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Website Number 1: " Today Hitler is All of Germany". This was the Newspaper headline in the year of 1934. This reflected the vital shift in power that had occurred. In no time he had the army swear a personal oath of unconditional obedience. He was now the head of the state and supreme court commander of the armed forces . Hitler had total power in Germany, unrestricted by any constitutional
constraints. This new headline implied more. This was a major change in the power of Germany. It suggested an identity of Hitler and the country he ruled, signifying a complete bond between the German people and Hitler. They made a successful effort to legitimize the political change in Germany. They demonstrated that "Hitler was for Germany". ran the slogan. As the result showed, however, reality lagged behind propaganda. According to the official figures, over a sixth of voters defied the intense pressure to conform and did not vote "yes." In some big working-class areas of Germany, up to a third had not given Hitler their vote. There were one or two tantalizing hints that Hitler's personal appeal outstripped that of the Nazi regime itself, and even more so of the Party. "For Adolf Hitler yes, but a thousand times no to the brown big-wigs" was scribbled on one ballot-paper in Potsdam. The same sentiment could be heard elsewhere. Beneath the image of Führer constantly uniformed by the trickery of propaganda and the mass media, there are numerous pieces of evidence that Hitler's appeal remained far less than total, even in what later memory often recalled as the "good years" of the mid-1930s. Despite the false "election" result at the end of the month, ballot-rigging, electoral manipulation and intense propaganda according to the official figures 98.9 per cent voted "for the list and thus for the Führer," the re-militarization of the Rhineland was unquestionably a hugely popular move, and one widely attributed to Hitler's bold and skillful leadership. Much suggests, in fact, that between the death of Hindenburg in August 1934 and the expansion into Austria and the Sudetenland four years later Hitler was indeed successful in gaining the backing of the vast majority of the German people, something of immeasurable importance for the disastrous course of German policy ahead. Apart perhaps from the immediate aftermath of the astonishing victory in France in summer 1940, Hitler's popularity was never higher than at the height of his foreign-policy successes in 1938.
Website Number 2: Hitler was said to make the Germans feel like they were important. He made it seem like his decisions and his power would benefit them in a tremendous way. The way he did this was, he gave them huge tax breaks and introduced social benefits. He ensured that even in the last days of war no one would go hungry. Despite near-constant warfare, never once during his 12 years in power did Hitler raise taxes for working class people. He also — in great contrast to World War I — particularly pampered soldiers and their families, offering them more than double the salaries and benefits that American and British families received. Many saw Nazism as a "warm-hearted" protector for Germany. In Auschwitz no one was against killing the Jews. In Auschwitz…there is not one case in the records of an SS man being prosecuted for refusing to take part in the killings, while there is plenty of material showing
that the real discipline problem in the camp. The ordinary members of the SS appear to have agreed with the Nazi leadership that it was right to kill the Jews.
Website Number 3: Propaganda was a big part of was a vital part of the Nazi Party when Goebbels was in charge. He
controlled the press and the arts, even the film industry he was clearly a key figure. As the war turned bad for the Germans in 1941. it became difficult for the people if Germany to believe that Goebbels knew what he was saying. His speeches were boring and they repeated the same thoughts and ideas. The people started to doubt his power. They wanted to be entertained. This caused Hitler to complain that Germany wasn't nearly National Socialist enough . Goebbels's major contribution was to introduce what the German- Jewish philology. This
enabled people to accept certain aspects of Nazi policy, particularly anti-Semitism, in a way that they previously wouldn't have done, because they learned to think and speak in a different language. The Nazis would use words to describe how the Nazis intended to deal with the "Jewish Problem", "removal", "final solution", ect. Most of these words were just another way of commercializing murder. Endless repetitions, euphemisms and shifting meanings became internalized, lowered the threshold of acceptance, and individuals treated with indifference what they would have previously found morally questionable. " Faith" was the key word in the creation of Hitler's myth. All certainty comes from faith. He insisted that " feelings have to take place of thinking. The amazing thing is the number of people who had an absolute "faith" in Hitler. Even after the war there were people who still had faith in him. It was kin of looked at as a religious thing that had nothing to do with the actual realities of the war. People saw him as a strong figure, a man of destiny, and they thought that he was correct. Even when things were over for Germany they continued to follow him. He introduced the V weapons, those magic weapons that were gong to save the day. There was even a rumor that the Nazis had developed an airplane that flew so
fast it had to shoot backwards so it didn't run into its own bullets. That people could believe something as idiotic as that is quite astonishing. It required blind faith.
constraints. This new headline implied more. This was a major change in the power of Germany. It suggested an identity of Hitler and the country he ruled, signifying a complete bond between the German people and Hitler. They made a successful effort to legitimize the political change in Germany. They demonstrated that "Hitler was for Germany". ran the slogan. As the result showed, however, reality lagged behind propaganda. According to the official figures, over a sixth of voters defied the intense pressure to conform and did not vote "yes." In some big working-class areas of Germany, up to a third had not given Hitler their vote. There were one or two tantalizing hints that Hitler's personal appeal outstripped that of the Nazi regime itself, and even more so of the Party. "For Adolf Hitler yes, but a thousand times no to the brown big-wigs" was scribbled on one ballot-paper in Potsdam. The same sentiment could be heard elsewhere. Beneath the image of Führer constantly uniformed by the trickery of propaganda and the mass media, there are numerous pieces of evidence that Hitler's appeal remained far less than total, even in what later memory often recalled as the "good years" of the mid-1930s. Despite the false "election" result at the end of the month, ballot-rigging, electoral manipulation and intense propaganda according to the official figures 98.9 per cent voted "for the list and thus for the Führer," the re-militarization of the Rhineland was unquestionably a hugely popular move, and one widely attributed to Hitler's bold and skillful leadership. Much suggests, in fact, that between the death of Hindenburg in August 1934 and the expansion into Austria and the Sudetenland four years later Hitler was indeed successful in gaining the backing of the vast majority of the German people, something of immeasurable importance for the disastrous course of German policy ahead. Apart perhaps from the immediate aftermath of the astonishing victory in France in summer 1940, Hitler's popularity was never higher than at the height of his foreign-policy successes in 1938.
Website Number 2: Hitler was said to make the Germans feel like they were important. He made it seem like his decisions and his power would benefit them in a tremendous way. The way he did this was, he gave them huge tax breaks and introduced social benefits. He ensured that even in the last days of war no one would go hungry. Despite near-constant warfare, never once during his 12 years in power did Hitler raise taxes for working class people. He also — in great contrast to World War I — particularly pampered soldiers and their families, offering them more than double the salaries and benefits that American and British families received. Many saw Nazism as a "warm-hearted" protector for Germany. In Auschwitz no one was against killing the Jews. In Auschwitz…there is not one case in the records of an SS man being prosecuted for refusing to take part in the killings, while there is plenty of material showing
that the real discipline problem in the camp. The ordinary members of the SS appear to have agreed with the Nazi leadership that it was right to kill the Jews.
Website Number 3: Propaganda was a big part of was a vital part of the Nazi Party when Goebbels was in charge. He
controlled the press and the arts, even the film industry he was clearly a key figure. As the war turned bad for the Germans in 1941. it became difficult for the people if Germany to believe that Goebbels knew what he was saying. His speeches were boring and they repeated the same thoughts and ideas. The people started to doubt his power. They wanted to be entertained. This caused Hitler to complain that Germany wasn't nearly National Socialist enough . Goebbels's major contribution was to introduce what the German- Jewish philology. This
enabled people to accept certain aspects of Nazi policy, particularly anti-Semitism, in a way that they previously wouldn't have done, because they learned to think and speak in a different language. The Nazis would use words to describe how the Nazis intended to deal with the "Jewish Problem", "removal", "final solution", ect. Most of these words were just another way of commercializing murder. Endless repetitions, euphemisms and shifting meanings became internalized, lowered the threshold of acceptance, and individuals treated with indifference what they would have previously found morally questionable. " Faith" was the key word in the creation of Hitler's myth. All certainty comes from faith. He insisted that " feelings have to take place of thinking. The amazing thing is the number of people who had an absolute "faith" in Hitler. Even after the war there were people who still had faith in him. It was kin of looked at as a religious thing that had nothing to do with the actual realities of the war. People saw him as a strong figure, a man of destiny, and they thought that he was correct. Even when things were over for Germany they continued to follow him. He introduced the V weapons, those magic weapons that were gong to save the day. There was even a rumor that the Nazis had developed an airplane that flew so
fast it had to shoot backwards so it didn't run into its own bullets. That people could believe something as idiotic as that is quite astonishing. It required blind faith.