Similarities Between Fritzsche's Life And Death In The Third Reich

Oh, how great the leader is! These words are similar to the Heil Hitler’s that many Germans used in the beginning of the Nazi Party. In Life and Death In the Third Reich, Peter Fritzsche introduces the ways that Adolf Hitler and his party wanted to change German Society. The Heil Hitler’s was the first step that allowed the Germans to become increasingly intrigued to the party. They used the Heil Hitler’s in a simple greeting. The Nazis propaganda would draw many people in through the idea of the Volksgeinmenshaft. It was the idea that Germans are now equals and not part of a different social class. This belief would develop from trench socialism in World War I. One major detail that Hitler stressed is Racial Cleansing. This would change the

This all got started after Hitler arrived in power in January 1933. The purpose of it was to praise the leader that would help save the people from inequality. Later, the German greeting would become mandatory in October 1933. Fritzsche argues that the Heil Hitler’s set the tone for the people to support the Nazi party. For the Nazi party, it was easy to draw people in. They stressed unity and concern for the middle class. As Elizabeth ( page 28) who describes that the marches of the Nazi officers is what caused her interest in the Nazi Party (Fritsche 28). The party had organizations for women, which would draw masses of women to join the party. Many people were intrigued because of the unity that Hitler’s party seemed to convey. It is the idea of volksgemeinschaft. Adolf Hitler desired to make everyone the same, so there is no competition between the German people. Also, it is that idea of the richer class not taking money away from the poorer societies. Ways that Hitler established the idea of unity was in programs for younger generations. Men who at the age of eighteen were sent to the labor service to learn how the military worked. Many were forced to dress in uniforms in order to get a sense of what military life was like. Hitler through his many programs would also mix children of a bourgeois family background with the working class children to break down social barriers. Fritzsche helps explain that it increased more nationalism in