... to the German people, to Hitler and Germany, "Volk, Fuhrer und Vaterland."" The concept of the Volksgemeinschaft was taken from the trenches of world war one where a sense of national unity replaced class division. This concept appealed to many Germans after the political and social divisions of the ... non-German. The Nazis introduced polices to increase the number of births of racially pure Germans as the birth rate had been declining since world war one. People were encouraged to marry and have a large family of at least four children. Families with four or more children received .....

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... in The Death of Hitler. Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper was considered a noted historian of his time who was also well known as a British officer. After World War II, Roper was sent to Germany by the British government to investigate and verify Adolf Hitler's death. Afterwards, he would publish his findings into what ... react when faced with defeat. He describes the change in Hitler in his last days and the deterioration in his health. By all accounts, Hitler was "a physical wreck" (Trevor-Roper 57). He started taking a lot of drugs and injections in order to cope with his condition and the st...

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