings and at home. Even

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.

World War II had a considerable influence on the United States. It is agreed by many historians that WWII was as surely won on the American homefront as it was on the actual battlefield. In 1939, compared to that of its enemies, American preparation for war was by far lacking. After just four year, The United States became a “military superpower.” According to a comparative study by Richard Overy, about two-thirds of all Allied military equipment produced during the war was provided by American industry. Companies that would normally produce everyday vehicles (such as automobiles) began to manufacture tanks and aircrafts. Although no battles were fought on the mainland, the war still heavily affected all ways of American life. It heavily affected political, economica, and corporate industry.

Foremost we must make clear the reasoning behind the expansion of the German armed forces before the outbreak of World War One. Military expansion was in direct consequence of increased competition among European colonial powers. Unlike Europe’s traditional powers such as England, France, and Russia, Germany was

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party rose to power during the period of time right before and during World War II. Although Hitler caused many injustices and deaths, the Germans still looked up to and admired him. German citizens saw him as a leader who brought nothing but positive changes to their country. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party were appealing to the Germans due to Hitler’s potential of stabilizing Germany’s economy, Hitler’s favorable ideas, and the nationalism Hitler was able to bring about.

In the article entitled “Hitler Comes to Power” Patrica Smith focuses on why Hitler came to power, and how history can repeat itself again. First Smith discusses about the critical condition of Germany, Germany was going through a hard time after their defeat in the World War I. In this depressing time the Nazi party gains more power by promising the German citizens good times, by providing more jobs and food. The writer also states that Paul von Hindenburg, the president of Germany appoints Hitler as the chancellor, because of the rise in power of the Nazi’s. However, Hitler uses his power for his own will and destroys Germany’s democracy to become the dictator of Germany. In addition, she points out that Hitler used his power to for his own

The rise and subsequent take-over of power in Germany by Hitler and the Nazi Party in the early 1930s was the culmination and continuation not of Enlightenment thought from the 18th and 19th century but the logical conclusion of unstable and cultural conditions that pre-existed in Germany. Hitler’s Nazi Party’s clear manipulation of the weak state of the Weimar Republic through its continued failure economically and socially, plus its undermining of popular support through the signing the Treaty of Versailles all lead to the creation of a Nazi dictatorship under the cult of personality of Hitler. This clear take-over of power and subsequent destruction of any

Nazi Genocide during World War II was the horrific and brutal crimes in European History. The use of poisonous gases, crematoriums, intense labor, and shootings was the revenge of Adolph Hitler to his political opponents that made Germany fall into the Great Depression. “Unfortunately, there is no good term to describe the creation of conditions in which the death of human beings is not just allowed but deliberately intended” (Pressler, 12). The leader of the Nazi party was an Austrian named Adolph Hitler. Hitler was like a God in the eyes of desperate German families that had endured hard times in Germany during the Great Depression. The political ideology of fascism ruled Germany with an iron fist throughout the 1930s to the mid1940s in terms

Not many people know of the reason on how Hitler came to the rise of his power and how he took control of Germany and started the revolution that was World War II. In order for Hitler to gain power, there were events that had occurred which may have impacted as an aide for his rise in power. There was the Treaty of Versailles, which was the treaty that the allies came up with to end World War I. The Munich Beer Hall Putsch was an event to help gain support for Hitler’s group. Hitler gained his recognition of power after Hindenburg’s death on August 2, 1934, so all of the events discussed in this paper are before this time. (1) I will investigate and analyze the failures of these events, which helped lead to that point of when Hitler was known to become the notorious dictator that he is known

During World War II, production was a major factor in military success. On the war’s pivotal Eastern Front, the Soviet Union recovered from the losses of the initial invasion and produced a high quantity of war material. Germany continued to produce the high quality it was renowned for. The difference in production systems tended to align with the national ideology of each country: Communism and German National Socialism. Each production system had its strengths and weaknesses, but in the end the Soviet Union simply outproduced Germany.