... easily circumvent these by creating arms and munitions that were meant for "police" or a "small standing army". During this time from 1933-1938 Germany poured massive amounts of money into the industrial war preparation economy. To illustrate this the military expenditures for Germany in 1932 ... their physical appearance; by religious beliefs; and by moral values." (Eastwood, 2010, 1298) The following is an excerpt from one of the books: "and then the Jew approaches her. His fat fingers snatch her. But now Inge has got hold of herself. Before the Jew can ... guilty on some, if not all...

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... scapegoats of Europe". Because of their racial "inferiority," they were accused being the source of almost every social problem took place in that period of time; they were selected to be the target of hatred and they were considered to be the cause of the sickness of the country that need to ... to isolate Jews and Gypsies from the rest of the society and control them, laws were passed to purge these racial groups from almost all cultural life as early as 1933. It forced the dismissal of individuals who belong to these races from position of public employment, included all positions in...

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... implying the non-Aryans' uselessness, including war statistics and numbers. To strengthen the control of education and make the Nazi ideology even more present in the life of young Germans, Hitler established the Hitler Youth Movement. This movement was created to form the German youth to the Nazi ideology by planning activities, weekend trips ... very honest. Also, it is of value because it was written by Dr Robert Ley, the man in charge of the Labour Front who lived at the time and was privy to official doctrine. Therefore, the document is describing the contemporary atmosphere and exp...

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... solution". Adolf Eichmann and Franz Stangl were two men who shared that same fate, though several important distinctions can be made between them. Such distinctions become blatantly obvious in the books Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt and Into That Darkness, written by Gitta Sereny. The different approaches taken by Arendt and Sereny, in combination with the many diversities in character ... his ignorance overtakes his ability to feel guilt. A major success of the Third Reich was to create a feeling of normalcy within German society while simultaneously murdering millions of peop...

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... destruction witnessed only decades earlier. Yet as aforementioned, not everybody was buying what general consensus was selling. As early as the 1960's, historians such as Mommsen and Broszat had published books claiming that the apparent chaos and disorder of the Third Reich were far from intentional. Rather, they were down to the failure of Hitler himself to provide clear planning or ... a tireless and ruthlessly efficient dictator has also been severely tarnished by the analysing of his peculiar lifestyle and working habits. He slept in until lunch time, liked to walk his dogs a lot, ...

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... track down and deal with dissidents. Doctor Joseph Goebbels was chief of the Ministry of Propaganda and People's Enlightenment. Goebbels controlled and censored all German radio, newspapers, books, and films. Subsequently all leisure time and activities had then been strictly dedicated to and inhibited by Nazism. The institutions by the means of propaganda with the support of judiciary and police, created a ... control of public opinion. This emphasised the seemingly ever-growing power that the Nazi party had over the German people through the methods of taking over and controlling every ...

• Word Count: 2992
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