The Beginning Of The 1930s: The Rise Of Adolf Hitler

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On April 20, 1889, Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau Am Inn, Austria to Alois Hitler and Klara Pölzl. In the early days of Hitler’s life, he was an unrestrained and carefree child who lived a happy life. His mother was very caring and affectionate towards him while his father spent most of his time either at work or following his hobby of keeping bees. Hitler had an older brother named Alois Hitler Jr. and an older sister named Angela, and a few years after he was born his mom gave birth to another son named Edmund and another sister named Paula. After his father retired and Hitler started to go to school his life began to change. He was no longer able to live his previous carefree lifestyle and now his strict father was going to be watching

The primary source “German Economic Goals and the Jewish question (August 1936)” by Adolf Hitler describes antisemitism was central to Hitler’s political vision and strategy. The Reichstag passed laws such as making the Jewish people liable for all damage inflicted by individual specimens of this community of criminals upon the German economy, and thus upon the German people. Hitler figured if he destroyed the Jewish people that the world he envisioned would be born. Therefore, he staged the holocaust to eliminate the Jews from German culture. The factors that contributed towards the Nazi hatred of the Jews includes the ideas of ‘Positive Christianity’ supported by Nazi Movement. Additionally, racial and political factors were significant in their relations to anti-Semitism during World War I, which singled out the Jews as a threat to the established order of society in German. These factors made the Jews a target for persecution and ultimate destruction by the Nazis.

With the rise of a fascist regime in 1933 following World War I, and in light of The Depression, fascist sponsors would go on to critically undermine the quality of the parliamentary democracy that governed Germany alongside the corrupt class discrepancies of Western capitalism. In suggestion of a superior system, the advocates of fascism put out the idea of a state ruled by a leader strong enough to resuscitate the nation through acts of military and foreign policies. What followed gave rise to what would be the Nazi regime in Germany under Adolf Hitler. Through Hitler’s powerful methods of propaganda and rhetoric, Hitler reached an audience of people with a preexisting dislike towards the Semitic people. Taking advantage of this irrational aversion of the Semitic people within much of Europe, Hitler would touch upon the extremes and publish in his “Final Solution,” a plan to solve such a problem. In his plan, Hitler promised the complete extermination of Europe’s Semitic population and those others considered inferior. To the surprise of many nations, many reacted with little avail. ("The ‘Final Solution’: Background &

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.

Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, homosexuals, were one of the various groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among the Holocaust victims. Commencing in the early rule of Hitler, homosexual organizations were expelled, scholarly books about homosexuality, and sexuality in general, were destroyed, and homosexuals within the Nazi Party itself were detained or executed. The Gestapo assembled lists of homosexuals in Germany, who were obliged to sexually obey or conform to the "German norm or expectations." This is evident in direct reference to the memoirs of Pierre Seel and the atrocious suffering he endured due to his sexuality in Nazi Germany. “I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror” provides historians with an insight into the Nazi regime and the miseries endured by the minorities of that time. This response will consider the context, content and importance of these texts, as well as the difficulties that it poses as a primary source to historians.

World War II was a major conflict that affected the world, leaving behind several casualties, broken cities, and death. Under Adolf Hitler’s control, Nazi Germany sought to conquer and control Europe as a dominant race. Hitler singled out and blamed the Jewish population and “labeled them the cause of all of the nation’s ills” (Upshur, 863). From the beginning, the German Jews were deprived of jobs, stripped of their civil rights, and forced to mark themselves and their buildings with the Star of David. Soon after, the Jews were being attacked by mobs, murdered and forced to emigrate. The Nazis final attempt to rid Germany, and the world, of the Jewish populations, was by capturing the Jews and imprisoning them in labor camps, or Concentration Camps. Hitler did not stop there, anyone who hid Jews or opposed the Nazis was executed or brought to the camps as well. Hitler’s attempt to purify the German race by weeding out the inferior people was an act of Scientific Racism (Upshur, 863). His ideas and ideology of the German nation helped to justify his actions, but conquering and controlling Europe was his main goal.

The Holocaust, a genocide which lasted from 1942 to 1945 in which around 6 million European Jewish people were killed, was the result of the Ideals of the the past chancellor of Germany, Adolf Hitler. Hitler came into power by capitalising on world-wide events such as the great depression in 1929 resulting from the Wall Street crash. He began spreading his ideals of anti-semitism to the German population in preparation for the ‘Final Solution’, which became known as the Holocaust with the assistance of propaganda, violence, and an economic boycott. Most of the impacts resulting from his methods proved to be extremely valuable to the success of the preparation as they efficiently and effectively brainwashed a hateful image of the Jewish population into the minds of the German people and aligned them with Hitler’s ideals of anti-Semitism. However, some of his methods did were not valuable to preparing the German people as they were not able to depict a hateful image of the Jews.

The rise and subsequent take-over of power in Germany by Hitler and the Nazi Party in the early 1930s was the culmination and continuation not of Enlightenment thought from the 18th and 19th century but the logical conclusion of unstable and cultural conditions that pre-existed in Germany. Hitler’s Nazi Party’s clear manipulation of the weak state of the Weimar Republic through its continued failure economically and socially, plus its undermining of popular support through the signing the Treaty of Versailles all lead to the creation of a Nazi dictatorship under the cult of personality of Hitler. This clear take-over of power and subsequent destruction of any

Hitler had a pathological hatred of the Jews that appears to stem from his time living in an openly anti-Semitic Vienna prior to WW1. Moreover, it is argued that he held Jewish financiers’ as culpable for Germany’s involvement in WW1 and the deaths of hundred of thousands of German soldiers, all of which impacted his political vision. Hitler joined the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) and quickly rose to prominence. Hitler was aware that propaganda against the Jews resonated with voters thus many of his speeches accused the Jews for the defeat of Germany in WW1 and that it was the Jews who were hindering Germany’s recovery. Post war Germany was heavily in debt, reparations set out in the Treaty of Versailles saw the country

Looking back at the horrendous events that occurred during the WWII, many of the people affected or not so affected by the events that took place often ask the question, “Who let a mad man like Hitler come into power?” The answer is, no one. Therefore, it’s probably more accurate to say, “What enabled Hitler to come to power?” To Germans burdened by reparations payments to the victors of World War I, threatened by hyperinflation,and political chaos, Hitler offered scapegoats and solutions to the German People. (Fredericks 17) To the families or individuals who were affected financially, he promised to maraud from Jewish Financiers. To the workers left without jobs, he promised security. By promising to control trade unionism, he gained the financial support of bankers and industrialists which allowed him to rise to power and created the havoc as we know today, the Holocaust. (Smith 37)

Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of Sources The question “How did Hitler’s use of nationalism keep him in power and allow him to maintain his status as totalitarian leader?” will be researched and discovered. From the early 1920s Germany was vulnerable to leader coming to power due to its poor economic and political situation. It was only time before Hitler was able to gain full control of Germany. The speech given by Hitler regarding Foreign Policy addresses how a revolution needs to take place.

Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany turned Germany’s gloomy future into a bright one. Before Hitler claimed power over Germany, the country that was struggling during the Weimar Republic (1919 – 1933) with problems such as the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty forced Germany to hand over reparations for the events of World War 1. Conditions would only get worse for Germany during the Weimar Republic’s control of Germany. In 1923 Germany could no longer afford to pay back the reparations for the treaty, meaning that the country dug deeper into debt. Germany now relied on money from overseas, especially the United States. In 1929 the Wall Street Stock Market crashed, beginning the Great Depression.

During World War II, there existed the Nazis, a Party which ruled Germany from 1933-1945, led by Adolf Hitler. A drastic increase in the Nazi Party is recorded and one of the factors which assisted in this rise was the continual resentment and anger lingering from the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a global economic crisis which left families starving and many unemployed, with many people’s life savings blown away with the closing of banks. In addition, people failed to forget the harsh terms associated with the Treaty of Versailles, signed by Germany in 1919. Hitler’s leadership is believed to have been another factor, contributing in the success of the Nazis; a factor that is by far the most prominent.

Following their dramatic loss in the First World War, the people of Germany were suffering greatly, both emotionally and physically during the period of the 1920s and into the 1930s. The harsh stipulations of the Treaty of Paris forced the German government into a fragile and fragmented institution which was ripe for the abuse of power-hungry would-be tyrants. The people, eager for a strong figure to look up to, would have accepted almost anyone with perhaps any political agenda so long as the person said the right things and gave the people hope. Enter onto the world stage one Adolph Hitler. Between 1932 and 1933, Adolph Hitler was able to rise from the position of relative insubordinate in the government, to fuehrer and leader of the entire country of Germany. The only way that one man could have achieved such political success in so quick a time has to be because of the support he received from the populous for his rhetoric and aggrandizement of Germany. Seeing how well the people received Hitler, other members of the political elite were pressured into giving him further support, lest they go out of favor with the people themselves. Hitler's rise to power was not a final strike of brilliant political strategy, but rather a series of events spearheaded by a charismatic speaker with the voice of the majority behind him and a more educated political faction who were unwilling to take strides against the popular voice.