Why Do Kdf Events Have Become Popular

Thinking back to everything I had ever previously learned about WW2, it was all based around the Holocaust and war, and that was it. The suddenly there are documents like number 12 which shows a completely different side of the war; I could never understand how people could support the Nazi’s, but with programs such as the KdF, it has begun to make sense of how people accepted this new form of government. The document states how, “KdF events have become very popular...Everyone can take part...We felt at home…” (55); to have unity within such a big movement and a sense of importance will make any political party flourish, since the individual will feel like that said party is going up and beyond for them. Additionally, it was claimed that, “There were scarcely any ‘Heil Hitlers,” (55) and that people were, “pleasantly surprised to find that there was absolutely nothing National Socialist about the way the course was organised and run,” (55). …show more content…
Therefore, the KdF helped the Nazi party rise by appealing to the general citizens. Now that I have this newfound knowledge of what the German citizens were going through, I can somewhat grasp how they admired Hitler, at the time being. The way Hitler was portrayed to the citizens compared to who he actually was, was vastly different; our current day media is certainly guilty of doing this as well. In the end, yes, they were deceived, but there was a point when they realized the gravity of the situation and they could have tried harder, granted if they didn’t get shot trying. The major key lesson to take away from this is that at the time the German citizens did not expect this “great” leader to turn around and be an evil, cruel person. They came out of a war, crippled and looking for help, and Hitler offered