... of course would be the main response and fuel to bring about the military tribunals of Nuremberg and punish those most responsible for the atrocities that took place. The overarching theme thereafter would be that of justice and accountability to be placed on the perpetrators of these mass atrocities. Nuremberg would prove to be the catalyst that was needed to make ... ;Final Solution." (Hastings, 2011, 647) Moreover, this is just a fraction of the dead accounted for during the conflicts. It is a debated figure to this day, but a minimum number of 60 million is widely accepted as a numbe...

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... was most important was serving the community and not family. National Unity and Social Unity The idea of both national and social unity is a prevalent theme in the film, which is what to a great extent contributed to the film's appeal and as a propagandistic worth. In spirit, Triumph of ... film than those who attended the rally, because the film successfully uses cinematographic skills to persistently direct the attention of the audience to the theme of unity. The film exalted Nazism by portraying it as a movement which promoted German unity. Further, the film is deliberately free of .....

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... included and factories ran 3 shifts instead of 1 or 2. Within 6 months Speer's policies had led to an increase in ammunition output had increased by 17%, whilst arms productivity had risen by 60%, demonstrating how the economy was vastly improving. However, he was unable to transform the competing nature of the Nazi state, which prevented the economy from fulfilling its full potential. For ... ...

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... "Social Democracy press was directed predominantly by Jews" (Hitler 61), that "When [he] recognized the Jew as the leader of the Social Democracy, the scales dropped from [his] eyes" (Hitler 60). From this point onward, throughout the book Hitler would take great care in associating Jewishness with Communism, Communism with Jewishness. "He produced the identification of Communism w/the Jewish world conspiracy ... ...

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... been bogged down for several months. Mussolini in turn sent 200,000 men to fight beside the Germans on the Russian front in June. Of these, 115,000 were killed, 60,000 were taken prisoner, and those who made their way home under very brutal conditions had stories not of optimism, apparently, but of defeat and the fact that their German ... ...

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... parties to vote for except for extremists. This situation was worsened by the constitutional rule of proportional representation. This was where a party got one seat in the Reichstag for every 60,000 votes and meant that there was not always enough votes per party to form a majority government. Coalitions were therefore necessary and these created huge problems. The parties was forced ... ...

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... reinforce the view that Mussolini achieved value in increasing Italy's self-sufficiency and in helping her modernise. Self-sufficiency had problems but a fall of 40% in imports and rise of 60% in exports indicates a degree of success. Italy's modernisation was often focused on the electrification and punctuality of the railways. Mussolini's initial laissez faire policies seemed to allow for a healthy Italian ... ...

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... not last very long because parties found it hard to compromise and were stubborn about their political principles. Sectional interest parties who could get a deputy in the Reichstag with only 60,000 votes, due to the proportional representation system, undermined stability in Weimar. This allowed there to be many small parties interested in their own specific goals instead of the wider ... ...

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... Spanish people voted on Sunday, 16th February, 1936. Out of a possible 13.5 million voters, only 9,870,000 participated in the 1936 General Election, the first national election held in over 60 years . 34.3% of people voted for the Popular Front, whereas the National Front obtained 33.2% and the centre parties got 5.4%. The Popular Front, with 263 seats out of a possible 473 ... ...

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... . The Hitler youth singing is an Aryan, who looks similar to Max; this causes the audience to link the two. This is important as it links back to the overarching theme of how an individual's behaviours can impact wider society, in this case it's the connection between Max and the Nazi infiltration. Sally's facade throughout the film, and her eventual acceptance ... ...

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... , in the graphic novel, raises the issue that the Jewish population of Eastern Europe were not treated as humans; but as vermin. The mistreatment of the Jewish people is a reoccurring theme in the graphic, and is emphasized by the allegory of German cats hunting Jewish mice. Also, the animal facemasks are used to symbolize the character's nationality and identity; and how ... ...

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... more an extremely romanticized picture of life tangled with nature is presented to manipulate the viewer, making them to join hard work to accomplish a group goal with moral virtue. This theme is repeatedly almost to exhaustion in such works as "Ploughing in the Evening" by Willy Jackel, and "The Sower" by Oskar Martin-Ambach. The Nazi principles are personified more implicitly ... ...

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... entwined with nature is presented to manipulate the viewer, it forces them to connect hard work to achieve a collective goal (plowing the soil ready for planting) with moral righteousness. This theme is reiterated repeatedly almost to exhaustion in such works as "Ploughing in the Evening" by Willy Jackel, and "The Sower" by Oskar Martin-Ambach. The Nazi ideals are embodied more ... ...

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... rallies, uniforms, public commemorations and in particular, the gesture synonymous with the Nazi era - the "Heil Hitler" salute. Although these public messages became tiresome to many Germans, they were a constant theme throughout the Nazi era, and were therefore inescapable. They were successful in convincing the German masses of the power of the Third Reich as an all conquering, superior phenomenon. Youth ... ...

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... ill of society. He argues that the Gestapo really had no use for spies, and even calls them "mythical." The book's content is organized through ten chapters, each covering a different theme. Information is put together from a large number of sources, including diaries, newspaper accounts, and mood and moral reports for the SD, and firmly based secondary sources. The book tells about ... ...

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Remarque in the first pages of his book All Quiet on the Western Front summarises the theme of his entire text by dedicating it to "a generation that was destroyed by the war - even those who survived the shelling". This text is the tragic account of a young man, ... ...

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