Totalitarianism: Similarities Between 1984 And Nazi Germany

Quintessence of Totalitarianism : Similarities between 1984 and Nazi Germany

Totalitarianism has plagued the history of humankind. Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Zedong, and many others have contributed to this disease and have left bloodshed, tears, and hate in its path. These governments all share characteristics such as censorship, mob mentality, and a lack of sympathy but in a inhuman way, it's hard to pinpoint which is the most “perfect” totalitarian government. In this case, we’ll be looking at how a failed artist ran one of the most bigoted and bloodthirsty countries the world has ever seen and how it is a minnow compared to the most efficiently ran totalitarian nation the literary world has ever seen, Oceania. Through successfully

Enemies of the state in both totalitarian regimes are punished with death, but in Nazi Germany, some enemies of the state live and/or escape. Enemies of the state for Germany included POW and Jews. While Jews were used as a scapegoat for many of Germany’s problems, Hitler really did believe that Jews were the cause for Germany’s problems, in his book Mein Kampf Hitler revealed his hatred towards Jews, “The book is full of anti-Jewish passages and theories about the superiority of the German (Germanic) race” (Annefrank.org). While it is brutal, Germany didn’t succeed in eliminating all of the enemies, around 37% of European Jews (Learn-ict.org.uk) escaped Germany’s wrath, and many POW were freed by the

OSS, better known as the Office of Strategic Services which was the foundation for later modern agency the CIA) was a nation security institution implemented in WW2 to infiltrate countries with their spy programs. The OSS had around 13 000 women and men working for them (Cia.gov) with most of their assignments based in Germany. While Germany was getting infiltrated, the Party keeps a tab on all its citizens. When Winston was finally caught for his crimes against the party he realized the small shop owner that sold him the items that got him in trouble was part of the thought police, “There was another, lighter step in the passage. Mr Charrington came into the room. The demeanour of the black-uniformed men suddenly became more subdued. Something had also changed in Mr Charrington’s appearance. His eye fell on the fragments of the glass paperweight. (pg 282, ebook)” Winston was introduced to Mr. Charrington 7 years ago, the fact that the Party knew of Winston's rebel tendencies before he even knew about them himself shows that the Party has no weak points in their security. The Party keeps track of every citizen in order to insure that the Party stays in power but Nazi Germany didn’t have the ability to do that and that’s why Oceania’s security is a perfected version of