Throughout Nazi germany between 1928 and 1941 racism was used by Hitler and later his Nazi party. Racism was the key to securing his dictatorship and overall uniting german people to stand against the common enemy.
Most people believe that Hitlers racial beliefs only began once he came into power and was influenced by certain individuals. This is a major misconception. Hitler showed racism much earlier in his life and prime evidence of this is in his autobiography Mein Kampf. Hitler uses racial slurs and expresses racial belief throughout the book. Hitler wasn’t always a racist as a child. Hitler was born on the 20th of April 1889 in Braunau am Inn , Austria-Hungary. He attended multiple schools as his family moved around perusing different
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Hitler lost his younger brother to measles in 1900 and this is said to have had a great effect on hitlers mental state. He went from being a confident outgoing young boy to a quiet, withheld and detached person. This ultimately caused Hitler to fight with his father and teachers. In his early adulthood Hitler had a passion for music and attended multiple performances of Lohengrin , his favorite Wagner opera. This is where Hitler was first exposed to racist beliefs and ideology. Hitlers district that he lived in called Mariahilf had adopted and become great followers of german nationalism and purity. Hitler also read the weekly newspaper called the Deutsches Volksblatt , this newspaper used great prejudice and played on Christian fears of being overrun by Eastern European jews. How could a person who is being exposed to all this influence not be converted or start to pick up on these ways or beliefs. Hitler then wanted to join the army. He applied to serve for Austria-Hungary …show more content…
Hitler was a soldier in the war and found it very hard to face defeat. Many conservatives and nationalists that Germany had the lost the war due to inside betrayal. They blamed socialists, communists and mainly the Jewish. This is ironic as more than one hundred thousand German/Austrian jewish soldiers had fought in the war and more that twelve thousand jewish soldiers had lost there lives for there country. After the war ,Hitler joined the new extreme rightwing party, the national socialist German workers party. Hitler quickly became the strong man in the party and realized that he could use his speeches to persuade people and use propaganda against the jewish and the Bolsheviks. He struck a cord with voters and audiences. He claimed that the Jewish were not only responsible for unfair German defeat but also that the Jewish were the reason that Germany had not recovered yet from the loss of the war. Ultimately Hitlers views and need for power saw him trying to hatch a coup against the Weimar Republic. This ultimately failed and Hitler was sentenced to five years in prison where he wrote and shared his views in the book Mein Kamph. Hitler had a need for control and power and couldn’t handle the fact that the jewish were a stronger and better community and more successful that the pure German
The book Mein Kampf written by Hitler, explicitly states Hitler 's hate for the Jews. This hate is what led him to believe that it was his responsibility to create a pure country out of Germany, by excluding the other types of races and focusing on the Aryan race, which is what he believed to be the superior.This idea would later result in in the Holocaust. Although Hitler was an intelligent individual the scientific and cultural basis he uses to prove his beliefs are completely foolish, and the facts that he uses to differentiate the Jews and aryan races do not add up. Hitler 's views eventually laid the foundations of anti -semitism.
Did you know that even though Hitler had brown hair and blue eyes, his idea of a superior race was those with blond hair and blue eyes? He wanted this group of people to be superior to all other races because they represented a clean view of Germany. Hitler used his power to achieve this goal by enforcing many rules and creating many different projects. He wanted the people of Germany to believe that they were superior to all other races and they must do everything to maintain the standards of living in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler and his Nazis created the perfect race by influencing the education of children and creating bride schools, the Hitler Youth Program, and Lebensborn birthing homes.
Although the systematic murder of Jews had not yet begun until 1941, there was still a practiced discrimination, which had come into practice years earlier in Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler was elected democratically in the year 1932. He had always pitched a unified German party that would reignite the power and might of Germany, which they had lost after the Treaty of Versailles. Although his official rhetoric may not have included visions of an anti-Semitic state initially, people knew he had an exclusionary agenda. Hitler published Mein Kampf while in prison in 1925. In Mein Kampf, which literally means My Struggle, Hitler had already published his anti- Semitic rhetoric. Paradoxically, he equates all Jews as being Marxists, and the creators
The “Perfect race” idea, which Hitler got, was from an old group of people called the “Aryan Race.” This entire old race consisted of people with blue eyes, and blonde natural hair. The word “Aryan” even meant superior, or the best. The Aryan race was a racial group that was commonly used in the period of the late 19th century to mid-20th century to describe people from European and Western Asian heritage. Hitler wanted Germany to be just like this because he thought these people would be looked up to, along with given more “Leibenstrum” Or living space; how Hitler put it.
Hitler believed if Germany was completely Aryan and strong they would crush anything in their way.... ... middle of paper ... ... Jews tried to escape this targeting, however.
Hitler’s rise to power before World War II was due to his anger at Germany’s defeat in World War I and the punishment Germany received from Britain and France. He also directed his anger at Jews and communists he believed contributed to that defeat. He blamed them for the loss of World War I, which he thought was a Jewish conspiracy (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 1). He also believed that the Treaty of Versailles was a Jewish conspiracy designed to take down the country of Germany (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 1) as well as the hyperinflation of 1923, which he believed to be an international conspiracy by the Jewish people (Jews in Nazi Germany pg. 2). On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany (The History Place: Holocaust Timeline pg. 1). This was the rise to power that he needed to carry out his campaign of evil against the Jewish people. After his rise to power, Hitler branded the Jews as
The Jewish people were targeted, hunted, tortured, and killed, just for being Jewish, Hitler came to office on January 20, 1933; he believed that the German race had superiority over the Jews in Germany. The Jewish peoples’ lives were destroyed; they were treated inhumanly for the next 12 years, “Between 1933 and 1945, more than 11 million men, women, and children were murdered in the Holocaust. Approximately six million of these were Jews” (Levy). Hitler blamed a lot of the problems on the Jewish people, being a great orator Hitler got the support from Germany, killing off millions of Jews and other people, the German people thought it was the right thing to do. “To the anti-Semitic Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Jews were an inferior race, an alien threat to German racial purity and community” (History.com Staff).
Adolf Hitler had a very difficult childhood and did not have a good relationship with his dad. He had many losses in his life. For the years that he was homeless in Vienna it was at this time where he developed his hatred for Jews and started going to meetings about that and started to believe that Jews were the cause of everything that has happened around the Germany. During the World War I time he wanted to sign up and be in the army. But instead he was just a messenger for the World.
He was baptized a catholic, He was born on april 20 1889 in upper austrian border town Braunau 65 miles east of Munich and nearly 30 miles north of Salzburg. Hitler lived in Vienna between February 1908 and May 1913.Hitler was genuinely
Anti-Semitism was influencing the minds of ordinary German civilians. Adolf Hitler had previously been in prison before he became ruler of Germany in his second attempt. During the time he was in prison, he wrote a book called 'Mien Kamph'. His book was incredibly racist. Anti-Semitic, Hitler expressed his hatred for the Jews and influenced his readers into hating these 'impure' people.
Hitler was their "last hope". We can see clearly a distinct link between german unemployment figures and a rise in nazi seats in the Reichstag. People turned to Hitler for help due to the depression and the failure of the Weimar republic to cope with the ongoing problems in germany. In my opinion this is the main factor to why Hitler finally came about to doing a political deal.
Since anti-Semitism was already present, it made manipulating the German public into perceiving the Jew as an enemy an easy task. In political psychology it is believed that politics can cue identity and this is clear when it comes to German society and Hitler. He was able to play on the fear of others and the threat to German culture in order to come to power and fulfill his plan of the extermination of the Jew. Which is what intentionalist believe was what he had set out to do from the beginning. Like Karl Dietrich Bracher states, “Hitler was the most radical expressor and the most effective propagator of a set of ideas and emotions forming the nucleus of extreme German nationalism, that is, anti-democratism, imperialism, and racism.” Hitler was the perfect leader for a nation that was disappointed with the Weimar government and that had a strong sense of nationalism. He tapped into this deep love of nation and used it to turn Germans against Germans, making them fear and hate one another. Intentionalists believe that without Hitler there would have been no
His main goal was to to have Germany turn their backs on the Jews. Hitler used the Nazi party to spy on the Jews and exploit them. Hitler was imprisoned from the outcome of a violent march and was sentenced 5 years in prison, but he only actually served 9 months. During that time the Nazi party grew significantly. After Hitler was released from prison the party grew from 27,000 members in 1925, the Party grew to 108,000 in 1929, (Nazi timeline 1).
Hitler had thought that the Jews did not believe in the “right” thing so he tried to eliminate the race. He did not want them to believe in what they did and still do. He thought that the Jewish race was inferior and did not mean anything. The way that Hitler treated the Jews were crimes against humanity and I know that many non Jews saw that but did...
Being of military decent Hitler’s father ruled his home with an iron fist. This may have affected Hitler in more negative ways than normal. His father soon passed in his early adolescence and Hitler was raised by a single parent, his mother. In the beginning Hitler was not very interested in school he seemed disengaged, nonchalant and rebellious, his true passion lied in being an artist. Unfortunately with many failed attempts of entrance at the Art School Hitler’s hopes of ever becoming an artist remained a dream. Continuing life without formal education life was a little rough on Hitler. His beloved mother now diagnosed with a form of cancer and soon passed away too, Hitler was forced to survive by recreating scenes from postcards and living off the little pension he acquired from that.