Hitler approved the finished result, however Goebbels did not like its simplicity and had it redecorated. In July 1933, Speer was commissioned to prepare the Nuremburg Rally where he proposed the Theory of Ruin Value. Speer was made architectural advisor to Hitler’s architect, Ludwig Troost. The pair refurbished the chancellery building in Berlin. During this event Speer and Hitler became close friends and when Troost died in 1934, Speer filled his position as the Party’s Chief Architect.
-Stresemann altered the policies with the introduction of Dawes plan and the young plan. - Germany was able to meet its reparation payments and the French left the area of Ruhr in 1924. The failures can be seen through the flaws in the constitution, political parties, economic failures the lack of support towards the republic. •The new parliament met in February 1919 and drew up a constitution that established Germany as a democracy. •It was a constitution that would preserve German democracy, liberties and rights of the people.
Mr. Chen AP European History 12 March 2012 DBQ Response: Weimar Republic After World War I, the German Republic collapsed. The Social Democratic Party, German Democratic Party and the Catholic Center Party joined together to form a new government—the Weimar Republic. However, its people were not happy about the way it was governed. There were those in favor of the new democracy, those against it, and those that were just unsure what to do. Now, Marie Juchacz was a representative of the Social Democratic Party.
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.
In response to a request from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency, Murray finished by October 1943 a 227-page psychological study of Adolf Hitler, “Analysis of the Personality of Adolph [sic] Hitler, with Predictions of His Future Behavior and Suggestions for Dealing with Him Now and After Germany’s Surrender.” Much of this was later published, without adequate acknowledgement of Murray’s role, by Walter C. Langer as The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report (1972). Once the Hitler study was completed, Murray went to Washington, DC, to eventually lead a program selecting recruits for the OSS intelligence service. This multiform assessment drew on procedures from the Harvard Psychological Clinic and used a variety of tests of intelligence, mechanical ability, group problem solving, debating ability, and physical
2)The new urban Sociology has developed from an earlier theoretical work known as political economy. Who are some of the earlier Sociologists with this theoretical perspective and what are their views? Why are they significant to help our understanding of cities? What is meant by uneven development, what causes it to occur in metropolitan regions and what are its effects on metropolitan growth? Give examples of uneven development from an area where you live.
“A new architecture, the great building – these were the goals of Bauhaus education as formulated by Gropius in the Manifesto” (Droste, 2002, p.40). Geometric shapes and functional style the Bauhaus heralded the modern age of architecture and design. Founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius and directed afterwards by Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe, the Bauhaus is today considered to be the most important schools of art, design, and architecture of the 20th century. Dessau in Germany, a two hour train ride from Berlin; there in 1926 Walter Gropius built his higher academy for the arts “The Bauhaus”. For the inhabitance of Dessau, the building that rose up before the rise was a peculiar thing with its glass walls, right angles, and flat roofs.
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.
Die Brucke was dissolved by 1913, and World War I and stopped most groups activity. The World War I period was from the years 1914 to 1918 and a lot of changes happened during this era. (1) The bridge that the artist wanted to design and make was one which was going to be built through art to enlighten the future. One of the founders was Ernst Ludwig Kirchner who illustrated Street. In the painting there are intense colors show and the Expressionism is linking with Fauvism and making a great influence on the painting.
German gvmt ended the policy of passive resistance an carried out the provisions of the treaty of Versailles while seeking new settlement of the reparations question -conciliatory approaches to Germany and the reparations problem -coexistence of West with Soviet Russia 4. A downturn in domestic economies ad an international financial crisis caused by the collapse of the American stock market in 1929, prices