Did Adolf Hitler?s Parkinson Disease Affect his Conduct of World War II?

2012 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Parkinson Disease ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler

In Search of a Father

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus J. Arnold ◽  
Eve M. Duffy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
General Question ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
The Third ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
The Third Reich

In this introductory chapter, the author narrates how he searched for his missing father, Konrad Jarausch, who had died in the USSR in January 1942. After providing a background on Jarausch's nationalism and involvement in Protestant pedagogy, the chapter discusses his experiences during World War II. It then explains how Jarausch grew increasingly critical of the Nazis after witnessing the mass deaths of Russian prisoners of war. It also considers how the author, and his family, tried to keep the memory of his father alive. The author concludes by reflecting on his father's troubled legacy and how his search for his father poses the general question of complicity with Nazism and the Third Reich on a more personal level, asking why a decent and educated Protestant would follow Adolf Hitler and support the war until he himself, his family, and the country were swallowed up by it.

From Miniature to Caricature

Arthur Szyk ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Joseph P. Ansell
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler

This chapter examines Arthur Szyk's career as a political caricaturist during World War II. In less than four months, since the September 1939 German invasion of Poland, Szyk had created a significant number of images directed against the Nazi aggressors. The range of subjects treated in these works is broad. There are the expected caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, ridiculing them and indicting their ideas and actions. Others depict Nazi ‘types’, anonymous members of the Schutzstaffel (SS) or the war staff; they are shown as brutal and unthinking, with an air of superiority that is patently false and hollow. These images express the trenchant political invective associated with caricature. Yet there is another group of works which, although in the same style as the caricatures, might best be described as political drawings. This significant portion of Szyk's images concentrates on Polish citizens and their struggle to survive.

From Propagandistic Exploitation to Post-Communist Sensationalism: Beethoven Reception in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Romania

2021 ◽  
Vol 61 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 113-128
Author(s):  
Florinela Popa
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Way

This paper mainly investigates the way Beethoven’s image was turned, during the totalitarian political regimes of twentieth-century Romania, into a tool of propaganda. Two such ideological annexations are striking: one took place in the period when Romania, as Germany’s ally during World War II and led by Marshall Ion Antonescu, who was loyal to Adolf Hitler, to a certain extent copied the Nazi model (1940–1944); the other, much longer, began when Communists took power in 1947 and lasted until 1989, with some inevitable continuations. The beginnings of contemporary Romanian capitalism in the 1990s brought, in addition to an attempt to depoliticize Beethoven by means of professional, responsible musicological enquiries, no longer grounded in Fascist or Communist ideologies, another type of approach: sensationalist, related to the “identification” of some of Beethoven’s love interests who reportedly lived on the territory of present-day Romania.

Yugoslavia Broken Up: Hitler’s ‘New Disorder’ 1941

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-90
Author(s):  
Stevan K. Pavlowitch
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Economic Position ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Communication Lines

This chapter begins with the German Supreme Command's announcement of the end of operations on the 'Serbian theatre.' Following World War II, the chapter covers the various categories of prisoners of war who were coming home: those who opted for Croatia, those who originated from the annex territories and from Montenegro, those who belonged to ethnic minorities, and the sick. Almost all the Jews who remained in German captivity, including some 400 officers, survived the war. The chapter also demonstrates how Adolf Hitler wanted to destroy the 'Versailles construct' that was Yugoslavia. Serbs were to be punished; Croats brought over to the Axis; Slovenes Germanised or dispersed. It highlights the dominion of Germany in economic position, communication lines and mineral deposits. Ultimately, the chapter discusses the irrevocable decision of the Führer to carve up Greece and Yugoslavia.

Understanding the Influence of Parkinson Disease on Adolf Hitler's Decision-Making during World War II

2015 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 1447-1452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raghav Gupta ◽  
Christopher Kim ◽  
Nitin Agarwal ◽  
Bryan Lieber ◽  
Edward A. Monaco
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Parkinson Disease ◽  
World War

Countdown to War

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuele Sica
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
The Alps ◽  
Fascist Regime ◽  
The Cost

This chapter focuses on the eve of World War II, as the Italian Fascist regime embarked on a collision course against the French Third Republic over the question of the irredentist territories such as the County of Nice and colonies such as Tunisia. The Pact of Steel, signed on May 22, 1939, virtually tied the destiny of Italy to that of Adolf Hitler and Germany, and the Secret Supplementary Protocols forecasted an alliance in the eventuality of a war. However, Benito Mussolini was adamant with the Germans that no war should be started before 1942, realizing that in the summer of 1939, Italy and its armed forces were anything but prepared for war. This chapter shows that the Italian Army was not in line with Mussolini’s brazen threats to invade France, a truism demonstrated in his troops’ disastrous performance in the four-day Battle of the Alps in June 1940. The campaign resulted in a meager booty—the medium-size town of Menton and a few pastures—for Mussolini at the cost of ruining his country’s relations with France.

scholarly journals The The War Guilt Clause and the Rise of Adolf Hitler

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Stella Zhu
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
German Economy ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Social Turmoil

After the fall of Nazi Germany during World War II, the allied powers issued harsh reparation payments that burdened the German economy and humiliated the Germans. Most importantly, the War Guilt Clause led Germany into an economic and social turmoil, which in turn paved the path for the rise of radical extremists like Adolf Hitler.

Postlude: Not an End

2019 ◽  
pp. 241-244
Author(s):  
William Brooks ◽  
Christina Bashford ◽  
Gayle Magee
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The Great War

The Great War—the “war to end all wars”—ended nothing. In fact, the social and political consequences of the war, as well as the musical ones, continue to resonate even today. After a fifteen-year hiatus, during which the great powers nursed their wounds and grudges, the run-up to the continuation started: Adolf Hitler took power in Germany. And after World War II, there was Korea … and Algeria … and Vietnam … and Iraq …...

Abdication, Collective Alignment, and the Problem of Directionality

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Hall
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Constitutional Rule ◽  
Adolf Hitler ◽  
Complex Patterns

In Ruling Oneself Out Ivan Ermakoff (2008) addresses the puzzle of what amounts to collective political suicide: why would any constitutional body pass legislation that in effect cedes all its power to another entity—an autocrat? Constitutional rule rules itself out, closing off any pathway back to constitutional rule. Ermakoff explores this unusual but not unique development in two cases of the utmost significance for World War II: the March 1933 decision by the German Reichstag to give power to Adolf Hitler to modify the Weimer constitution without further recourse to parliament, and the French National Assembly’s decision in Vichy in July 1940 to transfer all state powers to Marshall Philippe Pétain.Ermakoff has woven a fabric of many threads—some historical, some methodological, some theoretical—drawn together in complex patterns. His analysis begins by artfully turning what in many books would be a historiographical review of previous work into a deep and thorough consideration of three alternative explanations of abdication.

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