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Bismarck's Successful Domestic Policy From 1871 To 1890
2,156 words'Inept and Unsuccessful'. How Valid is this Comment on Bismarck's handling of Domestic Policy from 1871-90 From her formal unification at Versailles in 1871, Bismarck, the first German Chancellor, took control of his new German State. Yet twenty years later, the 'Bismarckian era' in German history had ended, culminating in Bismarck's departure. With unification complete at least geographically, by 1871, Bismarck's next challenge lay with domestic policy and the running of the new German constitu...
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Federal Minister For Postal And Telecommunication Services
4,439 wordsGermany On October 3, 1990, the states of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) shed their last ties to their Soviet created structure and joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The 23rd article of West Germany's 1949 constitution, the Basic Law, had been drafted specifically to allow for such an arrival from the East. But as the 1980's drew to a close, few Germans on either side of the border expected it to be used in their lifetime. Yet, in less than a year the beginnin...
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Himmler's Deaths Head Formations In Germany
1,982 wordsReichsfuhrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, Minister of the Interior from 1943 to 1945 and organizer of the mass murder of Jews in the Third Reich, Heinrich Himmler was born in Munich on 7 October 1900. The son of a pious, authoritarian Roman Catholic schoolmaster who had once been tutor to the Bavarian Crown Prince, Himmler was educated at a secondary school in Landshut. He served as an officer cadet in the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment at the end of World War I, later obtaining a dipl...
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My Trip To Germany Friends
1,877 wordsMany people are affected by cultural differences, but if one tries to break the barriers, the attempt is usually received with open arms and graciously. I remember when preparing for my trip to Germany friends asked why I chose Germany. I responded with "why not?" Then I was confronted with reasoning like "look what happened in World War II, you do not know their language", and my favorite, "all there are is Nazi people over there". I looked at them for a second then replied with something to th...
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Government Of Germany As A Political Enemy
1,083 wordsThe United States decision to enter W.W.I. was not greatly supported by the people. To gain the support they felt was needed to send troops to war; the government began a propaganda campaign to change the minds of the American citizens. Not only did they create propaganda but also created legislation that made it illegal to question the government in the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918. Political enemies must be created to achieve the greater good of the country. The use of pr...
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End Of The War Getting Russia
3,578 wordsOn June 28, 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated along with his wife while touring the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. The assassin was a student radical associated with a Slav nationalist terrorist group known as the Black Hand, which was fighting for independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire for the empire's Slavic minorities. From the beginning, the Austrians suspected that Serbia, an independent and radically pan-Slavic nation bordering...
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Ae Upper Middle Class Savings In Germany
2,342 wordsThe Great Inflation In late-1922 the German government were forced to ask the Allies for a moratorium on reparations payments; this was refused, and she then defaulted on shipments of both coal and timber to France. By January of the following year, French and Belgian troops had entered and occupied the Ruhr. The German people, perhaps for the first time since 1914, united behind their government, and passive resistance to the occupying troops was ordered. A government-funded strike began as tho...
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German Culture
2,996 wordsGerman Culture I choose to interview a woman by the name of Sylvia. Sylvia has been a family friend for many years and is twenty-eight years old. Sylvia moved here from Germany at the young age of five and lived here until sixteen when she moved back to Germany. Both of her parents were from Germany and she had family that remained there. She is now married to a German man and has one daughter. The interview that we had took place over the phone and I tried to keep it as short as possible so the...
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2001
1,257 wordsThe Nation of Germany should be assessed damages and reparations made to survivors and or their heirs for the Nazi crimes which included, property theft, wrongful injury and wrongful death. The monetary compensation will never heal the wounds inflicted by the depraved actions of the Nazi on their fellow man. The mere claim that not all Germans participated willingly should not be a viable defense for their liability. Does the concept that the nation should pay for the pain and suffering a few ca...
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Absolute Power State
1,485 wordsInformation on Roger Griffin was minimal and not enough to convey the attitudes of his ideas. The book was presented in a strict factual way with emphasis on the true occurrences in history. It can be implied that Griffin's writing shows no personality in writing style except that the facts are the true basis of input. Fascism contains a political attitude that pushed to dominate political life in central, southern, and eastern-central Europe from 1919 and 1944. All fascist movements had an emph...
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Weimar Republics
3,126 wordsA path to a dead end: the Weimar Republics inevitable failure and the rise of Hitler to power. There were various factors that contributed to the failure of the Weimar Republic of Germany and the ascent of Hitlers National Socialist German Workers Party into power on January 30, 1933. Various conflicting problems were concurrent with the eventuation of the Republic that, from the outset, its first governing body the socialist party (SPD) was forced to contend with. These included the aspect of G...
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V 1 Bases And The Germans
1,761 wordsGermany's Vengeance Weapons On June 13, 1944 a loud rumbling noise was heard over London, then suddenly stopped and an aircraft fell to the earth, killing 6 people. The British thought it was a German plane that had crashed, but when they examined the wreckage they couldn't find any trace of a pilot. They soon realized it was a missile and although the British government knew well in advance that the Germans were working on some kind of "super bomb", they didn't realize the extent of its existen...
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Blitzkrieg Successful In The Poland Attack
1,077 wordsIn 1939 a new warfare development was made from the Germans to enhance their advantages on the battlefield. The introduction of the Blitzkrieg was used against the Invasion of Poland. Blitzkrieg means lightening war and it certainly was. The Blitzkrieg was an unprecedented type of warfare that an enemy was forced to defend along a broad front. It had a line with concentrated armored thrusts called Panzers. The Blitzkrieg would disrupt the enemy reaction with tactical air attacks. They sabotaged ...
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Several Other German U Boat Sailors
1,276 wordsMelanie Wiggins's U-Boat Adventures: Firsthand Accounts from World War II brings to life the accurate account form the sailors that where onboard and associated with the most powerful and unforeseen weapon the Germans had to offer. While traveling and touring Europe, Wiggins sits down with twenty-one U-boat veterans as they tell their personal stories of the involvement during the Battle of Atlantic. These veterans range from several positions held yet with a rare concentration on the junior enl...
