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Showing 1 to 20 of 84 for “"Hitler"”.
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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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Reacting to Hitler: Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, and Romanian foreign policy, 1933-1939
… to 1939 were examined through the paradigm of Hitler's major foreign policy achievements to explore this prevalent notion and to discern why the foreign policies of these governments failed. These included his rise to power in 1933, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the <em>Anschluss</em> …
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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 outros. …
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Tracing Hitler, the rise of Nazism and the final solution : observations from the Cape Times, 1933-1945
This study intends to look at the Cape Times' coverage and editorial response to the Nazi regime's treatment of Jews from its rise to power in early 1933 to its demise in 1945 at the end of World War II. As such, this paper follows a path broken by Andrew Sharf and his study of British press …
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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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A Match Made in Heaven or Hell: Historians Debate the Influence of Richard Wagner on Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
… 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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Adolfo Hitlerio vaizdinys Nepriklausomos Lietuvos periodikoje 1933 - 1939 metais /
The portrayal of Hitler in a periodical press of independent Lithuania in 1933 – 1939. The object of research – the portrayal of Hitler in a pre – war press. The analysis based on a 1933 – 1939 periodical press (mostly in a journals for intellectuals “Kultūra”, “Židinys”, “Akademikas”, “Naujoji …
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How One Writes, Makes, Markets a Movie and How an Audience Reads the Movie: Two Biographical Films of Hitler as a Case Study
… to John Lukacs, German people's views on Hitler and Nazism once got examined right after the fall the Third Reich in the 1950s but this subject has lost its appeal since then. How do Germans nowadays, specifically those young ones raised in the "New Germany" after the fall of the Berlin …
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Heidegger, Holderlin, Hitler: Evaluating the Proximity of Heidegger's Philosophy to National Socialism Through the Significance of Poetry for His Concept of Truth, 1927-1937
This thesis evaluates the proximity of Heidegger’s philosophy to National Socialism by exploring the significance of his thesis on the work of art in the developments of his concept of truth throughout the 1930s. During this time, two major developments emerged in Heidegger’s concept of truth. …
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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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The Nazi "Church": Nazism as Ersatzreligion
… a German or you are Christian."</p> <p>~ Adolph Hitler</p> <p>In the last decade, scores of religious scholars have dissected the concept of the Third Reich as a religion. Their theories depict a vast range of extremes from National Socialism portrayed as a secular or political religion to …
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Scapegoating : in defense of oneself.
… 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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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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The effectiveness of Nazi propaganda during World War II
… propaganda’s overall effectiveness during Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s through the end of World War II in 1945. Historians have had mixed opinions of the overall potency of the propaganda. The questions in consideration are why Nazi propaganda received so much support from the Nazi …
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Materialising Power: The Role of looted European Cultural Objects in Nazi Elite Self-fashioning
… 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 heir …
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A guide to national socialism : the Third Reich and Richard Wagner
… 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 the …
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Avery Brundage and the 1936 Olympic Games
When Hitler came to power, the Olympic Games had already been awarded to Germany. In the early phase of Nazi rule, Jews were expelled from sport clubs, making it impossible for them to train for, or participate in, the 1936 Olympics. The Amateur Athletic Union and American Olympic Committee, the …
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An Appraisal: George S. Messersmith on the Relationship Between the United States and Germany 1933-1934
… felt the German economy would fail and bring the Hitler Government down. Instead the Government became stronger due to economic successes. Messersmith's other area of failure was as a policy-maker.</p> <p>In this essay I shall examine Messersmith's reports of the Nazi situation paying particular …
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One man's wickedness : malignant narcissism and major blunders in international relations
… relations. Examples include Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Nasser. Seventeen hypotheses are presented on malignant narcissism, exploring its relationships to cognition, domestic political systems, and blunders in international relations. The hypotheses are illustrated …
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