https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh Made with panache en-us 2019-01-17 23:00:21 UTC 2025-05-02 15:28:18 UTC hello@padlet.com wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/323234737 Challenge Statement: Through the discounting of more extreme political views, such as Anti-Semetism, the Nazi part was able to monopolize power in elections of the early 1930s due to their call for a strong, unified middle class to help Germany recover from political and economic crises on the international and domestic level. 

Thesis Statement: Once the Nazis gained access to domestic power in Germany without the use of Anti-Semestism, their rationale that improvements to Social Democracy under Jewish leadership being impossible was essential towards the shift away from a Jewish presence in German society. ]]> 2019-01-22 21:20:26 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/323234737 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/323704187 Challenge Statement: The National Socialist accumulation of power reached a tipping point in 1933 due, in large part, to the mobilization of the middle class who supported the surge of populist nationalism, which sought to secure social equality for a largely disenfranchised German population.
Thesis Statement: Due to the unique economic and social predicament of Germany following The Great War coinciding with substantial pushes by some domestic German forces to institute conservative reform, Hitler and the Nazi party were able to capitalize of nationalist feelings and other resistance to undermine the conservative presence. ]]> 2019-01-23 21:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/323704187 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/324734309 For my independent research project I will focus on the evolution of Germany's foreign policy ideology under the Nazi Regime. I hope to analyze how this ideology affected German relations with various international actors. Additionally, I loved watching "The Rape of Europa" last Thursday and would like to incorporate that perspective if I can find appropriate research on it. 

]]> 2019-01-27 21:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/324734309 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/325555957 2019-01-29 18:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/325555957 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/326488352 As showcased in the town of Thalburg, the Nazis utilized a strategy of grassroots appeal through the political infrastructure of small German towns to connect with the middle and lower classes and 
accumulate support in ways the SPD could not replicate or compete with during times of economic hardship.]]> 2019-01-31 21:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/326488352 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/328025518 Challenge Statements: Through the persecution of political dissidents, antagonization of the Weimar Republic's economic and political policies, and portrayal of anything considered "un-German" as exclusively detrimental to German society, the Nazis were able to consolidate Germany's power in totality. 

Thesis Statement: The success of the Nazi party and proliferation of the Nazi ideology was solely contingent upon the unquestioning obedience to and wellbeing of Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer, as evidenced by the eradication of the Nazi regime following Hitler's death. ]]> 2019-02-05 20:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/328025518 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/328642368 While the people of Northeim may have imposed certain constraints on the Nazi presence in their society, which resulted in the Nazi party adjusting to such constraints, it was the Nazi party's imposition of "moral numbness" (302) that allowed for mass crimes against humanity to be committed. ]]> 2019-02-07 09:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/328642368 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/330133372 Challenge Statement: Stephenson acknowledges the Nazi-led German participation in World War II created many jobs and other incentives for cooperation in war efforts, but Stephenson persists German participation put immense strain on the general populous in terms of strict food rations, widespread war casualties, and other difficult living and working conditions. 

Thesis Statement: 
Hitler and the Nazis' fabrication of a mythological national unity through the antagonization of any German deemed un-Aryan, the transfer of Jewish assets to Nazi party officials, the establishment of a sense of law and order, and the creation of a seemingly stable government was insufficient to support German war efforts and civilian life during World War II, as exemplified in battle losses, struggles with starvation, and the loss of participation among the German general populous in war efforts following the Battle of Stalingrad. 

]]> 2019-02-11 23:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/330133372 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/331150877 Challenge: As evidenced in the excerpts of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels and buttressed by the design of institutions they installed in the Nazi regime, propaganda was approached in two prongs: to incentivize the German people buying into the Nazi ideology and to encourage the German people to support Nazi efforts.
Thesis Statement: The strict guidelines established by the Nazi regime as to who could work to construct propaganda and what was permissible to disperse to the German mass populous was instrumental to the dissemination and proliferation of Nazi ideological sentiment and support. ]]> 2019-02-14 04:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/331150877 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/331950314 2019-02-16 02:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/331950314 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/332515011 Challenge Statement: The three stages of adolescence, as articulated by Peukert, distinguish how youth lived with various degrees of compliance to the Law on the Hitler Youth and how further evidence highlights how the compliance was dictated in part by intersectional factors of social status, gender, and occupation. 
Thesis Statement: Children who were introduced to ways of life under the Third Reich at an earlier age were more likely to actively support or be complacent in the regime compared to their older counterparts and experienced a negative correlation with likelihood to engage in forms of resistance and other illegal activity. ]]> 2019-02-19 02:05:39 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/332515011 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/333937823 Challenge Statement: Perry asserts that the celebration of Christmas under the Nazi regime and during wartime, in particular, underscored  poor rationing, high casualty rate, favoritism to the well connected, and lack of restraint when purchasing power was freely delegated, which was met with further attempts to politicize the holiday.
Thesis Statements: The attempt and subsequent failure of the Nazi regime to provide a 'nazified' version of the Christmas holiday showcased Nazi difficulties to ensure total compliance by the German people to Nazi politicalization and instruction on how to engage in public celebration.]]> 2019-02-21 21:57:11 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/333937823 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/335580990 Challenge: Kaplan asserts that despite drastic, widespread, and often violent measures taken against Jewish Germans under the Nazi regime prior to 1938, most Jewish people stayed in their homeland, whether by choice or due to obligations that were economic or social in nature.
Thesis: The Jewish people who remained in Nazi Germany for a variety of different reasons were subjected to increasingly unjust treatment, beginning with the delegitimization of Jewish people as German and eventually escalating to the indiscreet removal and extermination of Jewish people. 

]]> 2019-02-26 19:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/335580990 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/338141769 Challenge Statement: Wachsmann argues that despite the concentration camps being plagued by issues of disorganization and decreasing commitment to radical Nazi ideology by concentration camp workers between 1933 and 1945, the concentration camps were most deadly towards the end of the war when disorganization was highest and SS presence at its lowest. 

Thesis Statement: In the final, most deadly days of the concentration camps, the Nazi regime used a strategy that was secretive regarding 'the Jewish question' in the early 1940s and kept the focus on why a society without Jewish people was worth fighting for to co-opt workers in the concentration camps to commit such horrendous acts.

]]> 2019-03-05 20:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/338141769 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/338632355 Challenge Statement: 
Moeller contends the Germans distinguished historical remembrance and mourning for Jewish people and others who were persecuted due to the fault of the German people, by active support or complicit by-standing during ongoing crimes against humanity, and the German people's own suffering, whether through lives lost or other hardship endured.
Thesis Statement: Although Germany's attempts to retain remembrance and culpability have profoundly affected modern law and general perspective on the atrocities committed by the German people, the platitudinous nature of how memorials are constructed and located through Germany diminishes the emphasis of the memorials and creates the challenge of contextualizing each memorial. ]]> 2019-03-06 21:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/338632355 elizabeth_drummond https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/339527797 Here's your first post with my feedback.]]> 2019-03-09 05:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/339527797 elizabeth_drummond https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/339533256 2019-03-09 07:50:19 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/339533256 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/343065739 Challenge Statement: Friedlander claims the installation of the Nazi regime did not create a mentality that people with mental and physical disabilities must be dealt with in some fashion, but rather the regime encouraged and helped facilitate the eventual extermination of disabled populations, which did not cease with the Nazi's fall. 
Thesis Statement: The Nazi fabrication of a separation between people as "races" in terms of biology and mental capacity rationalized the creation of legal policy that led to the sterilization and eventual extermination of people deemed physically or mentally diseased, incapacitated, or limited in some regard.]]> 2019-03-19 19:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/343065739 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/344004979 Challenge: Stephenson persists that while middle class women of the third Reich who could produce valuable children were given the luxuries, like evacuation from potential bombing sites and access to limited forms of birth control, these women were also the most regulated when they engaged in intimate relations with others. 
Thesis: The Nazis were able to transform Germany into an incubator for the Aryan race to live on and limit gender expression to the 'natural' and 'divinely intended' by restructuring of family life so that men and women worked dutifully to achieve coexistence through gender role fulfillment and parents measured their worth in their ability to produce 'legitimate' children. ]]> 2019-03-21 20:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/344004979 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/344417424 2019-03-23 02:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/344417424 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/345444422 Challenge Statement: Steigmann-Gall contends that not only was the religious and systematic targeting of the Jewish people unlike any other religious body, but members of religious institutions, like high-ranking Catholic bishops and ministers spoke against practices of the Nazis and still be treated with cautious restraint by the Nazi regime. 
Thesis Statement: Due to initial efforts by the Nazi regime to positively integrate some religious institutions into German life under the state being met isolated pockets of resistance among the religious, the Nazi regime instituted measures to abolish anti-state religious organizations and sentiment. ]]> 2019-03-26 19:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/345444422 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/347841048 Koonz contends that the Nazi regime co-opted the greater-German populous into being complicit accomplices or fellow perpetrators via the creation of exclusionary policies and state-sponsored events and social circles, founded upon pre-existing and underlying values of desirability that manifested itself in German society in more subtle ways before the Nazis. ]]> 2019-04-02 21:13:56 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/347841048 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/348317016 Challenge: Tooze asserts that the Nazis, through the combination of doctrinal beliefs with sensible political and militaristic prowess, were able to use genocide both to achieve goals of racial restructuring and purging across Europe as well as to fuel Germany's wartime economic efforts as they fought a multi-front war.
Thesis: Hitler and, by extension the German government, was keen on exploiting situational and potentially temporary benefits offered, such as the presence of Hitler and his allies as personalistic dictators or the staid disposition of USSR forces, to seize land and rights across Europe that Germans felt entitled to. ]]> 2019-04-04 00:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/348317016 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/349224126 2019-04-07 08:18:05 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/349224126 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/349789701 Browning contends that some of the most destructive, lethal, and heartless acts are not done by fiendish savages, but rather ordinary men that have been coopted and molded by propaganda, acquiescence to leadership, and pressure to remain in compliance with the actions of peers that establish a status quo. ]]> 2019-04-09 04:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/349789701 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/350960117 Challenge Statement: Bergens persists that due to the Nazis aspirations being the total purging of inferior races and annexation of land was significant, their continued pursuit of those goals towards the end of the second World War led to desperate measures, inadequate solutions, and juxtaposing progressions of ideology. 
Thesis Statement: The Nazi regime relied on strict policies of secrecy between prisoners and oppressors and within the ranks of conspirators in order to shroud the evil of the extermination efforts and create obedience among involved parties so as to minimize acts of dissidence among prisoners, and within the Nazi ranks. ]]> 2019-04-11 20:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/350960117 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/352060103 Following the downfall of the Nazi regime, Germans struggled with wh they should maintain certain elements of a radically nationalistic ideology that once united them or deviate in their path forward into "un-German territory" in the eyes of some, especially in terms of immigration policy and toleration of persisting radicals. ]]> 2019-04-16 17:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/352060103 elizabeth_drummond https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/353195648 Hi, Will!
What's going on with your timeline entries? Having gone through the most recent version of the Timeline, I have you down for only 1 of the required 10 entries. Remember that these are the primary sources that you will use for your analytical essay, so you need to get working on them, as they are the building blocks of your essay. For your current entry and for the future ones, be sure to (1) include a link to the primary source document at the end of the description and (2) link directly to the image when entering the media (right-click on the image, then click on "copy image address" on the drop-down menu, and then paste it into the Media field in the Google Sheet). See also the general comments that I put on Brightspace and the group Padlet. Get in touch ASAP if you have any questions.
EAD]]> 2019-04-22 22:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/353195648 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/353207415 Challenge: Nolan maintains historians have difficulties in contending with the motives behind the air-based attacks of World War II regarding  whether air attacks were a justified means to an end, if civilian casualties should impact how the raids are remembered, and whether intent behind the attacks impacts the legal/moral ramifications.
Thesis:  While future generations may not be directly responsible for the actions of their ancestors during the second World War, they have a responsibility to understand the continued consequences of their ancestors and maintain the memory of the victims and the actions taken by the victim's oppressors. ]]> 2019-04-23 00:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/353207415 elizabeth_drummond https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/353993045 Hi, Will!
Having gone through the most recent version of the Timeline, I now have you down for 11 entries -- well done. You do a nice job with these entries, in particular how you focus in on issues related to different approaches to occupation. Do be sure that you link directly to the image when entering the media (right-click on the image, then click on "copy image address" on the drop-down menu, and then paste it into the Media field in the Google Sheet). Also, you have a couple of entries (1937, 1942) with a typo in the spelling of Bolshevism (you have it as Bulshevism); correct all of those. For the 1942 entry, you mention a booklet in the description; is that document your primary source and, if so, can you link to it, or is the source the image?
See also the general comments that I put on Brightspace and the group Padlet.
EAD]]> 2019-04-25 04:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/353993045 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/354288993 Thesis: Germans who lived in Germany or outside of the country and were born after the Nazi era were faced with silent and ambiguity as they pressed their relatives for details of their role in the Nazi era, which solidified feelings of estrangement and dissociation from part of the old German identity, which continued to manifest. ]]> 2019-04-25 21:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/354288993 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/354289011 Thesis: Whether as domestic residents of Germany or Germans living abroad, younger generations that were born following the Nazi era felt estranged from the German past of their relatives who were affected by the war in some way, whether as a victim, bystander, or perpetrator. ]]> 2019-04-25 21:37:08 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/354289011 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/354646949 2019-04-27 06:56:41 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/354646949 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/355619614 Rosenfeld addresses the dilemma surrounding remembrance of the Nazi era and Nazi figures in contemporary society by asserting that while Nazism should not normalized or desensitized in terms of the harms caused by Nazis, it is more hurtful to limit the scope of which Nazis may be discussed. ]]> 2019-04-30 20:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/355619614 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/356407071 Not only was the notion that the Nazi regime was an isolated instance that abruptly began in 1933 and ended in 1945 false, but the same ideology of radical nationalism, elitism, racism, and exclusion is still prevalent, today, albeit under a different name or wearing a new face, which allows for the ideology to infiltrate many facets of society.]]> 2019-05-02 21:14:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/356407071 wlightha https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/356489393 2019-05-03 05:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/wlightha/669zyfszkkkh/wish/356489393