After the Germans lost World War One there was a world-wide great depression. Adolf Hitler had many thoughts of making a new socialist nation and used the depression to show people the current government was not working and change was required. Hitler outlined his plan for a change in government in his book Mein Kampf. In his book he speaks of the evils created by the Jewish religion and its people. He used his anti-sematic views as a scapegoat, in which to fuel his change. Hitler was very charismatic and a fantastic public speaker and was appointed chancellor of Germany January 30th 1933 by President Paul Von Hindenburg. Hitler’s party, the Nazi Party used a variety of propaganda, political laws and regulations, and social manipulation tactics to get people to follow them, and with the depression people knew change needed to happen and were more apt to follow him.
Volksgemeinschaft, the societal theory that all people of different classes and religions were equal, was created.
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One new law was the Reich Citizenship Law, a law that deprived German Jews of any kind of citizenship and they were forced to emigrate away from Germany. The other was the Law for the Defense of German Blood and Honor. Basically your blood determined your citizenship, and being Jewish wasn’t a religious commitment anymore, it became your racial status. Hitler wanted to impose Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest in that the German blood made you more fit for survival. In July of 1933 Hitler imposed sterilization. These meant that if you had any kind of disease, mental illness or were otherwise deemed unfit to have children you were sterilized. The Aryan people loved this idea, the idea of being pure. There was no fight to end the sterilization because the Aryan people really did believe they were a superior German
Volksgemeinschaft, the societal theory that all people of different classes and religions were equal, was created.
The political side to how Hitler got people to follow him was less manipulating and more strictly …show more content…
One new law was the Reich Citizenship Law, a law that deprived German Jews of any kind of citizenship and they were forced to emigrate away from Germany. The other was the Law for the Defense of German Blood and Honor. Basically your blood determined your citizenship, and being Jewish wasn’t a religious commitment anymore, it became your racial status. Hitler wanted to impose Darwin’s theory of the survival of the fittest in that the German blood made you more fit for survival. In July of 1933 Hitler imposed sterilization. These meant that if you had any kind of disease, mental illness or were otherwise deemed unfit to have children you were sterilized. The Aryan people loved this idea, the idea of being pure. There was no fight to end the sterilization because the Aryan people really did believe they were a superior German