‘The government of the Nazi state was chaotic and lacked coherence in the years 1933 to 1939.’ How far do you agree with this opinion? Explain your answer, using the evidence of Sources V, W and X and your own knowledge of the issues related to this contreversy. The Nazi state has been seen to have adopted a system in which the upper echelons of the party would collide as an attempt to gain the Fuhrers attention. This view meant that the government was seen to be chaotic and lack coherence in the years 1933 to 1939. This view is supported by the orthodox historical opinion which is explained in source V by Michael Burleigh.
Due to his plight, he sees the bridge as a dead end for him: “I am seventy six years old. I have come twelve kilometers now and I think now I can go no further.”(2) The war has affected his state of mind and destroyed the love of life in him. Through this character Hemingway is actually making an example of the old man WITH the aim of describing the effects of war on the state of mind of innocent civilians. Neither his tired body nor his confused mind seems capable of grasping or coping with the sudden collapse of his entire world. By the end of the short story, the narrator, who is a soldier in this war, , reports to the reader that the old man “got to his feet, swayed from side to side and then sat down backwards in the dust.”(3) This description is very telling because it reflects the inevitability of death when it comes to war.
In Beth Griech-Polelle’s book, Bishop von Galen: German Catholicism and National Socialism, the author evaluates his role in the Nazi era, distinguishing his selective resistance from the complicity and silence he showed toward other issues. Polelle attacks Dr. Johannes Neuhäusler’s account of abundant defiance shown by German Priests. Neuhäusler, much like other scholars and theologians with publications shortly following the war, painted a picture of great resistance and resilience by clergy in defiance to the Nazi regime and brutality. Neuhäusler, in particular, was inspired by his own time spent in Gestapo prisons and later in concentration camps; he would have benefited from this positive portrayal socially, religiously and politically, which might have led him to omit stories that contrasted this depiction. Polelle uses Bishop von Galen, specifically to illustrate the church’s role and largely discredits the golden
The central proposition here is that the relentless dynamism and the commitment to a politics of struggle that had carried the Nazi movement into power were dispersed into the political system as a whole after 1933, depriving it of any stability or predictability. As leaders improvised agencies and policies in the competition to define and enact the amorphous will of the regime and its leader, the result was pre-emptive, cumulative radicalization of the regime's political direction. The most radical policy of all, the extermination of the Jews, could also be understood not primarily as the step by step realization of Hitler's own ideological programme by responsive and obedient henchmen, but as the outcome of the perverse, proliferation
Propaganda is everywhere. Whether we like to admit it or not, people today are constantly bombarded with messages aimed at either changing their views or reaffirming the "proper" ones according to the propagandist. Good and bad are not intrinsic to propaganda, as it can be used to nearly any end. For example, All Quiet on the Western Front is a strongly anti-war film based on a novel of the same name. It's message, condemning the horrors of The Great War and war in general, was effective enough that both the book and the film were banned in Germany during the Third Reich.
War is ‘obscene as cancer.’ Anti-war poet Wilfred Owen fought in World War 1 from which he was affected by shell shock. For the five years this war lasted, 65 million troops saw action. Of these, 8 million died, 21 million were injured and the remainder who returned physically unharmed were just as haunted mentally until their final breath. It was Owen’s time in hospital that he wrote poetry as part of his therapy. Unlike other authors, Owen’s purpose was to reveal the awful truths of war and let us see past what was said to be glorious.
This incredible war story shows us that, even though they display great bravery and valour in battle, the only thing young men who fight in wars accomplish is an early death. The novel talks about many soldiers dying. So many of these soldiers are dead, that in the trenches they can smell the stench of rotting flesh, as the dead men often do not get buried. Those young men lying out in No Man’s Land, unburied, all went to war for the same reason, to prove that they were brave, not cowardly, and to fight for their country. All they end up doing though is becoming another casualty, another statistic, dying in a war that had no real reason.
Antigone believed that the power of the gods was greater than the power of any king. Antigone shows, thru civil disobedience, that breaking some of
 societies laws is both a right and responsibility. This ideal was also exhibited by some German youth in World War II that organized the passive resistance movement, The White Rose. The White Rose was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of students from the University of Munich and their philosophy professor. The group became known for an anonymous leaflet campaign that called for active opposition to Adolf Hitler.
Just as the Treaty was a constant reminder to Germany’s defeat in World War I, Hitler believed communism was the reason for the loss, leaving him gripped to the possibility of potential ‘communist takeover’ of Germany. He despised this, leaving him determined to defeat communism, in which he stated “It will be the duty of German foreign policy to get large spaces to feed and house the growing population of Germany”. Hitler’s foreign policy was the backbone to the actions and changes he wished to make. In this essay, I will describe and analyze how successful Hitler’s foreign policy was, by examining the events and actions that took place, up until 1938. I believe Hitler’s foreign policy was a success up until 1938 as he was fearless to continue with his aims – one of which was abolishing the Treaty of Versailles.
Soldiers frequently got injured and lots of them died in battles or of illness in the deplorable conditions of the army. The poem is indignantly ironic about the war and emphasizes the bitter aftermath. 'The Soldier' focuses on the glory of sacrifice for one’s country, not mentioning the process of sacrifice, i.e. being injured and dying. Brooke writes about the dead soldier instead of one that has survived.