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.
The Battle of Berlin SFC Mike Watkins MP SLC Class 004-12 Abstract This paper will provide a review of the Battle of Berlin. The battle was part of the Soviet offensive in response to the German invasion of the Soviet Union. The operation encompassed multiple battles culminating in the capture of Berlin and the death of Adolf Hitler. This paper covers a broad spectrum of events condensed into a short overview of the operation. The long reaching effects of this battle shaped the world for the next fifty years and even today the shadows of horror left behind mark the city of Berlin and the country of Germany.
The building was designed by the first headmaster, Henry Van de Velde. During the First World War, however, his Belgian status prevented him from continuing his administrative powers, therefore suggesting Walter Gropius, a leader of Deutsches Werkbund movement, to continue it. In 1919, the School of art and craft combined with Weimar Art Academy then became Bauhaus, School of art and design. Bauhaus is based on the principle of art meeting the needs of society due to German lose in the war, in monetary difficulties and economic problems leading to runaway inflation, which bankrupted the middle classes. [Anon, Iconic Interiors, 2009, Online].
The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, which had included more than 300 independent states, was effectively dissolved when Emperor Francis II abdicated (6 August 1806) during the War of the Third Coalition. Despite the legal, administrative, and political disruption associated with the end of the Empire, the people of the German-speaking areas of the old Empire had a common linguistic, cultural and legal tradition further enhanced by their shared experience in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. European liberalism offered an intellectual basis for unification by challenging dynastic and absolutist models of social and political organization; its German manifestation emphasized the importance of tradition, education, and linguistic unity of peoples in a geographic region. Economically, the creation of the Prussian Zollverein (customs union) in 1818, and its subsequent expansion to include other states of the German Confederation, reduced competition between and within states. Emerging modes of transportation facilitated business and recreational travel, leading to contact and sometimes
Albert Speer (born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer;[1] pronounced [ˈʃpeːɐ̯] ( listen); March 19, 1905 – September 1, 1981) was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office. As "the Nazi who said sorry",[a] he accepted responsibility at the Nuremberg trials and in his memoirs for crimes of the Nazi regime. His level of involvement in the persecution of the Jews and his level of knowledge of the Holocaust remain matters of dispute. Speer joined the Nazi Party in 1931, launching him on a political and governmental career which lasted fourteen years.
Texts are often influenced by the values and attitudes of their authors, and always reflect the time in which they are composed. Christopher Isherwood's novel Goodbye to Berlin (1939) and Bob Fosse’s musical Cabaret (1972) are both texts that explore the economic, social and political unrest and internal decay of Berlin in the 1930s. Inflation, World War 1, the failure of the Weimar Republic and a hedonistic society form the context of Isherwood's stories. In contrast, Fosse transforms Isherwood's stories into another form of entertainment, Hollywood musical, and demonstrates how a shift in context to a 1970s audience with a post-holocaust retrospection accounts for a shift in values. An inverse relationship is developed between the two texts, which establishes the notion of the Nazis' rise to power and the pursuit of a decadent lifestyle Both Goodbye to Berlin and Cabaret reflect anti-Semitic values and the rise of Nazism in Berlin in the 1930’s.Goodbye to Berlin was written at a time of political and economic instability in Europe, particularly Germany.
Zusak uses these two passages to introduce and develop the main characters of his novel as well as introducing Germany as a country on the brink of a world war. And again there is a dramatic irony here because we
World Literature February 22, 2012 Poem Analysis Ballad about the Berlin Wall The poem “Ballad about the Berlin Wall” clearly reflects the emotional struggles and troubles people had to live with in Berlin during the time of the Berlin Wall and also criticizes the building of the wall as a horrid act by humans. It also is a good reflection from a perspective outside of Germany because the author, Vuk Krnjevic, is a Serbian writer. The poem was originally published in the Sarajevo fortnightly Odjek (The Echo) in June 1968. It was, shortly after its publication, translated by Slobodan Stankovic. Krnjevic uses very realistic images to describe his impressions of the Berlin Wall.
The end of the Second World War (1919) left Germany in a state of general crisis. It was vital to rebuild its economy, culture, political standing and, more crucially, its lost reputation. Change was needed in all sectors of the society. It was in that very year that an art movement, that influenced commercial art internationally, emerged in none other than Germany itself. The Bauhaus School was founded under Walter Gropius (1883-1969), with an aim to add creativity and essence into industrialization and daily lives of the common population (Meggs, Purvis and Meggs 328).
It was under this Napoleonic reign that areas of what is now Germany were annexed and controlled by the French empire; this area (located on the west bank of the River Rhine) was called the Confederation of the Rhine. This along with a massive overhaul by Napoleon led to a dramatic drop in the number of German states from three hundred to thirty nine