Reliability of 'The Eternal Jew' poster

Source 1 is not reliable based on the depiction of the Jew.
 It is not reliable because the narrator is passing an unfair judgement and being bias towards the Jews by claiming that they cannot be trusted because of their appearance which is changing often.
The source shows a Jew holding gold coins in his hands and looking at it. This action implies that Jews are greedy. Also, the poster's background, is yellow in color. This is an important sign as yellow was not a popular color and Jews were forced to wear yellow hats and belts to identify them easily. These were to make them feel ashamed.  Another sign is the map of Russia and the communists symbol. It is to show that the Communist and Jew had close links with each other. Germans, distrusted the Communist and labelled them as people who were out to cause trouble. With the same comparison to the Jew, it shows that Germans distrusted the Jews. Cross-referencing to Source 2, it states that "no one need be surprised if among our people the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew" - Adolf Hitler Mein Kempf . This backs up source 1 as it is trying to emphasize the negative idea they had about the Jews.  

This source is biased based on the provenance. It is produced by the Nazis and it is their opinion of the Jews. This shows biasness, therefore, it is not reliable.

Our opinion piece about Hitler's rise to power.

Money makes the world go round, and in the case of Germany in 1933, it allowed a certain Adolf Hitler to rise to power.

I disagree with this statement as I feel that besides money issues, Hitler’s own attribute allowed him to rise to power.

When the Weimar Government lost the support of the middleclass, there were debts that had to be paid. Germans had to pay reparations to the Allied Powers. The Weimar Government had to pay it. The printing of money was of inflation, the savings of the Germans became worthless and they became poor overnight. Germans blamed Weimar Government and hated them. Although the economy got better after a while, the Germans still blamed the Weimar Government. By this, the Germans turned to Hitler as he would be able to the support of the middle class and Germans. Thus, Hitler also rose to power by the loss of support of the middle class.

Hitler was also an excellent speaker and charismatic leader. People would listen to him for hours. He seemed to understand their problems and told people what they wanted to hear. By this, people would trust him and have confidence in his leadership. Being an excellent speaker and charismatic leader allowed Hitler to rise to power.

The constitution and system of proportional representation by the Weimar Government had a democratic system of government set up. Germans older than 20 years old could vote. This allowed many parties to gain seats in the government and that no single parties would be dominant. The government only lasted for 2 years and the government keeps changing. This shows that there is no stability in the government. Hitler had advocated a different system of government and people would turn to him as he had a more stabilized system.

How Hitler managed to gain unlimited power.

February 1933 Reichstag fire

Ø      Hitler wanted Nazi Party to gain full control of Reichstag

Ø      Called for fresh elections in 5^th March

Ø      However, Reichstag building caught fire on 27^th Feb

Ø      Nazi blamed communists for the fire, accusing them of wanting to overthrow the gov.

Ø      A young communist confessed to the crime though.

Ø      This gave Hitler a chance as the fire helped Hitler to remove one competition.

Hitler claimed country to be in grave danger, convincing the President to give him Emergency powers.

Ø      To deal with communists threat.

Ø      Arrested Communists and other opponents.

Ø      Civil and political rights = suspended

However, Hitler was not satisfied with this and wanted full control of Reichstag and was determined to control it.

23 March 1933 Enabling Act

Ø      Gave him Dictatorial power for 4 years = absolute power

Ø      Full power to do other things (fully arresting the opponents , outlawed the communists)

Ø      Making him the only decision maker.

Hitler sought to get both of that.

BUT, in order to pass enabling act, he needed 2/3 majority of Reichstag. After arresting the opponents and outlawing the communists, Hitler got his 2/3 majority and gained the enabling act.

Threats to Hitler from within the Nazi party were removed.

Ø      To ensure absolute power , Hitler removed threats from within his own party.

Ø      The SA (formed in 1921, aka the ‘Brownshirts’) helped Hitler to gain loyalty towards Hitler.

INTERVIEWING HITLER

ADOLF HITLER.

AS LUCKY AS WE ARE, WE MANGED TO GET AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW WITH HITLER AFTER HE GAINED POWER IN GERMANY. Hitler promoted and followed the idea of the Führerprinzip. On this principle, he viewed the government structure as a pyramid, with himself the infallible leader at the peak. Hitler's leadership style was to give contradictory orders to his subordinates and to place them into positions where their duties and responsibilities overlapped with those of others. In this way, Hitler fostered distrust, competition, and infighting among his subordinates in order to consolidate and maximise his own power. Here is an excerpt from our conversation.

Q : How do you feel about your victory in the elections ?

A.D : I feel powerful now as everyone would heed me.

Q: Did you run for president?       

A.D : Why should I? I already have lots of power to control the country. I’m a democrat while presidents’ are Republicans.

Q: What do you think about the Treaty of Versailles and The treaty of St Germain? 

A.D: The Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of St Germain are kept alive by Bolshevism in Germany. The Peace Treaty and Bolshevism are two heads of one monster. We must decapitate both.

Q: One of the big issues the nation's capitol is gun control. The Nazis were really into armament, so I know that at least I'll get you on this question.

A.D: Wrong! The Nazi Party strongly supported gun control. In fact if you look at your 1968 Gun Control Act, you can see that it was almost taken line for line from our 1938 Gun Control Law. After all, the State can protect those who merit protection. 

From this interview with Hitler, he have shown his capabilities as a excellent speaker and also a charismatic speaker and many more. He is so powerful and everyone is afraid of him. No one would dare to disobey him. He is not corrupted by all the power in his hands and also have the country's best interest at heart. Germany may also face some good times ahead.

ADOLF HITLER'S EARLY YEARS

Baby Hitler

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), a Catholic, born on April 20 1889 in  Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary. Adolf attended school in nearby Fischlham. After the family moved to Lambach in 1879. Eight-year-old Hitler took singing lessons, sang in the church choir, and even entertained thoughts of becoming a priest. 
       how did this innocent boy turn out to be a very mean person? :O 

Hitler as child

Adolf lived for six months across from a large Benedictine monastery after another family move.By 1900, Hitler's talents as an artist surfaced. He did well enough in school to be eligible for either the university preparatory gymnasium or the technical/scientific Realschule. Because the latter had a course in drawing, Adolf accepted his father's decision to enroll him in the Realschule. He did not do well there. After Adolf's father died in 1903, Adolf suffered from lung infections, and he quit school at the age of 16, partially the result of ill health and partially the result of poor school work.

Teenage Hitler

In 1906, Adolf was permitted to visit Vienna, but he was unable to gain admission to a prestigious art school. Adolf’s mother died on December 21 1907. Hitler spent six years in Vienna, living on a small legacy from his father and an orphan's pension. Hitler was poor in 1909 and struggled to make a living. It was during this period that he developed his prejudices about Jews, his interest in politics, and debating skills.In May 1913, Hitler, seeking to avoid military service. In January, the police came to his door bearing a draft notice from the Austrian government. The document threatened a year in prison and a fine if he was found guilty of leaving his native land with the intent of evading conscription. Hitler was arrested on the spot and taken to the Austrian Consulate. 

When the World War 1 started, Hitler's passions against foreigners, particularly Slavs, were inflamed.  Hitler submitted a petition to enlist in the Bavarian army and after less than two months of training, Hitler's regiment saw its first combat near Ypres, against the British and Belgians. Hitler was badly injured in October 1916 but after recovering and serving a total of four years in the trenches, he was temporarily blinded by a mustard gas attack in Belgium in October 1918.Communist-inspired insurrections shook Germany while Hitler was recovering from his injuries.

Soon after the war, Hitler was recruited to join a military intelligence unit and was assigned to keep tabs on the German Worker's Party.Hitler built up the party, converting it from a de facto discussion group to an actual political party.The turning point of Hitler's mesmerizing oratorical career occurred at one such meeting held on October 16, 1919. Hitler's emotional delivery of an impromptu speech captivated his audience. Through word of mouth, donations poured into the party's coffers, and subsequent mass meetings attracted hundreds of Germans eager to hear the young, forceful and hypnotic leader.Hitler's party benefited by the reaction toGermany to settle a reparations dispute and exploited it by holding mass protest rallies despite a ban on such rallies by the local police.The price of an egg, for example, had inflated to 30 million times its original price in just 10 years. Economic upheaval generally breeds political upheaval, and Germany in the 1920s was no exception when the Nazi party began drawing thousands of new members.

Hitler endorsed the fall of the Weimar Republic, and declared at a public rally on October 30 1923. Hitler held a rally at a Munich beer hall and proclaimed a revolution. The following day, he led 2,000 armed "brown-shirts" in an attempt to take over the Bavarian government.This putsch was resisted and put down by the police, after more than a dozen were killed in the fighting. Hitler suffered a broken and dislocated arm in the melee, was arrested, and was imprisoned at Landsberg. He received a five-year sentence.

Hitler served only nine months of his five-year term. While in prison, he wrote the first volume of Mein Kampf, an autobiographical book. A second volume of Mein Kampf was published in 1927. It included a history of the Nazi party to that time and its program, as well as a primer on how to obtain and retain political power, how to use propaganda and terrorism, and how to build a political organization. While Mein Kampf was crudely written and filled with embarrassing tangents and ramblings, it struck a responsive chord among its target those Germans who believed it was their destiny to dominate the world. The book sold over five million copies by the start of World War II.

Hitler as an adult