Essays on German Culture

Wernher von Braun was a rocket scientist and aerospace engineer who at first worked for German Reich and, after the WWII, for the American government. Wernher was born in 1912 in a noble German family shortly before the titles of the nobility were stripped from…

How accurate is it to say that the years 1919 to 1929 were a period of economic disruption followed a period of stability and consolidation? To some extent it is accurate to say that the years 1919 to 1929 were a period of economic disruption…

This investigation will investigate the question: How did Nazi propaganda impact German women’s role in society? The years 1933 to 1945 will be the focal point of this exploration, to permit an investigation of the treatment of women under the Third Reich. This issue is…

World War Two was an event that will reverberate down the ages. Roughly 60 million people were killed, and many more had their lives destroyed. It also led to huge technological advances, such as in rocket science, and helped women get the vote. The issue…

Fascism may be defined as “a political ideology that encompassed totalitarianism, state terrorism, imperialism, racism, and in the German case, the most radical genocide of the last century: the holocaust (Finchelstein, p.1). Fascism also presents, a system of government that is dictatorial, requiring complete subservience…

Many may have heard this story; it is about a very intelligent student. One time in school his teacher asks every student in class to add from 1 to 100. Every student starts working on this task which would usually take a long time. However…