Bob Fosse's Cabaret (1972) is a film that uses the historical context of 1931 Germany to convey themes through utilising the various dramatic and technical elements of film. The well-known historical context of Nazi Germany provides the audience with an immediately confronting schema about the events that they know followed this tumultuous time that Fosse portrays. ... Sally's facade throughout the film, and her eventual acceptance of herself is a way for her to connect to the film's audience, encouraging the audience to sympathise with her as she is trying to accept herself. .....

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Youth and National Renewal "Triumph of the Will," is an exceptional documentary by Leni Riefenstahl, filmed in 1934 and a masterwork of poetic film making. ... The entire film clearly depicts national unity and social unity. ... There are no alarming ideas, intransigent proposals or any indication of the vices that followed party policies, such as execution of Jews and attempted control of the world. ... The film starts with Hitler descending from a plane to an ecstatic applause, the film portrays Hitler's might and how the masses celebrate him as their god. ... In the film, masses move ...

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This has been the case throughout human history, where the masses have always had a desire to follow a leader, or worship a God, allowing individuals to use this susceptibility to their advantage creating dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. ...

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Press, radio, films- all were carefully supervised to manufacture the illusion that fascism was " the doctrine of the 20th century- Under his dictatorship, the parliamentary system was virtually abolished. ... Mussolini followed the Nazis in adopting a racial policy that led to persecution of the Jews, and the creation of apartheid in the Italian empire. ...

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The burning of the Reichstag on February 27 1933, which was seen as an insult to the government, was followed the day after by the Reichstag Fire decree limiting the expression of the people, allowing the imprisonment of those who were considered as opponents to the Nazis and increasing the censure of any publication going against the Party. ... Indeed, the Nazi film industry produced about 100 films a year, benefiting from a huge cinema attendance, reaching 100 millions by 1943. ...

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In post war society anti-war books, films and poems all became increasingly well liked and several pacifist pressure groups were formed with the sole aim of achieving peaceful solutions to international problems. ... Therefore the British government sought to follow a policy of appeasement. ...

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1.a) Explain how the Nazi Party consolidated its power in Germany in the period 1933-1939. The Nazi Party is now known as the most callously notorious political party of our modern times. Its life spanned only twelve years and three months, which was brief, yet sustained enough for the most savage turmoil the world had ever known. The Nazi Party would have never been born and raised without the single man known as Adolf Hitler, who possessed iron-willed, coldly ruthless, and power-fanatic characteristics that they have adopted. The Nazi party was the very quintessence of Hitler himself. ...

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