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Hitler introduced many policies and measures to ensure the Nazis remained in control, once he declared himself Fuhrer. These measures dealt with political opponents, as well as ordinary people, who suddenly found their private, social and working lives controlled by the Nazis.
Here are the Key structures and explained how Hitler control the Nazi States:
Political life
- Government
The following points allowed Hitler to gain control of the government:
-Hitler becomes Chancellor
-Enabling Act
-Local government reorganized
-Political parties banned
-Hitler became Fuhrer
The way Hitler consolidated power in 1933-1934 meant that the Nazis had absolute control of national and local government.
Social life
- Religion
The following points are examples of how the Nazis took control of religion:
-Non-Nazi Catholic priests and Protestant pastors such as Martin Niemöller and Dietrich Bonhöffer were sent to concentration camps.
-Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses were openly persecuted.
-Hitler set up a state Reich Church, which banned the Bible and the cross.
-Nazis encouraged people to revive the old Viking myths and ceremonies.
Hitler believed that religion was a threat to the Nazis' control over people's minds, so he tried different ways to reduce the power of the church over people.
- Culture
The Nazis dictated what people were allowed to do in their social and private lives:
-Artists had to produce acceptable paintings that portrayed Nazi values.
-Jazz Music was banned.
-Books written by Jews were publicly burned.
-Homosexuals were persecuted; they did not fit the Nazi image of the ideal family.
-The Olympic Games of 1936 were a huge Nazi Propaganda success.
Hitler ordered Nazification - the imposition of Nazi values - on all aspects of German life.
Education and work
- Education and youth
Measures were imposed to make sure that schools and youth associations became Nazified:
-Non-Nazi teachers and university professors were sacked; teachers had to join the National Socialist Teachers' League.
-Textbooks were re-written to include Nazi political and racial ideas.
-History was taught to glorify Germany.
-There was a concentration on physical fitness.
Girls were taught cookery; boys were taught science and maths.
-The Hitler Youth was compulsory; it indoctrinated boys and prepared them for war.
-The Nazi Girls' youth organisation - the BDM - was compulsory; it indoctrinated girls and prepared them for church, children and cooking.
The lives of young people were controlled both in and out of school to turn them into fanatical Nazis.
- Work
The following points are examples of how the Nazis took control of workers lives:
-The RAD (National Labour Service) sent young men on public works.
Hitler introduced conscription in 1936; most men went into the army after the RAD.
-The DAF (German Labour Front) controlled workers' conditions at work.
-The KdF (Strength through Joy) movement regulated their leisure time.
-The lives of young people were controlled both in and out of school to turn them into fanatical Nazis.
Dr Robert Ley, head of the DAF, boasted that he controlled workers' lives from the 'cradle to the grave'.
Methods of control
- Terror
The Nazi state intimidated and terrorised those who were opposed to it, using:
-SA, SS and Gestapo investigations.
-Blockleiters in each block of flats and street informed on 'grumblers'.
-Arrests of thousands of people terrified opponents.
-Set up Nazi people's courts.
-Building and Sending people to Concentration camps.
Germany became a country where it was unsafe to do or say anything critical of the government.
- Propaganda
The Propaganda Ministry worked hard to ensure that people were persuaded to adopt the Nazi point of view:
-Mass rallies at Nuremberg.
-Newspapers were censored.
-People's radios were sold very cheaply, but broadcasts were controlled.
-Films were controlled to make films that glorified war and pilloried the Jews.
-Loudspeakers in public places blared out Nazi propaganda.
-Cult of personality - Hitler's picture was everywhere, and he was portrayed as Germany's savior.
Josef Goebbels controlled the Propaganda Ministry, which aimed to brainwash people into obeying the Nazis and idolizing Hitler.
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Who controlled Adolf Hitler?
Joseph Goebbels was the Nazi Minister of Propaganda and was able to manipulate the media at the time such as radio , film and the print mediums . In doing so he was able to control what the people thought about by presenting information favorable to the Nazi government and influence the way the common German citizen perceived the news and events .
How was Hitler able to control the Nazis?
Hitler was elected the head of the Nazi Party because of his "charm" and persuasiveness and oratory skills. He became the Fuhrer when we moved from the Chancellor position into the Fuhrer position when the President died. Hitler then eliminated the constitution and became the dictator.
How and were the nazi able to come to power?
adof Hitler led them and they had a big and strong army
What is Gleichshaltung?
Ussually it refers to Adolf Hitler's complete and total rise to power in Nazi Germany by eliminating things anti Nazi like Labor Unions, Political Parties ect. Or you could say he achieved it by bettering the economy through the DAF. He also separated the country into Gau's(like states) so that he could assign a Nazi political leader to each section and be able to control everything.
Did they kill Adolf Hitler after the Holocaust ended?
Adolf Hitler committed suicide.
How did the Nazi control most of Europe?
The Nazis were able to control Germany because of there force and Persuasion to control the people
Was the use of propaganda the main reason Hitler was able to establish a dictatorship of the Nazi Party in the years 1935-39?
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How were Hitler and the Nazi Party able to consolidate power in Germany between January 1933 and March 1933?
They had a good plan.
Why did whites in the south feel as if they have won the election of 1876 even know the new president was a republican?
the Democrats were able to control the southern states
When did Germany and the Nazi party fall?
For all practical purposes the Nazi's gained took a huge step towards total power in Germany on 30 January 1933, when Hitler was appointed German Chancellor by President Hindenburg. They remained in power till April-May 1945.
How was Hitler able to control and support Germany after he became dictator?
He got the support of the people
Where would one be able to see videos of Adolf Hitler?
There are many places where one can see videos of Adolf Hitler, the German Nazi dictator. One can see videos of Adolf Hitler at popular on the web sources such as YouTube and Vimeo.
