... with the Austrian Civil Service. His mother, Klara was a former servant girl and became Alois" third wife. The young Hitler had ability but performed poorly at school. He reacted against discipline. One of his teachers described Hitler as "wilful, arrogant and bad tempered. He had obvious difficulty in fitting in at school. Moreover he was lazy . He demanded of his fellow ... 5 Inadequate Chemistry 4 Adequate Physics 3 Satisfactory Geometry 4 Adequate Freehand Drawing 2 Praiseworthy Gymnastics 1 Excellent Handwriting 5 Unpleasing Hitler had a poor relationship with his father, who could...

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... . Germany was a country built upon its proud military history. Parades, marches, displays of pageantry, and military bands were common sites throughout cities in Germany long before the Prussian Empire. Order, discipline, and pride were traits that defined Germany. In 1914, Germany provoked a World War that plunged the country into chaos rather than build a strong empire that dominated Europe (Beck, et. al ... , 617). By 1919, streets were no longer filled with military marches. Instead, the poor scuttled through the streets searching for food and work. The order and discipline that had d...

• Word Count: 1750
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... they themselves felt was right. The Government Years (1933-1939): The Hitler Youth however became less popular towards the late 1930's as its activities became more war oriented and the discipline more strict. Large numbers of youth began to resist the Hitler Youth and Nazi state in general. Laws were passed restricting youth leisure and freedom and as a result an increasing ... schooling which was a very negative aspect as childhood is an important time to grow and learn but on the other hand it was effective as it taught skills such as discipline, encouraged camaraderie and gave the y...

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... a close with enrollment in primary school. Second, his father retired from his job as a mid-level customs official with a full pension. These two consecutive events meant a lot of supervision and discipline from both his teachers and his father. Adolf's father was abusive and cruel to his older brother Alois. However, when Alois ran away, young Adolf was next in line for ... ...

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... -indulgence, hedonism, cowardice, and physical and moral softness, as well as rationalism, skepticism, atheism, humanitarianism, and democracy. Fascists striving to become the "new man" appealed to "spirituality," which generated self-discipline and virility, and allowed one to feel hate instead of pity for one's victims. The last defining feature of fascism was the scapegoating of groups such as Jews, leftists, and ... ...

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... Vilna ghetto. When the Nazi's took over Vilna in 1941 the ghetto was immediately established and Jacob Pentz was made head of the Judenrot. Pentzs enforced his philosophy that work discipline and order would preserve Jews by having spies reveal any resistance plans. However, the Jewish youth in Vilna felt adamantly disagreed and proclaimed their belief in a flyer given out on ... ...

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... forever, and the wounded were left behind. Each soldier carried his own four-day ration, but unfortunally, these rations were all consumed during the first day due to lack of discipline; therefore, out of the 500,000 troops that Napoleon brought, only 20,000 of these man managed and straggled to save their lives. Finally, Napoleon's hunger for power and dominion ... ...

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... strengthen the national purpose, with war and expansion as tests of strength and arenas for heroic sacrifice. Coordination and propaganda: advertising, ceremonies, the ruling party as an enforer of social discipline and respect for the leader. A belief in at least some traditional hierarchies: the army, the family, sometimes the church. A hatred of socialists and liberals: socialists as opponents of national self ... ...

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... . Such forces were themselves above the law. Special courts had the power to sentence people to death for treason while concentration camps and penal settlements were other means of enforcing discipline and uniformity of thought and action. In terms of both Italy and Germany, the use of violence or threats of violence to impose their views on others (fascism and Nazism ... ...

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... friends from my school days, like virtually everyone else. It must have been during these months that my mother saw an S.A. parade in the streets of Heidelberg. The sight of discipline in a time of chaos, the impression of energy in an atmosphere of universal hopelessness, seems to have won her over (Sereny, 123). The Treaty of Versailles had weakened and utterly ... ...

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... the Hitler Youth (HJ) mandatory, driving up membership of the organisation to 8,870,000 at the beginning of 1939. The Hitler Youth indoctrinated young Germans with Nazi concepts of race, discipline and obedience. Summer camps were set up, in which political ideological teachings, physical fitness, rifle practice, endurance and team-building games were core activities. The aim was to breed a new ... ...

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... followers: Aas long as I am its leader, It will never become a debating club for rootless intellectuals or chaotic parlor Bolsheviks, but will remain what it is today: an organization of discipline, which was not created for the doctrinaire foolishness of political dilettantes, but rather for the battle for a new Germany of the future in which class concepts will be destroyed and ... ...

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... small Austrian town of Braunau Am Inn to parents Alois Schicklgruber (who changed his last name to Hitler in 1877) and Klara PÖlzl. He was born into a life of discipline and their father often savagely beat him and his 3 siblings if they did not do as told. Whilst growing up, Hitler was surrounded by Catholicism, and being the devoted Christian ... ...

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... made promises that would benefit all sectors of the population. In addition to this was the Nazi's open and forceful opposition to communism and the impressive use of force and discipline to engineer success for themselves. These characteristics were highly valued in a Germany where law and order were being constantly threatened. Add to this the weaknesses of the Weimar government itself ... ...

• Word Count: 1925
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... they themselves felt was right. The Government Years (1933-1939): The Hitler Youth however became less popular towards the late 1930's as its activities became more war oriented and the discipline more strict. Large numbers of youth began to resist the Hitler Youth and Nazi state in general. Laws were passed restricting youth leisure and freedom and as a result an increasing ... ...

• Word Count: 2019
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... , Hitler lost the election to von Hindenburg but established himself and the National Socialists as a credible alternative. Although the Nazis did not have detailed policies, their strong points were order, discipline and Hitler's charismatic personality. In the 1932 elections, the majority of people had voted for either the communists or the Nazis. Hitler was against democracy, and was quoted as saying ... ...

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