After the war, German was highly isolated from the rest of the world because of the war. When expressionism first took off, it didn’t really spread as Germany was so disconnected from the rest of the world. However, also in the 1920’s Europe began to explore a new way of film making, and began to watch the new and strange films the Germans had been making. Although starting as an art form, film soon took over German expressionism and many filmmakers began interrupting their own views and feelings at this time onto film, in this way. After the war, Hans Janavitz and Carl Mayer, both shocked from the war that had just occurred, were both fantasied with psychoanalysis and this is when they began to write ‘The Cabinet of Dr Caligari’ (1920), a silent horror film, filled with key elements of an expressionism film of that era, and one of the first and finest.
The creation of a German influenced society in Milwaukee and the uniting of the many different types of German immigrants into a strong political and economic culture led to the Americanization of Germans in Wisconsin. Ethnic groups that moved to Wisconsin would settle into certain areas of the state. Germans settled in the southeast portion of the state, in and around the city of Milwaukee. German immigrants were tremendously diverse in their religious and socio-economic backgrounds. They came to Wisconsin from Europe for many reasons.
It seems that the Roma people have always been looked down upon. However, in the 20s of the past century 1920s the legal repression of Romanies in Germany strengthened and ‘The Gypsy Question’ arose. These people were considered as filthy criminals bad by birth. In World War II, Hitler and the Nazi army found a solution to the ‘problem’ of the Romanies. As Chancellor, he could make the laws as he pleased.
Circumstances Leading to the Holocaust The Holocaust happened in very resent history. Yet it almost seems fanciful that an event to that magnitude could have taken place in recent history, hardly sixty years ago in a “civilized” country nonetheless. It is hard to pinpoint when the intentions of the Holocaust and extermination of millions of Jews happened. There are many circumstances that compiled to allow for the world to be able to completely ignore what was taking place in these death camps and for the German soldiers to carry out the orders. Germany was in a poor state at the time in it’s economy and it’s morale.
Some historians have focused on the holocaust as a product of trends in German History. Explain how this approach has contributed to our understanding of the holocaust. Has this approach any disadvantages and shortcomings? The approach dictates that the holocaust was ultimately the result of the societal changes exclusively within German culture during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; that the genocide was the ultimate ramification of various historical ‘trends’ i.e. the changes in the mechanisms of ‘volkisch’ anti-semitism and how it developed throughout the preceding decades, with particular scholarly movements including the inception of scientific racism, the volkisch movement in correspondence with new imperialism and militant nationalism.
But Scarface wasn’t the only gangster movie at the time. They also had Bad Company, The Hatchet Man, and City Streets. “The studio had its greatest success with its cycle of classic horror films.”(Dirks) Horror films were one of the first modern horror movies beginning with Dracula. Then other horror movies came along such as Frankenstein and The Mummy which both came out in 1932. Music was another way people got away from the bad times.
So Auschwitz differed from most of the other camps. 13) The term suggests, that there was a real problem and that other solutions had been tried seriously but had failed. From 1933-1939 the Nazis tried to bully the German Jews into leaving the country. 14) The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 established the following categories: 'Full Jew': Three or more Jewish grandparents 'Mixed race 1st degree': Two Jewish grandparents 'Mixed race 2nd degree': One Jewish grandparent 15) Yes. 16) They considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and who, therefore, were an obstruction to Aryan
In 1888, he designed the Kodak. What he called the simple camera. It was easy to be carried and made focusing and lighting adjustment unnecessary. With 100 exposure roll film selling at $25, the Kodak became an international phenomenon over night. Eventually this led to the creation of motion pictures film in 1891 by Thomas Edison.
Before the war, many Polish citizens had lived in small villages or rural landscapes and were used to the agrarian lifestyle. Germans living in agrarian areas could sympathize with the Polish workers far beyond what that of an urban German citizen might have. The Catholic peasant population in Germany most likely rejected Nazi racial policies more than other groups. From a religious perspective, if one believes in God, it doesn’t matter if they are German or Polish. The Nazis had a difficult time convincing the staunch Catholics to partake in their
How successful were successive German Chancellors in protecting the position of the Second Reich's ruling elite? Germany's ruling elite were made up primarily of Prussians, land owning aristocrats or high ranking military leaders. It also consisted of leading industrialists and the judiciary. However, their position as the ruling elite was under threat. Although the industrial revolution had a huge positive impact on German economy, it also lead to a rise in socialism which meant the emergence of pressure groups, such as the Nationalist pressure groups and the Economic pressure groups.