Hitler and the Nazi Party's Total Control Over the Lives of German People from 1933-1945

Hitler and the Nazi Party's Total Control Over the Lives of German People from 1933-1945

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up

because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I

didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade

unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was

a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left

to speak up."

~ Martin Niemoeller

Introduction

During 1933-43, the Nazi party lead by Adolph Hitler has arguably

total control over Germany. This was suggested by the few attempts of

public resistance to Nazi policy, the non-existence of political

groups opposing policies, and the lack of attempts to overthrow the

government. Hitler exerted total control over the lives of the German

people through the restriction of legal rights, propaganda, rewards

and punishment. Propaganda was essential to Nazi Germany; it

influenced the minds of many people but most the youth. The Jews are

an entirely different issue; they represented those of the “non-Aryan”

race and were discriminated against by Anti-Semitism.

Discussion

Politics

Hitler and the Nazi Party exerted control in the restriction of legal

rights. Once Hitler ascertained his position of Chancellor1 through

legitimate means he immediately began to seize total control. A month

after he was sworn into office, the Reichstag building was burnt down.

Hitler blamed the Leftist Groups and the Communist. He pushed through

the legislature the Enabling Act, which gave ...

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...ponents: Leadership, Military Training, Race and Religion.

Race; accentuate the importance of German traditions and the racial

classes with the Jews as the lowest of classes (racist and

anti-Semitism).

13: Unemployment in Germany dropped, from 6million in 1933 to 300,000

in 1939.

14: The first phrase of Anti-Semitism was the boycotting of Jewish

businesses and the burning of books.

15: The second phrase, when the Nuremberg Law was passed, Jews denied

in professional work, the right to learn in universities and schools

gone, forbidden to own property, and marriages forbidden between Jews

and Aryans.

16: Kristallnacht was the next step, on October 27, 18,000 Jews were

expelled from Germany.

17: By the end of 1942, 20,000 people a day were being murdered in

Auschwitz – the most notorious of the camps