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Discrimination against the Jews had always been in the 25 point programme of the Nazi party, and when they came to power, they sought to act on it. In 1933, the first concentration camps were established ...

Failures of the democratic system in Germany. Weimar republic worked on a system of proportional representation. This was a system that led to continuous coalition governments. It was very difficult to ge...

The USSR stands for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and existed from 1922 to 1991. It was made up of unified Russians, Transcaucasians, Ukrainians and Byelorussians

Thanks to his position of General Secretary, Stalin had ultimate control over the party. After Lenin died in 1924, Stalin was in a position to remove all other contenders for leadership. Stalin used burea...

Josef Stalin was born on December 18th, 1878, in Georgia. As a youth, Stalin was a bank robber turned political activist. In 1922, Stalin was appointed to the office of General Secretary of the Communist ...