why people supported hitler

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Hitler began his race for power at a crucial time in German history. The First World War had come to an end and Germany was experiencing its first democratic government, the Weimar Republic. Inflation was a great problem and the population on the whole felt discouraged and cheated. It took Hitler 10 years of campaigning to reach the status of Chancellor during which time he enforced his extremist views and ideas. He played on the emotional side of the German nation. Lifting their low morals and rebuilding their sense of Nationalism.

One of Hitlers greatest advantages was his exceptional speaking talents and as a member of the German Workers Party he was able to attract large audiences to his speeches. In 1920 he had clearly emerged as leader and renamed the party the National Socialist Workers' Party (the Nazi Party). Along with his new position as leader of the party he brought with him a 25-point program designed to raise support from all classes of German society. The program was extreme and included abolishing the Treaty of Versailles, unifying Germany, creating a better life for the middle class, and abolishing Jews from the country. The Nazi Party, was however a disorganised group and although the numbers of the organisat

Another point that made Hitler popular among the Germans was his ability to make them feel important. He made them feel proud, he made them feel superior to other races. He had always held a hatred for the Jews, some believe this developed when he was not accepted into the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and some Jewish people were granted entry. After which he was forced to live on the streets. He blamed the Jews for his lack of success and also for taking away German jobs on a whole. He managed to convince the German society that the Jews were an inferior, greedy and rich race that was bringing the nation down. He also insisted that the Germans were part of a superior Aryan race (German, Nordic, tall, blonde). He believed this was a pure race and did not want Aryans to intermarry with other races. He also believed in a Greater Germany, this being the unification of all German people. This would mean expanding German territory. He saw this as 'Social Darwinism' or 'survival of the fittest' he would take what other countries could not protect and he wished to take land from the Slav people in the east. But these were all extreme ideas and it would take a lot for the German people to go along with them. So Hitler had his proposals constantly drilled into the minds of the citizens. He also controlled what they heard, learned and said. He made huge changes to what was taught in schools as h

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