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OpenStudy (anonymous):

what were the social conditions in Germany before the WWII

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I must say that open study is not such active in history as in mathematics

OpenStudy (anonymous):

True .... even subjects like bio and physics can't even MATCH with math. Anyway, this MIGHT be of help to you, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germany_during_World_War_II

OpenStudy (anonymous):

well i can anser most history qesions

OpenStudy (anonymous):

let me think i know it wasent very good it was in the retion befor hitler took over btw pratu043 thats during ww2 not befor

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The period between the first and second world war was a time of great turmoil in Germany. During World War I, the monarchy led by Kaiser Von WIlhelm was toppled and replaced by the democratic government known as the Weimar Republic. The Weimar Republic pre-World War II suffered from a series of problems; hyperinflation of currency, political radicalism in the form of Communism and Fascism, debts from the first world war, and social devastation. These factors led to a highly socially divided society. This divisiveness allowed for the charismatic leader, Adolf Hitler, to use the problems of Germany to attain power. He used anti-semetic rhetoric blaming the Jewish bankers for economic turmoil to gain a strong and dedicated following. He told the German people that they must refuse to pay the reparations of the First World War and reunite all German speaking peoples in one country. The chaotic social conditions of Germany would eventually lead to the destruction of the Weimar Republic and Hitler's assumption of power.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Horrible. Parts of Germany were in trouble, but their living conditions were rather normal, until the Americans came in and bombed them. They had a good supply of food, and stayed healthy. Conditions varied with who you were. The everyday citizen lived with lack and wont of most everything. If you lived on a farm at least you had food. As the war wore on Germany's cities were bombed day and night and there was always the danger of being a bomb victim. The Nazi high-ups lived well all through the war since they helped themselves to stolen merchandise from all of the occupied territories of the Reich. The army especially on the Russian front lived horribly. They were threadbare and ammunition poor against an ever stronger Russian army of fresh recruits. It was their good training a fanatical devotion to Hitler that even kept them in the fight at all. Much of German resources went into mass murder. In fact murder was Germany's chief export during the war. To give you an idea of the immense size of the killing machine at Auswich, there were 47 tracks leading to the area. In the US our largest train yard is in Nebraska and has 52! William Shirer said in his book Berlin Diary that flying out of Germany was like a release to freedom and going back in was oppression. As the Russians came into Germany they did not forget German cruelty to them when Germany invaded Russia. Families were shot, women raped and towns burned. No wonder Germans ran toward the American lines when they had the chance! All in all what goes around comes around and the pain,suffering,murder that they so readily showed as conqueror came back to them as the conquered. In the early stages of the war living conditions were surprisingly high in Germany. They were able to plunder the numerous countries occupied in 1940. Moreover, a really drastic fall in living standards would have been an admission that the war was going badly for Germany. After Stalingrad, however, this changed and severe Allied bombing of civilians (July 1943 onwards) made it easy for the Nazi regime to impose drastic curbs on 'luxuries' and harness the German economy fully to the war effort.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

well let me change the question a little bit why hitler dismissed jewish scientists

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