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Germany in WW2
The Germans were a member of the Axis forces and the primary belligerent in the European Theater of war.
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Where did the tradition of the Christmas tree come from?
In the year 718, a man named St. Boniface was sent as a missionary to Germany. While in Germany, he saw a group of people from Hesse worshiping at what they believed was a sacred oak tree. Many say they were honoring the Viking god Donar. Others say they worshipped the Viking god Thor. They were going to sacrifice a young prince at the tree. St. Boniface took an ax and cut down the tree. The tree was very large and chopping down this tree could've taken a day or two. Once Boniface cut down the tree, he pointed to a small fir tree sprouting up nearby. He saw the tender everygreen as a perfect analogy of God. After several hundred years the tradition caught on and now, almost 2000 years later, we still carry out this tradition by putting a fir tree in our homes at Christmas time.
What artillery was used to bombard Cornwallis in the battle of Yorktown?
Cannons and Boats. This was the French's Artillery.
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A variety of weapons were used. The standard was a smooth bore front loading gun made of cast iron or bronze. Galloper guns (3lb, 4lb and 6lb cannons), swivel canons were among the usual artillery pieces. Basically the following were used: Field Cannon, the Garrison Cannon, the Howitzer and the Mortar.
There are two excellent websites that describe the weapons and ammunition used. They have illustrations and photos so they are well worth looking at. "Weapons of the American Revolution" looks at all artillery used and "Yorktown Artillery 1781" looks at the Battle of Yorktown specifically.
Why do you think so many people blindly followed or were brain washed by Adolf Hitler?
cuz he was a diplomatic man like any other politican and seemed to have good intentions.
What are the German words for goodbye?
Formal:
Auf Wiedersehen
Auf Wiederhören (only on telephone)
Informal
Tschüß
Tschöö
Adé
Servus
Tschao
Ciao
How did Hitler see to increase the expansion of their territory?
In World War II, the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, established what they called the New Order and had ambitious plans for directly controlling all of Europe, and then obtaining a position of power that would make them a formidable superpower in global politics. In Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf, written in 1928, This proposed autocratic state would include all areas inhabited by the Aryan race (defined as non-Jews of European ancestry) i.e. Europe, European Half of the USSR, Anglo-America, Cuba, and southern South America. Hitler envisioned an apocalyptic air war of conquest against the United States by his successor in 1980, conducted by a great fleet of German long range bombers. At the time of the initial invasion of the USSR (Operation Barbarossa) in June 1941, Hitler had expected to win victory in World War II by 1945, and he then planned, after completing the construction of the Welthauptstadt Germania plan of Albert Speer for Berlin, to hold a great World's Fair in Berlin in 1950 and then retire to his hometown of Linz.
How many books did Hitler burn?
It was a way of expressing hatred for books that Hitler and the Nazis thought were 'un-German'. The book-burning in May 1933 was organized by Goebbels and was done amid maximum melodrama. Long before anyone even thought of the Nazis the poet Heinrich Heine said, 'Where they burn books, they end up burning people'.
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The Book Burning rallies were also used to control the intellect of the Nazi followers so that they didn't know any other knowledge except what they deemed necessary. This led them to be able to control what their followers thought about the world, and more importantly, how Hitler wanted them to think during World War 2
How many ME-109 German Fighter aircraft were built?
30,000 were made by Germany during WW2 from 1930's to 1945. Then other countries built a version of it. Also, The Messerschmidt company was redesignated as the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (Aktiengesellschaft or Corporation) in 1938. Some call it the Me-109, although the official Luftwaffe designation of the aircraft was the Bf 109 throughout the war.
When did Hitler start the Genocide of the homosexuals?
They killed of homosexuals because Hitler wanted as many people in the Third Reich as possible. So homosexuals couldn't produce children. However Hitler did allow lesbianism because he thought that no woman can resist the 'attention' of a healthy Aryan, a blond haired, blue eyed full blooded European.
Why were they called SS guards?
The Schutzstaffel (help·info) (German for "Protective Echelon"), abbreviated SS- or (Runic)- was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men (both on the front lines and as political police), managed to exert as much political influence as the Wehrmacht.
What were Hitler's anti-semitic policies and activities?
1) Rebuild the German armed forces so that they could go to war.
2) Gain revenge on France for beating Germany in WWI.
3) Conquer as much territory as possible in Eastern Europe and Russia.
4) Exterminate the Jews.
5) Enslave or exterminate the conquered peoples.
6) Settle Germans in the East.
What country did Hitler take over after he took over Czechoslovakla?
Poland, Norway and Finland were taken after Czechoslovakia was taken by the Nazis in 1938. Poland was the first nation the Nazi Wehrmacht invaded on 9-1-1939.
Who signed the non-aggression act?
The Pact was signed by their respective Foreign Ministers, Molotov and von Ribbentrop, in Moscow, in the early morning hours of August 22, 1939. This cleared the way for Hitler's invasion of Poland nine days later, which began WWII in Europe. Two weeks after Hitler invaded Poland from the west, Stalin invaded Poland from the east. The two dictators divided Poland between them down the middle, with the Vistula River as the boundary, in accordance with a secret protocol to the Pact of August 22. Poland was extinguished as a nation. There were a number of secret protocols accompanying the Pact, which made Stalin and Hitler partners for the next two years, until Hitler turned on Stalin. One of the great ironies of history is that the only person on the planet Stalin trusted was Adolph Hitler.
What is Hitler best known for?
Hitler was most known for killing Jews and being violent even as a child he was violent.
He loved vilonce and only cared for white people and was racest to other people.
How did Jews feel during World War 2?
The Jews of Europe were persecuted by the Nazi regime. They were forced to move to ghettos or concentration camps, where they were used for forced labor and 6 million were exterminated by the Nazis. Some Jews managed to escape from Europe, but this was made difficult by unsympathetic immigration policies by other countries.
Besides the Jews, Nazis persecuted homosexuals, gypsies, physically and mentally handicapped, and obviously political enemies.
To be unworthy or unfit to be part of the master race meant that one was not of Aryan descent.
What Was Hitler's point of view of The Battle Of Britain?
Hitler thought he could crush Britain into submission, but he was thwarted by Churchill and his speech of "We Shall Never Surrender"
Who is the Best manufacture of guns?
the PS
It all depends on what you are looking for and how it is going to be used. It is best to stick with American or German brands. Quality usually goes hand in hand with price. I have no idea what brand PS is.
The Swedish leader and Lutheran who led a movement to oust the Hapsburgs from Germany was?
Gustavus II led an attack against the Hapsburg Catholics in Germany.
Hitler killed the Jews because?
Answer 1
There are three problems with that question:
He did not kill all of the Jews because he did not try to kill all of the Jews. The only Jews that were targeted were those under German control. Even though Jews were killed from other Axis countries, most of them were sent voluntarily, or even paid the Germans to take them.
Next you have to disassemble whether the murder of the Jews was at the behest of Hitler, or whether it was done under the impression that it was what Hitler would have wanted, or whether it was done out of some kind of necessity. Whereas it is clear what happened, making assumptions about why it happened is a mistake.
The question makes two incorrect assumptions, as such the best answer is: He didn't.
Answer 2
It was because he felt that they where inferior. He also killled mentally challenged ppl.
Answer 3
The only person qualified to answer that question fully and accurately,
without speculation, killed himelf on April 30, 1945.
Answer 4
The question assumes that Hitler and the Nazis killed the entire Jewish people; this is not correct. The Nazis killed roughly 30-40% of the world's Jewish community and roughly 60-70% of the European Jewish community. European Jewry was around 9 million in 1933, of whom Hitler killed just over 6 million during the Holocaust. The reason that he did not kill all of the Jews was because he didn't conquer the entire world and because he lost the war. As for why he strove to kill the Jews, that question implicitly has two parts. The first is a question as to the rationales that Hitler believed in to justify Anti-Semitic beliefs and the second is a question as to why Hitler felt the need to kill the Jews as a way to solve these Anti-Semitic concerns.
The Reasons for Anti-Semitism in Germany during that period are numerous, but some of the more important reasons were the following:
1) Decay of the German State: During the 1800s, Jews began to become more integrated in German National Life. They served in its government, its military divisions, and its industry. As was typical of Western Europe, the Jews had more of a hand in the higher echelons of government than their population percentage would account for. The Nazis saw this increasing Jewish percentage in the government as a slow takeover of German policy and a corruption of the German people. They contrasted the great victories under Bismarck with the depressing failure of World War I and noted how a much larger percentage of soldiers in the latter war were Jewish. There was also the sentiment than in the early 20th century, values were beginning to ebb (this is similar to current politics in the United States) and the Jewish integration in the German apparatus (becoming teachers, lawyers, doctors, etc.) was to blame for this recession of values as opposed to modernity as a process.
2) Nationalism: Germany was brought together under the Nationalist conception that all peoples with German culture, history, and language should be united regardless of which principality currently held control. The German self-conception also had an ethnic component, holding that the perfect German was blond and blue eyed. Regardless of the fact that the majority of Germans were dark haired, Jews stuck out like a sore thumb because they overwhelmingly had darker hair. In addition, the idea of a German Jew was still rather new and both Jews and non-Jews tended to see the Jews in Germany as being part of a vast Jewish network and that these Jews just happened to be in Germany. The Nazis capitalized on this cosmopolitan sensibility by claiming that Jews' allegiances were not to the German State, but to secret Jewish Councils organizing world events.
3) Economy: Whether it was true or not, there was perception among Germans and the Nazis in particular that Jews were wealthy individuals and had a higher per-capita income than the Germans. In many ways (because of the above two reasons) Germans felt that the Jews were "stealing" their money while they were poor and suffering.
4) Pseudo-Science: The late 19th and early 20th century was filled with radical new ideas concerning Social Darwinism. It was believed by the Pseudo-Scientific community (which was rather in vogue) that different groups of people or races exhibited different emotional traits that were linked to physical differences. This led to the belief that Jews were corrupt and thieving by their irreversible nature and that they could not be "cured" and brought up as proper Europeans. This formalized Racial Anti-Semitism in Germany and made the situation much more dire for German Jews.
5) Heresy: Although not as much an issue in World War II as it may have been 500 years prior, Jews were still considered the heretics who murdered the LORD and Savior. This helped to justify Anti-Semitism as the Jewish comeuppance for their accepting of the Christ Bloodguilt.
Why was killing the Jews necessary?
The answer to the second part, while cold, is brutally honest. The Nazis encouraged the German population to believe that this myriad of Anti-Semitic issues was ingrained in German Society by making it part of the national curriculum and teaching it to millions of German children. The Nazis proposed that the only way to improve Germany was to remove the Jews entirely. There were two options for such a removal: exile or genocide. Since no country was willing to take the Jewish population en masse (and this includes the United States and United Kingdom due to prevailing stereotypes there) the Nazis made the executive decision to commit genocide to "save Germany".
Why were the handicapped targeted during the Holocaust?
They were fed a piece of bread and got some coffee without any sugar or milk. They were treated terribly, like they were not even human. Some of them didn't even like the food so many died of starvation only after a few days at the concentration camps.
How did killing the Jews benefit Hitler?
Anti-semitism in Nazi Germany benefited Hitler because he was able to use it for his own purposes. By focusing people on the Jews, Hitler was able to get them to murder millions of people and to turn against other countries as well.
