Hitler displayed ultranationalism when he put Social Darwinism into action, he was creating a master race. Hitler believed in survival of the fittest; he eliminated people who didn't meet the ethnic idea. Lebensraum and Social Darwinism were both indications of ultranationalism that Germany displayed, that ultimately lead to the cause of the second world war.
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.
This source also shows that terror helped control the Germans and what they said or showed publicly. The amount of art exhibitions that were held during this period in Germany shows how much Goebbels valued art as a source of propaganda, helping me understand why artist were controlled as the one in the cartoon is. The paintings on the wall behind the artist gives an interesting perspective, this is a visual of Hitler being everywhere and that everyone represented him showing that there was no freedom of speech in Nazi Germany. Source F also gives us an understanding of how terror was used in Nazi Germany. Greifelt’s report gives us a primary source of information that Himmler’s personal staff were coercive when getting people to work.
4. The Nazis did utilize slave labor, but the type of slave labor they utilized Jews for was not really meant for production as such, but to further a policy of "Death Through Work." As such, it was very inefficient and tended to be very
The Reichstag Fire led to the Enabling Act because Hitler had managed to convince Hindenburg that it was a ‘communists uprising’. This manages Hitler to prove to Germany that communists were bad people and he would have get more votes, in the next elections. However, I also disagree with the statement ‘the Reichstag Fire more important than the Enabling Act in allowing Hitler to consolidate power’ because of other several reasons. Firstly, the Enabling Act made a Hitler a virtual dictator. Nobody could stop him, even Hindenburg.
Assess the impact of Nazi propaganda, terror and repression on the German people from 1933-1939 The impact of Nazi propaganda, terror and repression of the German people from 1933 – 1939 created a highly effective impact as Propganda and terror were reciprocal functions of the Nazi regime. As both Propaganda worked to indoctrinate the populous, and to those who were dissident, terror became the method of repression to rid the regime of opposition. Paragraph one: Point: The highly effective Impact of Propaganda was due to the way the party was able to integrate Nazi ideology into, just about every facet of German society. Explanation: The state controlled all communication and expression and to define the cultural and social life of the nation it set out constantly to reinforce the ideology of National Socialism so that Germans would accept the philosophy of the party. This is demonstrated heavily through: * Architecture * Radio * Film ( triumph of the will) * Meetings and rallies * Speeches Goebbels, minister for propaganda was appointed in 1929, and the rest of the cabnet drew upon a variety of techniques in establishing a positive and progressive view of the Nazi state, Techniques: * Repetition * Stereotypes * Low intellectual level * Slogans * Appeal to emotion tather than rationality * Subtle, subliminal!
“Assess the view that the collapse of the Weimar Republic was primarily due to the appeal of Hitler and his Nazi party” The Weimar Republic government was riddled with weakness and incompetence in a variety of crucial social, economic and political areas. This caused the influence of the Nazi Party, which through its charismatic and nationalistic leader, Adolf Hitler, it gained a large amount of support. However it was due to the Weimar Republic’s own failings that the Nazi Party became appealing and as a result the Weimar Republic was brought to its inevitable demise in 1933 with Hitler ready to take the reigns. When the Treaty of the Versailles was signed in 1919, the government was making a very unpopular decision amongst the citizens, as it a result lead to the downfall of the Weimar Republic. The Treaty caused humiliation and shock amongst the citizens of the country, much of the political backlash was due to the fact that the Allies were dictating to Germany the harsh terms of the war reparations, which was seen as absurd by many citizens as they did not feel as if they were responsible for starting the war nor did they feel as though they had lost.
The 1950s, in large part due to Rock ‘n’ Roll lit a fire of rebellion in the white youth of America. Rock ‘n’ Roll’s opposition did not realize that the more ardent and violent its treatment against not just rock ‘n’ roll, but African-Americans as well, would create more dissention. Altchuler quotes the Pittsburgh Courier that the resistance to rock ‘n’ roll is “an indirect attack against Negroes, of course, because they invented rock ‘n’ roll and because it has captivated the younger generation of whites that are breaking down dance floors and gutting night clubs…As between Rock ‘n’ Roll…and the chill austerities of white supremacy, we think young white Americans will choose the former with all its implications” (42). Rock ‘n’ Roll opened the emotions of people like never before and challenged the established beliefs of society concerning race,
Therefore for the Nazi leaders, concentration camps served the dual purpose of controlling the majority of the population because of the fear they engendered and also locking away those who crossed the line- a line imposed by the Nazi government. Hitler had no issues with the
The Nazi party now forced to think tactically and with the burning of the Reichstag building through a communist Hitler was able to blame the extremist party for the beginning of a revolution and with President Hindenburg's approval he arrested the ‘enemies of the state’. With this fortunate accident, the ‘missing’ SPD party and the agreement with Zentrum Hitler was able to get his two thirds majority to pass the Enabling Act which entitled him to pass laws without parliamentary approval. Although on the surface Hitler seemed to have a lot of control, this was not complete, due to the fact that President Hindenburg could over rule him and perhaps even terminate him as chancellor. This power, however, led to multiple sudden adjustments to Germany, after becoming a one party state by July 1933, through making the SPD party and all other competitors illegal, he continued to set loose on Germany’s very powerful and threatening trade unions. Trade unions posed a strong threat to the NSDAP due to their power in Germany, considering their support for the SPD and even KPD.