... was to educate and socialise the German population into National Socialism. The Nazi leisure policy was initiated with the hidden intention of rallying the German people towards active voluntary participation in National Socialist Germany. An active, thriving leisure movement it was believed would contribute to the thrust of National Socialism as a whole, enhancing the vitality and all round commitment to the German ... ...

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... of World War 1 Italy was an allied with the central powers but not for attacking. In 1915 the Treaty of London was announced which said that Italy was becoming an active ally of the allies in return for its efforts during the war they were promised large amounts of territory almost reaching turkey. Although Italy did not make huge advances into ... ...

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... from the men. Their role was summed up by 'Kinder, Kirche und Küche'- Children, Church and Kitchen. They were to have 'natural' roles such as wives and mothers, and their active part in the Party was very limited. They had to practice social or nursing works, and they were to stop working as soon as they were mothers. The Nazi ideology ... ...

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... the SS apparatus is by considering the almost complete absence of resistance that threatened Nazi rule. As Michael Balfour has argued "The awesome power of the SS meant that any active resistance could only be carried out from within an organisation sheltered by the apparatus." The power of the SS expanded as the regime developed and radicalized until it emerged as ... ...

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... '. The simple point about inaction is that it did not translate into a maintenance of the status quo - in the respect of the expansionist ambitions of Italy, Germany and France, an active participation in foreign policy affairs was necessary for national security. A reliance on the power of public opinion was also not a viable alternative in countries where democracy had been abolished. In ... ...

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... Vienna, slept in bars and in shelters for the homeless. His attempts to make a living as a painter were futile. He had two Jewish friends there, but Vienna was then an active center of strong antisemitism, and Hitler also read "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", a totally falsified document that was written by the pre-WWI Russian royal secret police ... ...

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... brutalised nature of the army meant it was prepared to use extreme measures against the population, which even its own ideology defined as the anti-Spain. The army received the active support of almost the entire right, which grouped around the Church in its opposition to the principle of liberal democracy and in its obduracy on the main, and moderate, reforms ... ...

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... , was a "flood of denunciations." Again he points out very little evidence of Gestapo spying in the cases he examines, claiming, "the Nazi police were by and large reactive rather than Active." This is an interesting question, and easy to be skeptical of. Gellately provides some actual numbers and gives several example cases of the denunciations frequency in Nazi policing. He has ... ...

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