Essays on Adolf Hitler

Throughout our lives we always heard of how the abhorrent leader Hitler came to be, and yet we never knew his backstory or what motivated him to do the horrific things he did. For one, Adolf had some serious parental issues when he was a…

Aime Cesaire used extreme periods of history to his advantage. His rewrite of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” was published in 1969, the year following 1968 wherein many events occurred that encouraged attention to be turned towards black people and their culture and identity. However, the culture…

Adolf Hitler is considered to be one of the most prominent although infamous leaders in history. His leadership style allowed him to influence an entire country into committing the most horrendous acts of genocide in human history. However, Hitler was still able to influence the…

It is inaccurate to suggest that Operation Barbarossa was the peak of Hitler’s cruelty, bearing in mind the treatment of Jews under Nazi rule. The persecution of the Jewish people during the Holocaust conveyed to the world Hitler’s most cruel and evil endeavours when acting…

Introduction Fascism as understood and promulgated by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler, refer to a political creed that pays precedence to perpetual struggle in a nation in terms of political and social upheavals. Mussolini in particular, contrasted fascism with other peacetime ideologies such as Marxism,…

The decade before Hitler’s rise to power is a testament to the saying “desperate times call for desperate measures”. Following World War I, the state of the Weimar Republic in Germany was incredibly poor. The government had incredibly high war reparations to pay to allied…

When Hitler came to power in 1933 he had three main aims, the abolishment of the treaty of Versailles, to expand German territory and to defeat communism. As most of the German population, Hitler believed that the Treaty of Versailles was unjust. Germany’s defeat in…

From the vivid, carefree ‘Golden Years’ to wretched poverty and unemployment, it is clear that the Great Depression was incredibly influential on Germany. From the politics of the Weimar Republic to the German society, the Depression affected every aspect of Germany. Its effect was bolstered…