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. The most prestigious of Speer architectural assignments was the Germania Project of 1937. The plan was based on Hitler’s perception that Germany was the most powerful country in the world. With this assignment, he was named First Architect of the Reich. The assignment involved the design of a new Reich Chancellery and the destruction of thousands of Jewish homes.
Allan Pinkerton “Allan Pinkerton was a key figure in the development of the railroad police as well as in the development of contract security forces” (Hess and Wrobleski, 1996, p.17). A native of Scotland, Pinkerton was born, August 25, 1819. He was forced to immigrate to the United States in 1842 due to his involvement in a radical chartist group and settled near Chicago, Illinois. After some searching, he moved to a town called Dundee that was in need of a cooper and quickly gained control of the market because of his superior quality barrels and low prices. His desire to continually improve his business actually led him down the path to being a detective.
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.
Kite Runner Chapter five In pages 33-38, we get to learn about the character Assef, and how he thinks he cen behave. Assef was born to a German mother and a Afghan father, Assef is blue eyed and blond and is very tall as it says ’Assef towered over the other kids’. Assef has a very well known reputation about his ’famous stainless-steel brass knuckles’, which seems on one would hope not to know through personal experience. His brass knuckles were seem to him as the right ’teaching tools’ if you needed a little legal education. When Assef gives someone a little legal education, you get the impression that he enjoys it and doesn’t care about hurting people as it says ‘I will never forget how Assef’s blue eyes glinted with a light not entirely sane and how he grinned, how he grinned, as he pummelled that poor kid unconscious’.
In the 1890s Germans arrived in Rwanda to find a nation-state with an army and centralized administration. Kigeri IV Rwanbugiri was the king at this current time and had been ruling since the early 1860s. (Prunier 87) The Europeans had predicted that Rwanda would be filled with chaos and small tribes. The Germans and Belgians eventually adopted John Hanning Speke’s Hamitic hypothesis. (Prunier 84) Speke traveled to the region in the 1850s.
Camilla Dons Dons 1 Theodor Geisel Trying and not succeeding is not failure; it is part of the process of discovering what works. Theodor Geisel, born on March 2, 1903, was born and raised in Massachusetts. He had a sister named Marnie who, just like Geisel, was made fun of for their parents participation in the pro-American campaign of WW1 (“Dr.”). Their father and grandfather were brewmasters and had a large financial success. Their father’s family were also German-immigrants (“Dr.”).
White 1 Josh white Botany/zoo Mrs.Helt 26 September 2012 Charles Lyell Charles Lyell was the son of a wealthy gentleman who had inherited a large estate in Scotland. He was born in Born November 14, 1797 and he died on February 22, 1875 Lyell went to university at Exeter College, Oxford. Later he moved to London where he planned to become a barrister. However his poor eyesight made this profession impossible and so Lyell turned to his real interest- science. Geology soon became his forte and as member of the Geological Society, he took part in the lively debates in the 1820s about how to reconcile the biblical account of the Flood with geological findings.
Heinrich Himmler was born in 1900 and died in 1945. Heinrich Himmler was to become one of the most feared men in Nazi Germany and Europe once World War Two broke out. As head of the SS, he had ultimate responsibility of internal security in Nazi Germany and was associated with helping to organise the Final Solution though Reinhard Heydrich. He also had a major input into the organisation of the Holocaust. He was old enough to serve in the German Army in 1918 and saw out the last days of World War One.
The classic anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), directed by Lewis Milestone, has been restored by the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Centre. Based on the best-selling novel by Erich Maria Remarque, the book and film tell the story of a group of German students who volunteer to fight in the 1914-18 War. It is not a story of heroes, but of ordinary young men trapped in a terrestrial hell; a bitter critique of war that resonates as powerfully today as it did before the next ‘war to end all wars’. All Quiet on the Western Front was not the only film inspired by the First World War. One of the most famous, Abel Gance’s J’accuse (whose title echoes the notorious Dreyfus affair of 1894) appeared in 1919.
Who was this Oscar Schindler who started by earning millions of German marks through exploitation of slave workers and ended by spending his last pfennig and risking his life to save "his" 1,200 Schindler Jews from Hitler´s death camps? Oscar Schindler was born on April 28th, 1908, in Zwittau in Czechoslovakia in a home imbued with his parents` deep piety. The nearest neighbours were a Jewish Rabbi family, and the two sons became Oscar`s best friends. The family was one of the richest and most prominent in Zwittau, but as a result of the deep economic depression of the 1930s, the family firm became bankrupt Oscar Schindler quickly got on good terms with the local Gestapo chiefs and rejoices here over life in the beginning of the 1940s - he was a womanisor and heavy drinker, but continually risked his life to save his Schindler Jews from the deathcamps. Schindler was recruited by the German Intelligence Agency to collect information about Poles and was highly esteemed for his efforts - a fact that was to play a decisive role later in the war for Schindler, when he needed all his