Describe the life of the personality you have studied (2010 HSC) Born in Mannheim, Germany in 1905, Albert Speer was persuaded to take up architecture by his father who made a significant impact on Speer’s life. He pursued his architecture studies at the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe in 1923 and graduated in four years later, two years before the Great Depression. He became Professor Tessenow’s assistant, a supporter of the Nazi Party in the same year, opening the door for Speer. It must be noted that Speer and his family were an apolitical family. Speer’s first introduction to Nazism was in 1930 where he attended a meeting which Hitler spoke at.
Albert Speer – rise to prominence Albert Speer was a significant figure in German history due to his various architectural projects and his appointment as Minister for Armaments. Although he claimed to be apolitical, Speer joined the Nationalist Social party on March 1st, 1931 and from they’re his career in the Nazi party prospered. Speer’s first contribution to the Nazi party was as a chauffer, as district head of the Nazi Motorist League, where he met Karl Hanke. A recommendation by Hanke to Goebbels, gave Speer his first architectural assignment of decorating Goebbels headquarters in Berlin. Hitler approved the finished result, however Goebbels did not like its simplicity and had it redecorated.
The subjects of Dachau were careless that their city was going to turn into the source of death camps and of the Holocaust, the mass homicide conferred by the Nazi s in World War II. Dachau Concentration Camp, which would soon be set on the edge of their group, would serve as a model for all Nazi elimination camps. This impeccable model of a Nazi executing machine now speak to the begin of the unpleasantness filled Holocaust and the Nazi's determination to accomplish a flawless pop culture throughout World War II. On March 21, 1933, just two months after Adolf Hitler was delegated Chancellor of Germany, Heinrich Himmler, the Commander of the Schutzstaffel (SS) Elite Police Force and a standout amongst the most effective men in Nazi Germany, requested that a camp for political rivals be based on the grounds of a betrayed explosive manufacturing plant on the edge of the little group of Dachau, close Munich. The Nazi-controlled daily paper, the Vð"â¶lkischer Beobachter (deciphered Racial Observer) gladly broadcasted that the first death camp, with a limit of in excess of 5000 detainees, would be secured close Dachau.
In 1926, Germany had begun placing severe limitations on Gypsies to watch their actions and to make sure they weren’t getting into any trouble. In 1927, Germany passed a law that made all Gypsies get fingerprinted and photographed and a law that said they could not travel in family groups. In 1928, Germany put Gypsies under police surveillance. Finally in 1933, they lost all there civil rights and they also legalized clubbing of Gypsies (Miller 3). Then, Hitler took office as Chancellor of the Third Reich.
He taught trainee pastors and encouraged them to resist Nazism and also tried to get the Confessional Church to condemn the Nuremburg Laws. By 1940 his college was closed and he was banned from preaching. He continued to work underground along with co-operating with the Allies to work with a new government for peace. Later arrested for being an agent and executed in the Flossenburg concentration camp. Martin Niemoller: Former U-boat commander and Nationalist yet split from the Reich Church and created the Confessional Church.
As the battle continues: USA vs. FDA Jason Murph Baker College With interest of the big investors Americans are kept in the background of the primary focus from the FDA. This is the claim made Gary Null in the documentary “The War on Health”. The history of Null’s credibility comes from his profession in Dietetics-Nutrition. He is also a talk show host for Progressive Radio Network (PRN.fm). Null owns Gary Null & Associates, a company that markets dietary supplements as well as a health food store in New York City In 2010, Null claimed that he was sickened and nearly killed by his own dietary supplements.
Sunflower Response In the book, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal writes of an incident occurring when he was a Nazi concentration camp prisoner. Barely surviving himself, and while on a work detail, a nurse summons Wiesenthal to the hospital bed of a young and dying Nazi soldier, Karl, who seeks forgiveness from a Jew for the atrocities and murders he carried out against them. Wiesenthal had to decide at the moment, when he was by Karl’s side, whether or not to forgive him. He left the soldier’s side without saying a word. The next day, the nurse who had summoned Wiesenthal the day before told him Karl had died.
This included the Nazis. After the War the Nazi party disappeared as quickly as they came. After the War, Nazism was outlawed in Germany. Still to this day the display of a swastika is illegal. In 1945-46 22 Nazis were tried in Nuremberg with 12 being sentenced to Death.
Ilse Koch was born in Dresden, Germany in 1906. A secretary by profession, Koch joined the Nazi party in 1932. Four years later, she married Karl Otto Koch (1897-1945), head of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, who in 1937 was assigned to build a new concentration camp in Buchenwald. Ilsa went with him and became a SS-Aufseherin (overseer) at the camp. While Karl Otto was known for his personal greed in the camps he worked in, Ilse was known as the “Bitch of Buchenwald” for her bestial cruelty and sadistic behavior.
Cranmer was imprisoned in London but was then sent to Oxford and sentenced to undergo ceremonies to indicate that he no longer held office in the church. His enemies changed their methods and placed him in pleasant apartment, gave him liberty to walk in the open air and spoke in such a kind way to him that he was overcome and persuaded to sign a paper renouncing his Protestant beliefs. The queen was not at all satisfied and still wanted Cranmer to be burned. In 1556, 150 faggots of wood were piled in Oxford’s Broad Street, and Cranmer was called up to speak to the congregation and to inform them that he had returned to ‘holy mother Church’. But instead, he boldly announced, that in signing a recantation of his former beliefs his hand had offended in writing contrary to his heart.