which of the following situations is an example of totalitarianism in germany in the 1930's?
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***Correct Answer***\nd. the government control of the media.\n\nTotalitarianism, by its very nature, sets out to make the government the "total" controller of a nation.  The Third Reich is a prime example of this.\n\n***Incorrect Answers***\na. the establishment of two-party elections\n\nUp to the 1930s, Germany had multiple-party elections.\n\nb. the encouragement of private business enterprise\n\nAlthough this is what voters for the Nazi Party wanted to see when the Party took power (it was a part of their platform), the opposite happened.  However, the Third Reich later curtailed private business enterprise, but it still existed. \n\nc. the decline of the german economy\n\nThe decline of the German economy prior to the election that gave control to the Nazi Party was due to the Great Depression (which was a worldwide event).
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As far as I know we had no special police, unlike in Germany. Until 1944 everything was ’relatively’ normal, but when the Soviet army approached the country, the Hungarian fascists (they called themselves ’bowmen’) took over the power with German support and introduced military governing. It was only the communist party that created a special force called ÁVH (State Security Office) after the war.
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kristalnacht.  it was a night during WWII when many Nazis went into all of the Jewish towns.  the Nazis broke all the windows of Jewish homes and buisinesses.  this is one of the more famous pogroms during the Holocaust\n\ni suggest you go to these sites:\n\nhttp://www.ushmm.org/outreach/kristall.htm\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht\nhttp://www1.yadvashem.org.il/search/index_search.html  (search: night of broken glass)
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injustice, persecution, betrayal, German occupation,
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In 1933, less than 1% of the German population was Jewish. Jews contributed significantly to German culture. Many served in World War I and thought of themselves as Germans first and Jews second. They considered Germany a home; their passionate ties and blind loyalty to Germany caused them to be blind to the harsh reality of anti-Semitic measures (Refugee Crisis 5).\n\nBefore the war, Hitler used the law  to effectively remove Jews from public life. Under the excuse of ensuring racial "purity," numerous decrees were passed allowing harassment, imprisonment, and murder. These decrees were aimed at not only Jews, but anyone defined as "non-Aryan" (5). More than 400 specifically anti-Jewish decrees were enacted based on the Nazi definition of "non-Aryan" ("Final Solution" 3).\n\nAfter the Enabling Act, violence against Jews escalated. On April 1, the Nazi regime called for a national boycott of all Jewish business. Lists of specific businesses and individuals to be boycotted were published. German Jewish leaders were ordered to deny reports of Nazi atrocities committed against Jews. The boycott lasted three days and revealed the efficiency of Nazi intelligence on Jewish economic life. The idea that it was permissible to destroy life without impunity was strengthened ("Final Solution" 2). Most of the Jewish leaders believed that the Nazi regime would be short-lived. German Jews who began to feel the stigma of isolation had no centrally organized spokesman or organized representation to protest. On April 4, 1933, the first law specifically dealing with Jews was passed (Refugee \nCrisis 5). \n\nJews were barred from civil service and on April 7; the German government issued an order firing all civil servants not of "Aryan" descent. This was the first instance of discrimination based on "race" which was consistent with German law. These actions created thousands of jobs for "Aryans." On April 11, a decree was issued defining "non-Aryans" as those who descended from "non-Aryan" grandparents ("Final Solution" 2). The Nazis issued instructional charts to help distinguish Jews from Mischlinge (Germans of mixed races) and Aryans. The white figures represent Aryans; black figures represent Jews; shaded figures represent Mischlinge (Race Laws 1). This law provided precedent for the concept of racial inequality. Differences between non-Jewish Germans and Jewish Germans became an issue of legal interpretation. This laid the foundation for a method of legalizing persecution (Refugee Crisis 5). On April 26, the state police came under the control of the Nazi government. The Gestapo had unlimited police powers; they could follow, arrest, interrogate, and detain without outside authority. Still ignorant of the reality around them and hopeful that the Nazi regime would collapse, Jews went to their local police for help. They appealed to the courts for protection or payment for damages caused by Nazis. Most could not believe that basic civil rights, due process under the law, and the right to a defense and appeal were no longer applicable (6). \n\nBook burnings became common in pre-war Germany. On May 10, 1933, in Berlin, the first of a series of book burnings took place. The effort was aimed at erasing literary and scientific contributions of intellectuals, specifically of Jewish scholars (6). On September 28, Jews were excluded from all artistic, dramatic, literary, and film enterprises. On September 29, Jewish farmers, or those with Jewish ancestors, could no longer own farmland and were denied rights to family property inheritance. 37,000 or more Jews left Germany in 1933, but many stayed hoping the terror would pass (6).\n\n1934 was marked by an increase in anti-Semitic actions and crushing all opposition. After the consolidation of power in 1934, the path was cleared for Hitler and the NSDAP-the National Socialist German Workers'
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Here is an article in wikipedia about fascism. It includes characteristics as well as examples.
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I tend to see them as politicaly symmetrical however one was insane and the other was systematically evil.  Both had cult followings, no accountability or limits on their abuse of power and neither seemed to have a conscience.  They were sociopaths who became all powerfull.\nStalin was motivated by fear and Hitler was motivated by hatred.\nIt is true that when the NAZI purges of 1934 happened, Stalin grudgingly admired Hitler's methodology and would have preferred that method, rather than all the tedius legal show trials and tortures used for confessions employed in Russia.
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Adolf Hitler (help·info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and "Führer" (leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.\n\nHitler gained power in a Germany facing crisis after World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he was able to appeal to the economic need of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ("living space"), which triggered World War II when Germany invaded Poland. At the height of its power, Nazi Germany occupied most of Europe, but it and the Axis Powers were eventually defeated by the Allies. By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in a genocide of approximately eleven million people, including about six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust.\n\nIn the final days of the war, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.
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"Instead of working to achieve power by armed coup, we shall hold our noses and enter the Reichstag against the opposition deputies. If outvoting them takes longer than outshooting them, at least the results will be guaranteed by their own constitution. Sooner or later we shall have a majority, and after that- Germany." Adolf Hitler spoke these words in 1920, soon after becoming leader of the newly named National Socialist German Workers'' Party, commonly known as the Nazi Party. There are many contributing factors which lead to Hitler''s gain in power over the next thirteen years. The recent history of post-war Germany, and the events that would follow were of perfect conditions for the rise of an extremist party such as the Nazis. World War One had left Germany in defeat. Germany was put under immense pressure by the treaty of Versailles, which contributed to the disastrous and politically unstable early twenties. Hitler was a strong and manipulating character, with extraordinary leadership skills and his party was very tactical. He was very much underestimated by opposing political parties. He seized his opportunity to gain power in the years of the depression. This essay will review these conditions in Germany which lead to Hitler and his Nazis'' becoming the sole political party in the Reichstag in 1933.\n\nThe German Empire was formed in 1871 and soon became one of Europe''s most influential countries. It dominated in industrial and military power, and the German people were proud of their achievements. Up until the end of World War One, Germany was ruled by a Kaiser. From 1888 the Kaiser was Wilhelm II. He was very ambitious and militaristic and a threat to other countries. The German people were very accustomed to success, and when Germany was defeated in World War One, they were shocked and angry. It was a condition for peace that the Germans got rid of the Kaiser and become democratic. A new constitution was drawn up, called the Weimar Constitution. This constitution was genuinely democratic but had some weaknesses that made it harder for the Republic to cope. A president ruled with a chancellor and proportional representation in the Reichstag. Proportional representation made the Republic weak in that parties were very uncooperative. No party could get a majority, so the government had to be run by coalitions. There could never be a strong government. The president had too much power over the government and could turn himself into a dictator. This was made possible by Article forty-eight in the constitution which stated that in an emergency, the president could make laws without going first to the Reichstag. The Social Democratic Party, or SPD, was the largest party in the Reichstag in the early years of German democracy. It was the only party which held strong support for the Weimar Republic. A lot of the disasters which happened in the early stages of the republic was blamed on the SPD by extremist groups like the German Communist Party, or KPD and the Nazi party. The Nazi Party gained support from the German people through blaming the SPD and the KPD for disastrous events. And there were plenty of things to complain about. The Versailles Treaty, drawn up by leaders of Allied parties after the first World War was very hard on the Germans. They faced territorial losses- more then thirteen percent of Germany was taken by Allied countries, and their most productive industrial territory, the Rhineland, was occupied by allies. Overseas colonies were taken too. Germany was forced to pay reparations for damage caused by the war. The term for peace that the Germans most resented was article two hundred and thirty-one which blamed Germany for the war. The German people were angry and bitter, looking for someone to blame. Extremist groups gave them someone to blame, the new government. During this time there were attempted uprisings from both the extreme left and right of the politi
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Nazi regime\n\nNazism was the ideology held by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which was led by its Führer (leader), Adolf Hitler. The word Nazism is most often used in connection with the dictatorship of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 (the "Third Reich"), and it is derived from the term National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus, often abbreviated NS). Adherents of the Nazi ideology held that the Aryan race were superior to other races, and they promoted Germanic racial supremacy and a strong, centrally governed state. Nazism has been outlawed in modern Germany, yet small remnants and revivalists, known as "Neo-Nazis", continue to operate in Germany and abroad.\n\nOriginally, Nazi was invented by analogy to Sozi (a common and slightly pejorative term for the Nazis' main opponents, the socialists in Germany). The Nazis from the era of the Third Reich rarely referred to themselves as "Nazis", preferring the official term "National Socialists" instead. Nazi was most commonly used as a pejorative term; however, its use became so widespread that, currently, some Neo-Nazis also use it to describe themselves.
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Okay... most of the above answers are WRONG.\n\nYour question is WRONG.\n\nFirst, it's not "chosen"... \n\nSecond, it wasn't JUST THE JEWS.\n\nI am getting so tired of explaining this, but I guess I have to...\n\n"Another consequence of Hitler's ruthless dictatorship in the 1930s was the arrest of political opponents and trade unionists and others the Nazis labeled "undesirables" and "enemies of the state." While Jews were the primary target, Gypsies, Slavs, homosexuals, the handicapped & political dissidents were also trapped in the deadly grip of Nazi ideology.”1 Responses. German public reactions & reactions of the churches to the Nazi persecutions."\n\n"It was the explicit aim of Hitler's regime to create a European world both dominated and populated by the "Aryan" race. The Nazi machinery was dedicated to eradicating millions of people it deemed undesirable. Some people were undesirable by Nazi standards because of who they were, their genetic or cultural origins or health conditions. These included Jews, Gypsies, Poles & other Slavs, & people with physical or mental disabilities. Others were Nazi victims because of what they did. These victims of the Nazi regime were Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, the dissenting clergy, Communists, Socialists, asocials, & other political enemies."\n\n"The Nazis also persecuted authors and artists whose works they considered subversive or who were Jewish. \n\n“The remnants of the Communist and Socialist parties and members of the trade unions resisted the Nazi regime. Among the earliest victims of Nazi discrimination in Germany were political opponents--primarily Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, and trade unionists. In 1933, the Nazis established the first concentration camp, Dachau, as a detention center for political prisoners. Especially in the early years of the Third Reich, political prisoners were a significant portion of the concentration camp inmates. At the end of July 1933, about 27,000 political prisoners were being held in concentration camps in "protective custody." During its twelve year existence, Dachau was always a camp for political prisoners. \n\nIn 1935, the Nazis intensify the persecution of political dissidents and others considered “racially inferior” including “Gypsies,” Jehovah’s Witnesses, and homosexuals. Many are sent to concentration camps."
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Totalitarianism is a typology employed by political scientists, especially those in the field of comparative politics, to describe modern regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior, while absolutism is a political theory which argues that one person, who is often generally a monarch, should hold all power. This is often referred to as the "Divine Right of Kings", implying that a ruler's authority stems directly from God. Prominent theorists associated with absolutism include Augustine of Hippo, Paul of Tarsus, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes.\n(In short totalitarianism characterizes the political practices of a particular government, while absolutism means that the political power is being practiced by only ONE person: another word for it is oligarchy).
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When Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, no programme for genocide had been delivered; this system was to arrive with the increased technology facilitated by warfare. But anti-semitism - and the concept of racial purity - was a significant aspect of the Nazi promise of recovery made to a nation ravaged by World War One. The Jews were the primary target in Nazi ideology; they were believed to stand directly in the path of Germany's progress, and they were the main subject of Nazi conspiracy theories.\n\nBeginning with small-scale persecution, the Nazis followed with legal measures to exclude Jews from German society. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 denied German citizenship to anyone Jewish. With anti-semitism came the need to classify race; German schoolchildren were instructed on how to identify a Jew by shape of nose, mouth and cranium. They were given picture books to read, warning them against the so-called dangers of association with Jewish children. Anyone with 'one-eighth Jewish blood' (a Jewish grandparent) was considered a Jew. Propaganda became rife: a film was released that compared Jews to rats.\n\nA conference of ministers was held on August 20, 1935, to discuss the economic effects of Party actions against Jews. Adolf Wagner, the Party representative at the conference, argued that such actions would cease, once the Government decided on a firm policy against the Jews. \n\nDr. Schacht, the Economics Minister, criticized arbitrary behavior by Party members as this inhibited his policy of rebuilding Germany's economy. It made no economic sense since Jews had certain entrepreneurial skills that could be usefully employed to further his policies. Schacht made no moral condemnation of Jewish policy and advocated the passing of legislation to clarify the situation. \n\nThe following month two measures were announced at the annual Party Rally in Nuremberg, becoming known as the Nuremberg Laws. Both measures were hastily improvised (there was even a shortage of drafting paper so that menu cards had to be used) and Jewish experts from the Ministry of the Interior were ordered to Nuremberg by plane. \n\nThe first law, The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, prohibited marriages and extra-marital intercourse between “Jews ” (the name was now officially used in place of “non-Aryans ”) and “Germans ” and also the employment of “German ” females under forty-five in Jewish households. The second law, The Reich Citizenship Law, stripped Jews of their German citizenship and introduced a new distinction between “Reich citizens ” and “nationals.” \n\nThe Nuremberg Laws by their general nature formalized the unofficial and particular measures taken against Jews up to 1935. The Nazi leaders made a point of stressing the consistency of this legislation with the Party program which demanded that Jews should be deprived of their rights as citizens.
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In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education and industry. On 15 November of 1938, Jewish children were banned from going to normal schools. By April 1939, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the "Aryanization" policy inaugurated in 1937.\n\nAs the war started, large massacres of Jews took place, and, by December 1941, Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. In January 1942, during the Wannsee conference, several Nazi leaders discussed the details of the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage). Dr. Josef Bühler urged Reinhard Heydrich to proceed with the Final Solution in the General Government. They began to systematically deport Jewish populations from the ghettos and all occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór and Treblinka II. Sebastian Haffner published the analysis in 1978 that Hitler from December 1941 accepted the failure of his goal to dominate Europe forever on his declaration of war against the United States, but that his withdrawal and apparent calm thereafter was sustained by the achievement of his second goal—the extermination of the Jews.\n------------------------------------------------------------\nJews were the main victims. One could say their role was to be rounded up like cattle to concentration camps or death camps.\nAdded:\nAs for communities, they were started in other countries where the Jews fled to. After the second world war.
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There are volumes of photos taken by the alied forces as they were liberating the camps. There are also many written accounts from eyewitnesses, both internees and liberators.\n\nThere are the camps, or what is left of them.\n\nThere are internal German State Department (and SS) memos (many now in the Yale library) that mentin movement of Jews and others.\n\nIn 1920 the German Eugenics Society published an article titled: "The Permission to Destroy Life Unworthy of Life".  Written by Karl Binding, A court judge, and Alfred Hoche, a psychiatrist.\nAs for pictures, see below link to Google image search.
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YES\n \n\n\nHitler, Adolf  \nEncyclopædia Britannica Article \n \n \n Rise to power \n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nDischarged from the hospital amid the social chaos that followed Germany's defeat, Hitler took up political work in Munich in May–June 1919. As an army political agent, he joined the small German Workers' Party in Munich (September 1919). In 1920 he was put in charge of the party's propaganda and left the army to devote himself to improving his position within the party, which in that year was renamed the National-sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi). Conditions were ripe for the development of such a party. Resentment at the loss of the war and the severity of the peace terms added to the economic woes and brought widespread discontent. This was especially sharp in Bavaria, due to its traditional separatism and the region's popular dislike of the republican government in Berlin. In March 1920 a coup d'état by a few army officers attempted in vain to establish a right-wing government. \n\nMunich was a gathering place for dissatisfied former servicemen and members of the Freikorps, which had been organized in 1918–19 from units of the German army that were unwilling to return to civilian life, and for political plotters against the republic. Many of these joined the Nazi Party. Foremost among them was Ernst Röhm, a staff member of the district army command, who had joined the German Workers' Party before Hitler and who was of great help in furthering Hitler's rise within the party. It was he who recruited the “strong arm” squads used by Hitler to protect party meetings, to attack socialists and communists, and to exploit violence for the impression of strength it gave. In 1921 these squads were formally organized under Röhm into a private party army, the SA (Sturmabteilung). Röhm was also able to secure protection from the Bavarian government, which depended on the local army command for the maintenance of order and which tacitly accepted some of his terrorist tactics. \n\nConditions were favourable for the growth of the small party, and Hitler was sufficiently astute to take full advantage of them. When he joined the party, he found it ineffective, committed to a program of nationalist and socialist ideas but uncertain of its aims and divided in its leadership. He accepted its program but regarded it as a means to an end. His propaganda and his personal ambition caused friction with the other leaders of the party. Hitler countered their attempts to curb him by threatening resignation, and because the future of the party depended on his power to organize publicity and to acquire funds, his opponents relented. In July 1921 he became their leader with almost unlimited powers. From the first he set out to create a mass movement, whose mystique and power would be sufficient to bind its members in loyalty to him. He engaged in unrelenting propaganda through the party newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter (“Popular Observer,” acquired in 1920), and through meetings whose audiences soon grew from a handful to thousands. With his charismatic personality and dynamic leadership, he attracted a devoted cadre of Nazi leaders, men whose names today live in infamy—Alfred Rosenberg, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Göring, and Julius Streicher. \n\nThe climax of this rapid growth of the Nazi Party in Bavaria came in an attempt to seize power in the Munich (Beer Hall) Putsch of November 1923, when Hitler and General Erich Ludendorff tried to take advantage of the prevailing confusion and opposition to the Weimar Republic to force the leaders of the Bavarian government and the local army commander to proclaim a national revolution. In the melee that resulted, the police and the army fired at the advancing marchers, killing a few of them. Hitler was injured, and four policemen were killed. Placed on trial for treason, he characteristi