The Nazism

As the economic crisis worsened after 1929, a man was silently

working in the background to write another chapter for Germany
in the history of the world. Adolf Hitler, born in 1889 in Austria,
was enrolled in the army and earned many medals for his
bravery. It was after the defeat of Germany that horrified him. It
was in 1919 when he joined the German Workers Party. This
party was later called the Nazi Party. The rise of Hitler began
when he started preaching Nazism to Germans. 
During the Great Depression, the Rise of Hitler and Nazism
became a mass movement as Germans were suffering to even
break bread when all the businesses in the country shut down,
and all banks collapsed. It was the Nazi propaganda that stirred
hopes for the people in Germany. In 1932, Nazi Party became the
largest party with 37% votes in the German parliament.
End of the First World War and The
Great Depression
Germany fought the First World War (1914-1918) alongside the
Austrian empire. They were fighting against the allies England,
France and Russia when Germany was defeated in November
1918. The defeat for Germany came after the allies strengthened
their resources in the United States and won the war in November
1918 against Germany. After the defeat of Imperial Germany in
the first World War, the German polity was formed by the
parliamentary parties at Weimar. A democratic constitution was
established forming the Weimar Republic. 
After the war, Europe turned into the land of debts when the
Weimar Republic also paid the price. They were forced to carry
the burden of war guilt and had to pay the compensation of losing
the war. The political atmosphere in the region became worse as
the Communist and Socialist party became enemies as both
craved radical solutions. In 1923, the French had occupied
Germany’s leading industrial area when they refused to pay back.
Germany, on the other hand, recklessly started printing paper
currency which led the region into hyperinflation, and the German
currency price was phenomenally rising. 
In 1929, when Wall Street Exchange crashed, the German
economy suffered the most as the country was dependent on
short-term loans from the United States. The effects of this
recession were felt worldwide and Germany also faced an
economic hit. And thus, the year 1929 was called the year of the
Great Depression. 
Destruction of Democracy
Hitler, without a doubt, was an excellent powerful speaker whose
passion moved the people of Germany. He convinced people to
trust him to restore the dignity of the German people. It was his
strong determination and passion when President Hindenburg
offered him the higher position in the minister cabinet, the
Chancellorship. After being the Chancellor, he was ready to
dismantle the domestic rules structures. 
On 3 March 1933, he enabled the popular Enabling Act that
established a dictatorship in the country. He also suspended civic
rights like freedom of assembly, speech, and press by the Weimar
constitution.
He introduced other armies and groups other than the regular
police in a green uniform. He established groups like Storm
Troopers, Gestapo, SS (protection squads), Security Service
(SD), and the criminal police. These groups gave the Nazi state
its reputation as the criminal state of Germany. This was just one
segment in the era of the rise of Hitler and Nazism.
Racial State under Hitler’s Leadership
Under the leadership of Hitler, these Nazi groups established
concentration camps to prison all the communities that stood
lower on Hitler’s racial hierarchy. 
Only the ‘pure and healthy Nordic Aryans’ were only considered
‘desirable’ during the Rise of Hitler and Nazism. Jews, gipsies and
black living in Lazi Germany were known to be racial ‘inferiors’
and they were persecuted publicly by the Nazis. Nazis considered
Poles and Russians as subhuman and thus, they didn’t deserve
any humanity by the Nazis and Adolf Hitler.
Some of the Polish children who used to look like ‘Aryans’ were
snatched by the Nazis and were examined by the race experts.
When they pass the test, they will be sent to Germany to be
raised as pure Germans while the others will be thrown away in
the orphanages. 
Expansion of Nazi Power
When Hitler came into power, he assigned the economic recovery
responsibility to Hjalmar Schacht. The country aimed to provide
full employment through different programs. At that particular
time, Germany came with superhighways and a popular brand of
people’s car called ‘Volkswagen’. 
Other than economic recovery, he was also interested in the
youth of Germany. He established children’s Nazi ideology. Under
the Rise of Hitler and Nazism, all the schools were purified where
Germans’ and Jews’ children were not allowed to sit or play
together.
Hitler’s beliefs about Jews
1. Religious tussle – For many years, there have been conflicts
between Christianity and Judaism, which in part contributed to the
rise of antisemitism in Europe.
2. Anti-semitism in Vienna - Hitler spent a portion of his early
years in Vienna, Austria, where antisemitism was widely accepted
and practised. He might have been affected by some of the
ideologies prevalent in that setting.
3. Jewish Economic Power - At the start of World War 1, most
banks, financial institutions, and big corporations were under
Jewish control. Hitler attributed Jewish capitalism as the cause of
Germany's defeat in the war, its economic collapse, and the
misguided policies of the Weimar Republic.
4. Conspiracy theory - According to Hitler, Jews were plotting to
take over the world and would stab Germans according to their
will.
5. Biological differences - Hitler and many other Nazis held that
the Aryan (German) race was superior and that Jews were so
drastically degraded to be almost non-human. He believed that by
eradicating the Jewish race, he would be doing the world a
favour.
Conclusion
While many Germans did not like the Nazi ideology, they were too
scared to protest against the same. An uncanny silence was
established in the region where Nazis performed cruelty against
Humanism while the whole world watched the ideology in silence
until the Second World War was over and the nazis were
punished and sentenced to death for actions against humanity. 
The cruelty against Jews was popularly known as the ‘Holocaust’
and how they suffered the cruel actions of the Nazis. The ones
who survived grew their town is now known as Israel. After the
war was over, Jews wanted the world to remember the suffering
amid Nazi killing operations and called it ‘the Holocaust’. The
entire Nazi ideology has been written and documented in the form
of diaries, poetry, pages, and pictures for the whole to remember.

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