How Did Adolf Hitler's Influence In Germany

To assess the popularity of the Nazis one must first establish the meaning of popularity and in what ways it can be assessed. Popularity in this instance is support and conformity to the Nazi regime. This essay will span from Hitler and the party’s early days in the Burgerbraukeller in Munich up to the death of the regime in 1945. The evidence used will span from Hitler’s own words in ‘Mein Kampf’ to the masses of propaganda left behind upon the regimes collapse. The biggest historiographical debate in my opinion on this subject is ‘resistenz’ argued by Martin Broszat and ‘Loyal reluctance’ argued mainly by Robert Gellately and Ian Kershaw. During this essay both sides will be evaluated with the idea of popularity at the forefront and how each argument adds or detracts from my argument that the Nazis were mainly a popular regime.

In the final months of World War II Allied Forces, commanded by United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower, were on the offensive and had pushed deep into German territory. The Germans had suffered significant losses of troops and equipment after five years of warfare. Any chance of winning meant the Germans would have to make a stand. Hitler discussed his strategy with his top generals. While they agreed that capturing the city of Antwerp, a major Allied supply hub, would inflict a devastating blow to the Allied Forces, they disagreed with Hitler’s plan of assaulting through the heavily wooded area of the Ardennes. Furthermore, the plan was to attack under the protection of poor weather to mitigate the use of Allied airpower, which was a major Allied advantage. Hitler believed that a complex assault would catch Allied commanders off-guard causing them to be slow to react. The Allied lines were spread very thin in the Ardennes, even to the point of “an average of 73 men per mile.” Moreover, this specific area was used for training new units and for allowing battle-tested, experienced units to rest and

From the moment the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, Nazi special units operating throughout the countryside and towns shot many male Jews including Communists, civic leaders and even those just of military age. After a series of meetings between Hitler and Himmler in the summer of 1941, there was an escalation in the persecution of the Soviet Jews. New units were committed to special duties in the East, among them the 1st SS Infantry Brigade, which began to target Jewish women and children as well as men. Hans Friedrich was a member of the 1st Infantry Brigade. He claims not to recall exactly the actions in which he took part that summer, but he does admit that he participated in the killing of Jews.

Some of the greatest totalitarian leaders before Hitler’s time looted art such as Napoleon the past emperor over the french. One of the most grueling actions Hitler took during World War II was the looting of art. Hitler stole art for his own selfish reasons and, it was the brave Monuments Men who helped restore and recover the missing artwork before the invasion of the axis powers although a lot of the work was lost during the war. It is estimated that over 650,000 pieces, one fifth of Europe’s artwork was stolen by the Nazi’s during World War II .

Hitler’s influences did have a big effect on what he did to the Jews during World War II (Mandelbaum). During his time in Vienna, Hitler gained inspiration from many prominent figures in Vienna (Adolf Hitler). “He [Hitler] acquired his first education in politics by studying the demagogic techniques of the popular Christian-social Mayor, Karl Lueger” (Adolf Hitler). Lueger was a major anti-semitic and Hitler started blaming all the semitics (especially Jews) for his failures because of what Lueger believed in (Adolf Hitler). There were two more major inspirations to Hitler in Vienna, “Defrocked monk, Lanz von Liebenfels, and the Austrian Pan-German leader, Georg von Schoenerer, the young Hitler learned to discern the Eternal Jew” (Adolf

Have you ever wondered why millions of people were killed in the decade of 1930 all over the world? Or have you wondered why World War II started? Hitler and the Nazis were the reason for all that chaos during the decade of the 1930’s. The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, were one of the worst groups of people of all time.

Adolf Hitler had a huge impact on history in a rather negative way. He was the dictator of Germany when WWII occurred. He was one of the worst people to ever be on the planet because of the way he treated certain people. Millions upon millions on people died on apart of his choices. Nobody at the time was strong enough to stop him until the Allies all started going after him.

One week ago on September 1, 1939 Germany took charge and invaded Poland. When they invaded Poland, with the help of the fascinating help from Hitler, for the betterment of Germany, they broke the agreement they made with Great Britain and France had made with them a few years back in, Munich. Adolf Hitler was looking to regain land, and in the midst of it World War II began. The German Army used the “blitzkrieg,” the strategy of extreme bombing of all enemy air capacity, railroads, communication lines, and their munition dumps.This helped us get an advantage in the in beginning of the War. After the German army entered Poland succeeding the blitzkrieg, they fled into the country with tanks, and a multitude of soldiers. Hitler took charge as soon as the troops invaded.

Adolf Hitler has the image of having a ruthless evil character from his deeds during world war two. However evidences show that he was not a terribly evil person, but a normal person with large ambitions. Canadian prime minister Mackenzie King wrote in his journal after meeting with Adolf Hitler that, "he is really one who truly loves his fellow-men, and his country, and would make any sacrifice for their good…a man of deep sincerity and a genuine patriot," which all shows he was naturally a good person with a genuine ambition of wanting to create a better environment for himself and the country. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and immediately began to challenge the Treaty of Versailles and adapt an aggressive foreign policy, which led to war. It is not hard to blame Adolf Hitler for starting the war, however looking at evidences show that he was naturally a good person that was not taught or at the very least did not bother to realize the importance of learning to control his ambitions to not reach the level of selfish greediness. Hence ambition is needed to proceed forward but the control of it must be taught to refrain from these event occurring.

September 1, 1939: Silence in Europe is brought to an abrupt end! German forces storm the Polish borders, and break the Non-Aggression Pact laid forth over five years before (EyeWitness). The Fuhrer spoke of the Poles breaking down the peace talks, and of the atrocities committed upon the Germanic people by them (Hitler, Adolf), but these highly exaggerated claims veiled Hitler’s true intentions: Though Hitler’s primary goal was the conquering of Europe, hindsight shows that the removal of groups of people he disliked or thought of as ‘lesser’ were included in his plans from the start. Two days later, on September 3rd, Great Britain and France declared war on Germany: This was it, the Second World War had begun (EyeWitness).

One heavily debated topic since World War II, is whether Hitler intended on a larger scale war when he invaded Poland in 1939. While the more “popular” belief is that Hitler did plan to start a war, some historians hold that he merely intended to invade Poland, and that he was a “regular statesman.” (Taylor, 15)

During the time of WW2 there was much turmoil left over from WW1 many big nations tried to co exist they came up with the Four power treaty between the US, Britain, Japan and France. Many of these countries were still not able to co exist Hitler was involved in WW1 and thought that the limits put upon Germany were unfair. Hitler was able to have knowledge of the war he began to speak and brought audiences to his attention for example, "Hitler soon revealed and exceptional gift for oratory and an astonishing ability to dominate his fellow party members by sheer force of personalty" (35). Based on Hitlers speaking and how he was able to capture audiences the power of the Nazi power grew stronger and stronger. Hitler wanted to take back the land

Hugh Trevor Roper’s argument is agreeable for many reasons which will be included and explained in this essay. Hitler acted aggressively more than once and pushed limits but it is untruth to say he was solely to blame for World War Two. There are many factors which caused Hitler to act in such an aggressive manner, such as the extremely unfair Treaty of Versailles, the selfishness of Great Britain and France and the weak League of Nations. Hitler began to behave aggressively, when he began rearming, because the Treaty was an outrage and German people were furious at the unfairness of it. The League was a sham, Hitler got away with things he shouldn’t have

World War II is believed to have resulted from many causes; however Hitler’s rise to power is assumed to have had a significant impact on the outbreak. Adolf Hitler was leader of the Nazi party, and his efforts to transform Germany’s society into one based on race resulted in Holocaust and world war. Using his position as Chancellor Hitler created a legal dictatorship. Not anyone could have seized power in Germany at that time. During Germany’s economic crisis, Hitler used his personal traits and propaganda to gain support and rise to power. This can be seen through Hitler’s beliefs and ideologies, the conditions in Germany, his personal traits and his use of propaganda.

Adolf Hitler is mostly known for the unforgettable things he accomplished during his era. He left a scar in the world that will never be cured. He was an intelligent and brilliant individual who seeked power. He used his abilities to achieve things that no other leader has done. Hitler was originally an adolescent who moved to Vienna to become an artist, but his dream abruptly changed. Starting another World War and bringing terror to people is not what he had in mind when he became leader of Germany.