Saturday 11 August 2012

Money makes the world go round, in the case of Germany in 1933, it allowed a certain Adolf Hitler to rise to power.

I disagree with this statement as I feel that besides money issues, Hitler`s own attributes allowed him to rise to power, such as being an excellent speaker and a charismatic leader and reorganising the nazi party.

After world war 1, Germany had a lot of debts. So, the Weimar Government had to print more money to pay of their debts. But, this lead to hyper-inflations and many Germans become poor. Although the economy recovered in the end the weimar government still lost the support of the middle class because they felt that weimar government had failed them.So, they would want to choose a different Government such as hitler.Thus, Germans being poor allowed Hitler to rise to power.

One other point would be Hitler being an excellent speaker and a charismatic leader. Many people would listen to hitlet talk  for hours because they thought that Hitler understood their problems and because hitler told them what they wanted. This ability also saved him when he was in court for overthrowing the Weimar Government.Hitler was sympathetic and sentenced Hitler to 5 years of jail. So, this allowed hitlet to rise to power because he was able to gain many support from the people and was allowed to survive the trial because of this ability and eventually took power.

Another point would be Hitler`s ability to reorganise the Nazi Party. Initially, the Nazi party had the least seats and votes. But, after hitler set up branches of the nazi party in different pars of Germany, created a youth movement and large public meetings . Hitler was able to gain alot ofsupports for the nazi party which help the nazi partygain most seats and votes in the end.So, because of the hitler`s ability to reorganise the party, he was able to rise to power since he was the leader of the nazi party, which was the most powerfull party.

Sunday 5 August 2012

A commentary on the reliability of "The Eternal Jew"" poster


Source1: A movie poster from the movie ' The eternal Jew'
Jews are the vermin of the human race and similarly spread disease and corruption. Unlike rats, however, the narrator continues, Jews have the uncanny ability to change their appearance and blend into their "human hosts." A scene depicts four bearded men in traditional religious Jewish clothing, then shows them shaved and in modern business suits, while the narrator explains that only a "trained eye" can distinguish their Jewish features.


Source 2: An excerp from Mein Kempf, written by Adolf Hitler
Since the Jew is not the attacked but the attacker, not only anyone who attacks passes as his enemy, but also anyone who resists him. But the means with which he seeks to break such reckless but upright souls is not honest warfare, but lies and slander.  Here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.

Source 3: Hitker's Willing Executioners, written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
The perpetrators of the anti-Jewish slaughter, Mr. Goldhagen contends, did not kill Jews because of threats or some German propensity for obeying authority. They participated in the slaughter because they were steeped in a historical culture of anti-Semitism. They tortured and massacred Jews, starved them, toyed with them, punished them for their birth, and they did so voluntarily, even eagerly, with unsurpassable malice and cruelty.




Source 1 is not reliable because the movie was made to show how terrible the Jews were and to show hatred to the Jews, so , they would obviously show only the bad side of the Jews.Also, by referring to Source 2 and Source 3, the sources said "they tortured and massacred Jews, starved them, toyed with them, punished them for their birth, and they did so voluntarily, even eagerly, with unsurpassable malice and cruelty" and "here he stops at nothing, and in his vileness he becomes so gigantic that no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew." Although the two sources was about showing hatred to the Jews and showing how bad they were,  the two sources were written by Adolf Hitler and Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, who both hated Jews, so they would also show just the bad side of the Jews. And because all of the sources were written to make the Jews look bad and had a bias tone, Source 1 is unreliable.