Hist410 - Week 3 Discussion 2021

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Main #1 Analyze Adolph Hitler's rise to power and the policies he used to rule Germany. Textbook tyrant? Overheated Nationalist? Or the right man for at the right time for the right job? Originall... y known as the German Workers’ Party, Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany as the leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party) in 1920, which came to power in 1933. Hitler then rose to chancellor of the German Republic in the same year he became the leader of the Nazi Party, and began to make promises to the people of Germany to gain their vote. “A decisive percentage had been prepared by their recent experience to follow someone who, if nothing else, promised to destroy the existing order of things” (Brower, 2013). A large percentage of people were out of work and the country was experiencing one of the harshest economic depressions they have ever faced. The people of Germany were losing faith in their government and desperate for change. To the people, Hitler was exactly what they needed to get things back on track. Bower, D. & Sanders, T. (2014).The World in the Twentieth Century. Hoboken, New Jersey 07030: Pearson Education Inc. Encyclopedia Britannica. (12April2018). Nazi Party. Retrieved from: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nazi-Party Main #2 The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939: "Though the Fuhrer's anti-Semitic program furnished the National Socialist party in the first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-cry, it was swept into office by two things with which the "Jewish Problem" did not have the slightest connection. On the one side was economic distress and the revulsion against Versailles: on the other, chicanery and intrigue...Hitler and his party promised the unhappy Germans a new heaven and a new earth, coupled with the persecution of the Jews. Unfortunately a new heaven and earth cannot be manufactured to order. But a persecution of the Jews can..." How do you interpret this contemporary account of the persecution of people who are Jewish? Elaborate. [Show More]

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