It was in 1929 that Gustav Stresemann, Germany’s foreign secretary at the time, who realised that Germany was dependent on loans from abroad. When the Great Depression had hit, it was felt all over the world, it had affected Germany in ways such as 1 in 3 workers were unemployed. As well as the Great Depression, the Treaty of Versailles which was signed at the end of 1918 also had an effect on Germany in ways such as; Germany was forced to take the blame for starting World War 1, Germany also wasn’t allowed to have submarines or an air force with an army of only 100,000 men and 6 ships, also Germany was to pay $6600 million Euros for damage which was done and Germany wasn’t allowed to join the League of Nations which meant that it couldn’t
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These negatives included the loss of freedom to citizens, persecution of minorities examples of the persecution included imprisoning homosexuals due to the fact they stopped Germany from flourishing, the oppression of the catholic church was also done in order to stop people from having other views which didn’t agree with the Totalitarian state and lastly Gypsies and Jews were also discriminated by the Nazi party which later led to them being placed in concentration camps late into the second World War (Nazi Germany and the Jews 1933-1939, Non-Jewish Victims of Persecution in Germany, n.d.). Furthermore, Germany became a police state as the SA took over the police force and all military work and lastly the Nazi controlled education and the youth as Hitler saw children and young people as the men and women of tomorrow, therefore he valued the way they were taught and raised and made sure they were raised the true Nazi way. There was no room for critics under Hitler’s power, the only place people were allowed freedom of speech was in a concentration camp. Germany quickly became a police state and anyone who spoke against Hitler or his ruling wad dealt with by the SS or the Gestapo (secret police), this was a negative as Germans were living in fear and also had no freedom of speech or freedom of expression as everything they did was controlled and planned out by Hitler.
To conclude, I believe that with positives comes negatives. When Hitler came to power it was the policies and promises he was making for Germany to better the conditions which made him win. I agree with the statement that life for most Germans life was improved under Nazi rule during1933 to1939 as Hitler had taken Germany, the country in Europe which suffered heavily from the Wall Street crash and made it the most powerful and proud country during 1933
These negatives included the loss of freedom to citizens, persecution of minorities examples of the persecution included imprisoning homosexuals due to the fact they stopped Germany from flourishing, the oppression of the catholic church was also done in order to stop people from having other views which didn’t agree with the Totalitarian state and lastly Gypsies and Jews were also discriminated by the Nazi party which later led to them being placed in concentration camps late into the second World War (Nazi Germany and the Jews 1933-1939, Non-Jewish Victims of Persecution in Germany, n.d.). Furthermore, Germany became a police state as the SA took over the police force and all military work and lastly the Nazi controlled education and the youth as Hitler saw children and young people as the men and women of tomorrow, therefore he valued the way they were taught and raised and made sure they were raised the true Nazi way. There was no room for critics under Hitler’s power, the only place people were allowed freedom of speech was in a concentration camp. Germany quickly became a police state and anyone who spoke against Hitler or his ruling wad dealt with by the SS or the Gestapo (secret police), this was a negative as Germans were living in fear and also had no freedom of speech or freedom of expression as everything they did was controlled and planned out by Hitler.
To conclude, I believe that with positives comes negatives. When Hitler came to power it was the policies and promises he was making for Germany to better the conditions which made him win. I agree with the statement that life for most Germans life was improved under Nazi rule during1933 to1939 as Hitler had taken Germany, the country in Europe which suffered heavily from the Wall Street crash and made it the most powerful and proud country during 1933