The parliament would have been able to muster volunteers, but there was no money to equip them with weapons, and the only way that the Parliament would have been able to make money, would be by introducing taxes. However, the Parliament simply couldn’t just create money from taxes as everyone refused to pay the taxes. The payment of taxes could have been enforced, but there was no army to do the enforcement. There were no consequences to the people of the German Empire if they disobeyed the decisions of the Frankfurt Parliament, so decisions were not followed by the people. This was not surprising, as there was no previous history of a democracy in Germany before the Frankfurt Parliament, therefore there was not much support from the ordinary people for the new concept.
‘Demonstrations were not to be organised by the party, but neither were they to be discouraged if they started spontaneously.’ However as this report was prepared and published by the Nazis it is likely that they may have twisted the truth and pushed the blame onto the people to save themselves from blame. The fact that the report was published after the events of Kristallnacht further supports the sources unreliability as it seems as a cover up. Also as the source suggests that ‘neither were they to be discouraged if they started spontaneously’, suggests the fact that the Nazis did not mind any spontaneous attacks showing their hatred for the Jews, thus giving them motive for the brutal acts of Kristallnacht . The source itself would not have changed as it was an official document published by the Nazis. Finally the very fact it was a ‘secret’ document suggests the Nazis were trying to hide something.
This experiment shows and proves that people will do anything for money even if it means hurting innocent people like what happened in the Holocaust. I decided to agree with John P. Sabini and Maury Silver because they give good points and proven facts using Milgram’s Obedience Experiment to back them up. They show you how people will follow the rules and do what they are told, even though they are hurting someone just like in the Holocaust. Many German soldiers would hurt and kill Jews because they were just following orders and getting paid to do so not thinking they were hurting innocent families. “In both cases the evil they did was not intended; it was perhaps easy to “feel” that the evil was not their doing, to feel that it had an accidental quality.” (p. 233) many of the people that participated in the experiment and the German soldiers that participated in the Holocaust believe that they are not responsible for what happened they were just following orders and doing what they were told to do.
Another example of bad leadership is Haig refused to believe that the British shelling was not working. This is bad because he should have listened to the warnings in order to make the battle successful. Another reason the Battle was a disaster because not all the British technology was efficient enough. One third of the shells that were meant to ruin the German trench line were duds and did not explode. This meant that the German trenches stayed in good condition so some of the soldiers could survive.
For example, the Mass Observation team picked up that people didn’t feel safe using the government shelters. However, instead of making the shelters better, they did a propaganda campaign advertising how good the shelters were. One of the ways of controlling what the people of Britain knew and didn’t know was censorship. The government banned anything that would demoralise the public, or get people to think in a negative way; they didn’t print anything that would make people feel as if they were being defeated. Many photographs and stories were not published until after the Blitz had ended.
Furthermore it is unclear whether it was meant to be a mutiny, aiming to overthrow the British or simply a rebellion that occurred due to opportunistic timing. Personally I believe that although the Mutiny had a large impact, it never posed a serious threat as the sepoys had neither the organization nor the equipment to defeat the EIC troops. I also think that the mutiny had no real aims for independence but was aggression born from built up resentment towards the British. Firstly it was made clear in the reaction of the British that they were much better equipped than the rebelling sepoys. The British reacted violently; using cannons to literally blow rebels apart as well as firing squads and hanging mutineers.
They expected to have open discussions with everyone involved to produce a treaty and that there would not be any secret treaties. They hoped to be treated equally amongst other allies and managed fairly especially with negotiations. They did not expect the treatment they were given, and most of the fourteen points did not apply to Germany when she lost the war. Germany was not allowed to be part of the League of Nations, which meant she wasn’t involved in key decision making, the Germans felt this was hugely unexpected and unfair as she lost much of her strength and power. It resulted in diplomatic isolation, as she couldn’t defend lost Germans in other countries, and there were huge military restrictions where she was only allowed an army of 100,000 soldiers and very little weaponry.
I believe he said something about paying bills to someone, I wasn’t paying very much attention. Trying to stay uninvolved I continue forward and thought nothing of it. I’ve always found I best to stay out of other people’s affair. Yes, the British taxed us and I’m not their biggest fan, but that’s not a reason to be uncivil about it. The soldier was just an everyday guy, besides being in the wrong place at the wrong time, he did absolutely nothing to provoke the colonist to verbally attack him.
Despite one of its main purpose being to prevent the outbreak of war, it was useless and did nothing to prevent the outbreak of World War 2. This was due to it having no military force of its own. America, one of the major powers, did not support it. France and Britain the other major powers also did nothing to stop. The League did nothing except protest against Germany’s past aggressive behavior and Japan and Mussolini’s invasion.
• Small numbers of teachers felt that the Nazi regime was letting pupils down academically, and decided to teach beyond the regime; however this came at a huge risk. Teachers could be caught out by other teachers, the Gestapo and even the pupils. • “There is no longer any intellectual freedom…and education is being degraded by political interference. Some don’t realise any countries exist except Germany” – Dr. Schuster, “Darkness over Germany” 1945 Failure in the Indoctrination of Students • Another weakness of the new Nazi Education Policy was that the pupils were fully aware of the constant bombardment of