... millions of SA members, whilst the KPD also had a huge paramilitary organisation. This meant Hindenburg had little choice but to appoint Hitler, as other plans had failed and the potential communist takeover was far worse than the Nazis in his eyes. As a right wing, old order conservative himself, it is likely that Hindenburg saw Hitler as the best of a bad number ... of options. As S Williams notes, 'there were simply not enough Germans who believed in democracy and individual freedom to save the Weimar Republic', making appointing Hitler nearly the only option the president had. ...

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... parties, they still followed similar philosophical beliefs. Furthermore, these beliefs all revolved around a form of totalitarian rule, just on different levels. Thus, Hitler's Nazi Party and Stalin's Communist Party were examples of true totalitarianism while Mussolini's Fascist Party also was indeed totalitarian, just of a lesser breed. Living from1889 to 1945, Adolf Hitler was a powerful leader who ... . Before this group gained power, Germany was suffering from the Great Depression, especially because of problems such as inflation and unemployment. Also, numerous conservatives were ...

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... two of the twentieth century's most famous single-party leaders; Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. These two men, leaders of fascist Nazi Germany and Communist China respectively, both sought to make sure that within the borders of their nations, every citizen followed their rule. They consolidated their power by ... to the Nazi regime because arrests were the most common form of oppression of the opposition. The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the KPD (Communist Party) were two opposition groups in Germany that had the majority of the support of the working class, who made up 45% of the p...

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... Germany. These incidents include the great depts. Germany had after the Treaty of Versailles (Political Deal making), the great depression of 1929 (Germany at the time), and the fear of Communist rule in Germany, which increased the Nazi followers (Nazi Popularity). All these conditions aided Hitler to rise into power in Germany, however, the relative importance of these conditions, lay on ... Hitler to rise to power was the boost of followers that the Nazi party had after 1928. The fear of Communist rule in Germany made followers turn to the Nazi Government. "Ultimately, it may well be...

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... Civil War in Spain, The U.S. also backed General Franco because of the large population of catholic in the U.S. and that the established Government was being backed by Stalin and the Communist. The Western Response to the events in Europe that were mentioned above can be broken into two significant responses. the American or U.S. response and the British response. First, the British ... first also backed by the Catholic church and the second reason was that the established Government was backed by Stalin. The U.S. had a strong Catholic population and an even stronger Anti-communist popu...

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... 's death in 1934, Hitler cited himself "Fuhrer" - the absolute leader, since he was then the Chancellor as well as the President. On 27 February 1933, the Reichstag caught fire and a Communist - Maurinus van der Lubbe - was noticed in the incident. The Nazi's took advantage and asked Hindenburg to allow them to stablize the situation by passing a few more laws. These laws ... allowed the Nazi's to break of Communist activity and arrest communist activists. No one, even till now, knows for sure how the fire was ignited, but the Nazi's used it against the Communists. This boosted their num...

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... December 1924 he rebuilt his NAZI Party without interference from those government officials he had tried to overthrow. When the Great Depression Struck in 1929, he explained it as a Jewish-Communist plot. This explanation was widely accepted by many Germans. Promising a strong Germany, jobs, and a national glory, he attracted millions of voters. Representation of the NAZI Party in the Reichstag increased ... Reichstag and calling for new elections on March 5th , 1933. Hitler and other high ranking Nazis hatched a plan to seize absolute power. They helped a Communist arsonist set the Re...

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... careless and evil Both would do whatever they thought was necessary to further their cause, with no remorse about what they had done. In 1922 Lenin, the leader of the communist party had a stroke. Overtime his condition got worse and he became less involved in the party's affairs. When Lenin died in January 1924, it left two men in contention for ... was in exile in Mexico. Stalin felt that if he eliminated his only threat, that it would mean less opposition to his power. This gave Stalin full control over the communist party. Hitler was the other example of a bad person. He demonstrate...

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... is transformed into a "Panzer-man," a "Fascist," and a "bastard." Words such as Luftwaffe, the aircraft known as the "Angels of Death" used by Adolf Hitler during WWII, and Meinkampf, Hitler's political manifesto, are used to characterize her father and husband as well as male domination in general. (Perkins, 594) The frequent use of the word black throughout the poem also conveys a feeling ... ...

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... Nazis" was that of forcing the Jews to carry large rocks up the "stairs to Hell" as the prisoners referred to them, which were located on the side of a giant cliff. The climb was a very steep and treacherous one. Many Jews were so weak they would drop their rock, crushing themselves or the person behind them and often killing them. Upon ... ...

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... . However, Germany, France, and Italy were left in political ruin. Communsist support rose in France and Italy. They made great gains in post-war elections. They began to speed up Communist takeover by launching violent strikes. Anti-communists in these countries quickly began to vote for other parties, leading to the decline of their influence. As the ... communist influence decreased, the economies rose. The Allies felt that those responsible should be punished, so a crime like this would never reoccur. In 1946, a International Military Tribunal made up of people ... ...

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... not help either side in the war. Although the U.S. was staying neutral, they had done many things to help the allied powers and diminish the possible communist takeover being sought by the axis powers. The three communist leaders were Benitto Mussolini, dictator of Italy, Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany, and Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union. The three leaders believed that ... ...

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... and mass meetings banners that supported the Nazi's were carried in processions (349). For example, these banners were used when Hitler ordered a mass meeting to be held in the heaviest communist quarter in Berlin at the Pharus Hall. Hitler's propaganda director, Dr. Joseph Goebbels spoke at this mass meeting. Many members of the ... communist party KPD, attended this meeting that caused problems. The KPD party became very aggressive when it was mentioned that people would be removed from the meeting if there were heckling ... ...

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... for Adolf. He felt he was finally being recognized for his skills and accomplishments. Hitler recovered from his injuries and joined a militia of veteran soldiers put in charge of keeping communist groups in check. Hitler was put on task of watching a small political group called the "German Worker's Party." He realizes through watching them that their beliefs match his own, so ... he decides to quit the military and join this group in hopes to use it to push him to the political top. The group was mainly the same as other communist groups around at the time but with an overhaul of anti...

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... after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the ladders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are ... ...

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... Winogradov that will be most influential in her future. Winogradov is ostensibly a secretary with the Soviet embassy, but in actuality he is an operative with the secret intelligence agency of Communist Russia....

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... reason, which impacted into the failure of the Weimar Republic. Any chance of having a successful democratic government was undermined because of broken relations between the social democrats and left wing communist (Sparticists). Right wing parties were strong and remained in power due to the unity between them whereas the left-wing had internal issues and distrust of each other, destroying their ... ...

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... of the main cause of the Vietnam war because The United States initially entered the Vietnam War to aid the French but it was nationalism that caused the both the Communist North and American's to continue the war. I think the most important causes are the divide between the capitalists and communists. After the divid of ideology they both got different leaders ... ...

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... Street. She becomes best friends with the boy next door, Rudy. Her biological mother had to give her up because she couldn't keep her safe, as her mother was labeled a communist. In the beginning she could read or write. She is taught by her adoptive father, Hans, by reading a stolen book titled "The Gravedigger's Guide." In the basement of ... ...

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... country. He was voted to the German congress and Nazi became the second largest party in the country. He was appointed Chancellor and the Nazi party began beating out the Communist party. After the death of the President, he held an election to combine the position of Chancellor and President. He won and Hitler had total control. The expansion of Germany ... ...

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... and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's anti religious laws" (682). This is an important part of the letter because ... ...

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... home on the battlefield. The middle class resented the loss of income, savings and security as a result of the collapse of the economy, they were also attracted by Hitler's ant-communist views. But all classes were swayed sometimes by a mixture of things. Some had pure hatred for the jews, some thought that the Nazi's would improve their own status. The Nazi ... ...

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... walls in the Warsaw ghetto were toped with barbed wire, and watched with guards. During the invasion of the Soviet Union, Hitler ordered the Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) to eliminate Communist political leaders and Jews. Government officials met at the Wannsee Conference outside Berlin to have a plan recognized called the "final solution to the Jewish question". This so called plan was ... ...

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... did no want to only defeat Russia but destroy her altogether. He would eliminate the government, culture, kill and punish the people, and destroy everything in his path. Hitler hated Communist and Slavic people, which he wrote about in his book called Mein Kampf. He perceived them as a serious threat and obstacle next the Jews Hitler thought of Russian people to ... ...

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... 1934, Germany and Poland signed a non-aggression pact; later on, Hitler and Mussolini signed the Anti-Comintern Pact together with the Japanese, the main objective of which was to limit communist influence around the world (the alliance became known as the Axis Powers). Finally, in August 1939, Hitler and Stalin signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact, by which the two arch-enemies ... ...

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