Essays on Nazi Germany

During the 1936 Olympics, Hitler’s propaganda was at its finest, and it denoted to be an engine in propelling international influence for the Nazi regime. The International Olympic Committee in 1931 agreed that Berlin would host the Summer Olympics in 1936. Thus, the choice signified the reunite of Germany to...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is a story set in a labor camp that describes a single day in the life of an ordinary prisoner, Ivan Denisovich Shukhov. Shukhov was apprehended by the Germans, who suspected him...

Braun am Inn, a town in Austria-Hungary that is located on the border with Bavaria, is where Adolf Hitler was born on April 20, 1889. When his family was three years old, they relocated to Passau, where he grew familiar with the Bavarian accent, which eventually became a defining characteristic...

In her seminal work The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt reveals the political motivations behind the Holocaust. While her disagreement with Heidegger is well known, her emphasis on direct citizen deliberation is not. This article outlines the political philosophy behind Arendt s work and examines some of the questions she tries...

Mein Kampf is Hitler's novel, in which he outlines his political agenda in detail. Mein Kampf was considered the Bible of National Socialism in Nazi Germany and achieved popularity well before its publication, and many Germans assumed that the Nazi leader was capable of bringing all of the ideas laid...

There has been a close association between the state and faith for decades; the relationship between the state and the church in particular. In modern days, not only in state decision-making, but also in politics, the church does not have such a dominant role as it did in the medieval...