Explain why Hitler tried to introduce the policy of volksgemeinschaft in Germany in the period of 1933-1939 This was Hitler’s and the Nazis idea of a people’s community. This was put into three categories ideological, biological, and social. Hitler and the Nazis what to remove any ideological threats of which they felt were going to threaten them getting into power. The main group of which Hitler was concerned about in this section was the communists. The Nazis felt like this political group was trying to undermine their “people’s community”.
The use of this rhetorical device allows him to establish his main idea subtly, due to the fact that some of the terms he uses, the German people would not understand. As Hitler goes into detail of explaining what he is going to do, he uses various terms that make the Germans believe he is doing well when in fact it is for a horrible crime. “...to conduct humanitarian warfare – that is, to attack only fighting troops.”(Hitler, Adolf). With this use of euphemism, Hitler is able to conceal that he is going to bomb large places but saying he is only attacking the troops that are fighting. This type of euphemism allows him to influence the German people with what their opinion on the issue is going to be.
A Symbiotic Relationship (Part I) It is common to now relate the Holocaust with the horrors of the concentration camps, where unwelcoming gas chambers and flawed human experiments were nothing more than everyday occurrences. While Hitler’s SS is often associated with these tasks, it would be hard to say that they would have been able to carry out the deeds without the supplies and financial assistance from IG Farben (IG). This is largely in part due to IG’s monopoly on global synthetic gasoline and explosives production. Driven by economic greed or perhaps by compliance, IG supplied the necessary chemicals to effectively wipe out those who Hitler opposed — thanks to collaboration which Otto Armburst, an IG board member, called “a blessing”. IT IS TRUE THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HITLER’S REICH AND IG FARBEN WAS QUITE SYMBIOTIC, BUT TO WHAT EXTENT DID THE TWO PARTIES NEED EACH OTHER FOR SURVIVAL?
Hitler had very strong views about art and so it was heavily censored on racial or political grounds. The Ministry disapproved, for example, of almost all modern art as the Nazis preferred art showing images of perfect German men and women. In the theatre, plays about German history and politics were favoured as long as they reflected Nazi views. Therefore, cheap theatre tickets were available to get Nazi views across. Secondly, and most importantly, the Nazis used Propaganda to strengthen their position once in power by advertising Nazi views everywhere, meaning people would think about them every day, and all the time.
n 1919, Anton Drexler, Gottfried Feder and Dietrich Eckart formed the German Worker's Party (GPW) in Munich. The German Army was worried that it was a left-wing revolutionary group and sent Adolf Hitler, one of its education officers, to spy on the organization. Hitler discovered that the party's political ideas were similar to his own. He approved of Drexler's German nationalism and anti-Semitism but was unimpressed with the way the party was organized. Although there as a spy, Hitler could not restrain himself when a member made a point he disagreed with, and he stood up and made a passionate speech on the subject.
Evans clearly demonstrates the extent of the terror system and this can be used to support the opinion of the total and comprehensive power of the Fuhrer. Furthermore Evans explains how this system was greatly publicised as a method of control so that everyone became fearful of ‘arrest, prosecution and imprisonment in increasingly brutal and violent conditions’. Indeed the terror system was efficiently run by Himmler and from his desk Himmler did control a whole network of spies, torturers, policeman and informers which spread into every town, factory, school and house. This was a result of his overall control of the SS and police. Further evidence to support this view of the totality of Hitler’s power were the key decisions he made, most notably Operation Hummingbird, and his foreign policy decisions, most notable to reoccupy the Rhineland, to form an Anschluss with Austria and to seize Czechoslovakia.
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.
After the war, Goebbels was the reason for the work of propaganda by the German government. He was known to use almost anything for propaganda purposes, such as posters from French and German movies with Jewish stars as examples of the "typical Jew." Even when Germany was falling in 1945 and the Allies told them to surrender, Goebbels used that as a motivational tool to demonstrate that every German needed to fight or face the end. In Conclusion, Joseph Goebbels was apart of a mass hysteria to killing Jews, and he was influence by
Through this title, Damon is almost using a form of scare tactic on his audience. With the dark word of death followed by the powerful, meaningful word of honesty, he makes his audience curious as to what would cause such a thing. This strategy builds on the audience’s fears of losing such a great virtue. In the first paragraph of “The Death of Honesty”, Damon touches on the idea of when being dishonest, or even stretching the truth, is justifiable. He brings up the example that misinforming troopers about the hidden families during the Nazi occupation of Germany was honorable and courageous.
Nazi party used to keep control over Germany was Propaganda and censorship. Josef Goebbels set up the ministry for popular enlightenment and propaganda to control Germany’s media. They used the media aggressively to promote their point of views in Germany. They indoctrinated and brainwashed the German people into believing that their ideas were the future for Germany which was important as it meant there was less resistance to the regime. The Nazis took complete control of the Press, so that all of its content could be strictly regulated to glorify the Nazis.