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The war had a devastating impact
on the entire continent both
psychologically and financially.
Unfortunately, the infant Weimar Republic
was being made to pay for the sins of the old
empire. The republic carried the burden of war
guilt and national humiliation and was
financially crippled by being forced to pay
compensation.
Those who supported the Weimar Republic, mainly
Socialists, Catholics and Democrats, became easy
targets of attack in the conservative nationalist
circles.
Helmut was a German boy his father
was Prominent physician, deliberated with
his wife Whether the time had come to kill
the entire
Family or if he should commit suicide alone . He
said to his wife about his fear of revenge, saying,’
now the Allies will do to us what we did to the
crippled and Jews.’
The whole family committed suicide . Helmut's
father was a Nazi and a supporter of Adolf Hitler.
This crisis in the economy,
polity and society formed the background to
Hitler’s rise to power.
When the First World War broke out, he enrolled
for the army, acted as a messenger in the front,
became a corporal, and earned medals for bravery.
The German defeat horrified him
and the Versailles Treaty made
him furious. In 1919, he joined a
small group called the German
Workers’ Party. He subsequently
took over the organisation and
renamed it the National Socialist
German Workers’ party.
In 1923, Hitler planned to seize control
of Bavaria, march to Berlin and capture
power. He failed, was arrested, tried for
treason, and later released.
The Nazis could not effectively mobilise popular
support till the early 1930s. It was during the Great
Depression that Nazism became a mass movement.
As we have seen, after 1929, banks collapsed and
businesses shut down, workers lost their jobs and
the middle classes were threatened with destitution.
In such a situation Nazi propaganda stirred hopes of
a better future. In 1928, the Nazi Party got no more
than 2. 6 per cent votes in the Reichstag ñ the
German parliament. By 1932, it had become the
largest party with 37 per cent votes
Hitler was a powerful speaker.
His passion and his words
moved people
He promised
employment for those
looking for work, and a
secure future for the
youth. He promised to
weed out all foreign
influences and resist all
foreign ‘conspiracies’
against Germany.
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Germany was in one of its strongest stances for
nearly 20 years. It was this that Hitler wanted to capitalise
on for the future of Nazi Germany and by doing this they
need to take advantage of the young people as they are the
next generation of Nazis. Using the ideas of Social Darwinism they
Nazis decided that only the most strongest and ruthless should survive.
This was to be the Aryan race. How was Hitler supposed to tackle such a massive
task? Would it work? And what effects would it have? The Nazis would have to
brainwash the German youth in every possible way. So they did, they took over
the lives of
the German children, and run them for them. If Hitler wanted his anticipated 1000-
year regime to succeed the future generations were the children. To get people on
your side you need to get them on your side when they are young,
Younger people are far easier to influence than when they are adults. This is
because the younger you are the more you believe other people as they are more
dependant on them, and the younger generations look up to the older
generations who lead by example to make the younger people the perfect Nazis.
NAZI IDEOLOGY
1920 to 1923, Hitler formulated his ideology, then published
it in 1925–26, as Mein Kampf, a two-volume, biography and
political manifesto.
Though Hitler for "tactical"
reasons had rhetorically declared
a 1920 party platform
with platitudes "unshakable,"
actually "many paragraphs of the
party program were obviously
merely a demagogic appeal to the
mood of the lower classes at a
time when they were in bad straits
and were sympathetic to radical
and even socialist slogans...
THE ART OF PROPAGANDA ………..
The Nazi regime used language and media with care and often to great effect for
Propaganda, they coined different words for their official communications such as –
Mass Killing were termed “Special Treatment"," Final solution” for the Jews, “euthanasis”
“ selection” and “disinfection” for the disabled.
“Evacuation” meant deporting people to gas chambers and gas chambers were
termed as “disinfection area” and looked like bathroom equipped with fake
showerheads.
Nazi idea were spread through visual images, films, radio, posters, catchy
slogan and Leaflets, propaganda films were made to crea
Death of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot on 30
April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin.] His
wife committed suicide with him by
ingesting cyanide.