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The vital lesson of how Adolf Hitler took advantage of democracy to become a dictator. ... By the end of 1932, there were 59 “emergency decrees” compared with only five pieces of legislation ...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum quotes the following text as one of the many poetic versions of the speech: [2] [3] First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.
Hitler also thought democracy was nothing more than a preliminary stage of Bolshevism. [132] Hitler believed in the leader principle (hence his title, the Leader, der Führer) and considered it ludicrous that an idea of governance or morality could be held by the people above the power of the leader.
Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken February 7, 1933. "Politics" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats written on May 24, 1938. It was composed during the time of the Spanish Civil War as well as during the pre-war period of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich in Germany.
Adolf Hitler [a] (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, [c] becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934.
Peace in Our Time is the title of a 1947 stage play by Noël Coward.Set in an alternative 1940, the Battle of Britain has been lost, the Germans have supremacy in the air and the United Kingdom is under Nazi occupation.
Loosely based on William Shakespeare’s comedy Much Ado About Nothing, Anyone But You is chock-full of references to its source material that could be easily overlooked by the casual viewer.
Flowers for Hitler contains 95 rhymed and free-verse poems, avant-garde texts, and pictorial elements. It was the first of his books to include Cohen's drawings. Only 20 of the poems directly address World War II and the Holocaust. In the poems, Cohen explores the banality of evil, "using the Holocaust as the highest known point of human evil".