Nazi

The beginning of the Nazi Party can be traced back to 1919, just a year after the end of World War 1. Beginning with a group of unemployed soldiers unhappy about the Treaty of Versailles, the group quickly spiraled into a mass movement. In 1921, a former army veteran by the name of Adolf Hitler joined the association and quickly became the group's leader. Hitler soon began gaining new members as he went throughout the country advocating anti-semitism ideas and the idea that Germany would continue to suffer, unless their was a total revolution of German life where Jews and communists were eliminated. His ideas caught the attention of many, especially young, economically disadvantaged Germans, as they saw this as a chance to gain more than they ever had

The Nazi Party began in 1919 as the German Workers' Party in Munich created by Anton Drexler(“Nazi Germany”). The Nazis came to true power with an influential leader in Adolf Hitler. Hitler was a powerful leader who tapped into the fear of his followers to guide them into becoming strong followers. The Nazi’s propaganda seemed to promise the citizens of Germany to pull them out of the depression they were in at the time (“The Nazi Rise To Power”). The Nazis wrote each of their speeches depending the audience they would have. An example of this is, “ when speaking to businessmen, the Nazis downplayed antisemitism and instead emphasized anti-communism and the return of German colonies lost through the Treaty of Versailles”(“The Nazi Rise To Power”). On January 30, 1993, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany after a series of previous failures of

After World War I occurred, many Germans were still upset. Germany was burdened with many war reparations that they couldn’t pay. Many of these upset Germans helped to form the Nazi party- or the National Socialist German Worker’s Party (“Nazi”). They called for strong militarism, nationalism, and wanted to expand Germany’s

The NAZI party came to meaningful power in 1933 after the Great Depression which many Germans believed was linked to their humiliating defeat in WWI. Hitler used that belief to gain support by offering jobs to the desperate German working class most of whom were unemployed. The jobs he offered were in the military, jobs that were forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles. By doing this Hitler helped restore Germany to an economically sound state which

Within months of Hitler becoming chancellor, he introduced a law that allowed compulsory sterilisation to those people with physical or mental disabilities where they were legally forced to have an operation to stop then from having children. In total 400 000 were sterilised and approximately 5000 people died. On top of this 70 000 were killed under the ‘T4’ euthanasia program, the Germans first program of mass murder, preceding the genocide of the European Jewry. Eventually the Nazis gradually restricted the rights of the German Jewish citizens where Anti-Semitism and Eugenics (a pseudoscience that aims to ‘improve’ the human gene pool) combined in Germany racial policies. This violence continued against the Jewish people and sought to remove all Jews from the government, where Nazi followers were encouraged to commit acts of violence and destruction against Jews and their property. The laws also limited the number of Jewish students allowed in public schools, many were banned from public places, and Jewish officers were expelled from the army, and transferred ownership of many of the Jewish business to non-Jewish Germans. Similar Nazi obligations were also pressed on other groups like the Romani people and from 1936 they were forced into internment camps.

Since the mobilization of the Nazi movement in the early 1920’s the idea of a genetically pure Aryan race was adopted into the German psyche. In the German ideology pure isn’t someone that is a prisoner, degenerate, dissident, people with congenital cognitive and physical disabilities (including feebleminded, epileptic, schizophrenic, manic-depressive, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, deaf, blind), homosexual, idle, insane, and the weak, that need to be dispose of the chain of heredity in the Nazi controlled areas. If a person is seen as any of these they had to undergo sterilization, but most of these people’s faite was death. The Nazis did this to purify the Third Reich and make sure that Germany was truly a pure Aryan nation. Through Nazi laws, Hitler imposed his ideas on sterilization, he did not go through this without some opposition from the people of Germany that saw this as immoral.

After being given power over the German’s Worker Party, Hitler aided in bolstering its ranks from a measly seven members, he was the seventh official member, to well over three-thousand likeminded people. (Marrs 20). In April of 1920, Hitler renamed the political group to the Nationalsozialistiche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, or the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, which was shortened to Nazi. (Marrs 21). Nazi is a term synonymous with evil in our time, and what it stands for casts a long shadow over what is arguably the darkest times in modern history. Now seen as little more than one of the many modern white supremacist movements, the Neo-Nazis, one might find it little more than conspiracy theory to claim that the United States of America is a repackaged National Socialist Government, or a fourth Reich. Author Jim Marrs writes, “Under the banner of freedom and democracy, yet pursuing the agenda of the globalist who supported the Nazis, the United States slowly turned from one of the most admired nations in the world to one of the most despised.” (235-236).

After the loss of World War 1, Germany was crippled and severely punished. During the 1920’s, Adolf Hitler (WW1 veteran) started spouting about these bizarre ideas. Germany was desperate; he seemed like their only hope to get out of this mess. People took to Hitler because Hitler assured them he would get them out of debt, which he successfully did. The Nazi party was then formed and gained a mass amount of popularity amongst the German population. The Nazi party at first received only 3% of the vote at the Reichstag in 1924, and in the 1932 elections; Hitler received 33%, more than anyone else and was the new Chancellor of Germany. The German people were cheerful; they believed Hitler their savior (“Hitler Comes to Power. Ushmm.org”).

The Nazi Party, also known as the National Socialist German Worker’s Party, was led by Adolf Hitler from 1933 to 1945. Hitler became a member of the party the year that it was founded in 1919 and became the leader in 1921. In January of 1933, Hitler was the legal official and the Nazi Party became government. Together they took on total power of Germany. Because Hitler had so much power, he made the people of his country believe that the reason they had lost World War 1 was because of the Jews. He also blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s problems. Hitler had racial beliefs that Germans who had light skin colors, blonde hair, and colorful blue eyes were the “supreme form of human” or in other words, the race that should lead the country.

Long before the Nazi’s came to power Eugenics was being practiced all over the world. America at the time was having an immigration problem. Where immigration was supposed to better the country by bringing in better “stock”, America found itself with an influx of “unfit” people flooding it’s streets, and knocking down its doors. By this time many states were already forcing sterilization of the unfit, epileptic, and feebleminded. Hitler and the Nazi camp saw Germany as a sick organism, contaminated by degenerates and undesirables. Germany believed, like that of America, that it was in the states duty to rid itself of these contaminating elements, and to improve the health of its society (Llewellyn, Southey, and

It was also referred to as National Socialism. The oppressed leader of the Nazi Party and of Germany during the second world war was Adolf Hitler.  Nazism supporters believed they were the superior race in all the world. The true definition of Nazism is “The ideology and practice of the Nazis, especially the policy of racist nationalism, national expansion, and state control of the economy” (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Nazism).  The Nazi Party won the people's support after World War One when economic crisis hit Germany.  The German democratic government was not strong enough for this crisis and a new group was elected into power. With the Nazi party in control, the people started to believe they were the superior race.  Hitler was able to convince the German people they were the better race by succeeding in the Olympics that year. Germany won most of the medals at the Olympic games with

To begin, eugenics is ‘the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage’. Eugenicist Julian Huxley claimed that eugenics could alter our inborn qualities and the selection of different genetic types. To sell the idea of eugenics, it was presented as a method to manipulate one’s environment so that the individual would be regarded as the ‘highest’. Particularly, it was accepted in Nazi Germany since it would improve future generations . Ultimately, eugenics and sterilization was a predictable fix to the inferiority that weakened and diluted the ‘pure’ German race

To understand the cultural circumstances that eugenics was born from, we must understand what was happening to create this unbelievably antihuman science. After the Civil War, the economy was at an impasse. The ever-fluid change that was taking place in the US took hold until WWI. As the economic state was on an uncertain path, the social irregularity between different segments of society became more visible.

In essence, the sterilization, which occurred during Hitler’s dictatorship was the final implementation of the racial hygiene movement. While sterilization had taken place in the late nineteenth century and continued into the Weimar Republic, the legalization of policies like the, Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, allowed for the national eradication of inferior genotypes. When the NSDAP rose to power, they simply applied the pseudoscientific claims of eugenists, racial hygienists, and social darwinists, to government policy. With the support of leading eugenists and racial scientists like Ploetz and Grotjahn, the NSDAP easily incorporated the concept of racial hygiene, specifically sterilization, into both the law and

In 1933 Adolf Hitler was chosen as Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg. With this, the Nazi party came to power. Originally called the National Socialist German Workers party (Nazi for short), the Nazi party emphasized how Laissez-faire capitalism, economic liberalism, and democracy failed in government. The National Socialists stressed the importance of the impeccability of the German race. Although they had very determined ideas, The Nazi party began as a relatively small group in 1918. But coming into the 1930’s this was not the case. The widespread use of propaganda and radio broadcasting were instrumental to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.