... accomplish his goals. The Jewish musicians wanted to find a way to stay involved with their music, but not disobey the laws of the land. Kurt Singer, who lost his job as director of the Berlin City Opera, wanted to establish a Jewish community of musicians. He found a supporter in Hans Hinkel. Hinkel had a genuine fondness for music and theater, so he was willing to submit ... the project grew, thereby helping his career advance if the Kulturbund project were successful. According to Friedlander in his book, Germany and the Jews, Hinkel stated: "Apart from the work it provided and the s...

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... five-year sentence, the nine months he served proved profitable. Not only was did he write his book "Mein Kampf", but gave him time to come to this telling conclusion: "...Instead of working to achieve power by an armed coup we shall have to hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the Catholic and Marxist deputies. If outvoting them takes longer ... fix these problems. Adolf Hitler recognized this time as being profitable, and made sure he was known as the 'man for the job'. Bureaucratic policies of presidential rule also influenced the failing of the Weimar government. Through t...

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... to stay neutral in any affairs not having to do with them unless American soil was being threatened directly ("World War II", www. Historychannel.com/pert/print__book.pi? ID-33842.)On August 31st, 1935, Roosevelt signed the provisional neutrality act. In 1936 the law was renewed and in 1937 a "comprehensive and ... to enter the war. On the following day Roosevelt argued that the attack " had given us an opportunity". Congress approved the declaration of war. Russell Buchanan commented in his book, The United States and World War II, that " It is tempting to see Pearl Harbor as the crisi...

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... considerable talent for drawing, especially memorizing architectural details and sketching buildings ("The Rise of Hitler"). Adolf while rummaging through his father's book collection found several books of a military nature, including a picture book on the German- French war of 1870 to 1871. By Adolf's own accounts from his autobiography, Mein Kampf, the picture book became an obsession. He read it over and over, becoming convinced it had ... at the age of 16, three years after his father died and spent the next few years of his life in brooding idleness. His former teachers and neighb...

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... is no written law or foolproof way on how to be a successful ruler. Niccolo Machiavelli however has written a guideline on how to rule. In his book, The Prince, Machiavelli laid the ground work on what one needs to do to be a successful, also suggestions on how gain power and how to maintain ... past and present dictators or rulers made have not read Machiavelli's The Prince, but many of them have practiced what he has suggested and pointed out in his book and have been very successful because of it. Some of the most recently successful rulers in the new century have been Adolf Hitler an...

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• Grade Level: High School