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Since the earliest days of National Socialism, Adolf Hitler has risen from the party's "drummer boy" to its unconditional "Führer," or "leader," respected and even adored by millions.
- The Führer Myth: A Love For Hitler
- Early Geographical Divisions
- The Classes
- The Young and First Time Voters
- The Churches
- The Military
- Women
- Support Through Coercion and Terror
- Conclusion
The key reason to support Hitler and the Nazi regime was Hitler himself. Aided greatly by propaganda genius Goebbels, Hitler was able to present an image of himself as a superhuman, even god-like figure. He wasn’t portrayed as a politician, as Germany had had enough of them. Instead, he was seen as above politics. He was all things to a lot of peop...
During the years of elections, Nazi support was far greater in the rural north and east, which was heavily Protestant, than in the south and west (which was mainly Catholic voters of the Centre Party), and in large cities full of urban workers.
Support for Hitler has long been identified among the upper classes, and this is largely believed to be correct. Certainly, large non-Jewish businesses initially supported Hitler to counter their fear of communism, and Hitler received support from wealthy industrialists and large companies: when Germany rearmed and went to war, key sectors of the e...
Studies of the electoral results of the 1930s have revealed the Nazis gaining noticeable support from people who hadn’t voted in elections before, and also among young people eligible to vote for the first time. As the Nazi regime developed more young people were exposed to Nazi propaganda and taken into Nazi Youth organisations. It’s open to debat...
Over the course of the 1920s and early '30s, the Catholic Church had been turning towards European fascism, scared of the communists and, in Germany, wanting a way back from the liberal Weimar culture. Nonetheless, during the collapse of Weimar, Catholics voted for the Nazis in far lower numbers than Protestants, who were much more likely to do so....
Military support was key, as in 1933-4 the army could have removed Hitler. However once the SA was tamed in the Night of the Long Knives - and SA leaders who wanted to combine themselves with the military had gone - Hitler had major military support because he rearmed them, expanded them, gave them the chance to fight and early victories. Indeed, t...
It might seem odd that a regime which forced women out of many jobs and increased the emphasis on breeding and raising childrento intense levels would have been supported by many women, but there is a part of the historiography which recognizes how the many Nazi organisations aimed at women —with women running them—offered opportunities which they ...
So far this article has looked at people who supported Hitler in the popular meaning, that they actually liked him or wanted to push forward his interests. But there was a mass of the German population who supported Hitler because they did not have or believe they had any other choice. Hitler had enough support to get into power, and while there he...
The Nazi Party was not a small group of people who took over a country and ran it into destruction against the wishes of the populace. From the early thirties, the Nazi Party could count on a large range of support, from across the social and political divide, and it could do it because of clever presentation of ideas, the legend of their leader, a...
The Führer cult. Hitler was always portrayed as Germany’s saviour – the man who would rescue the country from the grip of depression. Volksgemeinschaft (people’s community). This was the idea...
Jan 30, 2008 · Hitler's contribution was above all to alter the climate, to build an air of confidence that Germany was being revitalized. But propaganda portrayed the economic upturn as...
Mar 23, 2024 · In 1933, Adolf Hitler rose from Chancellor to an unparalleled position of power as the Führer of Germany. This rapid transformation was propelled by a series of calculated moves and political machinations.
Aug 2, 2016 · In the 1920s, Hitler described to one of his opponents within the Nazi Party the relationship he expected to have with party members: “For us the Idea is the Führer, and each party member has only to obey the Führer.” In the 1930s, the Nazis tried to establish the same relationship between the Führer and the German people.
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Sep 21, 2021 · Adolf Hitler. In 1934, after the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler became the absolute dictator of Germany under the title Fuhrer or “Leader”. He ruled Germany with an iron fist until he committed suicide in 1945 as the Russian army closed in on Berlin.
