What do you understand by the term 'totalitarian state'? Illustrate your answer with reference to Germany under Hitler
Date Submitted: 08/13/2003 10:22:30
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 12 pages (3348 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 12 pages (3348 words)
Totalitarianism is characterised by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion, repression and propaganda. The state achieves popularity through a strong, charismatic leader.
To establish whether Hitler's state lives up to this term, different aspects of individual life, political, social and economic need to be analysed and in conclusion, what extent they live up to being a 'totalitarian' state according to this criteria. In addition to …
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… one of totalitarianism.
End Notes
1. The Third Reich, Layton: 80
2. Europe 1890 - 1990, Traynor: 272
3. European dictatorships, Lee: 179
4. The Third Reich, Williamson: 34
5. European Dictatorship, Lee: 181
6. The Third Reich, Williamson: 35
7. The Third Reich, Layton: 82
8. The Third Reich, Williamson: 36
9. Hitler and Nazism, Jenkins: 77
10. Hitler and Nazism, Jenkins: 11
11. The Third Reich, Layton: 56
12. European Dictatorship, Lee: 299
13. The Third Reich, Layton: 58
14.Quoted in Layton: 280
15.Hitler and Nazism, Jenkins: 53
16.Europe 1890-1990, Traynor: 281
17.Hitler and Nazism, Jenkins: 52
18.The Third Reich, Layton: 98
19.Europe 1890-1990, Traynor: 271
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