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How Successful Were Nazi Methods To Indoctrinate And Control The German People

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AS History – Examination Question on The Domestic policies of the Nazi state

How successful were Nazi methods to indoctrinate and control the German people? (30 marks)

From the moment the Enabling Act has been passed, the Nazi regime has effectively been turned into a dictatorial one. Indeed, at the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power a vast population of Germany was engaged with nationalist politics believing it would reshape and revolutionarise the country. However, Hitler knew that in order to reach his ultimate goal in creating the “Thousand Year Reich”; he could not depend on the sudden yet temporary surge of excitement of the German public; but rather, he had to convince the Germans of the Fuehrer leadership and make the Nazi ideology an unquestionable existence. The organisation of such a program of indoctrination and control was simple: as a German under the regime you had the choice of buying in or pretending to buy in to Goebbels’s propaganda, and if you failed to do so you would be …show more content…

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