The Nazi Party: The Rise Of The Nazi Party

Within Germany, a country torn between the rise of a totalitarian party that determined a superior race, Nazism, and the survival of the oppressed, young Germans face a test between a sense of self and society. Individuality would be suppressed within this new type of society, and being different would be the deadliest obstruction to life. The violations of the rights to life, religion, and speech are relived through the stories of the German youth that lived through this haunting time, whose name would be tarnished in their struggle to survive. In their fight, their morals would be challenged and influenced until the Nazi regime ended, and the violation of human dignity would leave them wondering if life was worth living after all. The Nazi Party grew under its leader, Adolf Hitler, which struggled not to use violence against those that disagreed with their views, starting with armed groups known as the Strum Abteilung, who pledged to be ready to sacrifice their life in the aims of the Nazi Party and absolute loyalty to their leader. Their cruel intolerance began by their strong nationalism and their hatred of democracy and communism, and they gained power through the economic depressions around the world, controlling the media by instilling fear and propaganda that influenced a strong belief in their leaders. This belief in the leaders would soon seem to override Church influence when the official body of the Church failed to do anything significant

Horror struck on January 30, 1933, when Germany assigned Adolf Hitler as their chancellor. Once Hitler had finally reached power he set out to complete one goal, create a Greater Germany free from the Jews (“The reasons for the Holocaust,” 2009). This tragedy is known today as, “The Holocaust,” that explains the terrors of our histories past. The face of the Holocaust, master of death, and leader of Germany; Adolf Hitler the most deceitful, powerful, well spoken, and intelligent person that acted as the key to this mass murder. According to a research study at the University of South Florida, nearly eleven million people were targeted and killed. This disaster is a genocide that was meant to ethnically cleanse Germany of the Jews. Although Jewish people were the main target they were not the only ones targeted; gypsies, African Americans, homosexuals, socialists, political enemies, communists, and the mentally disabled were killed (Simpson, 2012, p. 113). The word to describe this hatred for Jewish people is known as antisemitism. It was brought about when German philosophers denounced that “Jewish spirit is alien to Germandom” (“Antisemitism”) which states that a Jew is non-German. Many people notice the horrible things the Germans did, but most don’t truly understand why the Holocaust occurred. To truly understand the Holocaust, you must first know the Nazis motivations. Their motivations fell into two categories including cultural explanations that focused on ideology and

Hitler’s rise to power was the result of many factors, but Hitler’s ability to take advantage of Germany’s poor leadership and economical and political conditions was the most significant factor. His ability to manipulate the media and the German public whilst taking advantage of Germany’s poor leadership resulted in both the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler and the nazi party. During the early 1920s, Germany was struggling with economic instability and political uncertainty. Germany, after being defeated in the Great War, was forced to sign the unforgiving treaty of Versailles, which the Weimar Republic was held responsible for. This brought forward feelings of fear, anger and

Antisemitism is the hostility or prejudices against Jews. Those with the intentions and actions to discriminate Jews are known as anti semitic. This began shortly after Hitler and Nazi Germany assumed power in 1933. At an annual party put on by the Nazis, they created a brand new set of rules called the “Nuremberg Laws”. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Nazis started to “make good” on their pledge to oppress German Jews (ushmm.org). Eventually, Nazi party members announced their purpose. They wanted to segregate Jews from their society. With these intentions, the actions of the Nazi party that came after were cruel and inhumane. It was at this annual party that the start of the creation of these cruel laws intending to separate Jews.

“Young boys were organized into the Deutches Jungvolk (German Young People, informally called Pimpfe), older boys into the Hitlerjugend (HJ). The Deutches Jungvolk could have boys from the ages of 10-14 and the Hitlerjugend could have boys from the ages of 14-18. When World War II started, more than ninety percent of German youth were members of these organizations. Ninety percent is a huge percentage. That means that almost every teenage German, Gentile was a member of some kind of Nazi Youth Organization. Many of these youth organization actually over rid the parental control on the children. Many were told that the individual or the family was less important than the state. If children had disloyal parents, they were encouraged to report them. When the boys weren’t in school or at home with their parents, they were with their youth organization learning military maneuvers and different chants. An example of the one the chants that the Hitler Youth used to march around chanting are: “Comrades, we march to the field, red today, tomorrow dead, Comrades it must be that way.” If the boys made any achievement in the Hitler Youth, credit in school would be given to the student. The teacher must respect the authority of the youth leaders, regardless of their age or attitude towards them. Blind obedience seems to be a common theme. Children are taught these ideologies without knowing the true real reason. Teachers are forced to believe and follow these ideologies if they wish to

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.

After Germany’s fall of World War I, Hitler started to rise to power with his scapegoat for Germany’s problems. This was Jewish

The Nazi party members were mainly young and came from the industrial working class. At this time, people in Germany had suffered from the global depression after the U.S. stock market crushed, from the Spanish Civil War and now they were suffering due to the World War II. Hitler’s fallowers were looking forward to being in war, “many thought of war as exciting, like the games they played as children during World War I. The desire of being in war that Hitler’s fallowers had, made it easier for the Nazi party to take over and proceed with their idea of building

Certain historical figures can gain so much infamy that they surpass simply being human, and actually become a symbol for what they did. Hitler and the Nazi Party is the best example of this; if you want to describe someone as pure evil, comparing them to Hitler accomplishes that. Certain cornerstones of the Nazi Party have actually become common amongst fiction. One good example of this is the game “Undertale” by Toby Fox.

When people think about the Nazis and what they stood for, most people would always say that they were murderous psychopaths, but after reading The Twenty-Five Points of the Nazi Party Program , it shows that they didn’t start out like that. The readings show that what the program was aiming to do was help rise Germany from the despair of getting the bad end of the deal at the end of World War I. As you look through the text you can see that most of the points are aiming at certain areas for what they wanted for Germany, such as land. As I was reading through the text, I was not that surprised at all by the demands that they were wanting. Going through and reading The Twenty-Five Points showed that the Nazi program were mainly wanting Germany to get back to the proud country that it used to be, and over time it was able to through the Nazi program.

One of the most chilling aspects of Nazi Germany was how the youth was used to control the country. Hitler’s Youth and the Legion of German Girls allowed the Third Reich to indoctrinate children when they were at their most impressionable. Life for these children was extreme; they were bred to be either soldiers or mothers. “These young people will learn nothing else but how to think German and act German. . . . And they will never be free again, not in their whole lives”.

In Germany during the time of 1933 through 1945 the role of the Nazi Policies toward women and youth carried a significance toward the the society. It is shown that Hitler treated and taught society to treat women a stereotypical and unfair way. The education was used to corrupt the youth in an attempt to control the future . He wanted youth and women to be perfectly up to his standards and fit into his uniformed personalities. People of Germany looked up or had to look up to Hitler due to his control. They thought and agreed with many of his points therefore they did not see this as a problem because Hitler did not see it as a problem.

One thing that I learned from reading this selection that was especially important was Hitler and the Nazi Party’s coming to power. One reason it was especially important because the Nazi rise to power triggered the holocaust. Hitler made it a priority to kill all Jews in Europe. Around 6 million Jews died during the holocaust at the hands of Nazis and other anti Semitic groups. “The Nazis were killing Jews in huge numbers, but it wasn’t until January 20,1942, that they devised their “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem. That day 16 Nazi leaders met just outside Berlin, at Wannsee. According to their notes at the meeting, “ Europe is to be combed through West to East in the course of practical implementation of the final solution. . . . The evacuation jews will

When Hitler gained power, he set up a police state and a secret police called the Gestapo who arrested anyone hostile to the Nazis government. Jews and other innocents were arrested and housed in concentration camps. Also, even though unemployment decreased under Hitler, women and Jews were no longer included in the figures. Trade unions were banned and there was a loss of personal freedoms in the workplace. The Nazi’s also used propaganda and censorship to control everything that the German people read, heard and saw. There were also negatives about the youth movement; children were afraid of its motives and didn’t like how harsh it was and that attendance was compulsory. Then there was education; teachers and the curriculum were controlled and specialist schools were established, all to create Nazis. Women were also controlled. They were and encouraged to behave in certain ways and were pushed to have lots of ‘good quality’ children. All this meant that there was a loss of many personal freedoms. It was also obvious that Hitler was creating a road to war with the four year plan (rearmament, conscription, and the building of autobahns) and the youth movement preparing children for their roles during war. All this leads to the fact that Nazi rule between 1933 and 1939 had many

The most widely known aspects of Nazi ideology are their hatred of Jewish people and their tireless efforts to exterminate the entire race during their rule. This distinctly Nazi belief of antisemitism is not one that the Nazis created. It instead had existed for several thousand years throughout Germany and all of Europe. As Stackelberg and Winkle explain, “The origins of the stereotype of Jews as immoral materialists can be traced to the unwillingness of Jews to give up their religion in favor of world-renouncing Christianity” (Stackelberg and Winkle, Anti-Semitism, p. 2). This feeling of hatred towards Jews persisted for centuries, especially in countries that had a majority of Christian citizens. There were a number of people that continually perpetuated these anti-Semitic views with the works that they published and their actions towards Jews. A great