Nazi Germany Essay Examples and Research Papers

Wendy Lower’s Hitler’s Furies builds a shocking story of the role of German women during World War II. She paints a picture of this “lost generation” of women seeking labor and high income by working as guards for the SS (the Nazi special police force). These young women saw the West under the Nazi regime…

The Volksgerichshof (VGH) and Roland Freisler both had an important role in the criminal justice system of Nazi Germany. The VGH was meant to be a court for treason cases, but under Roland Freisler, its purpose was to remove those who did not obey the system of Nazi Germany. In Freisler’s mind, the law was…

Medicine during the nazi era was full of ethical problems such as racial purity, cleanliness and orderliness; therefore, never was the sanctity of human life more violated, or the unique sanctity of medicine more profoundly degraded, than during the Holocaust. The nazi programs forced sterilization, racial purification, and euthanasia programs (Muller-Hill 1998). Other beliefs were…

In this essay, the main topic being discussed will be how significant was the role of the Youth during Nazi-Germany Third Reich, from 1933-1945. By providing facts and information about all the youth groups in Nazi-Germany, it will seem clear that the Hitler Youth played the most essential role in the rise of power in…

They Thought They Were Free is a non-fiction book written by Milton Mayer. The book was published in the city of Chicago by The University Of Chicago Press, Copyright 1955. Paperback edition 1966, 346 pages. Milton Mayer is an American journalist of Jewish and German descent. Mayer moved to Germany for a year in order…

Spanish poet, novelist, and philosopher George Santayana warned that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. In the United States of America, our history trends towards the teaching of the atrocities of the Holocaust as if it began on November 9, 1938, with the horrors of Kristallnacht, and focuses almost exclusively…

Auschwitz – 58 Jewish workers murdered by one of their own. A total of sixty workers were being transferred from Auschwitz’ working camp to Krakow. On the way, they stayed the night in a church only to continue their hike the next day. A couple of Jews had misbehaved and as a punishment and for…

The Holocaust was not simply the attempt to physically remove Jewish people from the European continent. The Holocaust also included an attempt to destroy the memory of the Jewish people, not just their physical presence. The Nazi regime went to great lengths to achieve this end, from burning books to burning bodies to destroying any…

Nicholas Stargardt is a Professor of History at Oxford University. According to his biography on Oxford University’s webpage, Stargardt’s research is in modern German History, understood within a European context. He started his career as an intellectual and political historian. Since 1994 he turned his work towards history of children and childhood, and to social…

A vast majority of historical speeches are more or less instantly forgotten but Otto Wels’ speech against the Hitler Regime and more specifically the “Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich” was one to look out for. The main significance of this speech is not only the fact that it addressed…