Nazi Germany From 1940 To 1942

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Nazi Germany was a very different place at the beginning of World War II and at the end of World War II. Views fluctuated about everything in that ten year period, but the really important views that were changed, were the views of German people of people unlike themselves. Anyone without German blood was at first just thought of in a negative way. Then people turned to persecuting and isolating anyone who wasn’t of the Aryan “race”. Finally Germany turned to mass extermination of all of those people. How the country went from thinking of Jews as just normal people to deciding to kill them in a ten year period of time is crazy and it shows that there were drastic changes made by a leader figure. In Germany, from 1940 to 1942, Hitler and …show more content…

Hitler was very clever in getting the German people on his side, and he mainly did this by using lots and lots of propaganda. He used the germans as scapegoats, and blamed them for the economical crisis that Germany was in, but just this alone wouldn’t have worked. He needed something to back him up, to prove him right, and for that he used made up films, newspaper articles, any form of media he could get his hands on. Nearly everyone in Germany was on Hitler’s side, when Herschel Grynszpan shot and killed Ernst Von Rath. This provided everyone with the proof they desperately needed to decide that Jews were bad, and thus the first major act of persecution and isolation happened (Kristallnacht). Propaganda combined with the little help they were given was what got people on their side and kept them on their …show more content…

People who wanted to fight back could not because they feared for their lives. Many people also didn’t originally know that the Germans had even gone from isolation to extermination, because they kept it a secret so well. Lastly, they had the Germans believe that the Jews were the problem, and used them as scapegoats. The Nazi’s quickly and effectively got nearly all of the German people on their side. During World War II, Germany underwent major changes especially when they went from isolating to killing the Jewish people, and they did so without mass resistance because of propaganda, secrecy about the operations going on, and major fear of being oppressed by the Nazi’s.

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