The Success of the Nazi Party
The Nazi Party's leadership encompassed many aspects. Not least of
those was the use of fear and terror. Helping control the populace and
ensuring they remained subdued was a key factor in Nazi success.
However other factors were involved such as Hitler's economic policies
and foreign policy. Hence, how important was the use of fear and
terror to the Nazi Party's survival.
Fear and terror in Nazi Germany was a wide ranging policy. Many
different forces were required to maintain order amongst the often
dissenting masses. The SA [Stormabteilung] were the first of such
groups. Formed early in Hitler's political campaign, the SA were used
before he came to power to siege opposition party meetings and brawl
with the other paramilitary groups. The SA grew in strength to over
half a million men by the time Hitler's regime was in full swing in
the mid 1930's and with their new found strength came increased power,
and the desire for more. Thus, in 1934, the Night of the Long Knives
began. That fateful night saw Ernst Rohm - leader of the SA - and
other high ranking SA officials gunned down by squads of SA men
dispatched by Hitler himself. This came as a direct result of Rohm
wisihing for control over the Army [Reichswehr] as well as the SA.
Hitler felt with the Army and SA he could mount a realistic threat to
his dominance as leader so with typical bluntness, Rohm was removed.
Left with no protection force, the SS was born out of necessity. The
brainchild of Bavarian Minister Heinrich Himmler, the SS was Hitler's
new bodyguard and paramilitary arm of the state. Membership was not as
simplistic as the SA, ...
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...the German retaliation for the murder of a
German by a Jew - ended with 100 synagogues burned to the ground and
over 1,000 Jews arrested. Prior to this, Jews had been also been
forced out of the civil service and the professions such as doctors,
lawyers and teaching.The education system was rapidly changing towards
anti-semitism also. Jewish children were sent to the front of the
class where they were ridiculed by their classmates and later into
Hitler's reign they were forced out of the system altogether into
privately run schools with no assistance from the state.
The 1000-year Reich Hitler was building had so far focused on the
current generation of workers and civilians. However, for this to last
Hitler had to indoctrinate the new generation. With the Hitler Youth
and League of German Maidens, Hitler set to this.
How the Nazis Gained and Maintained Power in Germany Why did no one succeed in stopping Hitler? * 37% of votes in July * Higher than any other party * Good reason for Hitler to take control and power * Hitler had learnt the only way to achieve real power was through democracy thanks to the Munich Putsch. * Hitler established a secure position very quickly once he came to power * Papen and the other Weimar politicians believed that the constitution would stop revolutionary movements. Hitler turned down the position of vice-chancellor, good move, he. wanted to become the chancellor, which would give him far more power.
1934. By the end of 1935, GNP in real terms had reached the level of
"Account for the changing political fortunes of the Nazi Party from November, 1923 until January, 1933."
The Wall Street Crash and the Recession in Germany Were the Salvation of the Nazi Party
In 1934, during the night of the long knives, Hitler was able to destroy the SR and gain support from the army that further consolidated his position.
Overall, Hitler and the Nazi party were able to politically pursued people into joining the political party. They were a convincingly stable economic party with claims that they were able to put onto other people, which promoted his anti-Semitic society. He was able to take control of learning systems and made sure that all forms of education, art, and intellectual ideals supported him. Because of Adolf Hitler’s ability to manipulate words and turn them into striking action, the Nazi party was able to grow with immense strength, dauntingly fast.
The SS was started four years after Hitler became the leader of the Nazi party. It started off as a small group to personally guard Hitler and other Nazi officials. The SS later started to gain popularity and members when Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler to be commander of the SS. Himmler wanted to separate the SS from the SA (Hitler’s original guards) and make them a larger and more powerful elite group of guards. By 1932, Himmler had built up the SS to thousands of members. When Hitler became chancellor of Germany in 1933, the SS grew to over 50,000 members. That year, Hitler announced the opening of the first concentration camp for anyone who opposed Nazi’s. By the start of World War II, the SS had more than 250,000 members. At this point, Himmler established the Waffen SS. The Waffen SS were troops that specialized in brutalizing and murdering people in th...
The Success of the Nazi Party I disagree with this statement, as I believe that there were many other factors that helped the Nazi party. In the background the hatred of the treaty of Versailles, desire to return to a Kaiser figure and the weakness of the Weimar government definitely helped the Nazis gain support from the German people. After the Wall Street crash when Hitler started using article 48 more was when He really started to gain power. The hatred of the treaty of Versailles was very important.
The Nazi party affected many people around the world through both the Holocaust and World War II. Hitler had a plan to exterminate all the Jews, and propelled this idea through the Holocaust putting Jews in concentration camps and killing them. Hitler's evil plan caused one of the world's biggest tragedies, World War II.
The Nazi Party, controlled by Adolf Hitler, ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945. In 1933, Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany and the Nazi government began to take over. Hitler became a very influential speaker and attracted new members to his party by blaming Jews for Germany’s problems and developed a concept of a “master race.” The Nazis believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that the Jewish people were a threat to the German racial community and also targeted other groups because of their “perceived racial inferiority” such as Gypsies, disabled persons, Polish people and Russians as well as many others. In 1938, Jewish people were banned from public places in Germany and many were sent to concentration camps where they were either murdered or forced to work. Many individuals and groups attempted to resist Nazism in Germany, but were unsuccessful. The White Rose, The Red Orchestra and the Kreisau Circle all advocated non-violent resistance to oppose the Nazi regime and even with the high risk of getting caught and potentially killed, the courageous members of these groups went after what they believed was right despite the serious consequences.
The Nazis are infamous for their heavy use of propaganda during their reign in the Third Reich, they used many means of propaganda such as posters, cartoons, radio, film, etc. The German citizens’ constant exposure to all of this propaganda from all directions had a deep psychological and psychoanalytical impact on them, it redefined their identity and who they were as well as what they thought of the world around them. Nazi propaganda often had deep symbolic meaning usually associated with anti-semitism and German nationalism, these elements were already present in the minds of the majority of Germans so it wasn’t hard for Adolf Hitler and the rest of the Nazi party to further provoke and enrage the emotions of people concerning these things, they merely had to tap into these pre disposed emotions in a way that would have the most favourable psychological impact for the Nazis. Some of the opinions and mindsets that German citizens had may have been there even before the Nazis came into power and made it seemed like they were brainwashing people with their propaganda, but with what justification can it be said that Nazi propaganda had a psychological and psychoanalytic impact on the German population to a great extent, rather than it being the work of pre set psychological states of mind of people due to the Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression, Hyperinflation, and other sources which may have led the German population to support and hold anti-semitistic and nationalistic ideologies.
The Schutzstaffel or SS was created in 1925 by the Nazi party to protect Adolf Hitler and other important Nazi leaders. Heinrich Himmler was appointed leader of the SS by Hitler in 1929. The SS were racial elites with profound loyalty to Hitler and the promotion of Germany. (SS, 2013) In order to become a member of the SS all candidates had to endure selections based on their racial ancestry and support of the Nazi party. In Nazi Germany the SS was responsible for security identification of ethnicity, settlement and population policy and intelligent collection and analysis. (SS, 2013) They also were responsible for the concentration camp system and police forces. In 1939 the SS assumed the responsibility for “solving” the Jewish Question. (SS And The Holocaust, 2013) In the imminent invasion of the Soviet Union Hitler ordered the SS implementation of settlement plans and population policy in conquered Soviet territories. Special SS Einsatzgrupp...
The Night of Long Knives, one of most noteworthy events during Hitler’s rule, was a purge that occurred on the 30th June 1934. Hitler ordered the murders of conspicuous Conservative anti-Nazis such as Kurt Von Schleicher and Gustav Ritter von Kahr, Left wing Nazis such as Gregor Strasser and many members of the SA including its leader Ernst Rohm. It could be claimed that the murders were significant as they ended a possible takeover by the SA, deterred and intimidated Conservative critics while gaining their support, saw the rise of the SS, introduced terror and dictatorship into mainstream life and reassured the elites and the army.
The Rise of the Nazi Party Hitler’s rise to power was the result of many factors, but Hitler’s ability to take advantage of Germany’s poor leadership and economic and political conditions was the most significant factor. His ability to manipulate the media and the German public whilst taking advantage of Germany’s poor leadership resulted in both the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. During the early 1920s, Germany was struggling with economic instability and political uncertainty. Germany, after being defeated in the Great War, was forced to sign the unforgiving treaty of Versailles, which the Weimar Republic was held responsible for. This brought forward feelings of fear, anger and insecurity towards the Weimar Republic.
The first of which is the drive for a single race Germany. Most of the