Hitler’s role was pivotal in the Nazi state between 1933 and 1939. Hitler was the ‘Führer’ of the Nazi Party, clearly ‘Hitler’s ideology was an undeniably powerful factor in the shaping of the Nazi party.’ Hitler’s ‘charismatic authority’ in the consolidation of Nazi power with the Reichstag decree and the enabling act. His domination was not only limited to consolidation, his will determined Nazi foreign policy aims and the ideology of the party in gearing the economy and society for war through its aggressive foreign policy. Likewise, his role in the Nazification of German society with the creation of Volksgemeinschaft was essential. Clearly, Hitler was a symbol of the Nazi State.
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Hitler’s Mein Kampf has been attributed to developing the party’s worldview. It is regarded by Richard Overy and Andrew Wheatcroft ‘that the worldview outlined in Mein Kampf shaped in all kinds of ways the choices Hitler made only eight years later when he later gambled on world conquest.’ However, historians are divided on the influence of Hitler’s worldview on foreign policy. The aggressive foreign policy can be first pinpointed to ‘Lebensraum’ outlined in Mein Kampf. Hitler believed that history was a constant process of racial struggle and this linked to his foreign policy. The main racial enemy was the Jew, who he regarded as ‘the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.’ The conquest of additional land would produce a proper balance between population and territory, and halt the internal racial decline. Proper action can be seen in Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933 with key events following including the rearmament of the army in 1935 , reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. Hitler went further to state, ‘Further successes can no longer be attained without the shedding of blood,’ emphasising his eagerness to expand. Functionalist Tobias Jersak examined the relationship between ideology and foreign policy, he ‘confirms Hitler’s centrality in foreign policy’, and …show more content…
Hitler saw the role of women in a society entirely on childbearing, with the propaganda slogan ‘Kinder, Kirche, Kuche’ and introduced marriage loans under the law in June 1933 as well as restricting some female employment. Furthermore, Hitler targeted German youth by ‘nazifying’ education and conscripting them to his ‘Hitler Youth’ as argued by Peukert, ‘aimed to secure the younger generations total loyalty’ . Le Bors and Boyes put forward the view that the success of these ‘radical domestic policies’ and others such as unemployment, Winter Aid organisation and ‘Blood and Soil’, seduced the support of the German people for other Nazi policies, anti-Semitism. Thus, Welch contributes, when the economy faltered in 1935 and discontent emerged, Hitler and the Nazis diverted public frustration into attacks on the Jews. ‘If the international Jewish financiers… should succeed in plunging the nations…then the result will not be…but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!’ Consequently, the Law for the restoration of the Civil Service (April 1933) and the Nuremberg laws were introduced, as well as propaganda to further unite Germany. This escalated to the extermination (Goldhagen) of Jews, as seen in Kristallnacht. Therefore, Hitler’s role in the Society for the Nazi State was of
Hitler’s ‘charismatic authority was an underlying factor …show more content…
Hitler’s Mein Kampf has been attributed to developing the party’s worldview. It is regarded by Richard Overy and Andrew Wheatcroft ‘that the worldview outlined in Mein Kampf shaped in all kinds of ways the choices Hitler made only eight years later when he later gambled on world conquest.’ However, historians are divided on the influence of Hitler’s worldview on foreign policy. The aggressive foreign policy can be first pinpointed to ‘Lebensraum’ outlined in Mein Kampf. Hitler believed that history was a constant process of racial struggle and this linked to his foreign policy. The main racial enemy was the Jew, who he regarded as ‘the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.’ The conquest of additional land would produce a proper balance between population and territory, and halt the internal racial decline. Proper action can be seen in Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933 with key events following including the rearmament of the army in 1935 , reoccupation of the Rhineland in 1936 and the invasion of Poland in 1939. Hitler went further to state, ‘Further successes can no longer be attained without the shedding of blood,’ emphasising his eagerness to expand. Functionalist Tobias Jersak examined the relationship between ideology and foreign policy, he ‘confirms Hitler’s centrality in foreign policy’, and …show more content…
Hitler saw the role of women in a society entirely on childbearing, with the propaganda slogan ‘Kinder, Kirche, Kuche’ and introduced marriage loans under the law in June 1933 as well as restricting some female employment. Furthermore, Hitler targeted German youth by ‘nazifying’ education and conscripting them to his ‘Hitler Youth’ as argued by Peukert, ‘aimed to secure the younger generations total loyalty’ . Le Bors and Boyes put forward the view that the success of these ‘radical domestic policies’ and others such as unemployment, Winter Aid organisation and ‘Blood and Soil’, seduced the support of the German people for other Nazi policies, anti-Semitism. Thus, Welch contributes, when the economy faltered in 1935 and discontent emerged, Hitler and the Nazis diverted public frustration into attacks on the Jews. ‘If the international Jewish financiers… should succeed in plunging the nations…then the result will not be…but the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!’ Consequently, the Law for the restoration of the Civil Service (April 1933) and the Nuremberg laws were introduced, as well as propaganda to further unite Germany. This escalated to the extermination (Goldhagen) of Jews, as seen in Kristallnacht. Therefore, Hitler’s role in the Society for the Nazi State was of