Capitulation And Execution Essay: Hitler's Triumph Des Willens

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In January 1933, President Paul Hindenburg announced the new Chancellor of Germany. Elected through democratic means, the President intended to allow the radical new leader the position of Chancellor he asked for and had a right to, considering his party had won a majority of the legislature in the 1932 elections, but the President had one more special set of powers with his position-the ability to elect the Chancellor’s cabinet. He intended to drown Hitler’s voice out in a cabinet of moderates, intent on gaining his capitulation and adoption of middle ground politics in debates and legislature. Hitler had other plans and through the clever twisting of the political, social, and economic happenings of the early 30s managed to get the Reichstag to support the Enabling Act, which allowed him the ability to dictate legislation without Reichstag approval. With this, another new dictator was gained after the chaos spurned from WWI led to a series of …show more content…

One of the pieces Hitler masterfully used to increase his power within Germany was the 1935 released film Triumph Des Willens, featuring the 1934 NAZI party Congress in Nuremburg, Germany directed by Leni Riefenstahl. The use of the Triumph Des Willens was the next step in his propaganda machine in order to reinforce and spread NAZI values as well as manipulate the German public into believing his ability to bring back German eminency in European politics. The film, however, was presented by Riefenstahl as an artistic documentary of the Congress, exhibiting as truthfully as she could the events that occurred and the feelings that ran through the minds of those that were at the events. The film was one of many which has since the fall of the NAZI empire has been labelled as genius propaganda, and ultimately (with her other films such as Olympiad) led to the destruction of her career in German

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