How Did Hitler Influence The Holocaust

Hans Mommsen’s book, From Weimar to Auschwitz, presented an interesting look at Hitler within the Nazi Party. The overriding themes in the chapter “Hitler’s Position in the Nazi System” were the stubbornness and charisma of Hitler and the chaos within the Nazi Party. The weak leadership of Hitler along with the inability to concentrate power to one position helped lead the Third Reich to be a very frenzied and unorganized government.

Adolf Hitler was one of the most influential people in the interwar era. His actions during the interwar era caused World War II, which had enormous impacts on almost every country in the world. There are three reasons why he gained so much influence in Germany. First of all people were disappointed in the current German government and wanted a change. Secondly, Hitler and his Nazi party were similar in ideology to the majority of people and finally he was a great orator who used his similarity to the rest of the German people to help his party grow and to help himself become dictator.

German society is a topic of discussion for all historians who study the period of World War II. Many Germans at the time said that they were not associated with the Nazi party nor supporters of their ideologies. But throughout this analysis, Peter Fritzsche provides claims that the German people were greatly involved in the Nazi regime goals, which is a controversial subject for today.

“Germany was in the clutches of a political state, which used fear of the concentration

The Holocaust The Holocaust was a very important time in history for not only people who were affected but for people who weren?t directly affected. Adolf Hitler was a powerful man at the time and created the Holocaust which was a way for him to kill off the Jewish population. First and most important was how did Hitler get all the Jews to follow his rules and comply? Well to start off with he sent his army to the Jewish homes and captured them and at that point in time the Jewish were compliant.

The second reason is he thought they were the reason why they lost the first world war. Hitler thought the jews that fought on his side were the reason why they lost the first world war. “They were not Nazis, but they nevertheless blamed the Jews--many of whom had fought bravely for Germany--for losing the war. It was rumored that Jewish arms manufacturers had supplied inferior weapons at exorbitant prices and that these had cost the lives of German soldiers. ”(Gottfried).

Is it possible for one man to destroy people’s society and commit genocide to the Jewish culture? Adolf Hitler did these insane criminal acts and many more during his lifespan. Hitler was a man of mass murder, the Nazi party leader, and a conqueror of many countries around the world. He was a small man to begin with, but evolved into an evil dictator that had the Devil’s mind. Hitler, most known for the Holocaust, was significant to World War II because of his education, childhood, military role, and hardships.

World War II was a devastating war where millions of soldiers and civilians died. Adolf Hitler played a huge part in World War II and was one of the major reasons the war happened. Hitler started to take over countries like Austria with little or no resistance. When he later tried to invade Poland, Britain declared war. Even though there was very little fighting at the time Britain declared war. Hitler’s ideas and goals for Germany were what initially caused World War II and later led to the holocaust. His need for more space for Germany led him to start taking over countries and initially started the war with Britain and he wanted a superior Aryan race which is the reason for the Holocaust. Hitler stated the three reasons for starting this war in his Journal Mein Kampf. His goals were to get rid of the Treaty of Versailles, make a Greater Germany, and he wanted more living space for his people.

During the Holocaust, there were many symbols left as reminders of the horrid events that occurred in our history. All linked together, the Schutzstaffel, Heinrich Himmler, and Josef Mengele are prime examples of providers for influencing the Holocaust among Germans. They left an extremely cruel mark on the world, and a big imprint in history. The Schutzstaffel was founded in 1925 as the personal bodyguards for Hitler. This group eventually became a secret police force and was said to be one of the most powerful and feared groups throughout Germany.

This streamlining of German society was based on three core factors, 1) Creation of Nationalist Socialist organizations for every aspect of life and outlawing of the alternatives, 2) Control through elimination by secret services and police forces of all things not Nazi, and 3) Propaganda to promote Nazi ideals. The last factor was the means by which the other two factors, and coordination of German society as a whole, would be accomplished. Nazi propaganda

After evaluating the Nazis’ actions in detail, it is clear to see why they are recognized by most people as the worst people to ever live. They killed over eleven million people in the Holocaust, with six million of them being Jews (DoSomething.org). To give some perspective, this was two-thirds of the European Jews (DoSomething.org). Besides just killing many people, the Nazis also forced prisoners of concentration camps to work until they died, and regularly tortured them. Prior to killing the Jews, the Nazis also took away all their rights and forced them into horrible living conditions. They also largely contributed to a massive war, filled with bloodshed, who’s European front started as a result of their spiteful actions to undo the Treaty of Versailles. While, this treaty was very harsh, it did not constitute a massive European war. For these many reasons and more, the Nazis, and especially Hitler himself, are often recognized as the worst people to ever live.

Extremely harsh and cruel things come to mind when people talk about the Holocaust. The Holocaust is remembered today extremely vividly by everyone all around the world. This was a time when Germany was under rule of an Anti-Semitic named of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was interested in making Germany ‘pure’, his reasoning seemed very unclear. Many historians cannot find what or where things went wrong for him.

Hitler was brought up in an anti-Semitic society where Jews were deeply hated by most people for no good reason. He was fed false lies such as a group of communists and Jews were planning a terror attack on the rest of society. He then began to hate Jews and ended up in a position where he could do anything he wanted and nobody could stop him. He made the nation anti-Semitic and formed groups such as the Einsatzgruppen to murder ‘undesirables’ – disabled, homosexuals or Jews.

When looking into the history of Germany and determining what led to the startling rise in Nazism in Germany and its detrimental effects on the social outcasts in Europe, it can be easy to deduce that the Nazi regime was one where Hitler walked in with his officials and took office by force. The truth is that, while the Nazi party is responsible for the atrocities that occurred before and during WWII, they would have not gotten far if it hadn’t been for the cooperation of the German people themselves. Life in the Third Reich provides proof through voting, youth programs and village life that the Nazi party rose into power with German support.

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur