In the early 1900's, with the threat of another world war in the conscienceness of most Europeans, people became more united in individual nations. ... Many Europeans were beginning to find themselves engulfed in a whirlwind of propaganda produced by national leadership. ... Bush's recent rationalizations for preemptively attacking other cultures, such as Iraq. ... Most people feel a sense of pride when they see their countries flag, but in doing so; we as an international society have to recognize the various cultures and religions that make up this great world. ...

• Word Count: 934
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

European ideals often concerned themselves, it was never for the better of mankind just the better for the white man. ... Geological finds changed the course of European thought and religion, soon biology spawned the generation of scientific racism. Exterminate evaluates 1800s-1900s European ideals about "others" through the scientific inquiry of European scientists. ... Not only did Europeans misinterpret Darwin's theory of evolution they misapply his theory to social Darwinism. ... Evidence of this genocide helps explain why it would happen 30 years later but on a larger scale...

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It is this extreme racialism of the Nazi ideology that turned both Jews and Gypsies into the official "scapegoats of Europe". ... For Gypsies, this kind of oppression had existed ever since their migration from India to Europe more than a thousand years ago. ... In Islamic world, Gypsies were considered as Christian because of their different religion believes and culture; but their dark skin and foreign-looking faces made them "Islam" in Christian society. Many Europeans associated their dark skin with the devil; others claimed that they were expiating the sin committed by their ancestor. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Fascism was forged in the crucible of post-World War I nationalism in Europe. The national aspirations of many European peoples nations without states, peoples arbitrarily assigned to political entities with little regard for custom or culture had been crushed after World War I. ... Italian fascism, in adopting the old Roman symbol of authority (the fasces), looked back to the days of the Roman Empire, which controlled much of Western Europe. ... This ultra nationalism was also evident in Nazi Germany with its policy of uniting all Germans in a Gross Deutschland and acquiring Lebensraum in Eas...

• Word Count: 1866
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Many of these zealous Wagnerites' could be found in central Europe, most often at Germany and Austria's leading university's including Berlin, Leipzig, Munich and Vienna. ... Wolzogen used the Bayreuth Blãtter to remind his readers, the inner circle of Wagnerites, that Wagnerism was not just a love of brilliant music and theater; it was an "ideology,"" a view of the world based on a deep consciousness of the German spirit and culture'#. ...

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Many of these zealous Wagnerites' could be found in central Europe, most often at Germany and Austria's leading university's including Berlin, Leipzig, Munich and Vienna. ... Wolzogen used the Bayreuth Blãtter to remind his readers, the inner circle of Wagnerites, that Wagnerism was not just a love of brilliant music and theater; it was an "ideology,"" a view of the world based on a deep consciousness of the German spirit and culture'#. ...

• Word Count: 2346
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• Has Bibliography
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Xenophanes observed that anthropomorphism occurred in every society and culture. Early examples of anthropomorphism can be found throughout the Hindu culture and in several of their deities, such as Ganesha. The appearance of anthropomorphism across every society and culture indicates that perhaps anthropomorphism is an innate, physiological behavior. ...

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By degrading the Jewish race to an animalistic culture to general society, Hitler made it possible for the Holocaust to be used to eventually wipe out the Jewish people. ... When considering the amount of the Jewish people in Europe at the time was approximately 50,000000, the loss of 6000000 lives is extreme. ...

• Word Count: 888
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If Gleischaltung was going to work in creating a totalitarian state, German culture had to be co-ordinated so it did not go against the Nazis. ... "In order to pursue a policy of German culture, it is necessary to gather together the creative artists in all spheres into a unified organisation under the Reich's leadership. ... This was the co-ordination of religious culture. Goebbels established the Reich Chamber of Culture in September 1933, which included departments for literature, press, radio, theatre, music and the creative arts. ... Of course the Chamber of Culture banned all works ...

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"The people of lords" ("Herrenvolk") was the "Aryan race", is composed of populations of Northern Europe. ... Whenever Aryans have mingled their blood with that of an inferior race the result has been the downfall of the people who were the standard-bearers of a higher culture. ... Hitler tried to expand German territory to the eastern part of Europe (Ukraine, Romania). ...

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Hitler's complete lack understanding and principles on the eventual destruction of the world by the "polluting Jewish culture" are highlighted in the following quote, "religion is ridiculed, ethics and morality represented as outmoded, until the last props of a nation in it's struggle for existence in this world have fallen. ... Germany began by possessing the land, dwellings and property of all Jewish people in nazi occupied Europe and sending them to allocated parts of cities. ...

• Word Count: 1016
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The term 'totalitarianism' was first coined in Italy in May 1923 as a term of abuse against Mussolini's Fascist government. In England in 1929 the term was used to describe both Fascist (Italy and later Germany) and Communist (Soviet Union) states. Indeed, these countries were ruled by a single mas...

• Word Count: 2961
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate