He convinced the German people that these individuals that already lived among them as Germans where there to take over and corrupt there way of life. ... The Germans where trying to get as many Russians to stop fighting for the Allies and join them "Your commissars and politruks are forcing you into senseless conflict." ...
Governments were often seen as corrupt, indecisive, and defeatist. ... In some rural areas, so-called Red Leagues tried to break up large estates and force landlords to reduce their rents. ... Indeed, the government quickly aligned with big business, creating more of a corrupt bureaucracy than a revolutionary economy. ...
Hitler turned to still wealthy and powerful German industrialists for money to fund his rallies and campaigns and in return promised a disciplined work force ( trade unions would be abolished) and protection against communists. ...
Auschwitz Auschwitz began as a barracks camp in the town of Oswiecim, for the polish army in the early 1930's. Germany then captured Poland and needed another location for Polish political prisoners. In 1940, the German SS sent a commission to Oswiecim to see if the barracks there could be us...
The French Front National (or FN) has been, and currently is, the most successful extreme right-wing party in post World War Two Europe. Indeed, not since Nazi Germany has such an extremist party gained mass support, or caused other political rivals such concern over it's success in e...
He blamed the Jews for the evils of the world and accused them of corrupting everything of ethical and national value. ... Using force, Hitler got Hindenburg to pass a law that abolished freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly. ...
Nazism and art. Can these two themes be combined to create a high quality movie? Possibly. That is what director Istvan Szabo did. He directed the movie Mephisto in 1981, a movie about the life of a German actor during Nazi's rule pre-World War II. The movie was based on Klaus Mann's novel with the...
