SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Otto Von Bismarck, Bavaria Party, Economy Of Nazi Germany
Document Summary
A major problem in understanding world war ii is dealing with its ironies. Germans mastered most of the military lessons of world war i, but lost; anglo- Americans and russians learned little or nothing from the earlier conflict, but won. Germans hailed adolf hitler as the greatest german in history; but had. Otto von bismarck rather than hitler ruled the third reich, there would probably not have been a holocaust and a german century might have begun after the. Describing the third reich"s near miss ending western civilization has understandably interested tens of thousands of writers during the past fifty years. Unfortunately, many scholarly as well as popular histories have been long repeating conventional wisdom and short reviewing evidence. Noakes and pridham analyze national socialism between 1919 and 1945 in a particularly useful way. First, they judiciously chose documents to buttress concise commentaries and, like conscientious attorneys (no irony intended), prove what they advocate.
