Adolf Hitler, the leader of Germany’s Nazi party, carried out the deaths of millions during his time in power whilst sustaining the support of the German people. As a notorious and influential dictator of the twentieth century, he utilized the post-war trauma of economic hardship, political conflict, and popular discontent in order to take absolute power in Germany despite the fact that the Nazis never attained more than 37 percent of the vote (History.com). As a leader, he overlapped his subordinates’ areas of power to ensure that it is impossible to gain enough power to usurp him (Wilmoth). Although Hitler was a negative figure in history, he also held one of the most brilliant traits of time: the gift of persuasion. By using a variant of strategies, Hitler was able to not only compel citizens to do things
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Biologically speaking, after one experiences a traumatic event, cortisol and adrenaline levels spike. Subsequently, cortisol decreases the functions of the frontal lobe, the rational, problem solving, and strategic part of the brain. Hitler used that fear to fortify his support base by obtaining trust from the common people (Brown). Professor Bruce Loebs told Business Insider, “People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval" (Macias). At that time, Germany was plagued with many reparations from World War I, which included hyper-inflation, high unemployment rate and a divided government. Hitler took advantage of that and put himself at a prominent position of an opportunistic political ideology, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. After World War I, he used the Jewish people as the main target because the Jewish people were the most successful in the society. Thus, the anger, mainly due to jealousy, was used to initiate the genocide of millions of Jews
Biologically speaking, after one experiences a traumatic event, cortisol and adrenaline levels spike. Subsequently, cortisol decreases the functions of the frontal lobe, the rational, problem solving, and strategic part of the brain. Hitler used that fear to fortify his support base by obtaining trust from the common people (Brown). Professor Bruce Loebs told Business Insider, “People were most willing to follow him, because he seemed to have the right answers in a time of enormous economic upheaval" (Macias). At that time, Germany was plagued with many reparations from World War I, which included hyper-inflation, high unemployment rate and a divided government. Hitler took advantage of that and put himself at a prominent position of an opportunistic political ideology, the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. After World War I, he used the Jewish people as the main target because the Jewish people were the most successful in the society. Thus, the anger, mainly due to jealousy, was used to initiate the genocide of millions of Jews