How did Nazis control the people through the use of concentration camps, rallies and glorification of Hitler? How was each of these means used to control German society and secure Hitler’s position and power?
While he dictated, the culture of Germany was changed. Hitler wanted to make the population all think and be one certain way. To make this happen he made, “ Musical performances, movies, and other cultural public activities...all meant to make German’s brains exactly like the Nazi, eliminating any other thought of anti-government”(1). By controlling what people watched and read, Hitler brainwashed Germans to think positively of him and the Nazi’s. The population was not able to freely read or watch any sort of literature or other arts. Hitler also changed the religious culture in many parts of Europe. One of Hitler’s main goals while in office was to eliminate the jewish and any other non-aryan people. In the process, Hitler made The Nuremberg Laws. Adolf Hitler, “implemented these laws to ostracize, discriminate and expel Jews from German society” (3) Diverse culture was rejected. Physically, the people of Germany, mostly jews, were affected because of Hitler trying to make the population one master race. He believed aryans were this “master race” as he believed the grew to have good health strength and overall, good characteristics unlike Jews
In January 1933, a man who had several failures in his life rose to power in Germany. That man was known as Adolf Hitler. A man with strong leadership skills and an even stronger ability to speak. He felt that Jews were the main problem and he wanted them exterminated. So Hitler made that his Final Solution and gave speeches about it. His speeches gained him and his party more and more followers. Nazi propaganda was very effective because it made Germans out to be the higher race and made Hitler out to be their Savior.
The Third Reich, referring to Hitler’s reign and Germany being under Nazi rule between the years 1933-1945, is often referred to as a totalitarian state. A totalitarian state is a system of government in which all power is centralized and does not allow any rival authorities, and the state controls every corner of individual lives with absolute power. Nazi Germany has been referred to as an excellent example of this type of government. This essay will analyse five aspects of Nazi Germany to determine whether it truly exhibited the totalitarian style of government.
From here Hitler slowly expanded his power in the government while his supporters formed paramilitary groups like the Schutzstaffel who fought protesters in the streets and helped raise hatred toward Communism and only Hitler could save the country. In 1933 a worker set fire to the parliament building and hitler convinced them to grant him emergency powers. Within a matter of months the freedom of the press was abolished. Hitler's close associates like Joseph Goebbels were in charge of propaganda which was used to paint Hitler as a great Samaritan who was helping Germany back on its feet. Which Hitler did do, lowering the unemployment from nearly 6 million to 1 million. However this did raise the standard of living considering that they were all still being payed the same amount of marks. Most of these jobs came from the rapid militarization of Nazi Germany.Hitler held an omnipotent power during this time as expressed himself as the true embodiment of expression of the German people. He took away civil liberties and on the evening of May 10, 1933, some 70,000 people gathered at the Opernplatz in Berlin. Students carted over 20,000 books to the public square, including works by famous German authors like Heinrich Mann, Erich Maria Remarque and Joachim Ringelnatz to be burned in a cultural incineration. Hitler began to erase the history of a failed Germany and instilled a new one, one where Germany could've won the Great War and began to teach a racial science where the Aryans were the master race. Even going as far as insinuating Jesus as an Aryan man and not of Jewish descent, he repressed religion such as the Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church. In public schools religious instruction held back and omitted the Jewish origin
“To be a leader means to be able to move masses” (Adolf Hitler). The quote epitomizes both the Nazi party in Germany and the World State in the novel ‘Brave New World’. The Nazi’s and World state exercised propaganda to gain dictatorship and control over their people. It is not difficult for one man or society to dictate millions with the help of advanced technology and propaganda techniques. The propaganda techniques like card stacking, glittering generalities, and plain folks are used in the propaganda of the Nazi party(Adolf Hitler) and the World State . In World War ll, the venomous Adolf Hitler used modern technology to generate fear and distress to humanity. As a result, Hitler brainwashed his people of following his beliefs; which included
There was a horrific event that lasted twelve years. This event was fueled by hate for an entire group of people. For twelve long years six million Jewish men, women, and children were hunted down and killed. This event is known as the Holocaust and to prevent something as horrific as this we must research and study the Holocaust.
When a person is murdered, or hurt an investigation happens. This usually leads to a murderer, and accomplice. This murderer goes on trial and is either found guilty or not guilty. During the time period of January 30, 1933 to May 8, 1945 a mass murder happened of about 11 million people in Germany. This has become known as the Holocaust. 11 million people were murdered, from babies to adults and the people who had it the worse were the Jews. As when someone is murdered there is always someone responsible for the action. For the murders during the Holocaust there were many people responsible. Whether they had direct action or indirect action, many groups of people were still responsible. Although many groups were
One of the biggest hate crimes that happened in the world was the Holocaust killing 11 million people. A hate crime is a crime towards a specific group of people usually because of their sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, and race are some reasons people commit hate crime. Adolf Hitler was the mastermind behind the holocaust convincing people that the German race was the superior race. Hitler told people that all there problems came from the Jewish, Gays, and Gypsies. Hitler’s speeches convinced people that they were the main cause of all the problems happening in their country. He then convinced everyone through powerful speeches that only Germans should be alive because they were the “perfect race” according
With his leadership powers “weakened” it is believed that “those who were responsible for the Holocaust’s initiation (namely other high-ranking officials within the Nazi Party) acted independently of Hitler” (Draper, 1999, p.14). This also brings into light the term ‘Cumulative radicalization’. Using cumulative radicalization is an easy way of explaining how over time, the Nazis persuaded many of the German people to take ever more extreme positions against Jews, and other persecuted groups, until the Holocaust became possible. It is also stated in the article ‘Law, justice, and Holocaust”, “less known are the contributions of “ordinary” people—doctors, lawyers, teachers, civil servants, officers, and other professionals throughout German society—whose individual actions, when taken together, resulted in dire consequences. Put simply, the Holocaust could not have happened without them”. These are also strong, examples to how Hitler could not be given the sole responsibility of the development of the Holocaust, but even the citizens of Germany played a
The name Adolf Hitler is associated with an image of a madman in command; a man of incomprehensible “evil” who was responsible for the unimaginable suffering and death of millions of innocent people. When the German people were celebrating Hitler’s Birthday, a man in a Nazi uniform delivered a speech, ‘“The immoral! The Kommunisten!” … “Die Juden—the Jews!” (Zusak, p. 33) This quote shows that he captivated and changed people’s perspective about the Jews, and the Communists that made them the unwanted people and destroyed their lives. Words were the only thing he had to become powerful and to promise that he would remake Germany into a world power that would dominate Europe for the benefit of the German
“The Jewish quarter was surrounded by barbed wire and later closed off with a 10foot high, 11mile long brick wall, which established the Warsaw ghetto. A 24 member Jewish Council, created by the Nazis and known as the Judenräte, maintained order and was the administrative link between the Jews and the Nazi Occupiers”(Warsaw Ghetto Uprising). An uprising that lasted five months by the Jewish people was turned around when Nazis bombed the ghetto and demolished synagogues in WWII. They moved in 150,000 Jews and established the Warsaw Ghetto. Over the next couple years it became cramped and many of the people died of starvation, disease, and extermination. Many Jews were also transported to death camps which was Hitler’s final solution. A Jewish
Over the last few months i have been reading and studying eyewitness accounts from the seven different Genocides we studied in class, those Genocides are the Armenian, the Holocaust, Holodomor, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and the last one we will be studying Darfur. Along with the Genocides we also learned about the eight stages of genocide which are classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, and denial. These eyewitness accounts and survivor accounts are telling the stories and how the genocides really happened with no sugar coats abou them. The shocking truths about the genocides will tell you about how similar the seven genocides really are and just the little things that made them
On January 30, 1933, darkness roamed all over in Germany. The world’s massive genocide occurred: the Holocaust. The Holocaust, led by the great Nazi party, frightened the sight of many people. Although, many events contributed towards the Holocaust, the Nazis prejudice ways, powerful government, and persuasive mouths lead to the Holocaust because persuasion by the powerful Nazi regime created enmity in Germany, towards the people that the Nazis disregarded.
After Hitler took a power in Germany, he managed to consolidate his power using his economy policy, gathered destitute Germans together, but also using the propaganda, increasing the support towards him. This increasing mass of supports towards him due to his policy that had increased the employment in a tremendous amount and the use of propaganda that had spread his belief and convinced Germans. However, despite these successful economic policy, the fund raised was purely concentrated on rearmament and still the autarky was not achieved, and his economy policy was just for the violation of Treaty of Versailles. Still, Hitler’s decisions in