Nazi Germany Essay Research Paper After World

Nazi Germany Essay, Research Paper

After World War I, or The Great War as it was known back then,

Germany was left devastated both financially and, since German

propaganda had not prepared the nation for defeat, emotionally, resulting

in a sense of injured German national pride. But because Germany was

.stabbed in the back. by its leftwing politicians, Communists, and Jews,

or more colourfully known as the .November Criminals., it was still

widely believed that Germany had not truly been defeated. When a new

government, the Weimar Republic, tried to establish a democratic course,

extreme political parties from both the right and the left struggled violently

for control. .The new regime could neither handle the depressed economy

nor the rampant lawlessness and disorder.. Amongst all this confusion and

squabbling, one party and one man seemed to stand out. The man was

Adolf Hitler and the party was the German Workers. Party (DAP) later to

be called the National Socialist German Workers. Party (NSDAP) or more

widely known as the Nazi Party.s.

The German Workers. Party (DAP) was just another party

espousing a right-wing ideology, like many other similar groups of

demobilized soldiers. However this simplicity of the party would have

been the attribute which would have attracted Hitler the most. This

allowed Hitler to pour his beliefs into the party and mold it into his image.

Soon after his joining of the party, Hitler renamed it to the National

Socialist German Workers. Party (NSDAP) but even then it was merely a

gang of unemployed soldiers who.s .spirits had been crushed and who.s

guns had rusted away.. But after Hitler.s first public presentation, in a

beer cellar, things started to change drastically. With the money from the

first presentation used to buy more advertising and print leaflets, the Nazi

Party was starting to act and look like a real party. Hitler.s beliefs of

national pride, militarism, commitment to the Volk and a racially .pure.

Germany as well as anti-Semitism soon attracted supporters by the

hundred. Although the German Workers. Party started out as a small

right-wing organisation, with Hitler.s joining, it gained support.

The German Workers’ Party now featured Hitler as the main

attraction at its meetings. In his speeches Hitler railed against the Treaty of

Versailles and delivered anti-Semitic tirades, blaming the Jews for

Germany’s problems. At this point in time the Nazi Party.s ideals seemed

to attract members who were part of the labour sector in society or

workers. These were the men and women who worked in industrial

institution such as factories. These people were often threatened by

unstable employment and therefore pay, but Hitler offered stable

employment and pay. The Nazi Party.s policies based on anti-Semitism,

Lebensraum (Livingspace), economic and social reforms.including

nationalization of the trusts also attracted the workers. Times were

changing, however, and Hitler was ready to make the next step in

consolidation his power. Hitler.s extraordinary public speaking skills were

utilised to gather supporters for the Nazi Party.

The mid 1920s were a tense and strained period in which much

happened. The SA (Sturm-Abteilung or Stormtroopers) had been well

established and its numbers were increasing steadily. The swastika had

been introduced and was now widely used to represent the Nazi Party. The

Nazi Party, now notorious as being the direct opposite of the Communist

Party, gained the support of many fearful middle-class Germans who

knew of the ever possible threat of a Communist revolution. As

hyperinflation set in Germany, .pockets of people were empty but people

stood by their government, admiring its defiance of the French.. But in

September of 1923, the German government made a fateful decision to

resume making payments. Bitter resentment and unrest swelled among the

people, inciting extremist political groups to action and quickly bringing

Germany to the brink of chaos. The Nazis and other similar groups now

felt the time was right to strike. The German state of Bavaria where the

Nazis were based was a hotbed of groups opposed to the democratic

government in Berlin. By now, November 1923, the Nazis, with 55,000

followers, were the biggest and best organized. With Nazi members

demanding action, Hitler knew he had to act or risk losing the leadership

of his Party. This was the Munich, or Beer Hall, Putsch. In the 1920s the

Nazi Party became confident enough to attempt a coup.

The Putsch was an utter disaster and after his release from

confinement, Hitler vowed that he would take power legitimately and not

by force. After the ban on the party was raised in 1925, Hitler sought to

consolidated the support from the working class by increasing the

anti-Semitic propaganda and furth

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