After World War I, Europe saw a rise in strong totalitarian leaders and programs. Hitler used Nazism to give Germany an economic rebound, in the same way Stalin used Stalinism to increase production in Russia, and boost their economy. The circumstances of the time that led to the rise of Nazism and Stalinism included the Treaty of Versailles and the Russian Revolution. In addition, the leaders of these programs used previous ideas of nationalism, unification of the country, and imperialism to rise to power and lead their nation. Nazism was created by Adolf Hitler in response to terms of the Treaty of Versailles that Germany would have to pay extreme reparations to other countries that had been involved in World War I. The circumstances of the time for Germany was their desperation for things to get better and many people believed the countries involved in the Treaty of Versailles took “all sovereign rights from us. We are just good enough that international capital allows us to fill its money sacks with interest payments… Have we deserved it? No” (We Demand, 1927). With this belief, Hitler used previous ideas of nationalism in his speech saying to unite the German people for “as long as the German people was united it has never been conquered” (Proclamations to The German People and the German …show more content…
Hitler used the circumstances involving the unfair terms of the Treaty of Versailles and previous ideas of nationalism and imperialism to rally a following in Germany and promote Nazism. Stalin’s rule was a product of the Russian Revolution and the death of Vladimir Lenin. He was put into power as a puppet leader, but ended up increasing production and rallying his people with nationalism and a total war economy. Although both Nazism and Stalinism did improve the economies of Russia and Germany, the cost was great and millions of people perished under Hitler’s and Stalin’s
As leaders, Adolf Hitler was more brutal than Stalin. Hitler was very manipulative, thus, having the ability to convince and sway his country to ignore the law and murder millions of people. Hitler as a person was a lot worse than Stalin because he was determined have world domination. Hitler was very scheming, which lead to the Holocaust. He had the power to convince Nazis to murder 6 million out of 9 million jews living in Europe at the time1. Hitler had made the Germans believe that in case of another war, the Germans will not be exterminated, but instead the Jews would. As Albert Speer quoted, “I was present in the Reichstag session of January 30, 1939 when Hitler guaranteed that, in the event of another war, the Jews, not the Germans,
Stalin and Hitler emerged at the time when political and economic instability had crippled the USSR and Germany. They began making improvements which encouraged their people to believe that prosperous times await them. This notion would unfortunately turn out as an illusion. Both figures would eventually rule by decree. Despite treading on different paths of dictatorship, both figures still find some commonalities.
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.
Hitler's idea of Nazi germany started in 1923 when he made a failed attempt to seize power in munich, he was arrested and sent to prison. While in prison he wrote his Manifesto “Mein Kampf” ( My Struggle), this would become the basic book of Nazi goals and Ideology. Hitler and the Nazi party brought hope to germans suffering from the Great Depression. On the dark side to hitler’s promises was a message of hate aimed particularly at the jewish people. His fanatical anti semitism was set out to drive Jews out of Germany.
Adolf Hitler wanted German nationalism and he would do anything to get it. That is why he created the nazis and used the young to gain power. To start of with, Hitler created the Nazi Party to gain nationalism. The Nazis agreed with Hitler’s ideology about Nazism. They set off with Hitler to gain control of the government, the religion, the culture, and the working environments.
In the time just before the Nazi regimes rise to power, the German people were still paying back war reparations and forced in the treaty of Versailles to accept the full blame of causing World War One. Being German was not at this time to be proud; there was guilt and shame amongst the population. The Nazi ideology appealed to the German people because it advocated unification, equality, power, and put the blame of their suffering on the Jews. The Nazi way was attractive and no one at the beginning of the rise of the Nazis could have foreseen just how extreme their beliefs and actions would become.
The rise of the military-industrial complex of Germany from 1933 until its demise in April 1945 was built on manipulation and greed. The Nazis manipulated the great industrial combines of Germany to the profits to be gained in the pending rearmament program. Hitler and his inner sanctum created the ultimate crony capitalistic state; emphasizing greed for power and fortune. Hitler present himself and the party as the final barrier against Russian Bolshevism. Hitler’s adept manipulation of these industrial giants allowed him to throw the world into a maelstrom of killing. While those same individuals sought to control him; Hitler controlled them under the guise of a final victory. Whatever else it was; Hitler 's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe were wrenched from its normal purposes and converted to a machine for killing.
One of the main factors in Hitler’s rise to power was the Economic Depression of 1929. “After the Wall Street crash, the U.S. called in its loans to Germany, which increased both poverty and unemployment levels”. The government did not know how to change this situation, this made the public angry knowing they had no real solutions. During the depression, political trends become extremist and so the Nazis flourished, Hitler offered himself as a strong leader to look up to. “The depression gave Hitler the edge he needed to gain ninety-five seats in the Reichstag and ultimately progress from the leader of a minority party to the Dictator of the Third Reich”. Once Hitler showed how he could gain more power than he needed, he used some of his techniques to scare the people into doing something they did not really want to do. Hitler was a very smart man, who could see around the world and find problems in another country that he can use to aid himself in a more powerful direction.
Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin were two of the most disturbing and deadliest national leaders of their time. Although they were both born of unpretentious backgrounds, their interest was in radical political movements. Because it was during the most vulnerable time of WW1 and WW2, their rise to power was nearly effortless. Though they were formidable opponents, there was much that Stalin(leader of a Soviet Union) and Hitler(leader of the Nazi’s) had in common. As revolutionaries in the 1900’s, Europe's history has been affected due to their dreadful powers. Both promised modernism and progress in the average daily life of a countryman, but they were more troublesome with embellishing and broadening their power than to help an enormous dollop of unease people in their economy. Where Hitler's
He accused the people who signed the treaty of Versailles.then Hitler had gone to german industrilalists for money in return he promised them protection against communism.Some how he gathered money for his massive campaigning.In May 1928 the Nazis had been just one of several parties in the the Reichstag, the german parliament with only 12 seats .By sept 1930 they increased that number to 107 In july 1932 they became the massive single party
Hitler rose to power because of deep hatred of the first world war and the treaty of versailles made an underlying bitterness that his viciousness and expansionism appealed
From 1933 to 1945, Germany was under the leadership of Adolf Hitler and the Nationalist Socialist German Party, or Nazi Party. The group promoted German pride and Anti-Semitism, hate towards Jews, and expressed disgust towards the Treaty of Versailles, a peace document signed between Germany and the Allies at the end of World War 1 (History.com Staff). In order to grow his movement, Hitler recruited Germans for his armies, his factory workers, and his death camp guards. Because of this, it was easy to assume that all Germans supported the Nazi dictatorship and the ideas they preached. However, throughout this time period many Germans of different political and religious beliefs came together to protest against the regime.
The rise of Fascism had its roots in both nationalism and World War I. Fascism was the response of the losing side of World War I. While Fascism is partly to blame for starting World War II, I personally view World War II as the continuation of the Great War because of the failure of the Treaty of Versailles.
One of, if not the most world changing events happened in the last 100 years.
Fascism and Nazism developed out of general crisis of the European political system which related to the rise of the mass participation of the state from the late 19th century to the end of World War 1. The mass participation was the result of things including, the availability of women voters and unpredicted expansion of the number of voters, a development of mass communication with a high mass of mobilization and modernization originally asserted by socialist parties, poorly organized middle-class and political party structures. Fascism was motivated by deep resting fears of social and political revolutions of the ruling elites and large parts of the middle and lower-middle classes. Nazism had the theory of racism and of the perfect Aryan chosen people using propaganda and philosophy to boost them into power . Fascist and Nazi movements appeared throughout Europe during the period between World Wars I and II, but only in Germany and Italy did they come to power and develop into regimes.