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.
Totalitarianism from Total Domination In the essay “Total Domination,” written by Hannah Arendt; she discusses Nazism in the form totalitarianism as “True Terror”. If not for the survivors of the cruel brutality of totalitarian states, it would almost be impossible to believe it ever happened. What is Totalitarianism? Totalitarianism is a form of government in our political system, which gives absolute power to one ruler (dictator) who cannot be restricted by any type of constitution or law. The rise of totalitarianism governments started before WWII, but after the Great Depression when fascism became an ideology of society.
Hitler targeted 10-18 years as he saw these as the future of Germany, this importance of this system is shown with the quote “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future”. Hitler was clearly intent on ensuring the Nazi regime lasted and therefore targeted the young. The Hitler Youth focused on things such as Nazi heroes, the Jewish threat and the greatness of the Fuhrer. Despite the Hitler Youth aiming to restrict opposition, opposition grew with groups such as the swing movement who boycotted and later attacked the Hitler Youth. This showed that, the aims of the social policy, creation of the 1000 year Reich would prove more difficult than Hitler first thought.
When did Hitler plan the holocaust? James Allison Introduction The holocaust – arguments – we can’t be certain, because no proof from Hitler. The holocaust was mass-extermination of Jews. Some believe Hitler decided to do this and was a plan from the beginning, when he first came into power over Germany. This is called Intentionalist.
* He believed Germans belonged to the master race. (Aryan race) * He called the men who signed the Versailles Treaty traitors – November criminals * Hitler wanted to build a Third Reich and to expand Germany’s territories eastward to create living space lebensraum. * He wanted all Germans to be united in one country. Hitler comes to power After the 1st world war, Germany had a democratic government (Weimar republic). But Germans blamed it for signing the Versailles treaty and for hunger and unemployment.
Topic: What kinds of techniques were successfully employed by Adolf Hitler to establish a dictatorship in Germany? Discuss the Nazi Party’s use of legislation, terror, propaganda, racism and trade unions. The Nazi Party, led by Adolf Hitler, employed a number of techniques to form a dictatorship in Germany. These included propaganda, terror and racism, all of which had a definitive purpose and helped the Nazi Party to not only come to power, but to then rule with an iron fist over State affairs. “Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on the memory of the crowd.” Adolf Hitler said this sentence in his notorious book, Mein Kampf, which translates to ‘My Struggle’.
Hitler was a megalomaniac and should be characterised as a passionate lunatic who had a plan for the future of Germany. It’s given as a proof in two sources that there was indeed a probability of Hitler being a passionate lunatic. He had the power of persuasion which he used quite effectively. It’s given in a source that Hitler was drunken by “racist ideas at the core of his beliefs”. He set up his first concentration camp in Germany in 1933 soon after he came into power.
Hitler’s Social Policy To what extent did Nazi policies affect German society 1933 – 1945? Intro: Hitler as a political figure as well as a leader proposed and then imposed a deep change of German’s society. One of the reasons that his message resonated was probably caused by the deep problems Germany was having due to the unfavorable settlement of WWI (Treaty of Versailles, 28th June 1919) as well as the devastating effect of the 1929 recession. With a young and non-established democracy, Germany was shaken. In the face of these deep troubles Hitler proposed to regenerate the country through significant changes.
The police, helped by the SS and the Gestapo, tried to prevent all open opposition to the regime. (Lowe, 2005) Hitler ordered the SS to murder suspected SA officers on the Night of the Long Knives on June 13 1934 to ensure his absolute control of the party. The judges of the courts were Nazis, and they were not fair and impartial to the trials. Hitler’s opponents, mainly comprised Communists, Social Democrats, Catholic priests and Protestant pastors were arrested by the Gestapo and many of them were sent to concentration camps. In Nazi Germany the police were allowed to arrest anyone they suspected to be a threat to the party and anyone who openly opposed Nazi in public would be tortured, even to death.
Hitler managed to gain 95% loyalty to his government from the youth as they were successfully brainwashed from a young age. Hitler imposed the concept of Nazifying education in Germany. This included controlling the teachers, politicizing the curriculum to reflect Nazi ideology, controlling textbooks, promoting the future Aryan race and focusing on domestic work for girls. Hitler’s use of Nazifying via education was successful as it was an effective way of spreading Nazism. However, he created ignorant individuals who were dependent on Nazi ideology.