Essays Tagged: "German Reich"

Germany's Quest for Unification.

The German people were ecstatic about the founding of the German Reich in 1871, after having been fragme ... since the time of Frederic Barbarossa . The euphoria and sentiments were not shared by many of the German Reich's neighbours due to various reasons. It is clear that Germany's future neighbours were ... s due to various reasons. It is clear that Germany's future neighbours were profoundly adamant that Germany remain divided. They did not want the more than 30 fragmented pieces to unite under one Germ ...

(9 pages) 122 0 4.0 May/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Did Germany deliberately bring about a major war in 1914, and if so why didn't she do so earlier?

This title question deals with a highly controversial and very sensitive issue especially for the German people. The outbreak of a First World War in 1914, and the horrors which it unleashed stimula ... people felt they needed to place blame somewhere, and therefore that the Versaille Treaty requiring Germany to repay costs after the war was a manifestation of this. Conversely, many Germans during th ...

(10 pages) 91 1 4.2 Jun/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War I

Genocide Report

Genocide Project(Journal)January 1st, 1939Life was peaceful, until Adolf Hitler became German Reich Chancellor on January 30th, 1933. It is now 1939 and Hitler's customs of being a leader ... 'Sarah'March 18th 1939Invasions are becoming regular, Germany already occupies Austria and Czechoslovakia and seems it isn't long until my home appearing ... ts to inform me of my family, and my destiny.September 1st, 1939World War II is a definite reality; Germany has invaded Poland, and the stage is about to be set for the systematic annihilation and sla ...

(4 pages) 46 1 4.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Explain how the Nazis dealt with Jews in occupied territories

On January 30th 1933, Hitler became chancellor of Germany. He was the official Nazi leader. To the Nazis, the root cause of all Germany's problems wer ... f all Germany's problems were the Jews, whom they thought were carrying on a racial war against the German nation. Once the Nazis were in power, they undertook their policies against German Jews with ... , their property confiscated, most of them were herded into ghettos and concentration camps. Germany occupied western Poland in fall 1939. Much of this territory was taken over by the German Re ...

(4 pages) 27 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

To what extent you think Appeasement (1938) started ww2:

Firmly in power in Berlin, Hitler started his plan for Germany's expansion.He knew war was inevitable--he had been planning for it since 1933, so he ignore ... w war was inevitable--he had been planning for it since 1933, so he ignored the T of V, and in 1935 Germany was rearming; later on the same year, heremilitarized the Rhineland in 1936.By March 1938, H ... 6.By March 1938, Hitler neglected the Treaty again and reunited, with Austria, his homeland into theGerman Reich. London and Paris turned away.Hitler made demands upon the Sudetenland populated mostly ...

(2 pages) 23 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

1938 in Nazi Germany

Between 1933 and 1941, the Nazis aimed to make Germany judenrein (cleansed of Jews) by making life so difficult for them that they would be forced ... g life so difficult for them that they would be forced to leave the country. By 1938, about 150,000 German Jews, one in four, had already fled the country. The "Anschluss" - annexation of Austria by ... power in Austria. Hitler sent his army into Austria on March 11, 1938. On the morning of March 12, German troops crossed into Austria. On 13th March 1938. The Anschluss-the incorporation of Austria i ...

(8 pages) 27 0 0.0 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

The Nazi Occupation of Holland

On May 14, 1940 Holland surrendered to German Forces, and Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart was appointed Reichkommissar, the highest governing auth ... hur Seyss-Inquart was appointed Reichkommissar, the highest governing authority. He watched over a German administration that included many Austrian-born Nazis. These Nazis, in turn supervised the D ... il- service. This configuration proved fateful for the Jews of the Netherlands.During 1940, the German occupation officials forbidJews from the civil-service and required Jews to register theasset ...

(4 pages) 16 1 5.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers

To what extent can Hitler and his foreign policy be blamed for the outbreak of World War two?

n the outbreak of World War II because of its expansionism policy and the fact that Hitler wanted a German Reich. Hitler’s other aims consisted of revenge for the Treaty of Versailles, a rearmame ... ned on the 28th of June 1919 , was very well known for its harshness. In article 231 of this treaty Germany was forced to accept the ‘War guilt’ of the First World War . This meant that Germ ...

(5 pages) 15 0 0.0 Apr/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers

"Nothing can be more misleading than to apply such a concept to the discussion between Germans and Jews during the last 200 years." - Gershom Scholem. Analysis

“I deny that there has been such a German-Jewish dialogue in any genuine sense whatsoever, i.e. as a historical phenomenon. It takes tw ... spond to him. Nothing can be more misleading than to apply such a concept to the discussion between Germans and Jews during the last 200 years.”Gershom ScholemDiscuss this in relation to the text ... relation to the texts and issues that you have studiedNatalie Conn3024022The age of emancipation in Germany began in 1871 with the famous treatise by the Prussian state councilor Christian Wilhelm Doh ...

(12 pages) 1471 1 4.3 Apr/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Comment Winston Churchill

ovember 2013Comment Winston ChurchillDropping linseed cakes which were infected with anthrax on the German soil was one of Winston's ideas on a planned catastrophic occurrence to happen to Germany's p ... a more rapidly manner and it ended up polluting the land for many decades, making the vast lands of Germany unsuitable for human habitation. More alarming was their inability to decontaminate Gruinard ...

(2 pages) 0 0 0.0 Feb/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers