Life Under Adolf Hitler Discussion 4
We watched the video Life Under Adolf Hitler, which if you have your Discovery Education sign in information, you can go watch again. You took some notes and talked a bit about it in class.
Remember, these guys still exist. Nazi groups, or NeoNazis as they are called today, are around, so you better take this seriously.
Here is Discussion Question 4 – Hitler and NAZI Ideology
- Why was the NAZI party so successful? Explain the NAZI ideology.
- How did they think? What was the basis for the way they thought?
- Here is a large document you can read through to get the low down on Nazi Ideology from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC.
- Here is something more specifically about how the camp system was a model of the Nazi Ideology – Nazi Ideology and the Camp System – PBS.
The Nazis were so successful because they had all of Germany behind them. Hitler talked them into believing that the Jews were the cause of all of Germany’s problems. Another reason that the Nazis were so successful was because regardless of what went on, a lot of people around the world weren’t aware of what was happening because they had nothing to prove it. Very few people helped the Jews out in their time of need.
One of the main reasons the Nazi party was so powerful. was that Hitler took his time on making an attack. He was said to be very persuasive and if that is true than thats why he gave speeches that recruited so many people. He started off by making people feel that he was a good man by doing good but they didn’t know that he was up to no good. Then after he had recruited lots of people he launched an assault and he had enough people to carry through with it. There wasent that many people left to help the other people that were in need.
I think that the nazi party was so succesful because the only thing they cared about was themselves and Hitlers plan was thought out for a very long time. Hitler also wrote a book in jail and I think that this determined him to become a dictator more than ever.
The Nazi party was so succesful because after Hitler got voted in he brainwashed the people to thinking the depression was all the Jews fault so he sent them to camps, Also it was so succesful because he changeed the way the schools were teaching, he changed the way people lived like left the wife at home to raise the children while the men were at war and after the boys were teenagers he put them in war camps to get ready for war.
When Hitler created the First Concentration Camp , it was meant for “Political Prisoners” such as, “communists, social democrats”. Also , Hitler was the main reason , the people of Germany were gullible because of the damages caused during the first World War. Hitler could persuade the people easily. That is mostly the reason why the Nazi Party was so successful.
The reason why the Nazis werew so successful was because the had a good plan for the economy. The other countries thought that if the Nazis would bring in their new, Better government to help the invaded country. This tactic help Nazis invade alot of countries including France. Adolf Hitler was smart, and his tactics prooved it. The Zimmerman telegram ( A telegram sent to mexico to tell them to invade America) Was intercepted my a European Ship, and proved that Adolf Hitler Meant NO funny buisness. Sooner or later, the Nazis planned to ally with Japan so than they could attack America… It worked. Some years later, The attack on Pearl harbor happened, but that was a bad idea. America joins the War and the downfall of the Nazis begins.
Hitler was so successful because everyone supported him because of what he had done for Germany. The Great Depression in the United States had affected the entire world and most of the countries in Europe were also undergoing a Great Depression. When the Nazi Party to govern over Germany everybody was hoping that the Nazi Party would do something about the economy. Hitler knowing what the people wanted worked on helping the economy to win the Germans’ approval of the Nazi Party. As a result of Hitler’s plan to help the economy to win the German’s approval, Germany was the first country to get out of the Depression in Europe and to gain military strength that would lead to WWII.
Hitler was very powerful because he was pusuasive and planned to take out all of the other political parties so everyone would be a Nazi. He had many people that were loyal to him and believed in his ways becaus they wanted power like Hitler. They basicly thought that if they got rid of the Jews then the world would be perfect and the Nazis would come to power , mainly Hitler. Also there were people in Germany didn’t that want to follow Hitlers ways, but had to because Hitler forced them to or they would get killed.
the nazis were very succesful beacause of hitler. Hitler used propaganda to make people belive in anything he wanted them to, he made them belive that germans were good and jeas were bad because he blamed the jews for losing the war
The main reason I think they were so successful was obviously Hitler. The way he could persuade people so easily, to make people believe that what he said was true. Another reason was their ability to use propaganda so easily. Also because he lied. A lot. He told people that anyone who wasn’t like them, such as Jewish people, weren’t worth of their lives.
Hitler and the Nazi party were so successful because they knew how to use propaganda, and they convinced Germany that they were working to create a perfect world. Their propaganda displayed the ‘perfect people’, and they worked to create these people out of everyone. While a perfect world is a wonderful idea, and equality for everyone is something that would be amazing, there is no possible way for it to ever work. A way had to be invented to dispose of the imperfect people, and Hitler’s actions towards making a perfect race came to be known as the Holocaust; not an event that will go down in history as a bold and just leader’s attempts to make a perfect race, but as a coldhearted, bloodthirsty, evil man’s success at mass genocide.
In response to Nick R.
What if something like this happens again? What will we do to prevent our family and ourselves from being killed? How are ways that we can prevent this? Like Nick said our government must be strong in order to stop another party to just come out of no where and rise up to power, but what if our goverment was the one prosecuting us? We can all prevent another tragedy like the holocaust by not being so lured into the fantasy of propaganda, being aware of the world around us, and not forgetting about the past.
The Nazi party was so succesful because of three main reasons:
1. Ignorance is Bliss(The World Allowed the Nazi’s to come to power)
2.The stabilization of the German economy (the German people were hit the worst by the great depression, and when Hitler rose to power they were all employed with with good to moderate paying jobs with more and better promises to come)
3. Finnally the fear of being killed (if you spoke out against Hitler or his party you were considered a threat and all threats were eliminated, and which would you prefer to be, a dead person or a working family one?)
The only reason he was succesful is because he tricked the population into believing that he’ll give them what they want if they make him theit leader
Nicely put. He lied.
hitler was very successful because he targeted the people who were least expecting it and were very weak and unawerar of the situation and he had alot of people to work for him and that were afraid of him very quickly and thats how he got off too a strong start. And he also used such persuasive words and actions like him saing he will make a better world for everyone if they joined him
Germany was in a state of economic depression after WWI. Hitler had a lot of charisma and was good at giving speeches and rallying people. He gave them promises and the desperate German people saw him as a man who would bring them out of their misery and make their country strong again. What they didn’t realize that he was a lunatic who would cause such a travesty, they just saw him as being a good leader who would bring them victory.
Hitler was so poerful because he made his people believe anything that he wanted them to believe. He used propaganda to persade the people of Germant that jews were bad. Which they werent. He also made them think that they didnt belong in Germany. He tricked them so that he could have more help exterminating them.
This website tells more on why Hitler and the Nazi party was so powerful.
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_in_nazi_germany.htm
The NAZI party was so succesful because Hiler used his manoevers and determination to get so powerful, he combined other party politicians into a coalition. Anyone that believed otherwise would get killed and nobody stood-up for what they beleived so nobody else did. How they started is after WW1 Germany was in a great depression and Hitler got them out of it and blamed the Jews. Almost everybody believed him so they started treating the Jews wrong.
You make an interesting point here when you say, “Anyone that believed otherwise would get killed and nobody stood-up for what they beleived so nobody else did.” I think you’re saying that when political party leaders one party went over to the Nazi party – essentially giving up what they believed for the Nazi belief – other people folowed suit. Of course they didn’t have much of a choice, right. Change or Die was the Nazi promise.
The NAZI party was so successful in gaining power in Germany, because during the time Germany had many economic struggles, so when Hitler had enough power to speak out he promised the citizens of Germany that he will help everyone and everything, and in some aspects he actually did, but he over used the power that he gained.
Hitler was successful because he said the Jews were like a disease and he wanted to get rid of it to make a perfect world. His persuasion made him ruler of Germany and was getting rid of the Jews.
I believe the Nazi’s were so successful because of Adolf Hitler’s charisma. He had the ability to make people believe what he was saying was true. And most people thought that the Nazi ideology was believable but still wrong. The Nazi’s believed that everyone’s personalities and traits were set in stone based on your race, what country you were born into, or your religion. The Nazi’s also believed that they were the perfect beings. All other races were insignificant and they’re goal was to wipe out all other races and ultimately world domination.
I agree with Aaron. With Hitler’s good use of propaganda, no one in the world realized what Hitler was doing. He would hide it from the world, and I heard he even made fake videos about concentration camps to make them look like fun summer camps.
I ma not going to sugar coat this. . . . Jake, “I heard” just isn’t going to cut it in here. What is your source? Where did you hear it? Where did you see it? Where did you read it? You have to be more authoritative thatn that. There is proof for what you are saying, you have to provid it. Get the info and come back to update our post. Catch you later.
Like Aaron said, the Nazi’s had good techniques of manipulating and convincing people that what they were doing was right. People didn’t seem to realize that what they were doing was wrong. Jews and other people, like Gypsies, were discriminated because of what they believed in. But Jews were the ones that suffered the most. Hitler’s plan was for the German race to prevail over all other races, he wanted them to be superior. But soon, this cruelty towards the Jewish spread further than just Germany. They thought that their “race” was the best and they were determined to make all of Germany think the same way.
I an responding to Nick R. I think we can prevent this from happening again by informing everyone about Nazis and Hitler. I believe if history is forgotten then there is a chance history may repeat itself. There may even be some people in the world who dont know about Hitler and these people should be informed about the terriable acts of Hitler.
The NAZI party so successful because the Nazi people were tricked into this situation. They were corrupted into believing that their way was the only way. That other countries were inferior and beneath them. That they were the best.
Htler and the Nazi party were so sucessful because they made people think they were the good guys and that they would help Germany.. In many ways they did help Germany make jobs so everyone could be working they helped children learn discipline. But of some of the good things Hitler and the Nazi party did Hitler was a total jerk willng too kill anybody in his way of getting what he wanted full control and full power of Germany.
Because, Hitler and the Nazis his followers eliminated (banned) any protests, anyother then Nazi political party, anti-German books against the Nazis. They had Storm Troopers “S.A.” help out by getting any person that was against the Nazi and bet them up. Most Germans stay quiet about what they thought about what happen to the jews since they didnt want the same thing happening to them. Plus, they provided almost everyone with a job, they built there own highway that was 2,300 km long called the Auto Bahn. They also promised every German with a volkswagen. Most importantly almost every German was brained wash by Hitler and his laws. The Nazi ideology was to was to get rid of jews and create the perfect race they wanted to gain back the land the had lost in World War 1. They also wanted to the economy better
Well, proven by his actions that he committed to society, he is a completely dreadful and terrible person. I didn’t think that anyone would do such a thing…
The Nazis originally had nothing to do with Adolf Hitler… until he promised the Germans that he would avenge Germany, and get his revenge on their enemies. He promised that he would regain the land that Germany lost due to other wars. This spiked the Germans’ adrenaline, as well as the “Nazis”. Nazis were originally just regular German citizens. Then Adolf Hitler created a political party called the “Nazi Party”, which is where the term Nazi came from. Also, Nazis didn’t really have a feel of thinking. They simply followed Hitler’s ruling, as they were too afraid to enrage him.
Good work Tyler! I wouldn’t say taht he originally had nothing to do with the Nazi Party. More truthfully, he didn’t have anything to do with much of anything, he “led a lazy lifestyle, from his brooding teenage days in Linz through years spent in idleness and poverty in Vienna. But after joining the German Workers’ (Nazi) Party in 1919 at age thirty, Hitler immediately began a frenzied effort to make it succeed.” http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/party.htm
Yeah, good job tony, but, what if something like this happens again? What will we do to prevent our family and ourselves from being killed? How are ways that we can prevent this, our government must be strong in order to stop another party to just come out of no where and control.
Aren’t we lucky we didnt have to live in that time period we didn’t have to hear the suffering, some people weren’t so lucky and they had to endure the suffering of Hitler and the Nazi’s. On top of this people still complain that life is to hard people survived Hitler and the Nazi party they had it hard we shouldn’t be complaining we should be happy for what we have.
Nice!!!! Tony, I love to hear the gratitude in your post. You’re right! We should be grateful that we didn’t have to live through htat, or die in it. We must still REMEMBER and vow that we will never let that happen – NEVER AGAIN. Once is too much.
Here is a little bit on the Nazi idelogoy “Nazi ideology did not explicitly prescribe the system of camps that has become emblematic of Nazi terror, but the way the camps functioned reflected some key points in Nazi thinking. Central to Hitler’s view of the world were the twin goals of expanding Germany’s territory and purifying the so-called Aryan race. Camps of various kinds evolved over the twelve years of Nazi rule to further these goals. The development of the camps also reflected pragmatic considerations that changed over time. From surveying the camps, we can see how much power Hitler had to implement his plans, and when he and the rest of the Nazi leadership needed to pay attention to public opinion, both inside Germany and abroad.”
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/background/ideology.html
Why was the Nazi party so successful? It was sucessful because people let it be successful, Hitler had a plan that he was going to create the Germans the “Aryan” Race the supreme race on the face of the earth and they started in phases he started with the people in the community of German politics that were unpopular to the people,than the Homosexuals than the Jehovah’s Witnesses who didnt stop beliving in what they did and transfer to the german way of life,(it didn’t stop there either), it continued all over Germany and into parts of Poland. The Jews and all the other people who wouldn’t convert to the Nazi way of life were put into concentration camps and the ghettos where they were treated like animals locked in a cage and slaughtered like animals with no mercy or regret from the Nazi’s
The main reason the Nazi party was so successful was because of Hitler’s well played use of propaganda. He was very good at manipulating and convincing people that what he was good and would benefit everyone. Adolf Hitler deceived people and weakened his enemies to increase his power and success. Hitler blamed most things on the government. Like the Great Depression. He wanted people to think that the German government was incapable of leadership, and he did what he did to seem like the sole ruler. He and the Nazi party also increased its power by gaining more territory and control of Germany. He sent opposing forces to camps and blamed others for the problems he created so he didn’t seem like the bad guy. Hitler also expanded west to east to help become more successful and powerful. I also learned today that he used Jews as his scapegoats for his problems, and they also went to camps as well.
I have found a paragraph that descibes an overview of nazi ideology, how the camps would use fear as a tactic to take down the ones deemed as unfit. “Nazi ideology did not explicitly prescribe the system of camps that has become emblematic of Nazi terror, but the way the camps functioned reflected some key points in Nazi thinking. Central to Hitler’s view of the world were the twin goals of expanding Germany’s territory and purifying the so-called Aryan race. Camps of various kinds evolved over the twelve years of Nazi rule to further these goals. The development of the camps also reflected pragmatic considerations that changed over time. From surveying the camps, we can see how much power Hitler had to implement his plans, and when he and the rest of the Nazi leadership needed to pay attention to public opinion, both inside Germany and abroad. ”
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/background/ideology.html