What were the evils of the Third Reich?
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Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the control of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), or Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as chancellor and head of state. Nazi Germany worked in close proximity with and was allies with Imperial Japan (under Emperor Hirohito) and Fascist Italy (under Benito Mussolini) under the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis, which participated in World War II against the allies, led by the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union.\n\nThird Reich, used as a near-synonym for Nazi Germany, is the English for the German expression Drittes Reich, roughly Third Empire, but the second word is seldom translated. It refers to the government and its agencies rather than the land and its people.\n\nThe Nazi Party deliberately attempted to combine traditional symbols of Germany with Nazi Party symbols in an effort to reinforce the perception of their being one and the same. Thus the Nazi Party used the terms "Drittes Reich" and "Tausendjähriges Reich" ("Thousand-Year Reich") to connect the glorious past to its supposedly glorious future. In speeches, books and articles about the Third Reich post 8 May 1945, the 1000 years is often juxtaposed against the twelve years of the Third Reich's existence. The terms were used only briefly and dropped from propaganda in 1939, officially to avoid persiflage, possibly also to avoid religious connotations.\n\nDuring their twelve year rule, the Nazis sent massive armies throughout most of continental Europe. Ideologically, the Nazis endorsed the idea of a Greater Germany, with Berlin renamed Germania as its capital, and integration of all people of supposed pure Germanic origin. This policy manifested itself in the systematic extermination of an estimated eleven million people of racial minorities within Germany and majority populations in some other European countries (Jews, Gypsies, Slavs), political opponents (liberals, communists), social outcasts (the disabled, homosexuals), and politically neutral groups and religions (such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons), as well as opposing inhabitants and tens of millions of others as a direct or indirect result of combat.\n\nChronology of events\n\n    * Weimar Republic (includes the events leading to Hitler's appointment as Chancellor of Germany in 1933)\n    * Hitler's rise to power\n    * Gleichschaltung (for the legal measures taken by the Nazis to establish their dictatorship)\n    * World War II (with a focus on military events)\n    * Axis Powers\n\n[edit]\n\nPre-War Politics 1933-1939\nBerlin during the Nazi era.\nEnlarge\nBerlin during the Nazi era.\n\nIn the wake of the First World War and subsquent economic depression, many German voters began turning their support towards Adolf Hitler's radical Nazi Party, which made great promises of an economic, cultural, and military renewal for the fledgling country. On January 30, 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg after attempts by General Kurt von Schleicher to form a viable government failed. Hindenberg was put under pressure by Hitler through his son Oskar, as well as intrigue from former Chancellor Franz von Papen following his collection of participating financial interests. Even though the Nazi Party had gained the largest share of the popular vote in the two Reichstag general elections of 1932, they had slim majority in parliament within the Papen-proposed Nationalist DNVP- NSDAP coalition. This coalition ruled through accepted continuance of un-Constitutional Presidential decree issuance under Article 48, prevalent in all Chancellorships since October 1931.\n[edit]\n\nConsolidation of power\n\nThe new government installed a dictatorship in a series of measures in quick succession (see Gleichschaltung for details). On February 27, 1933 the Reichstag was se
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None... til Ratzinger was put in. I'm Pagan, so, that's bad news for me... especially 'cause Pagans were killed in the Holocaust, and that guy's track record's none too good.
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Hitler\nStalin\nCromwell\nNapoleon\nHubbard
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I think a better way to put this is who killed more people in a genocide, the nazis or the russians.  The answer is the russians killed many times the number of people that the nazis did.  We should have destroyed both of these leftest causes while they were still relatively young (nazism is often misidentified as right wing where it was, actually National SOCIALISM).  Probably, it would have been much more wise to allow Hitler to wipe out the Russians, probably expending much of his military power to do so, and then mopped up the floor with him afterward.\n\nThere was nothing good about either regime.  If Hitler didn't force us to stop him militarily by invading all of his neighbors, the government was well on its way to collapse all by itself.\n\nThere is a saying that virtue is its own reward.  But, what is not said is that evil is its own punishment.  Values that are evil lead to destruction and eventual death of those who adhere to them.  This is a repeating pattern in human history.  Unfortunately, evil people rarely give their victims the luxury of waiting around until the bad guys off themselves.
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germany,Japan,Italy (Axis powers)
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Germany - Adolf hitler\nItaly- benito Mussolini\nJapan - Hideko Toji
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name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany.
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Luther. This antisemitic dogma was then used by Hitler to justify his atrocities.\n\n"For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.'"
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Patritism and revenge towards the people who had destroyed germany in the first world war
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Hitler did not all of a sudden say, 'Hey, lets band everyone together by hating Jews.' The hatred of Jews in Europe goes all the way back to the time it became Christian. Passages in the Christian's New Testament paint "The Jews" as being the children of the devil, hypocritical, and interested only in money rather than in Gd. \n\nWho wrote the following???\n\n"""But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them....Now, in order to strengthen our faith, we want to deal with a few crass follies of the Jews in their belief and their exegesis of the Scriptures, since they so maliciously revile our faith. If this should move any Jew to reform and repent, so much the better. We are now not talking with the Jews but about the Jews and their dealings, so that our Germans, too, might be informed....Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore, in John' 3:39 he states: "If you were Abraham's children would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil." It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.... For they are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country. Proof for this is found in the fact that they have often been expelled forcibly from a country, far from being held captive in it....Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.......but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"""\n\nIt was Martin Luther, one of the founders of the Protestant movement in Christianity! See:::\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-Luther-JewsandLies-full.html\n\nRemember, Germany was about one half Catholic and one half Lutheran, at the time of Hitler.\n\nCHURCH LAW and NAZI LAW \n1. Prohibition of intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Christians and Jews - Synod of Elvira, A.D. 306 \n1. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, I935 \n\n2. Jews and Christians not permitted to eat together - Synod of Elvira, 306 \n2. Jews barred from dining cars - Dec. 30, 1939 \n\n3. Jews not allowed to hold public office - Synod of Clermont, 535 \n3. Law for the Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service - April 7, 1933 \n\n4. Jews not allowed to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538 \n4. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, 1935 \n\n5. Jews not permitted in the streets during Passion Week - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538 \n5. Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from streets on certain days - Dec. 3, 1938 \n\n6. Burning of the Talmud and other books - 12th Synod of Toledo, 691 \n6. Book burnings in Germany - 1933 \n\n7. Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors - Trulanic Synod, 692 \n7. Decree of July 25, 1938 \n\n8. Christians not permitted to live in Jewish homes - Synod of Narbonne, 1050 \n8. Directive by Goring providing for concentration of Jews in houses - Dec. 28, I938 \n\n9. Jews obliged to pay taxes for support of the Church to the same extent as Christians - Synod of Gerona, 1078 \n9. Jews must pay special income tax in lieu of donations to the Party imposed on Nazis - Dec. 24, 1940 \n\n10. Jews not permitted to
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Nazis believed that the Aryan race was superior to all other races.  This meant removing the lesser races from German society and also expanding territory for the Aryan poeples to enjoy.  'Liebensraum' is the concept of 'living space' for the Aryan people.  \n\nIts hard to believe just how nasty it was but the atrocities of WW2 were all carefully planned and foretold in the book 'Mein Kempf'.
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Persecution of the jewish faith.\nHitler was after power and wanted all possessions to belong to him.  \nOthers were also persecuted, such as Catholics or Polish citizens.  \nHorrible war.  \nShindler's List to me shows that not all germans were bad, just frightened of Hitler and his army.  \n\nAnother movie to help you would be "The Boys from Brazil."  It was a book first and I believe it was written by Ira Levin.  \n\nAnother book would be "Exodus" by Leon Uris.\n\nBest of wishes on your essay.
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There were thousands of good decent jews rounded up, put on trains, sent to concentration camps and killed cruelly, heinously!  Nevermind how many. Nevermind those who conveniently "forget".  Hitler  was a dictator who ran Germany.  He was an insane man with senseless prejudices that blue eyed blonds are superior to brunettes and that jews should be annihilated.  Whole families were called to come...they knew not for what.  There were constant calls for certain people. When their names were called they were ordered into one of the buildings, told to disrobe and get into the showers.   If they were lucky, water came through the shower over their head. People who escaped the worst reported that men who ran the showers would play with freezing and boiling water, on people, but this was relatively kind.  When they weren't playing with the water, they had the gas jets on and people were killed.  Trenches were dug. Hundreds of bodies in a spot were thrown in on top of others.  Meanwhile loving family members were separated with no control over it at all.  And their only "crime" might be that they were jewish.  And the dictator, Hitler, in his insanity considered killing jews his right.\nI was an American in my teens living on the east coast, and I met a woman in her 20s with an accent I was unused to. She told me about being in the showers, and about the night she would have been killed in them with gas only she and her boyfriend had a chance to escape on bicycles and they did and they succeeded, and they  came to the United States and got married.  What I know, I "experienced" through her first hand description. But she was rare. Countless thousands of them never had a chance. She was jewish. Since then I have met many people,  a lot of them Germans who emmigrated to this country who insisted  Hitler wasn't so bad, and this mass slaughter did not happen. They were people who never would have been threatened with the ovens,  they were citizens of Germany and whatever they wanted me to believe they felt strongly about it.  It made Germany's fearless leader look bad,  Since then I have seen moving pictures on tv, taken from life --giant piles and thousands of these nude bodies in heaps  thrown from trucks down big slant shoots, and not acted by actors,  this was real. I have seen this repeatedly.  Even while watching this horror I have heard  Americans decide to accept the (fiction) viewpoint and insist everyone around them believe it. People can believe what they want. I value the truth, pretty or ugly.\nPeople like to fictionalize history a great deal, on many sujbjects. \nThey not only fictionalize the truth but they cite a contrived fiction of yesteryear and get multimillions to believe it for political reasons, for $$$ reasons, and aftter a time for majority reasons. And  then if you have a mind of your own appreciate it but keep your own council, unless asked for the truth.\n  That shameful example of Man's inhumanity to man is  in this case, the truth.  Don't let it be swept under a rug and don't let it happen  AGAIN\nagain.
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Hitler was an idiot and the most not cool person in history!  People did see through him, they were just scared to say so because he was a freaking lunatic
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Germany's desire for revenge... or for a more complete explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWII
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I agree, Hitler was more evil. Mussolini was just a petty criminal who was bent on squeezing everything out of Italy that he could.
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Tha was why Adolf Hitler intended to eliminate them in the world during WWII.