Totalitarianism And The Holocaust

Characteristics of totalitarianism such, as Ideology, methods of enforcement, and dynamic leaders contributed to the atrocities of World War II in countries like Germany by causing the holocaust. Such atrocities caused caused millions of innocent who didn’t deserve to die. One characteristic of totalitarianism was contributed to the holocaust was ideology to find a way to set goals of the state and justify government actions in taking small steps to reach a certain goal. However, this required the leader to find a way to influence people . For example, when Hitler became head of the country, he started to rebuild Germany’s economy and reducing unemployment, helping his people.His actions at that time made the citizens believe Hitler can do nothing wrong. Therefore, the citizens followed and believed anything he says with his huge charisma. Hence, the Aryan Race and fact that Jews were evil, was created and influenced all over Germany. …show more content…
For example, both Hitler and Stalin used police terror to force obedience and to crush opposition. Unlike normal police force, these kinds of police spy on every citizens and intimidate them. They will also even use violence and murder to achieve their goal.(440). Methods of enforcement also include indoctrination, which controls educations. This is essential to “glorify” the leader and his policies and to convince all citizens that their loyalty and support is required only to their government and leader. Indoctrination starts with children, feeding their minds with biased information, making them accept certain beliefs and actions.