Albert Speer was with no uncertainty a significant figure and member within the Nationalist Socialist Party who contributed a noteworthy amount to Nazi ideology and practice. His influence however within the Nazi Party grew as time went on holding key positions such as Hitler's architect, Head of German Labour Front and Minister for Armaments and Munitions from 8 February 1942 among other tasks. At this position Speer had substantial power and was also said to be the second most powerful man in the Third Reich after Hitler. In 1934 Speer became the ˜First Architect of the Reich,' before this however he had menial tasks such as renovating the Gauhaus in Berlin and organising a backdrop for the May Day rally at the Templehof airfield in Berlin
Propaganda Under a Dictatorship In this chapter of Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley is providing several reasons as to why Adolph Hitler, the most powerful dictator in history, and his methods were successful in Germany during his “reign”. Huxley clearly took the position that “Hitler was perfectly correct in his estimate of human nature.” Huxley’s points and his stance on the issue are very valid and correct. Huxley does not defend Hitler and his evil doings in the chapter, however, he just claims that Hitler’s methods of complete control of the people was very “smart”. In today’s world, dictatorship is still in Cuba and North Korea. Dictator Puongyang in North Korea used technology and propaganda to “herd-poison” the masses to gain power.
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. This would have made sure people continued to support Hitler even after he was voted in as they would feel a kind of loyalty towards him. However, Propaganda cannot be described as the only crucial factor in the maintenance of power by the Nazis as propaganda alone cannot change an entire countries views. The introduction of new social controls further aided in the Nazi’s maintenance of power. Anti-Nazi judges were removed and replaced by those
The Nazis rose to governmental power through a long, thought-out series of actions that turned Hitler’s leadership into a dictatorship and started the Holocaust and World War II. The origin of the Nazi group was Hitler’s opinion that the German people and the entire world needed a solution to the so-called “Jewish question”; which he preached to young German men everywhere. His belief was that there was need for a pure and elite race, specifically the Aryan race, and he would go to extraordinary lengths in
Eisenhower (1890-1969) Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Force, Europe. "Ike" combined a talent for administration with an affable, yet commanding, personality that eventually placed him in positions of great power and responsibility, including leading the Allied invasion of Europe in 1944. He was the leader of the Ally forces in Europe. • Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) Adolf Hitler was the leader of the German Nazi party and eventually became dictator over all of Germany. Shortly after assuming the title of German führer in 1934, Hitler moved to consolidate his rule by controlling the German people through carefully orchestrated propaganda campaigns.
What contribution did Joseph Goebbels and Leni Riefenstahl make to Nazi propaganda ? Intro Goebbels and Riefenstahl had an immense effect on Nazi propaganda, Although Hitler came to power in 1933 through democratic means he had to avail of many forms of propaganda in order to grip all aspects of peoples lives; Social, Political, Economic and Personal. With the help of Goebbels and Riefenstahl along with other film makers, Hitler found a way to indoctrinate and brainwash most germans into both following and agreeing with his policies, this paved the way for his totalitarian regime, with the help of Goebbels. Goebbles Goebbels was Hitlers Minister for Propaganda, he was definitely one of the most influential people in Nazi Germany as it was up to him to ensure that the nation was gripped by Hitlers cult of personality, which I personally think Goebbels was more than partly responsible for creating. Goebbels used many means in order to create the personality cult which is credited for keeping Hitlers third reich united.
Fascism placed a high value on leadership and elitism. As an ideology Fascism completely rejects equality and believes that in all society there is an elite above the masses and the leader above both of these a common example of this would be in Nazi Germany where Hitler was the Supreme rule “The Fuhrer” and his secret police the SS would be the elite and the masses would be all else with Aryans taking precedence. Therefore within fascism itself the value on leadership and elitism is extremely high. A key element of Fascism is that there is one supreme leader who leads a nation to supremacy, which the masses under both the authority of this leader of under the nationalist spirit usually enforced by the leader through either propaganda or military force. Early fascists theorised about this leader, for example Friedrich Nietzsche was a man who influenced fascism and theorised about an “Ubermensch” which loosely translates to the “superman” who he describes as a man who lives by his own will and morality.
Dulffer argue that holocaust was above all due to Hitler, “but to recognize that this is not to free from blame the hundreds thousands of others who were involved in carrying out the Holocaust”Dulffer. Goldhagen says that "hitlers ideal was broadly shared by germany”goldhagen. The bureaucracy was involved and had massive collaborations with the SS, the civil service, army, and the business corporations. This depressed Jews of their rights and property, isolated them, and killed them. The army was also
The people of Germany faced the harsh reality that life may never end up like it once was, a forerunner in the arts, sciences etc. (end of thinking capacity) but within 3 decades, a man called Hitler managed to turn things around, bring Germany back to a state of pride, so much so that they started believing that they the Aryans were a superior race to all others, a vast difference from the once impoverished world they once lived in evidencing the great change that had taken place. The situation is not unlike one portrayed by George Orwell, who in his novel “Animal Farm” showed a world where the downtrodden animals of the farm are abused, knowing of no other reality than the butcher’s knife and hard work. However, soon after, the animals rebel from their human masters and free themselves. Paying special attention to the pigs of the farm, it could be compared to that of WW1-WW2 Germany.
Nazi Germany can be classed as a Totalitarian State. With Hitler as Fuhrer and his ministers in control of most aspects of German social, political, legal, economical, and cultural life during the years 1933 to 1939, they mastered complete control and dictatorship upon Germany. In a totalitarian state, the party leadership maintains total control over the government. The criteria required for a complete totalitarian regime consist of a one party state, strict ideology, Propaganda, Censorship, Terror, Strong leader, One Party Rule, Economic Control and Extreme Nationalism. Hitler achieved Nazi Germany’s single party state through the various stages of his accession to power.