In this world, not everything is as good as it seems. Many people in several countries live a lifestyle that is controlled by a cruel leader, that is also known as a dictator. Dictators commonly work with the same type of government that’s classified as totalitarianism. In totalitarianism; the government can control the political, economic, social, intellectual and cultural lives of a country’s citizens. Dictators did not allow individual freedom, ideas of limited government, or more than one political party. Citizen’s bodies and souls were basically owned by someone other than themselves. This awful way of life was a huge deal in Europe after World War I, but even before that Europe was suffering economically and were under tremendous stress. …show more content…
Hitler is one of the most known dictators in history, which of course may not be a virtuous way to be known. Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party and Germany from 1933 to 1945. He had a plentiful amount of people brainwashed by sharing his beliefs about Jews not being convenient Germans. While leading the country, Hitler censored or removed all types of media that criticized Hitler or the Nazi party. According to “Adolf Hitler’s Rise to Power”, “newspapers were controlled, books written by Jews were publicly burned, and film scripts were checked to make sure they didn’t criticize the Nazis.” This was no joke, Hitler wanted everyone to think he and his people were good and the key to a future for the Germans. Of course, if anyone got caught criticizing or disobeying the government, they would get punished. In “Adolf Hitler’s Rise to Power”, the author tells us “SS members imprisoned people who Hitler saw as threats.” The article also states, “People were brutally questioned and sent to concentration camps for criticizing Hitler.” You would think talk crap get smacked but this was something extremely serious and fearful for many people who were against Hitler and his beliefs. People were just as crazy as Hitler during this tragic time. The author of “Adolf Hitler’s Rise to Power” didn’t fail to mention that,” At a Nazi mass rule Rudolf Hess, a leading Nazi official, whipped the crowd into a frenzy by shouting, “Hitler is Germany just as Germany is Hitler. Heil Hitler! Sieg Heil!” That’s crazy to think Hitler, a horrible man who just wanted power, is Germany and he represents their whole country. Although Hitler was a horrific man, he also had his charms. We are informed that “Every time he [Hitler] spoke in person, the audience was spellbound.” Hearing about this may have been a reason on why people were on his side and have us infer Hitler was an excellent
Everything that Hitler did from speeches to drives through town and even Hitler youth events everything was made to be dramatic. Hitler was very successful in making himself and the Nazi party look like they were above the rest of the people and the ones to lead Germany out of struggles and that all faith and pride should be given to him as he is the savior. The ways Hitler were able to gives speeches and, start off slow and yell passionately resonated with the German people and would captivate them. Hitler was a charming man who was able to inspire morale and give the people hope of Germany rising from the embarrassment of World War I. “You do not want to let yourself be morally corrupted by hate and suffering, you just want to remain good-natured, peaceful, amiable, and nice. But how to avoid hate and suffering if you are daily bombarded with things that cause them?” Hitler was able to lead such a campaign by starting off slowly and then building it to the level it got while right in front of everyone. . “There was not one single example of energetic defense, of courage or principle. There was only panic, flight and desertion” (p132). When Germany realized at what had happened it was already to late to stop it. Hitler had successfully brought the Nazis from nothing to a ruling
During the end of the 1930’s, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose into action. Hitler is commonly referenced and linked with World War II, and has become famous for his brutal dictatorship in Germany. Adolf Hitler began the persecution of Jews with the belief that they were insignificant to the human race. Along with Jews, he believed that handicapped, mentally ill, and elderly people did not deserve the right to live. This horrifying genocide killed over 2/3 of the Jewish population in Europe.
Hitler was both feared and loved. After WW1, Germany was in bad shape. When Hitler came and promised the people assured recovery, the Germans could not refuse. Hitler was loved because he brought down the unemployment in Germany from 7 million to only 1 million in 12 months. But Hitler knew how to maintain his leadership; he was feared by his enemies and even his own people sometimes. Any of Hitler’s political opponents would either be commanded to be scared away or killed by the Nazi SS and gestapo (the secret police). This happened on the night of the long knifes where 77 political leaders were executed on the orders of Hitler. At one point, the SA got complete police power and were allowed by Hitler to arrest anyone for anything the saw fit. They would then be allowed to beat the “victims”, and nobody could do anything about it since they were the Police. Continuing with the Gestapo, they were a secret police force commanded by the nazi’s with the sole purpose to hunt those who posed a threat to Germany. With that, their greatest weapon was fear because the whole population believed that the gestapo was everywhere and the german people learned to not trust
Opposition arose within Hitler's own party, and in June of 1934 hundreds were shot and stabbed (an event known as the Night of Long Knives), including General von Schleicher (former chancellor of the Weimar Republic) and his wife, some Catholic leaders, some Socialists, and some that were killed by mistake (Chambers 939). Backed into a corner, the German people had but two choices: They were either with Hitler or against him, and at the time there was no real political alternative. All citizens of the Reich knew if they were not in complete compliance they would be killed, as state-sponsored murder was legalized through a decree on July 3, 1934. & nbsp; Hitler continued on this path of destruction and oppression and prompted WW2 with the invasion of Poland. By this time he had already established extermination camps in Russia, Poland, and Germany.
Before World War II Hitler successfully implemented tactics through propaganda to secure his position as the next German Chancellor. Without using propaganda to increase his popularity Hitler would not have been able to gain the support he needed to gain control of Germany. He manipulated the German people by stating that Germany needs to become united to preserve their freedoms and to keep peace throughout the country. When Hitler was campaigning as a candidate for Chancellor he stated in one of his speeches, “Show tomorrow your firm national unity… Support with me and the Reich Chancellor the principle of equal rights and of peace with honor” (Larson, p. 175). By using a manipulative style of speaking to the public Hitler was able to present himself as one for the people, showing that he prioritized them above everything else. However, this was all a trick to increase Hitler’s popularity so he could eventually become dominant over all aspects of German life. The Nazi Regime achieved this through strategic implementations of propaganda. This desensitized the public into believing Hitler could help Germany in its time of economic and political struggle. A few people were surprised by the amount of propaganda used by the Nazis. One person was a Jewish philologist in Dresden, he noted that, “On every commercial vehicle, post office van, mailman’s bicycle, on every house and shop window, on broad banners, quotations form Hitler are everywhere and al...
The Holocaust was the great plan to make Jews to become instinct and other people that Hitler considered inferior to him. Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany led this great plan from 1933 to 1945. Approximately twelve million people had their lives taken, half being Jews. Everything changed and became impacted all around the world when Hitler took over Germany, he had a strong prejudice against the Jews. His goal was to create the perfect race of human, blonde hair, blue eyed Germans. The soldiers in Hitler’s camp was his followers, the Nazis, which did all of his dirty work for him. There were also many other people that contributed to his massive event. There became different clans and groups of people going out on their own and doing the killing also, not only Jews. For example, the doctors that ran test on people and experimented on the people didn’t care about their patients wellbeing or health
Support for the Nazi party was due to the growing belief that it was a
“We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers’ salaries and take away their right to strike.” Sounds familiar? This quote was said by someone who was a major impact in the 20th century; this is Adolf Hitler the god of Nazi. Adolf Hitler was one of the most unyielding and destructive rulers in all history. In my opinion I think this person is one of the most important or that impacted the 20th century because before and after there was a chaos. Adolf Hitler was the leader of the Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. He initiated the “Holocaust” and the “World War II” and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths. Hitler serves as a
Hitler was a genius but an evil genius. He had the ability to convince millions of German’s of his ideas to extent the power of Germany over Europe, to unite all Germans in a nation and to destroy millions of Jewish people. Even with his disturbing ideas Hitler still fascinates people. How could a man be filled with so much hatred to think that people must be perfect to be of one race? Hitler believed that “the finest thing men could do was to go to war and conquer foreign places. Peace he decided was a bad thing for mankind. It corrupted men and made them soft.” (Shirer, 1961, p. 18)
... its citizens, it could be said that he showed other nations the true powers of Germany, and had he continued to fulfill his mission Germany could have been prosperous. It is only fair to say that people are entitled to their own opinions, but a leader is one who works with others to grow and succeed. As for Adolf Hitler, he not only oppressed and exploited people of Germany, but mentality ruined populations and generations of people as well.
Hitler also used propaganda to manipulate and control public opinion. He believed that the public was afraid to take on more than one enemy at a time (117). Thus it was best to make one enemy and focus on it (117). Hitler chose the Jews as his one enemy, and applied all of his “rules of propaganda” in his assault.
Imagine yourself in a world where you are constantly having to fear not being able to ever be free from this cage that you've been wanting to get out of for so long. Now imagine that suddenly just being your real life and not just a world that was just imagined, it’s almost too unbearable to think about but this happens. The book “Before We Were Free is a good example of that. The books takes place in the Dominican Republic in the 20th century, when the Dictator at the time was Rafael Trujillo, or in other words El Jefe. Dictators are a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force. Till this day there are countries that are still ruled by dictators, for example, North Korea However, having a dictator
For a historian, the 20th century and all the historic events that it encompasses represents a utopia with endless sources of inspiration for the analysis of political figures, events and their consequences. Political figures such as Benito Mussolini of Italy, Adolf Hitler of Germany, Mao Zedong of China and Joseph Stalin of the Soviet Union are all names we are familiar with due to the time period that they influenced; this time period after the trauma and atrocities of World War I and the Great Depression led to completely new forms of government in Europe and beyond. These “manifestations of political evil”, commonly known as totalitarian states, should not be considered as mere extensions of already existing political systems, but rather as completely new forms of government built upon terror and ideological fiction. Therefore, this was also a time in which political philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, the author of the standard work on totalitarianism, “Origins of Totalitarianism”, could thrive. When looking at totalitarianism as a political philosophy, two initial questions have to be dealt with: what is totalitarianism and what kind of effect it had on countries ruled by totalitarian regimes. The reasons for its occurrence have briefly been mentioned above, although there are much deeper ideological, social and economic reasons including imperialism and anti-Semitism. In order to fully understand it, we must also contrast it to other political systems like authoritarianism and dictatorship, which are similar to a certain extent, but lack crucial elements that are in the core of totalitarian ideology. Out of the many examples of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, Nazi Germany, Communist China and the Soviet Union stan...
In the year of 1933 Adolf Hitler seized the position of chancellor of Germany and this power that he received in January 30th is what shaped one of the most bloodlust dictatorships that this world has ever known. Hitler’s desire for power and victory made him one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen but it also made him one of the most cruel and heartless people known to mankind. But how did he do this, how did he become one of the greatest and cruellest dictators? Throughout this essay we will explore the long, short and immediate causes for Hitler’s sudden success.
This is what had made Hitler one of the greatest public speakers that the world had ever seen from his time and in history. "The German people and it 's soldiers work and fight today not for themselves and their own age, but also for many generations to come. A historical task of unique dimensions has been entrusted to us by the Creator that we are now obliged to carry out." Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany, was a very talented spokesman in ways that leaders today could not even begin to compare with. He was charismatic and bold, making it easier for him to win over the minds of many Germans with these two traits. He believed that during his rise to power, he and the people of Germany had been given a duty by God to purify the nation of its imperfect races and weaker people so as to make the mother country strong again for future generations. "Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live." In many ways, Hitler felt he was justified in what he was doing, and in some