IB History Quotes for Paper 2
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Hitler Speaking in 1932
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'Our opponents...say that the National Socialists are not German...because they refuse to work with other political parties. So it is typically German to have thirty political parties?'
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Longest & Shortest Reichstag Cabinets
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21 months & 54 days
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Article 48 Weimar Constitution
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'In the event that the public order and security are seriously disturbed or endangered, the reich president may take the measures neccesary for their restoration.'
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Albert Speer Writing in 1931
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'My mother saw a storm trooper parade in the streets of Heidelberg. The sight of discipline in a time of chaos...seems to have won her over.'
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Number Unemployed in november 1932
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6 million
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Historian S Williams, writing in 1986
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'The fact was that...there were simply not enough Germans who believed in democracy and individual freedom to save the Weimar Republic.'
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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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30th of January 1933
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Stalin turned 50 as the leader of Russia
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December of 1929
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Stalin in 1931
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'We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years...or we shall be crushed.'
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Production of steel at the end of the second five year plan
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Had more than quadrupled.
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% of Nazi vote that was middle class
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61%
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V Kravchenko, former communist, writing in 1947
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'It was like a scene out of a nightmare...so this was the 'liquidation of the kulaks as a class!' A lot of simple peasants being...shipped to some distant labor camps.'
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L Kopelev, involved in implementing collectivisation
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'I firmly believed that the ends justified the means...'
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British Diplomat Fitzroy Maclean on the show trials
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'The Prisoners were charged...with every concievable crime...one after another, using the same words, they admitted their guilt...'
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Number of people sent to labour camps by 1937
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18 million
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Members of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik party of 1917 remaining in 1937
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Only Stalin
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Historian R Conquest on The Great Purges
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'It led him to absolute power...'
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American novellist John Steinbeck on the Cult of personality, writing in 1947
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'We doubt whether Ceaser Augustus enjoyed...the prestige, the worship and the godlike power over the people of which Stalin disposes.'
