Ella McCarville
10/31/15
English and History
Nazi Power and the German People
At a time when money was worthless, a substantial portion of German land was annexed, and most of the world blamed Germany for World War I, a new, sanctimoniously vicious Germany was born. How was it that an obscure political group was given so much power by the unsuspecting German people? In order to regain common feelings of stability, identity, and hope, in light of Germany’s destitute condition, the German people turned to the Nazis, who made themselves the only choice by killing their enemies to instill intimidation into the German people, claiming they could restore Germany’s former glory, and placing the blame on their enemies. Mass manipulation,
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The Weimar Republic was repeatedly slandered for the economic condition of the country to the point of blame. For example, according to itech.edu, “Hitler often spoke about the “treasonous” attitude of the Weimar government with its policies of fulfilling the treaty’s terms.” Another famous example is Kristallnacht, which was the mass destruction of Jewish synagogues and shop windows in 1938, which “had erupted as a spontaneous outburst of public sentiment in response to the assassination of Ernst vom Rath...Vom Rath was a German embassy official stationed in Paris. Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old Polish Jew, had shot the diplomat on November 7, 1938.” (www.ushmm.org Kristallnacht) The reality of the matter was that Nazi officials, SA (assault detachments in German), and Hitler Youth. Hermann Göring, a leader of the Nazi party, commented, “The swine won’t commit another murder. Incidentally…I would not like to be a Jew in Germany.” justifyingly. In conclusion, the Nazi party used scapegoats to make the German population turn against whomever the Nazi wanted them