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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Adolf Hitler"”.
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A Match Made in Heaven or Hell: Historians Debate the Influence of Richard Wagner on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
… of Richard Wagner's ideas to the development of Adolf Hitler as seen by various historians.</p> <p>This author has consulted the works of many different authors to attempt to find the ideological roots of Adolf Hitler.</p> <p>The ideology of Richard Wagner, as seen by some of the most pre-eminent …
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Staging Hitler myths
In my thesis Staging Hitler Myths, I analyze the depiction of Adolf Hitler in the contemporary German movies Der Untergang (2004) and Mein Fuhrer-die wirkliche wahrste Wahrheit uber Adolf Hitler (2007). Both movies have been harshly criticized for offering a personalized depiction of the historical …
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Scapegoating : in defense of oneself.
… and scapegoating concepts. Burke's analysis of Adolf Hitler's use of scapegoating is explained and expanded to include Milosevic's use of scapegoating. The men's motives for scapegoating are compared and contrasted by looking at Hitler's Mein Kampf and "My Political Testament" and Milosevic's …
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A medicina nos campos de concentração de Auschwitz
… de execução da ideologia nazista, formulada por Adolf Hitler e seus companheiros de partido. A atuação médica tinha um papel importante neste contexto, com objetivos claros: assistência, experimentação científica, seleção de prisioneiros e extermínio. A as ações comandadas por médicos do regime …
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The Creation of a Worldview.
… Karl Lueger, influenced the development of Adolf Hitler’s worldview.</p> <p>The works of many authors were consulted in conjunction with newspapers and memoirs of the period in order to gain a better understanding of what the environment of the Austrian capital was like in the fin-de-siècle …
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The Forgotten Footnote of the Second World War: An Examination of the Historiography of Scandinavia during World War II
… 1939-1940, known as the Winter War, influenced Adolf Hitler and his decision to launch Operation ‘Barbarossa.’ In regards to Sweden, attention will be paid to how critical Swedish iron ore was to the Nazi war economy. Finally, the thesis will examine how the Anglo- American interpretation of the …
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Thomas Carlyle, Fascism, and Frederick: From Victorian Prophet to Fascist Ideologue
… of their respective totalitarian regimes. Adolf Hitler, in his final days, assuaged his fears of his imminent fall with readings from Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great. This fascist connection to the once esteemed “Sage of Chelsea” marks the apogee of his defamation. The following …
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Materialising Power: The Role of looted European Cultural Objects in Nazi Elite Self-fashioning
… the regime’s symbolic authority. Focusing on Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, and Heinrich Himmler, the study reveals how each leader used material culture differently. For Hitler, imperial regalia and funerary remains constructed a mythic narrative of German continuity, legitimising his role as …
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A guide to national socialism : the Third Reich and Richard Wagner
… life and works and their supposed influence on Adolf Hitler and the founders of the Third Reich was prompted by the readily available amount of extremely divergent opinion on the subject. Remarks such as the following are common: As long as Wagner's operas continue to be performed there remains …
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The fascist Jesus : Ernest Renan's Vie de Jesus and the theological origins of fascism.
… Jesus” of politicians like Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. Through a detailed examination of Renan’s Vie and his other writings, I propose that fascism was not the result of an excess of irrationality, but rather an excess of Modern rationalism resulting from the late Medieval and early modern …
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Austrian National Socialism and the Anschluss
… Yugoslovakia, and Hungary, and would provide Hitler with a springboard from which he could launch his thrust into Eastern Europe. The road toward Anschluss was a difficult one to travel: Germany needed to be wary of the threat from the Western Powers during her quest for a greater German …
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Mikhail Gorbachev and His Role in the Peaceful Solution of the Cold War
… about the actions of such charismatic leaders as Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt when we think about the brutal events and the outcome of the World War II. Or, for example, the Cuban Missile Crisis and its peaceful solution went down in history highlighting …
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“Das ist die Broadway Melodie”: American cultural motifs in German music film 1929 – 1945
… and the beginning of the dictatorial rule of Adolf Hitler and the Nationalist Socialist party. Early manifestations of a process labelled “Cultural Americanisation” in Germany during the Weimar Republic had a lasting impact on music film production from 1929. One of the strongest factors with …
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Arte e sangue: analisi e approfondimento delle passioni artistiche che Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler e Mao svilupparono nella loro gioventù
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Josif Stalin y Mao Zedong son cuatro figuras históricas que sin duda marcaron la historia del siglo XX. Sus biografías tienen algo en común: todos mostraron, aunque en distintas etapas de su vida, una inclinación por el arte o la literatura. Mussolini era novelista y …
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Nazi Ideology and the Pursuit of War Aim: 1941-45
… This would help fuel the Nazi war machine as Adolf Hitler continued to progress towards his goal of establishing a Third Reich. The goals of the military were to achieve a complete victory over the Red Army. Nazi plans called for a quick conquest, which would enable the <em>Wehrmacht</em> to …
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Transformational Leadership in the Life and Works of C.S. Lewis
… leadership existed in the reality of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime and echoed in the literature of Lewis in the N.I.C.E. organization from the science fiction trilogy and Shift from The Chronicles of Narnia. Recommendations for further study encourage future scholars to expand the …
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Nas fronteiras da história : uma análise dos discursos de Hitler (1933 - 1934 - 1938)
… é formado pelos discursos proferidos por Adolf Hitler (1933, 1934, 1938). Para tanto, esta investigação filia-se ao quadro teórico da Análise do Discurso instaurada por Michel Pêcheux (1969), bem como à proposta de Orlandi (2010), Cazarin (2004), Maldidier (1994), Indursky (2013), entre …
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Indian Political Thought and Germany's Fascism, ca. 1918-1950
… Richard Walther Darré (1895-1953), and Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) showcase. Kaste structured the contradictory aims of National Socialism: while nationalism required the purging of ‘caste’, racism required the resurrection of an aristocratic and imperial ‘caste’ of Aryan warriors. The last …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… a deeper understanding of why Germans accepted Adolf Hitler and National Socialism.
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Mit Hitler zum Medienskandal. Skandal oder Skandalisierung? Eine medien- und kommunikationslinguistische Analyse von NS-Vergleichen und Verweisen auf den Nationalsozialismus als Auslöser für öffentliche und massenmediale Empörung.
Profifußballer zeigen den Hitlergruß, extreme Fußballfans befeuern ihren Verein mit den Worten „Gas geben Sachsenhausen“, Eva Herman stolpert über das Wort „Autobahn“ und Harald Schmidt lässt dieses Wort und seinen eigenen Wortschatz vom selbst erfundenen „Nazometer“ bewerten: Anspielungen auf die …
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