Nazis' Control of Everyday Life in Germany After 1933

Nazis' Control of Everyday Life in Germany After 1933

"How did Nazis get control of everyday life in Germany after 1933?"

the Nazis were increasingly gaining power since Hitler became

chancellor, and their tactics of getting that power and keeping

control was progressing this essay will show just how Hitler and his

followers gained power and control over the country.

There was a time where Hitler decided in 1923 that to gain power of

Germany he must topple over the (no so great) Weimar republic in the

Munich Putsch. But that idea was a shambles, with Nazi storm troopers

'invading' government buildings, which resulted in 16 Nazis being

shot. During this Hitler had run away, later on he was caught and put

on trail and imprisoned for 5 years but with his incredible speech

(which impressed the judge) he was let of lightly with 9 months. After

his time in jail, (in which he wrote his book Mein Kampf) he realised

he should rebuild the Nazi party, he saw the communists building up

their strength through youth organisations and soon the Nazis had the

Hitler Youth Group, this was one of the first steps of control.

After the incident with Gustav Stresemann and the wall street crash, a

lot of people were without jobs and Hitler grabbed his opportunity to

gain some power, and support so he told all unemployed people they

could all have jobs and this made them very happy. He came to please

three other groups of people the ex-service men who Hitler promised a

good pension plan, the industrialists who had been promised that

communists will not come to power or bother them, and the middle class

who had been promised that hyperinflation will not occur again. Here

was a great example of where Hitler gained control of these groups of

people by making them happy and hence they supported him.

Hitler used several other ways of sustaining control one of which was

Propaganda (the media). The media was a very successful way of gaining

control because everyone saw it; this was a very clever idea because