“Life for most people in Germany improved under Nazi rule between 1933 and 1939”.
Before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1934 a lot of chaos occurred which made his fight to come into power stronger. The key events that happened before Hitler was in power were the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression. The Treaty of Versailles impacted Germany as they suffered large territorial losses and also had to pay 6.6 million Euros to the Allies. The Great Depression was a long and extensive economic crisis that affected most of the developed nation in 1930’s. Hitler promised many things if he was chancellor, he promised the workers jobs and security, employers’ profits and prosperity, the farmer’s higher price for their food and to smash the
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The concept of a totalitarian state as established by the Nazi’s, is having a dictatorship, only one ruling party. Propaganda was forced into many areas of life, such as media/ government, speeches/ education, military, development of a nationalist party and also targeting a pacific region. The Nazi Party created a totalitarian state in 1939. Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and he also joined the Nazi Party when it was first created, he became the leader in 1921. On the 1st of August 1936, the Olympics Games in Berlin were opened by Adolf Hitler. The Olympic Games were used for propaganda purposes to commend the Nazi rules. When Hitler became into the Chancellor’s position he promised to destroy the Treaty of Versailles. Hitler increased his army by 550,000. The Nazi government had to borrow a large amount of money for weapons, building aircrafts, autobahns, docks, …show more content…
A negative that affected the education of young children and also adults was that Hitler taking control of the newspapers and radios etc, because this meant that the Germans could only learn about the Nazi’s. The Nazis party were extremely close to the workforce, this made it so that the Nazi could have as much control as possible. On the 2nd of May 1933, Hitler also banned all trade unions. 1.25 million people were unemployed because of the Wall Street Crash. The Nazi were very anti-feminist. The Nazi believed that women were only good for being family makers. Mothers that had 8 children would be given a gold medal in their success for having many children. The Nazis gave Germany state terror such as SS, which was the main security forces, Gestapo, concentration camps were created for Jews, and by 1935 most people were imprisoned or killed. In schools the teachers would measure a student’s head to determine their race. Some “Aryan” girls were sent away to special camps, to make more children with “Aryan”
After Germany’s humiliating defeat in World War I, Germans had little faith in their government, and in the early 1930s following the stock market crash in New York, Germany was economically struggling . Millions of people were out of work due to the world wide catastrophe making it an opportune time for Hitler and the Nazis to rise into power. Hitler, who was a powerful and spellbinding speaker, attracted Germans desperate for change. He promised to make Germany a better country and promised the disenchanted, a better life. Nazis appealed especially to the youth, unemployed, and members of the lower to middle class. Hitler’s rise to power seemed instantaneous. Before the economic depression, Nazis were virtually unknown, winning less than 3 percent of the vote to the Reichstag, which was the German Parliament. However, in the 1924 elections, the Nazis won a whopping 33 percent of the votes which was more than any other party. In January of 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor, the head of German Government . The Germans were convinced that they had found a savior for the Nation. The timing of his rise made it very easy for Hitler to gain power in a democratic government because people were hopeless and wanted a fast solution to the deficit. He promised things like a stronger economy, prosperity, and anything that they desired . He focused on first getting noticed and then grew from there. He didn’t say anything but what the people wanted to hear. Getting the people of Germany to trust him was how he started to gain so much control. Unfortunately, Hitler’s charm and persuasion was not the sole reason why Hitler gained so much power in a democratic
The Nazi group had a major impact on the government and influenced the decision for the next Chancellor of Germany. “...Paul von Hindenburg, had appointed Hitler Chancellor. Having won more than 37 percent of the vote in the previous year's legislative elections, Hitler's Nazi party had enough power to effectively paralyze Germany's democratic government, which had been in place since 1919,” Smith says (pg.15). This shows that Hitler's Nazi group was extremely powerful and explains how Hitler arose to power. This quote reveals that Hitler had the most power since 1919, which demonstrates how powerful Hitler will become in the future. “By the early 1930’s, Germany was in desperate shape. Its defeat in World War One and the harsh conditions imposed by the United States, Britain, and France in the 1919 Treaty of Versailles - included debilitating reparation payments to the victors - had left Germany humiliated and impoverished, with ruinous inflation eating away at its economy. The worldwide Depression that followed the 1929 U.S. stock market crash exacerbated the situation as banks
This depression occurred when the Wall Street Crash sent America's industries and businesses into a crisis; due to America's large trade industries, this depression spread to a lot of other countries. This made the unemployment rate in Germany sky high but for the Nazi's this benefitted them because they earned more votes which were the push Hitler needed to get into power. This depression helped Hitler prey on people's fear of communism so he promised the people of Germany that he would get rid of unemployment. This promise strengthened their support to vote for the Nazi's and was a major factor for Hitler to gain domination. The Reichstag fire was also a big help to get Hitler in power because the communists were blamed for the fire that occurred which then helped the Nazi's win the 1933 election. Overall, the Treaty of Versailles only made Hitler rise to make Germany better and
In January 1933 a man named Adolf Hitler became chancler of Germany. Before he was a German soldier but got hospitizlied twice. Hitler changed the laws and policies of government making everything he was planning to do lega at that period in time. He took control of the Nazi group which at one point was a good orginization but he used them for evil. Hitler wanted to populate the world with the "Aryan" race and eliminate everybody that was not of that race. Hitler believed that everybody should be blond hair, blue eyes, fair skin, tall, and strong and ironicly he had none of those traits. Hitler made camps to send these people that did not fit those standards. In 1936 the Olympics were being held in Berlin. Hitler had placed restrictions on
The 1936 Olympics were held in Berlin, Germany held from August first to August sixteenth. 49 nations showed up and 3,963 athletes represented them. Adolf Hitler was the Fuhrer at the time of the olympics and used it as Nazi propaganda. Hosting the olympics helped Germany show the world that it had recovered from the destruction and isolation The Treaty of Versailles had caused it. Adolf Hitler hid his racism towards Jewish people and Roma people and as well as its growing military. In 1931 the International Olympic Committee chose Berlin for the eleventh Summer Olympics. In 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor and Germany became an one party dictatorship. Germany then started to go after Jewish people and blamed their problems on them.
In the following investigation, the following question will be addressed: In what ways did economic and political issues in Germany between 1922 and 1932 contribute to Hitler's rise to power? The scope of my research will fall between the years of 1922-1932, the start of Hitler’s attempt to run for office. A variety of primary and secondary sources will be used to answer the question. The bitterness caused upon the change of government systems in Germany will be analyzed, along with his childhood that all primarily drove Hitler to run for power. Then, the harsh effects World War I had on Germany along with the Great Depression that followed as a result will also be looked at. Finally, a conclusion will be reached.
Due to the failure of the Weimar Republic and general public dissatisfaction arising from poor economic conditions exacerbated by the Treaty of Versailles, coupled with the 1929 Wall Street Crash, German citizens were understandably desperate for change. Until this point in time the Nazi party, and Hitler, had been essentially unpopular. However, the economic situation ensured Hitler’s increasing popularity as the people looked toward more extreme but non-communist ideals. The initial consolidation of Nazi power in 1933 arose from key events such as the support of the Nationalist Party with the Nazis to form a coalition government, implementation of the Enabling
1- In 1933 when Hitler and his Nazi party came into power, German was on the tail end of a terrible depression with the rest of the world blaming them for the events of WWI. Things were looking quite bleak for the German people, but then comes Hitler, a man who sees the German people as a special people with a special destiny. Hitler and his Nazi party blamed all of Germany’s problems at the end of WWI on the Allies and weak leadership during Germany’s depression. This gave someone for Germany to blame for their problems and started to being back a sense of national pride. With Hitler in power, there would be no more industrial conflicts, Germany would be rearmed and every German would have a job.
Hitler also brought his country out of an economic depression. The German depression was caused mainly by the Treaty of Versailles, and its detrimental economic impact on Germany. Basically, Germany was forced to pay for all damages caused by the First World War. Hitler’s policies that helped the German economy were part of his Third Reich. Hitler’s Third Reich led to one of the greatest expansions of industrial production and civil improvement in German history. This success was mainly due to the expansion of the military and the expansion of the money supply through deficit spending.
Hitler set out a massive propaganda plan for the 1936 Olympic Games. He had to cutback on his propaganda because it caused other countries to distrust Germany. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, “Nazi Germany used the 1936 Olympic Games for propaganda purposes. The Nazis promoted an image of a new, strong, and united Germany while masking the regime’s targeting of Jews and Roma (Gypsies) as well as Germany’s growing militarism.” The new image Hitler created of Germany made other countries hesitant toward Hitler and his regime.
On July 14, 1933, Hitler’s Nazi party was declared the only legal political party in Germany. Hitler’s ways of gaining followers, worked well for him in the aspect of getting things done. He quickly created a fascist government and was focused on continually pleasing the people. However as the year went on, Hitler used his power for his own selfish hate against Jews. Unknown to many, Hitler and his Nazi regime instituted many laws and regulations that restricted and excluded Jews from society. These laws were known as Anti-Semetic. In 1936, Hitler paused the enforcement of the Anti-Semetic laws when Germany hosted winter and summer Olympics. Hitler hosted these games in an effort to avoid a negative world view on Germany and to essentially be on everyone’s good side. However soon after the Olympics, Hitler went right back to the persecuting of Jews. It began to escalate very
Even though Germany was left in a period of struggle and economic weakness after WW1, Adolf Hitler would take a stand by creating a party that would help refine the structure of the economy. This party, when abbreviated, was called Nazi, would also create harsh laws and unrelentless punishment. Due to the Nazi party’s quick growth, there was an immediate impact on lifestyle and politics for the people of Germany. The long term impact brought forth by the consequences or legacy of the Nazi party included a population decrease and an increase in deaths. To make both of these impacts, Hitler had to overcome many hard challenges.
The Third Reich's policy encouraged 'racially pure' women to bear as many Aryan children as possible. Nazi organisations for women, such as the National Socialist Womanhood entailed that women should stay at home and have babies. They used propaganda to encourage women
Life in Nazi Germany had many positive and negative effects on the people that were living there between 1933-1939. The treaty of Versailles was when Germany was in great despair. The Germans had to pay back repatriations for losing the war, they lost territory, accepted the blame for causing World War I and there was also the near elimination of the Germany army. This all lead Germany into suffering badly through the Great Depression. The Nazi party and their leader Adolf Hitler brought the Totalitarian rule into place and promised the German people a better life. Totalitarianism was used by the Nazi party to have control of education, militarism, propaganda, economic policies and their power to elimination any of the opposition. The positive impacts under the Nazi rule were full employment and economic growth, increase in national prestige and pride, huge successful at hosting the Olympics in 1936 and regaining lost territories. The negative impacts under the Nazi rule were persecution of minorities, economic growth focused on the militarily, expansionism as the path to war and loss of the personal freedom. Overall, rule of Totalitarianism that Adolf Hitler made caused some of the worst moments for the German people living between 1933-1939.
Nazi Germany was between the dates of 1933-1939. Throughout this essay, Conditions in Germany when Hitler came to power including the impact of the Treaty of Versailles and the Great Depression and the weakness of the Weimar republic, will be discussed. The Concept of a Totalitarian State and how Hitler and the Nazi party developed in Germany through the use of force, controlled education, militarism, propaganda, economic policies, and no political opposition. Some of the Positives that came from Nazi Germany were increased prosperity including full employment and economic growth, regaining lost territories, increased national prestige and pride, and the hosting of 1936 Olympics. Some of the Negatives that came from Nazi Germany were Persecution of minorities, loss of personal freedoms, economic growth focused on the military, and expansionism as a path to war. This essay will re-state weather Nazi Germany was an overall positive or negative experience for people in Germany.