* In the Nazis party some of the main points of the 25 points Programs were: abolish the treaty of Versailles/ union of Germany and Austria/ true Germans only allowed to live in Germany, no Jews/ industries and businesses to be nationalized/ provision for old pensioners/ to have a strong German government. * By nov 1923, Hitler believed it was time to take over. While the republic was occupied with economic crises and the Ruhr, Hitler hijacked the local government meeting and announced he was taking over the government of Bavaria, he was joined by war hero Ludendorff. Though the next day, the police rounded them up and arrested them. This was known as the Munich putsch.
His self-belief persuaded people to believe in him. However, I do not think it was solely the brilliance of Hitler's leadership which brought the Nazis to Power. The Treaty of Versailles, which was a peace settlement in which the Germans had no choice and were forced to sign after WW1, was an important reason why the Nazis came to power. The German general public were so angry over the Treaty and found it hard to accept the terms of it because it became a symbol of Germany's humiliation and defeat. This made the new Weimar government, who signed the Treaty, extremely unpopular and there was a lot of opposition to the government.
The Nazis felt like this political group was trying to undermine their “people’s community”. Hitler made it very clear that he did not want the communists in his people community when he and the Nazi party realised their 25 point programme of 1920.However the Nazis also portrayed the socialist and any other party of which had taken part in coalition governments during the Weimar republic as they collaborated with communism and Jewish democracy. Hitler wanted to introduce the policy of volksgeminschaft in this case because if he could eliminate the communists and the other parties who were associated as collaborating with them, the Nazis could then get their votes as they had a high amount of supporters, which would mean them having the majority and coming into power. Anybody who the Nazis believed that represented a threat to the racial purity of which Hitler wanted would come under the socialism categories. This included, Jews, gypsies and those who were seen as mentally or physically unfit.
While they were friends, both the USSR and the United States still did not agree with each other in terms of government, but both thought that it was more important to work together fighting against Germany. World War 2 left Germany in tatters, and after this the allies divided it into four parts. One part of the country was given to USA, France, Britain and Russia. Berlin, situated in Eastern Germany, split as well although it was part of the quarter that was made Soviet after World War 2. The USSR and the United States were friends during World War II only because both countries did not approve of Nazi Germany's ideology.
Germany interpreted Russia’s mobilization as virtual equivalent to declaring war, and that meant that in order for the Schlieffen plan to succeed, Germanys army had to attack and defeat France before moving eastwards to fight Russian forces. Germanys plan of taking out France quickly meant that they had to go through neutral Belgium to avoid France’s heavily fortified border defenses. Germany’s decision of going through Belgium led to Britain going in to the war. Historian, Gordon Martell, said that Germany made a bid for power by supporting Austria-Hungary and that Russia and her allies resolved to stop them. Many factors contributed to World War 1 and every country had a share of responsibility.
It became an offence to belong to another Party than the Nazis party. ALL other parties were banned, and their leaders were put in prison. Therefore, from the very beginning of Hitler’s rise to power, he was able to control what people thought. ONLY the Nazis ideology was the right one to get Germany back on its feet, and if only you were German and publicly showed your opposition, you were seen as a factor that would retain German industrial growth. We can see through this how Hitler, from the very beginning of his arrival to power, managed to put his hand over the people’s minds.
The treaty of Versailles in 1919 placed full blame on Germany. Germany was forced to pay reparations for the whole cost of the war. Also included in the treaty were limitations of arms building, the return of Alsace Lorraine and much of the map of Europe was redrawn. Germany felt that they had not lost the war, that it was only a cease fire and the conditions were too harsh on them. At the same time the governments in Russia, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire had collapsed.
The ‘final solution’ of genocide was introduced at the Wannsee Conference of 1942. (Nichols, 2008). Most Historians divide into two schools when interpreting the Holocaust; the intentionalists and structualists. The intentionalists believe that Hitler’s intentions were clearly set out in Mein Kampf, early in his career, and when he came to power he and the Nazi party followed a step-by–step path to fulfilling these plans. Historians, Bracher and Jackel believed the holocaust was a completely intentional act, as Wyman states: “Intentionalism anchored Nazi behaviour in Hitler’s and his cohorts' deeply felt anti-Semitism, which they had formulated well before their ascent to power; once in power, they had put into practice what their intention had been all along.” (Wyman, p.419, 1996) Intentionalists argue everything in the Nazi period, was a deliberate move towards Hitler’s ultimate goals.
Racial segregation was oriented towards keeping the Aryan races away from the passage of the inferior races, which became racial extermination in the later years (Landau, 2006). It was mainly concerned towards attaining National Socialism with an aim of creating a super power of Aryan race in the country. Nazi-people considered Jews as the offensive enemies in sustaining their power and capitalism. There main aim was to develop an entirely new base for the growth of the Aryan race in terms of effective health and power. The political orientation of the leaders was also based on the establishment of authoritarian
Assess the Impact of the Nazi Rule on Germany between 1933 and 1939 “The fate of the Reich depends on me; as long as I live I will think only of victory. I shall annihilate everyone who is opposed to me.” This statement of Adolf Hitler’s clearly indicates his intentions and substantiates the major negative impact he and his political party had on the German nation and its people between 1933 and 1939. Hitler’s chancellorship led to his dictatorship and was used to create a totalitarian state, which required complete subservience to the state and its leader. The Nazi’s introduction of the Nuremburg Laws in 1935 saw the implementation of the Nazi racial policy, and indirectly impacted on the lives of the youth and women living in Germany during this era. Hitler’s intention of having totalitarian control led to all aspects of German life being controlled by the state.