The Achievement of Power by the Nazis in 1933
The Weimar Republic emerged from the defeat in World War One. A war,
which crippled the German Economy. Germany was unstable at this time
and after the formation of the Weimar republic, the constitution
became weak. The economic problems the Weimar Republic faced
accelerated its downfall as the problems stuck those who felt that the
Republic had already betrayed them. The reparations program imposed on
Germany that they did not pay caused the French occupation of the Ruhr
in January 1923, and led to the total collapse of the Germany
currency. The Republic had mainly survived the 20s because of economic
stability. However, the hyperinflation hit the middle-class the worst
wiping out bank accounts and pension funds, this left then traumatised
and confidence in the Republic dropped further. From 24-29 the US
loans from the Dawes Plan was a facade of economic recovery,
short-term loans were being used for long-term investments. Although
it was seen at the time the Republic was at a stage of relative
stability, economic disaster and the death of Stresemann, who had been
a key figure for the Republic in 1929, left the Republic destabilized
once again. Once the Wall Street Crash occurred, any loyalty had been
broken and the Republic was left to suffer its own demise. The Weimar
republic was successful for some time but people always felt
resentment towards the republic due to the Long-term implications of
the First World War and the Treaty of Versailles.
The German people didn't want communism, which was the other option so
they turned to Nazism, as it was the only alternative. People feared
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...itler made an agreement with von Papan on 4
January 1933 to obtain Chancellorship for himself, the end of the
Republic was at hand and a new authoritarian regime had begun.
In the end it was the actions of the people at the top that reinforced
the collapse of popular confidence in the democracy. Together with an
initially weak political system, an economy in slump and the not too
distant memories of the war and Versailles, it was easy for the Nazis
to advertise the benefits of authoritarian government. Even though
there was a short period of relative stability, the onset of
depression brought hidden flaws to the surface again once more.
Democracy was in unreliable hands and the Nazis could offer
competence, certainty and an all-important sense of confidence,
something the Weimar Republic lacked during all of its years.
stuck through it. At the very beginning they could have gave up but they didn?t. They had a plan
their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and
Hitler and the Nazi Party's Total Control Over the Lives of German People from 1933-1945
build up a name for himself, as well as, to get to know people in high
The Fear of Socialism and the Rise to Power of the Nazis in Germany between 1919 and 1933
...t happen even in Hollywood. You don’t have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don’t have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.”
According to en.wikipedia.org and historyplace.cpm, Hitlers rise to power began in Germany when he joined the Nazi party in September, 1919. Deep anger about the first world war and the treaty of Versalies created an underlying bitterness in the German people which Hitlers viciousness and expansionism appealed, so the perty gave him support. He was imprisioned after the 1923 unich Bear hall putsch. The Bear hall putsch resulted in the deaths of four officers. He was sentenced to five years, during that time he wrote Mein Kampf. He was named chancellor on January 30, 1933 by president Paul Van Hidenburg. His rise to power could have ended if the Enabling Act of 1933 was not adopted. The Enabling Act of 1933 meant that Hitler could enact laws and endemocract in Germany. The Nazi party used force to scare the German Governmant into voting for the act. The day the voting for the Nazi troopers gathered outside the opera house, chanting,"Full power or else." under Hitlers rule, Germany was transformed into a racist totlaitarian state which controlled nearly all aspects for everyones life.
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.
...society as she guides them away from the fascist regime and its debris and into a land of social and political freedom. Through this process, revolution brings transcendental transformation. Moore suggests that revolution is a two-step open spiral. From the starting point, society has to go back and destroy the corruption. Once the injustice has disappeared, society can start rebuilding its values and move forward. If the clearing has been done well, there will be no more need of destruction, and society can solely focus on creation. However, to reach such a stage of reconstruction, it is not only necessary to destroy the past but also to understand the value of power, freedom and one's inevitable social and political responsibility. This understanding is crucial as a defensive mechanism since oppressive regimes can only take power from those willing to give it up.
To this day it remains incomprehensible to justify a sensible account for the uprising of the Nazi Movement. It goes without saying that the unexpectedness of a mass genocide carried out for that long must have advanced through brilliant tactics implemented by a strategic leader, with a promising policy. Adolf Hitler, a soldier in the First World War himself represents the intolerant dictator of the Nazi movement, and gains his triumph by arousing Germany from its devastated state following the negative ramifications of the war. Germany, “foolishly gambled away” by communists and Jews according to Hitler in his chronicle Mein Kampf, praises the Nazi Party due to its pact to provide order, racial purity, education, economic stability, and further benefits for the state (Hitler, 2.6). Albert Speer, who worked closely under Hitler reveals in his memoir Inside the Third Reich that the Führer “was tempestuously hailed by his numerous followers,” highlighting the appreciation from the German population in response to his project of rejuvenating their state (Speer, 15). The effectiveness of Hitler’s propaganda clearly served its purpose in distracting the public from suspecting the genuine intentions behind his plan, supported by Albert Camus’ insight in The Plague that the “townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences”(Camus, 37). In this sense “humanists” represent those who perceive all people with virtue and pureness, but the anti-humanist expression in the metaphor shows the blind-sidedness of such German citizens in identifying cruel things in the world, or Hitler. When the corruption within Nazism does receive notice, Hitler at that point given h...
...force of permanent revolution. This revolution requires becoming aware of how much we desire stability, how easily we internalize the domination of others, and how much we believe that we lack the power to act on our own. “You cannot take what you have not been given, and you must not give yourself, You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere (Le Guin 301). Humanity is capable of great harm, even when the larger society doesn't teach harm. With great effort, desire, and positive social models humanity is capable of a cooperative and wholly beneficial social structure, it only takes some revolution.
...se of pride, participated in deviant acts to reward themselves and the company. All of this behavior occurred under a veil of fantasy imagery, so employees neutralized feelings about unethical behavior allowing them to accept and reproduce it. Facilitated by organizational conditions such as the rank-and yank' system and the wider political economy, this unique configuration of ritualized practices contributed to the company's implosion.
In conclusion we can see that revolutions and wars can lead to positive and negative turning points.
The wealth, power, and prestige of the bourgeoisie, acquired mostly from their control of institutions, industries, and means of production, enabled them to force upon the proletariat their economic, political, and religious ideologies. These are the same ideologies "used to maintain certain social relations" (Eagleton 466). These very ideologies are what "make the masses loyal to the very institutions that are the source of their exploitation" (Tischler 16). Once the proletariat ceases to believe in or abide by those ideologies, revolt is inevitable, and the moment it occurs, so does the destruction or alteration of a single controlling and tyrannical power altogether. Thus, it can be said that "the bourgeoisie reign is doomed when economic conditions are ripe and when a working class united by solidarity, aware of its common interests and energized by an appropriate system of ideas, confronts its disunited antagonists" (Rideneir).
.... Moore suggests that revolution is a two-step open spiral. From the starting point, society has to go back and destroy the corruption. Once the injustice disappears, society can start rebuilding its values and move forward. If the staging is efficient, then there will be no more need of destruction, and society can solely focus on creation. However, to reach such a stage of reconstruction, it is not only necessary to destroy the past but also to understand the value of power, freedom and one's inevitable social and political responsibility. This understanding is a crucial defensive mechanism since oppressive regimes can only take power from those willing to give it up.