The fascist political pattern in Germany involved four main factors: the principle of leadership, the totalitarian state, and one-party dictatorship. This political pattern is based on “the overman” theory, which exaggerated the individual differences in intellectual and physical ability. This theory points out that when specific individual has superior potentiality, this kind of people was “the overman”, was the creator of history and could enslave the masses. Nazi Party applied ‘the overman’ theory to their political doctrine and create ‘the principle of leadership’. In practice, this principle means: first, the charismatic leader, playing a unifying role in the state, has supreme authority; secondly, it operates from top to the bottom in all social and political organizations, so that all regional leaders are appointed by the leader and are responsible to the leader. In August, 1934, Hindenburg’s death allowed Hitler to wield the supreme authority. The federal cabinet were responsible only to the leader, and without …show more content…
The ideology of National Socialism rejected all traditional doctrines including democracy and they thought the Weimar democracy was an unorganized mass. After Hitler came into power, he demanded a strong government in which all power was concentrated to the president, and he wanted to abolish the federal system. As a result, the ideology of the totalitarian state that emphasize the importance of establishing the unconditional authority of the government spread widely. On 30 January 1934, “Reichs-Aufbaugestez” (to rebuild the Reich), transferred all sovereign power to the Reich, thereby the Germany established the unitary system under central government. In addition, with the sovereignty lose federations, there was no need to keep the federal council, therefore, on 14 February 1934, the federal council was abolished. Authoritarian control was from top to bottom
The Nazi Party was revered and feared because they were able to exploit people’s fears. The Nazi party existed before the rise of Hitler, but they were a small and virtually unnoticeable party. The entire world was hit by an economic depression in the early 1930s and Germany was not immune. The people of the country were angry and impatient and feared that their parliament was too weak to rectify the economic situation.
This was all due to the undermining fear of Hitler, and was a direct result of how threatening he was to the system. When President Paul Von Hindenburg dies,
Vo, Kayla Period 3 3/28/14 The Nazi Party’s Ascension to Power in Germany The signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 intended to bring worldwide peace after World War I and to penalize Germany for being responsible for the casualties that resulted. The penalty caused Germany to lose its pride, power, and nationalism, thus leaving the country in a helpless economic state and in an abyss. This poor condition after the Great War in 1918 caused citizens to have a strong will for change, which provided the perfect stage for political parties to rise in power. One political party in particular, the National Socialist German Worker's Party--otherwise known as the Nazi Party--captured the interest of the German public.
When World War Two occurred, yes it did end the Nazi party and the Holocaust, but millions of innocent people were died already. That number would have been lower if country took part or interest into helping the Jewish community, but no one did, in which is the reason why the Holocaust is forever being told. If Germany had the real power they said they did, they would have taken World War One with full responsibility and not targets a certain group that had the guts to fight for its country, when it was a little percentage of German who actually fought in the war. However, one statement in which I agree with was when Bauman stated “all of the Nazis Decisions were not so much imbued with intense emotion, but they were the result of no emotion.”
He presided over a cabinet in which Nazi minister was still in the minority. On February 27, 1933, Reichstag building was set on fire, it housed to the German parliament. There was a strong suspicion that the Nazi’s started the fire themselves. Hitler immediately took this opportunity to outlaw all opposition
The people of many nations felt intense pride in their country and the people they identified with. Document I, an excerpt from the textbook depicted a German individual with intense nationalist pride. Intense national pride and nationalism represented one major factor that led to the rise of Fascist regimes. Document L provided evidence of nationalist advocacy for the rise of truly German people above others. Document L, an antisemetic political cartoon entitled Where Something is Rotten, the Jew is the Cause from 1931 that depicted a Jewish worm torn out of an apple by a Nazi knife.
After World War I had ended in November 11, 1918 with the victory of the Allies, the people of many nations were in distraught. They had sought the leader they hoped would bring back their nations glory and prosperity. Some even hoped for even better than before the World War. Through all this chaos and distraught even more had been produced as few stepped up to lead the people of the nations. These few people had held all the power through a totalitarian government which centralizes all the government’s power to one person known as a dictator.
Through the use secret organizations, these leaders were able to control the citizens under the government and earn their respect so they would not have to face consequences such as going to a concentration camp or death. By manipulating the youth, leaders were able to build a basis of respect from young kids for generations to come. Lastly, propaganda made leaders look more appealing and make other organizations look bad to get more votes for their party. In conclusion, totalitarian leaders were able to effectively gain and maintain power through the manipulation and termination of all opposing
The Nazi used the Great Depression as the boost to gain support from the Germans. Due to America’s depression, Germany was put into a dire state as unemployment increased, thus resulted in the Nazi gaining votes during the 1933 election. The depression caused desperation within the people that made them feel that the Weimar Republic could not look after them or the country’s financial problems. Hitler made promises to get rid of the unemployment rate, thus gaining the support of the public. Although the Great Depression was a key factor to Hitler’s rise to power but there were other causes: the German’s were looking for a saviour and Hitler happened to be that person; Hitler also played on the German’s fear factor of Communism and Communist which led him to get votes from the middle to higher class citizens by the burning of the Reichstag.
Furthermore, Hitler’s government declared the Nazi Party to be the single political party in Germany on July 14, 1933. As a result of Hindenburg’s death in 1934, Hitler took on the title of
“To be a leader means to be able to move masses” (Adolf Hitler). The quote epitomizes both the Nazi party in Germany and the World State in the novel ‘Brave New World’. The Nazi’s and World state exercised propaganda to gain dictatorship and control over their people. It is not difficult for one man or society to dictate millions with the help of advanced technology and propaganda techniques. The propaganda techniques like card stacking, glittering generalities, and plain folks are used in the propaganda of the Nazi party(Adolf Hitler) and the World State .
The extent that economic hardship contributed to the rise to power of Hitler should not be underestimated. However, Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was based upon various factors that certainly included the backdrop of economic hardship. The complex relationship between these factors is as important to analyse as the elements of economic hardship. The energy and organisation of Hitler and the Nazis is just as important as the effect of the Treaty of Versailles, the weaknesses of the Weimar Republic (in which Hitler exploited at every turn) and finally, Hitler’s greatest opportunity, the Great Depression. Hitler’s rise to power is one of the most dramatic and yet unbelievable stories in the history of the Modern World.
Hitler’s reign began and as a chancellor his cabinet was given power to enact laws without the consent of Reichstag (the great German empire).
In the late 1920’s, the Nazi party had little success but in 1933, Hitler and the Nazis came to power. Hitler was the leader of a small right-wing party with very extremist ideas. Within a couple of years this party was in control of Germany. The factors that caused Hitler’s success for the rise of Nazism has been studied ever since. Hitler’s organisation skills and personal traits helped to bring the Naizs into power.
This can be compared to a direct democracy, in which the citizens directly vote on all issues of importance. In authoritarian and totalitarian political regimes, one person, entity, or party has complete control over the affairs of the state, without the input or consent of the population. In totalitarian regimes specifically, this leader attempts to control all aspects of a society, including things like the personal beliefs and morals of the population. These are sometimes accompanied by a cult of personality around the leader or leaders, as in the case of Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany. Common forms of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes include military juntas, in which a small committee of military leaders rules the country or a single-party state, in which only one