Maia Stack's List: Hitler Project

• totalitarian states where  all channels of communication are controlled by the government.

  • Totalitarian definition
• Fascist Germany illustrates how propaganda is used  both to bring a dictator into power and to aid him in maintaining  that power.

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• weakened opposition  through terrorism
• Suppression of opposition
• conditions under  which German Fascism was established

  • German Fascism Introduction
• "Socialism" was  a Glittering Generality

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• scapegoat
• propaganda, to be effective, must be keyed to the desires,  hopes, hatreds, loves, fears, and prejudices of the people
• analyzed  under the seven common propaganda devices suggested in the November  letter of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis.

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• affects ordinary clothes, wears no medals  other than his simple Iron Cross, eats plain food and that sparingly,  and leads a quiet, secluded life. He is pictured as a man of  the people meeting plain Folks in their ordinary walks of life,  enjoying with them their simple work and pleasures. B

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• Fascism is the outcome of economic and politicalinstability

• Germany to purify  itself of Jews and other "undesirables," expand the German  national community by incorporating German-speaking peoples of  neighboring countries, and create Lebensraum
• Nazism appealed to discontented Germans because of its nationalistic  call for Germanic unity, its racial beliefs, its anti-communism, and its  efficient organization and charismatic leadership.

• appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933
• title Fuhrer
• almost total absence of any criticism of Hitler
• German view of Hitler's actions as highly moral shows the degree to which a personality cult existed around Hitler
• simple, straightforward language t
• . He speaks his heart, and therefore reaches the hearts of those who hear him.
• Artistic representations of Hitler also furthered the personality cult.

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• -fame, love, and time.
• garners: granaries or storehouses for grain.
• romance
• fear of dying young
• resolves his fears
• fertile his imagination
• imagery of the harvest
• fulfillment in time
• culmination
• paradox
• material he could transform into poetry
• beloved is short-lived just as, by implication, love i
• itself parallels the
• idea of little time
• repetition of "when"
• two qualities to love
• fairies are not real
• emotion rather than thought
•   Reflecting upon his feelings,
• shore is a point of contact

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• The Italian sonnet "Mezzo Cammin" borrows its title from the opening line of Dante’s Inferno, which Longfellow himself translated as "Midway upon the journey of our life." Both poets use this metaphor to describe the age of thirty-five, the halfway point in the Bible's allotted span of human life, "three-score years and ten." In "Mezzo Cammin," Longfellow grieves not only for his first wife's death — "sorrow, and a care that almost killed" — but also for his failure to achieve his literary ambitions. Eighteen years after his second wife's shocking death, Longfellow's anguish remains fresh in the sonnet titled "The Cross of Snow." Despite the enormous popularity of this first poet-professor of the nineteenth century, these two posthumously published sonnets suggest the intensely private life he kept inside, as he once expressed in a letter: "With me, all deep feelings are silent ones.