Interaction between Communism and Nazism and Their Societies Different Beliefs

The government of Nazi Germany greatly resembled the Party, the government in 1984. Both operated similarly and had similar aims. Anything either government did was an action for maintaining power. Both the Nazis and the Party maintained similar ideologies, controlled mass media, educated children in their beliefs, had a secret police force, and had forced labor camps. Both governments used each of these methods maintain power and control over the people.

When the Nazi Party came to power in Germany, the members of the communist and socialist parties resisted its takeover. The Nazis sent most of them to concentration camps where they were considered ‘political prisoners.’ A prominent camp for political prisoners was Dachau.

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party used nationalism to great effect in Germany that spured the Second World World. After WWI, many Germans blamed the new government for accepting the unfair treaty as conditions became miserable. People who could not find jobs began to drift into the Communist and National Socialist parties established by Hitler. They decided that it was the necessary solution. In 1933, Hitler came to power as dictator of Germany and preached a racist brand of fascism. He promised to end the humiliating conditions caused by the German defeat in WWI. He knew how to win people's obedience and trust, through their fears and insecurities. He almost immediately got Germany back into the factories and began secretly building up army and weapons. His real motives were to expand German territory and dominate Europe and the whole world that became the prelude to another war.

After World War I, Adolf Hitler was one of the dictators that arose; which then gained power in Germany in its Great Depression. Hitler rose to power using techniques such as propaganda, censorship, charisma and terror, but that was not all he did. Hitler started his own fascist party in Germany and called it the Nazi Party. Later, Hitler developed anti-semitism, or prejudice against Jews and dehumanized them. He viewed Jews as a separate race not a religion. This caused many changes particularly to the Jews. During World War I the Nazi’s treatment of the Jews caused political, economic, and social changes.

These camps were mostly in Siberia, a land rich with resources like coal, ore and oil, but often lacking essential things like warmth and food. Stalin would often send people to the GULAGs for any reason, such as stealing a loaf of bread or failing to meet the quota of wheat on the commune, and often for higher profile cases, Stalin would send the person up for a fixed public trial as was noted by by the French ambassador in 1938 (Doc 11). According to The Great Conquest, the amount of people that were imprisoned or died at the GULAGs were numbering around 3 million (Doc 12). However, without the GULAGs Stalin would never have managed to industrialize the USSR, and the plans definitely put the USSR as one of the premier industrial powers in Europe (Doc 6). The cost on the people of the USSR was far too great to sustain however, and the GULAGs ended up killing over 2 million people (Doc

After WWI, Germany fell into poverty. Everyday, lines of people were seen in the streets waiting to purchase bread. People were poor and desperate. Hitler saw this and used it. He gave people hope and the economy improved and he was announced chancellor of Germany in 1933. Government suspected he was unstable, but were convinced they could control him if necessary. Hitler secretly made a new police called the Nazis who were Hitler’s supporters and enforced the law at Hitler’s command. Quickly and unknowingly, the government was no longer in control of Hitler. Hitler had full power of Germany.

The Nazi’s had a very systematic approach to gaining control of Germany, which covered most parts of society. This includes German foreign policy, religion, culture, media and propaganda, education and

Hitler rose to power through the Nazi party. He won over the the support of the middle and lower class in Germany. This caused the Nazi party to become larger and more powerful. Due to the Great Depression, unemployment rates skyrocketed and Hitler preyed on their weakness. He gave the people hope by making economic promises, which he went on to fulfill. Conflict between the Communists and Social Democrats led to weakness in their party which made Hitler gain more power. He was appointed Chancellor of Hindenburg. Once he gained more and more power he couldn’t be stopped. Hitler worked to abolish freedom of speech and assembly after convincing the president these were emergency acts that needed to be carried out. Hitler gained even more power by having the communist party outlawed and all of its members arrested. The Reichstag was enacted which gave Hitler four years of dictatorial power. The only legal political party in Germany became the Nazi party; every aspect of life was under Nazi control. Hitler did pull Germany out of the Depression. Businesses grew and and unemployment dropped. Most of the growth came from run businesses. Hitler believed that Germans were the supreme race. All Jews, Slavs, Gypsies, Jehovah's

Under the rule of Stalin, people were sent to be housed at the Gulag camps, by then they were using them as a slave labor. These camps housed a wide range of convicts from minor criminals to political prisoners. The Soviet Union’s main offences were robbers, rapists, murders, and thieves, so instead of spending their sentences in prison they got taken to the Gulag.

Communism is “a theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state”(definition.com). Communism was spreading like wildfire in the 1900’s and impacted Russia and

This caused political and economic struggles throughout the land. Frantically there were struggles on how to fix the troubled land. Different type of political party came about, communism started to make way, liberal , conservative, and the nazi party although small at the time was also gaining notice with Hitler leading the charge. Hitler led a coup attempt in Bavaria which is known as the Beer Hall Putsch. He had hoped that his nationalist revolution in Bavaria would spread to the dissatisfaction within the German army, which in turn would bring down the government in Berlin. However, the uprising was immediately suppressed, and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for high treason. Hitler was not discouraged from there, he had his goal to eliminate the Jews to bring power to Germany. In his mind this was to create the ideal human figures. During his time in prison he wrote his first book in 1923 called Mein Kampf, a best seller at the time. The book depicts the jews as enemy of the lord and calls it the holy crusade that is necessary to rid of these "parasite". His ideal which was spread during the time of his prison, gain immense popularity and almost immediately after the release in prison, Hitler ran for chancellor of Germany. Even though he had lost by a small margin in his first race, this set his Nazi party to grow even more and alerted how the majority of the population were feeling at the time. The country slowly agreed to one another that the issue that they had and the instability was all towards the 1% of the population, Jews. This hateful ideal continued to be spread to no stop, and by the next election, Adolf Hitler won by a considerable

The Soviet Union Gulag was a massive system of forced labor camps to which those who were imprisoned were sent to. People could be incarcerated in a Gulag camp or prison for crimes such as unexcused absences or late from work, petty theft or anti-government jokes. Throughout its history, about 18 million people passed through its camps and prisons. About half of the prisoners were sent to Gulag camps without trials so many times it was innocent people. Many people died of hunger, cold and hard labor, but the exact number of deaths is still unknown, it is speculated for it to be over

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 Gulags of the Soviet Union have been compared to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, but in reality they were worse. The Gulags were isolated prison camps peppered across Siberia. Death, torture, and disease raged within their walls, while endless work went on outside. Gulag personnel were cruel and unfeeling, using terrible punishment methods and playing senseless games that cost prisoners their lives. Political enemies of the Bolshevik party made up a significant portion of the prisoner population, with most sent to the infamous camp system Kolyma. Liberation was painfully slow, but by 1960, all of the Gulags were gone.

By 1921, Hitler was leading the National Socialist German Workers' Party. He was a very effective speaker and captivated audiences for hours. He was persuasive and told people what they wanted to hear. Because of this, he was a very successful propaganda artist. Driven by Germany's loss in WWI and humiliation, which was a result of the terms in the treaty of Versailles, Hitler found many followers who sympathized with his cause. After his political group failed an attempt to overpower the Bavarian government, he was arrested and jailed for nine months. While imprisoned, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle), which was his autobiography, and it was full of his political ideas as well as the policies for what would become the Nazi organization. Later, he would use this book to spread his ideas and indoctrinate people into the Nazi party. At one point in time, he tried to destroy all other books in Germany. He required that Mein Kampf be taught in the schools, and children learned at a very young age that they were to be Nazis and support Hitler.