This move was not popular with many Germans who supported Hitler but resented the fact that Poland had received the former German provinces of West Prussia, Poznan, and Upper Silesia under the Treaty of Versailles after World War I. However, Hitler sought the nonaggression
Adolf Hitler still had lots of plans on his hands. Finally, in 1941, Hitler ordered the beginning of mass deportations from Germany to ghetto in Eastern Europe. The war happened because Adolf Hitler wanted sole control of Germany and also most of Europe. The reason the Nazi Genocide occurred is because Hitler did not like the Jews, Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, and others. Hitler ordered the higher Nazi soldiers to build concentration camps all over Germany and Poland to detain, deport, and also house the prisoners.
Gypsy children also were no longer allowed to attend school (Pottanat 2). This was just the beginning of the terrible treatment of the Gypsies. In 1933, the Nazis introduced a law that legalized eugenic sterilization in order to create a pure “Aryan” race. The Nazis considered the lives of Gypsies unworthy so they made them be
The personalities influenced the cold war, despite not being as significant as the other factors. Stalin being manipulative and ruthless instantly suggesting that relations with other countries, so different from his and he was very cautious of this. Source 8 suggests his personality, ‘threw Stalin back into neurotic solitude’ after the A bomb of 1945. Also after the death of Roosevelt which was Stalins ‘dream partner’ there was no need ‘to forge a strong relationship’ between the new politicians. When it
1) World war 2 began on the 1st September 1939 to the 2nd September 1945. The reason this begun was because Germany were very unhappy about the way they were being treated and thought it was unfair. The people of Germany were dissatisfied with there government, so they voted for someone who had more power. His name was Adolf Hitler. 2) The holocaust was the genocide of six million European Jews during world war two.
They were told to execute them because according to Hitler, anyone that isn’t German is a Jew and as we all know Hitler disliked Jews. Also they just did not kill the Jews, but they had a very big role in deporting them for eastern and western Europe to the Germans concentration camp. Browning portrays these men as ordinary men. This group of men consisted mostly of working class, middle aged men from Hamburg. These men all went through their formative period before the Nazis came into power.
They were stripped of many privileges that were available to Germans. They were not allowed to be enrolled in normal schools and had to attend only Jewish schools. After the invasion of Poland the German Nazis established ghettos in which Jews were confined, until they were shipped to death camps to be murdered. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest with 380,000 people. By 1942,
Known as the Czech Legion, they fought the Germans as a separate unit under the leadership of Masaryk until Brest-Litovsk ended that fighting. Trotsky gave them his agreement that they had his permission to travel through Russia to the Western Front so that they could continue their campaign against the Germans. The one provision was that the Czechs had to leave their weapons behind. As soon as the first units of the Czechs surrendered their weapons, the Red Guards shot them. This was to prove a costly error as it was obvious that the other men could not trust what Trotsky had promised.
Similarly the Germans and the Jews during the Holocaust were also forced into this ‘kill or be killed’ attitude. No doubt there were some Germans who did not agree with Hitler’s regime, but were too scared to stand up for their beliefs and decided to inflict suffering in order to save themselves from the same fate. This inaction caused much pain and suffering to innocent victims. Inaction can be worse than action in some cases, as not stopping the atrocities during the Holocaust was worse than inflicting them, because the victims could not stand up and save themselves. Edmund Burke epitomes this concept in a single quote, “All that is
“The killing of some six million Jews by the Nazis during WWII. To the Nazis, the holocaust was the ‘Final Solution’ to the ‘Jewish Problem,’ and would help them establish a pure German master race. Much of the killing took place in concentration camps, such as Auschwitz and Dachau. The ‘holocaust’, a term applied by the Nazis to the genocide of European Jews during WWII. Before instituting the Final Solution, the Nazi government had abolished Jews’ rights destroyed and confiscated their property, and confined them in concentration camps.” (The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy).