This propaganda continued even once they had won the election. Furthermore, once the Nazi’s had gained power, they began to push anti-Jew and other very racist and fascist propaganda on the people of Germany. Hitler was shown in newspapers and presented on the radio as a strong and just leader; with the Jews being represented as evil. Propaganda was therefore crucial to the maintenance of power by the Nazis as it meant when they began their attack on the Jews, they had the support of their people. Furthermore, it can be argued that propaganda was crucial to the maintenance of power by the Nazis as they portrayed Hitler as powerful and showed him to be good for the country, making sure people continued to show support for the Nazis and it portrayed Hitler as above all party politicking and as a figure for national focus and loyalty.
Liebenfels stressed the superiority of the Germans, the inevitability of racial conflict and the inferiority of the Jews. The master race, by its very nature, had to grow. Selective breeding and the systematic sterilization of inferior races was the answer. (Sherman, 718) When war broke out in 1914, Hitler believed he had found salvation. (Sherman, 719) The struggle and discipline of war gave meaning to Hitler's life.
Body: The Nazi Volksgemeinschaft (people’s community) the base concept of Nazi society. Hitler claimed that Nazism was more than a political ideology; its aim was to deeply change German society. Nazism rejected socialism, liberalism and Christianity replacing it by the Volksgemeinschaft. The main goal of Volksgemeinschaft was to replace old German society characterized by the division of class, religion and politics and to create a society in which would bring people to work together. This was based on three key ideas: one pure race which was central in Nazi ideology, Nationalism: Hitler’s goal was to create a strong Empire (Reich), centered on the pure German race (Aryan) a territorial extensions conquering Poland, Ukraine and Russia.
The Depression which began in 1929 was a great mean for Hitler to come to his power. During the Depression (1929-33), the Weimar Republic was seriously undermined by the social and economic conditions, which were also exploited by the Nazi Party. The Nazi ideologies appealed to those people who had seen no hope on the Republic. The Party promised people jobs, money, and homes, plus, they also wanted to abolish the Treaty of Versailles so there wouldn’t be huge reparations. That’s what German people want; they liked to be reminded of the humiliation caused by the War, and they wanted to get it back from the Republic.
It is believed that Adolf Hitler had put a tremendous amount of blame on the Jewish population for the losses of World War I and embarrassment that wouled ensue Germany afterwards. Becoming the juggernaut nation in it’s way up, the United States had the ability to protect the Jewish population of America in 1938, but Franklin D. Roosevelt felt that World War I was still too close in history that he felt it was best to not be involved quite yet. Policy in The United States prohibited many Jewish citizens from becoming a U.S citizen. Franklin D. Rooseevelt’s regulations also affected the U.S citizens and the immigration dilemma that was about toi happen before Hitler’s actions came into play. The United States was not at a stable point in time having just started to come out of the Great Depression of
Why was Nazi Germany anti-Semitic and what was the government’s “final solution”? Anti-Semitism is prejudice against, or hostility towards Jews. Holocaust refers to the complete burning of a substance by flame and describes the final solution reaching in Germany in 1942 to exterminate the Jewish race. So far as many Germans were concerned, Hitler had revived the economy, restored national pride and improved their lives. They believed they belonged to a Volksgenmeinschaft that proved for their needs and to which they owed their obedience.
The 1919 treaty of Versailles required Germany to pay war reperation to France. These reperations made the people of Germany angry at the treaty and Hitler was able to manipulate and use this by promising not to pay them thereby gaining popularity. Another factor of the treaty of Versailles is the war guilt cause. This required Germany to take full responsibility for world war 1. Hitler instead blamed many others, mainly the Wemiar and the Jews, this also gained popularity with the people of Germany.
Along with supporting their claim for a “Great Germany”, this revanchism would allow for the necessary lebensraum (living space) for all Germans. Another point in the Nazi’s ideology was their anti-Communism. Communism was a main factor at the time and the spread of a Bolshevik Communism was feared especially by businessmen and the right wing, which lead to their support of the Nazi party who aimed to keep Communism at bay. After
Social Darwinism is the application of the Darwinian theory of the survival of the fittest to the human race. Nazi Germanys racially based social policies believed that the Aryan race could be purified by eliminating, by way of sterilization and euthanasia, those social groups that were seen as “undesirable”, this not only included Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals but the mentally handicapped and criminals. At first Germany did not support the games. However, during the international build up to the games the Nazis realised the propaganda value of the Games to promote their concept of the supper race of Aryans. Massive displays of callisthenics and gymnastics by German youths,(as seen in text book page 162) were used to gain the
The Nazi gained support mainly because of the growing economic crisis. Hitler managed to gain his support by imposing his ideology on the German people. Hitler had clearly outlined goals for the country such as building a classless society, removing non-Nazi influences and shaping the attitude of Germany to be consistent with his goals. Hitler’s aims with the youth population were to indoctrinate them with Nazi ideology and to embed within them a sense of loyalty and willingness to sacrifice for the greater good of Germany. Hitler managed to gain 95% loyalty to his government from the youth as they were successfully brainwashed from a young age.