Nazism Essay Research Paper NAZISMThe National Socialist

Nazism Essay, Research Paper

NAZISM

The National Socialist German Workers. Party almost died one morning in

1919. It numbered only a few dozen grumblers. it had no organization

and no political ideas.

But many among the middle class admired the Nazis. muscular opposition

to the Social Democrats. And the Nazis themes of patriotism and

militarism drew highly emotional responses from people who could not

forget Germany.s prewar imperial grandeur.

In the national elections of September 1930, the Nazis garnered nearly

6.5 million votes and became second only to the Social Democrats as the

most popular party in Germany. In Northeim, where in 1928 Nazi

candidates had received 123 votes, they now polled 1,742, a respectable

28 percent of the total. The nationwide success drew even faster… in

just three years, party membership would rise from about 100,000 to

almost a million, and the number of local branches would increase

tenfold. The new members included working-class people, farmers, and

middle-class professionals. They were both better educated and younger

then the Old Fighters, who had been the backbone of the party during its

first decade. The Nazis now presented themselves as the party of the

young, the strong, and the pure, in opposition to an establishment

populated by the elderly, the weak, and the dissolute.

Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy, he

showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to

Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna

academy of fine arts.

When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer.s army as a

Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature

of a Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and

its consequences. He had emerged from Austria with many prejudices,

including a powerful prejudice against Jews. Again, he was a product of

his times… for many Austrians and Germans were prejudiced against the

Jews.

In Hitler’s case the prejudice had become maniacal it was a dominant

force in his private and political personalities. Anti-Semitism was not

a policy for Adolf Hitler–it was religion. And in the Germany of the

1920s, stunned by defeat, and the ravages of the Versailles treaty, it

was not hard for a leader to convince millions that one element of the

nation.s society was responsible for most of the evils heaped upon it.

The fact is that Hitler.s anti-Semitism was self-inflicted obstacle to

his political success. The Jews, like other Germans, were shocked by

the discovery that the war had not been fought to a standstill, as they

were led to believe in November 1918, but that Germany had , in fact,

been defeated and was to be treated as a vanquished country. Had Hitler

not embarked on his policy of disestablishing the Jews as Germans, and

later of exterminating them in Europe, he could have counted on their

loyalty. There is no reason to believe anything else.

On the evening of November 8, 1923, Wyuke Vavaruab State Cinnussuiber

Gustav Rutter von Kahr was making a political speech in Munich.s

sprawling B.rgerbr.ukeller, some 600 Nazis and right-wing sympathizers

surrounded the beer hall. Hitler burst into the building and leaped

onto a table, brandishing a revolver and firing a shot into the

ceiling. .The National Revolution,. he cried, .has begun!.

At that point, informed that fighting had broken out in another part of

the city, Hitler rushed to that scene. His prisoners were allowed to

leave, and they talked about organizing defenses against the Nazi coup.

Hitler was of course furious. And he was far from finished. At about

11 o.clock on the morning of November 9–the anniversary of the founding

of the German Republic in 1919–3,000 Hitler partisans again gathered

outside the B.rgerbr.ukeller.

To this day, no one knows who fired the first shot. But a shot rang

out, and it was followed by fusillades from both sides. Hermann G.ring

fell wounded in the thigh and both legs. Hitler flattened himself

against the pavement; he was unhurt. General Ludenorff continued to

march stolidly toward the police line, which parted to let him pass

through (he was later arrested, tried and acquitted). Behind him, 16

Nazis and three policemen lay sprawled dead among the many wounded.

The next year, R.hm and his band joined forces with the fledgling

National Socialist Party in Adolf Hitler.s Munich Beer Hall Putsch.

Himmler took part in that uprising, but he played such a minor role that

he escaped arrest. The R.hm-Hitler alliance survived the Putsch, and

.hm.s 1,500-man band grew into the Sturmabteilung, the SA, Hitler.s

brown-shirted private army, that bullied the Communists and Democrats.

Hitler recruited a handful of men to act as his bodyguards and protec

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