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The cult of leader was evidenced in Nazi propaganda films by Leni Riefenstahl, such as 1935's Triumph of the Will, which Hitler ordered to be made.The film showed the 1934 Nuremberg Rally, which was attended by over 700,000 supporters, and is one of the first examples of the Hitler myth filmed and put into full effect during Nazi Germany. [27]
During the Cold War, the BRD and the DDR developed different images of the German resistance, as in the BRD the conservative groups, namely the White Rose and the 20 July plotters, were canonized, while the other groups and individuals were barely appreciated or denied; in the DDR, the Communist resistance was idolized to create a mythos in the ...
Nazism and the acts of Nazi Germany affected many countries, communities, and people before, during and after World War II.Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate several groups viewed as subhuman by Nazi ideology was eventually stopped by the combined efforts of the wartime Allies headed by the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and the United States.
In the case of Germany, the model was to be classical Greek and Roman art, seen by Hitler as an art whose exterior form embodied an inner racial ideal. [1] It was, furthermore, to be comprehensible to the average man. [2] This art was to be both heroic and romantic. [2] The Nazis viewed the culture of the Weimar period with disgust.
The film follows a young naïve ethnologist who begins to reject the racial theories of the era that were largely based on physical differences among people, namely the size and shapes of skulls.
A study by German historian Rüdiger Overmans puts the number of German military dead and missing at 5.3 million, including 900,000 men conscripted from outside of Germany's 1937 borders. [153] Richard Overy estimated in 2014 that about 353,000 civilians were killed in Allied air raids. [154]
The situation has prompted some observers to label Germany the “sick man of Europe” once again, 25 years after it earned that title during the late 1990s and early 2000s — a period that was ...
Germany’s top diplomat on Friday accused Russian agents of “intolerable” hacking of the emails of a key governing party, and joined NATO and European Union countries in warning that Russia's ...