Zachary Stewart
Mrs. Knopf
B6 April 10,2014
Senior Paper
During WWII there were many tactics used in trying to gain control of the war but none were as effective as Hitler and the Nazis and Stalin and the Soviets.
In fact both Hitler and Stalin used similar tactics for the war. Both used concentration camps; they both gained control of their country’s government so they could make their own laws, and the third tactic they used was trying to take control of more land in order to have a bigger and better military base.
One of the biggest tactics used during WWII that both Hitler and Stalin had in common was the concentration camp. Stalin’s concentration camps were called Gulag’s and Hitler’s were just called concentration camps. Regular people that committed crimes were sent to the gulags; rapist, murderers, robbers and thieves spent their sentences in the gulags, also political prisoners were sent to the gulags so they couldn’t pose a threat to Stalin and over throw his power. Hitler’s concentration camps were designed mainly for the Jews that Hitler kicked out of Germany and that he captured in Poland. Hitler vied the Jews and a disgusting race and that they had to be destroy because the Germans were and Aryan race and the Jewish population was not Aryan. (“A drop of Jewish blood ruins the whole race”) There were two types of concentration camps that Hitler had, one of the camps that Hitler had was the work camp and then he had the death camps. There were requirements in order to be in the work camps and no sent to the death camps, you had to be young and you had to be able to work. Anyone that was old or had a handicap was sent to the death camps, and if you were a mother with children you were sent to the death cam...
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...t the U.S would continue there fight with Japan and not focus on the Germans, but what Hitler didn’t know was that The U.S would join forces with the Russians and the British. When they did this they helped the Russians beat Germany and gain back control of The USSR (“BBC History”).
During WWII there were many great tactics that all the countries leaders had, weather it was japans attack on Pearl Harbor in Dec 7, 1941 or weather it was the united forces of Stalin, Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill to form the power three. But no tactics were quite as impressive as the tactics that Hitler and Stalin had. They used propaganda and the loyalty of there men to help them dominant the war. These two leaders had what in their minds the greatest way to help their countries. If these leaders wouldn’t have made so many mistakes during the war they could have won the war.
Hitler’s conduction of the Battle of Stalingrad was his biggest mistake. The decisions that Hitler made during the Battle of Stalingrad influenced the outcome of following battles and World War 2. Adolf Hitler kept sending men into the front line even though generals advised him to withdraw the troops and surrender. According to William L. Shirer, “When General Zeitzler got up enough nerve to suggest to the Fuehrer that the Sixth Army should be withdrawn from Stalingrad, Hitler flew into a fury. ‘Where the German soldier sets foot, there he remains!’"(The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Document 1) Hitler aspires to take over the world so a loss could make his leadership appear to be weak and expose flaws to the rest of the world creating a downward spiral of his reputation, of being
Each camp was responsible for a different part, but all were after the same thing: elimination of the Jewish race. In these camps they had cruel punishments, harsh housing, and they had Nazi guards watching them and killing them on a daily basis. While being forced to live in Auschwitz, they endured many cruel and harsh punishments. The main form of punishment is the gas chambers. These chambers were cells that were made underground and were able to be sealed.
The mention of the name Adolf Hitler automatically recalls one of the most hate filled and destructive periods in the history of humanity. More people died in World War 2 than in any war ever fought, but it wasn't merely soldiers; innocent civilians were persecuted for nothing more than their views of the government or for their religion. The specific focus here will be to deal with Hitler's hatred of the Jews, and how it progressed in the years before the war. The other point to bring up from this time was the Nazi's use of propaganda to rally their people and deceive the foreign community from strongly intervening in their plans.
The name Adolph Hitler often brings to mind images of either a madman or an evil military genius. While Hitler was arguably an evil madman, he was no military genius. Hitler attempted to use Germany’s military muscle to overpower the world and make room for the Nazi party to survive and create what he called a thousand-year Reich. Hitler’s political activity was part luck and part skill; he found a way to turn the sentence of treason that was against him and turn it into a political stepping-stone to power. While Hitler and his generals successfully changed the world, they made too many mistakes, both military and otherwise, for the Nazi party ever to lead the world into Hitler’s dream of the thousand-year Reich.
British forces were close to defeat everywhere in 1942. The American economy was a peacetime economy, apparently unprepared for the colossal demands of total war. The Soviet system was all but shattered in 1941, two-thirds of its heavy industrial capacity captured and its vast air and tank armies destroyed. This was a war, Ribbentrop ruefully concluded, that 'Germany could have won'.
In 1941 Germany invaded the USSR. Hitler thought it would be a quick victory which would give him control of the west and force the British to surrender so that he could win the war. However, the German forces were unable to defeat the USSR . This was because of many factors ; Soviet winter, mismanagement of the Axis powers, the battle of Stalingrad and Hitler’s underestimation of the strength of the Soviet Forces. But it was the Soviet winter and cold conditions that ultimately lead to Hitler’s defeat
Hitler and Stalin will probably go down in history as two of the greatest known evil leaders of the 20th Century. What could bring two men to become the menaces they were? What kind of upbringing would cause someone to turnout the way they did? This report will compare the two through their adolescence till the end of their teenage years.
World War II was seen around the globe as a war to end all wars. Combat like this had never been experienced before and it was the largest scale battle in recent history. The death tolls for all sides skyrocketed to heights that had never been reached in any battle ever before. There was one man at the center of it all, one man who came to personify the root of living, breathing evil. That man was Adolf Hitler and to the rest of the world, he was a superhuman military machine who had no other goal but to achieve world domination through destruction. But the roots of the Battle of Stalingrad all began in 1941 when Hitler launched operation Barbarossa. Hitler’s powerful army marched across the east, seemingly unstoppable to any force. Stalin’s Red Army was caught completely off guard and their lines were completely broken apart. A majority of the country’s air force was destroyed when airfields were raided and many of the planes never even got the chance to leave the ground. Hitler’s army finally came to Leningrad where the city was besieged. The city held for 900 days and never gave way to the relentless Germans. At the cost of 1.5 million civilians and soldiers, the Red Army stopped Hitler from advancing further and postponed his plan to sweep over the south. Another cause for the retreat of Hitler was the brutal Russian winter, which Hitler and his army were completely unprepared for and the icy cold deaths would continue to haunt the Germans.
From July 1942 to February 1943, Soviet forces defended the city of Stalingrad from Nazi attack. The battle began during the summer offensive of 1942, Nazi Army groups A an B had already pushed past Stalingrad to take oil fields in south west Russia, when Hitler ordered Stalingrad be attacked (Trueman, n.d.). “Some historians believe that Hitler ordered the taking of Stalingrad simply because of the name of the city and Hitler's hatred of Joseph Stalin. For the same reason Stalin ordered that the city had to be saved” (Trueman, n.d.). Stalingrad was also the center of Soviet communications and manufacturing in the south. Since Stalingrad had such a significance to the soviet war effort and because the Soviets could not allow the Nazi's to hold the oil fields in south-west Russia, Stalin issued the “Not a step back” order (Trueman, n.d.). The battle would eventually turn into one of the bloodiest in World War II with enormous civilian and military casualties.
Hitler and Stalin were both responsible for the deaths of millions of people. Hitler and Stalin both had violent
As leaders of Germany and the Soviet Union respectively, Hitler and Stalin seized power in different time periods and used different methods—violence versus diplomacy—but held a marked similarity.
World War Two was a time of many losses and many wins. Germany had broke the Treaty of Versailles because it included a guilt clause(all their fault), reparation($7 billion in damages), disarmament(no military or navy), and territory(give back land). The Great Depression in Europe softened up the navy and militaries which made them vulnerable to attacks. In this atmosphere entered Hitler, who took advantage of the vulnerable mentalities of extremely frustrated Germans, and unsuspecting as well as defenseless militaries of other countries in Europe. Hitler utilized fascist ideals to win over the hopes of Germans, who had faith in him. Mussolini used the same ideas as Hitler, he rose to power by fulfilling people's dreams. Stalin rose to power using two of three “isms,” imperialism and militarism. Stalin was already a commissioner for the Soviet Union which allowed him to be president if Lenin fell or died. Lenin died and Stalin consequently rose to power. World war two was a war of epic proportions, caused by significant economic frustrations across major European countries and rivalries of political ideas across the globe.
“When I came to power, I did not want the concentration camps to become old age pensioners home, but instruments of terror.” - Adolf Hitler. These concentration camps truly were instruments of terror. The Holocaust was the atrocious mass murder of six million Jews and five million non-Jews that occurred from 1933-1945 by the Nazi regime under the dictator Adolf Hitler. During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were denied their natural rights. Natural rights are the rights that every person is born with, no matter what gender, race, age, etc. In the concentration camps, prisoners were stripped of their right to humane treatment. They were denied the right to adequate working conditions, adequate food, and adequate housing. The conditions of the
The Gestapo captured Jews and sent them to ghettos where they would later be sent to concentration camps while the SS worked in the camps, they were both well known for spreading fear and shared in the killing of millions of Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and other social classes. The SS were originally created as personal bodyguards for Nazi leaders such as Adolf Hitler, but soon began rising in power. As the SS starting rising in power, they soon commanded all concentration camps in Germany and in German-occupied territory, according to SS and the Camp System United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Gestapo took the role of capturing and sending Jews to ghettos where they would soon be sent off to concentration camps, facing hardships such as disease, starvation and overwork; thus leading to one of the few similarities of working with concentration camps. The work of the SS and gestapo rapidly spread fear throughout the people. According to History learning site it states that, “The Gestapo’s greatest weapon was the fear that it created,” thus giving the gestapo more power over the people; the SS were also known for spreading fear throughout the population. The third similarity includes the deaths of millions. The main targets of the gestapo and Nazi party were those who posed as a threat to the Nazi party. Within those target groups were “gay people, priests, gypsies, people with mental or physical disabilities, communists…”
Historians argue that in Nazism, ‘the value of the totalitarian concept seems extremely limited’ as they compare the regime to other totalitarian states. They state that Nazism could not have been totalitarianism because it wasn’t as organized and monolithically structured as Stalin’s Russia. The Nazism ideology was a mere scheme of self-fulfilment and lacked the methodical theory of Marxism. Under no circumstance was there a level of state possession and influence over the economy in comparison to that which developed in Stalin’s Russia. In spite of the Nazi Party’s dominance over state affairs, authority was divided between themselves and a quantity of major power groups including the industrialists and the armed forces, while Stalin’s Communist Party possessed unconditional power over all Russian state affairs. A German historian stated that Hitler ‘...brought about a state of affairs in which the various autonomous authorities ranged alongside and against one another...’ Hitler relied on a level of popularity from the nation acquired through promoting himself through propaganda to maintain his leadership. There are no implications that Stalin sought popular appeal to maintain his power. Generally, historians have debated the weak dictatorship of Hitler but never have they contemplated ...