Night of Crystal, also known as Kristallnacht in German, was an anti-Jewish pogrom that was taken place on the night of November 9 and 10, 1938. ... On the night of November 9th, 1938, the attacks started, and rioters destroyed a total of 267 synagogues from Germany, Austria, and Sudetenland combined. A majority of the holy buildings were left to burn all night because the firefighters were only ordered to stop fires that spread to non-Jewish buildings. ... While all of this chaos was occurring during the night, the Gestapo (Secret State Police) and the SS arrested approximately 30,000 Jewish ...

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By day these Swing Kids would take part in the Hitler Youth activities and at night would revert to their swing lifestyle. ... Swing Kids were youths of mainly the upper-middle class, they had the wealth to frequently haunt swing night clubs. ...

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Consequently, terror and purges were inflicted upon the Jewish population by the Gestapo, whose role was significant during the event of 'The Night of Broken Glass'. ... Furthermore, the significant event that changed German history – 'The Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht)' occurred in 1937. ...

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Hitler's use of the masterly notion of "Brutality impresses" was depicted in the "Night of the Long Knives" on 30 June 1934, where the murders of people who posed a challenge to Hitler's position (in particular, Ernst Rohm and General von Schleicher) and the annihilation of the SA took place. ...

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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 mass party controlling the economy, the media and the arms of a state controlled through terror and a fixed ideology ; which, according to Carl Friedrich (a political thinker), define the features of a totalitarian state. Looking at Hitler's Germany, one can say that it stands for a...

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To what extent could Nazi Germany be considered a totalitarian state in the Period 1933-45? Any consideration of the extent to which Nazi Germany could be considered a totalitarian state in the period 1933-45 involves the application and evaluation of political models or "typologies" to Nazi his...

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Propaganda is a biased point of view, which is promoted to influence peoples actions and opinions. Propaganda in Nazi Germany is mainly used for encouraging their ideology and manipulating people forming fear and hatred. In Nazi Germany Joseph Goebbels was in charge of propaganda. On February 27th 1...

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Nazi Germany regulated and controlled the art produced between 1933 and 1945 to ensure they embodied the values they wished to indoctrinate into the German people. The notion of "volk" (people) and "blut und boden" (soil and blood) was championed in paintings to glorify an idealized rural Germany an...

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This essay will attempt to prove that by the end of 1934 Adolf Hitler's Nazi party had begun a campaign, which could have ultimately turned Germany into a totalitarian state. Hitler became Fuhrer in 1934 and from there he continued his policy of Gleischaltung or co-ordination, which had begun, w...

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The question of can music be political has been greatly debated over the past century, however, the works that have been debated the most are those from nazi Germany and Soviet Russia for there links with the social "cleansing" at the time in both societies. "We are paupers. There is no paper. Th...

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On the night of 17 July 1936, the Spanish army, inspired most of all by General Franco, started the Spanish Civil War by rebelling against the Second Republic. A central goal of the rebels was the destruction of left-wing organisations. Franco's fellow officer, General Queipo de Llano, instructed hi...

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